Swine Flu

Delhi hospitals have been witnessing a sudden surge in flu and swine flu cases in the last few days.

El Salvador said it would ban all imports of pork products Sunday, as cases of the highly contagious African swine fever in the Dominican Republic sparked fears of a wider regional outbreak.

Canadian health authorities on Wednesday reported the country's first case of a human infected with the H1N2 virus, a rare strain of swine flu.

US President Donald Trump on Thursday (local time) slammed Democratic rival Joe Biden stating that he had no plan in handling the coronavirus situation and criticized the former vice president for how he handled the H1N1 swine flu outbreak during the Obama administration.

US President Donald Trump has claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised him for doing a great job in coronavirus testing, as he continued to slam his Democratic opponent Joe Biden for being a complete disaster in handling the swine flu during the previous administration.

Germany on Thursday confirmed a first case of African swine fever, threatening to severely hit the country's key pork market.

China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said on Saturday that the so-called "G4" strain of swine flu virus is not new and does not infect or sicken humans and animals easily, rebuffing a study published earlier this week.

China on Wednesday played down the threat of a new swine flu strain with pandemic potential that researchers discovered in pigs, saying the study is "not representative".

Researchers in China have discovered a new type of swine flu that is capable of triggering a pandemic, according to a study published Monday in the US science journal PNAS.

The government devised an "intelligent testing strategy" and scaled up its preparedness to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, taking lessons from the 2009 swine flu outbreak that had "exposed glaring gaps" in the country's diagnosis infrastructure, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said on Monday.

With over 2,000 pigs dead is six Assam districts in just a few weeks due to a mysterious virus, the state animal husbandry department today said it is suspected that the African swine flu has infected pigs and it has been transmitted from China through Arunachal Pradesh.

A 30-year-old man has been arrested from Thane in Maharashtra for allegedly assaulting a doctor at a COVID-19 care centre, police said on Saturday.

The novel coronavirus is 10 times more deadly than swine flu, which caused a global pandemic in 2009, the World Health Organization said Monday, stressing a vaccine would be necessary to fully halt transmission.

Medicines used for the treatment of swine flu, malaria and HIV appear to have helped in the treatment of at least two coronavirus patients in Rajasthan, doctors and health officials in the state have told NDTV.

At least 13 people, including two children, have tested positive for swine flu in West Bengal, a senior official said on Friday.

Delhi hospitals have been witnessing a sudden surge in flu and swine flu cases in the last few days.

El Salvador said it would ban all imports of pork products Sunday, as cases of the highly contagious African swine fever in the Dominican Republic sparked fears of a wider regional outbreak.

Canadian health authorities on Wednesday reported the country's first case of a human infected with the H1N2 virus, a rare strain of swine flu.

US President Donald Trump on Thursday (local time) slammed Democratic rival Joe Biden stating that he had no plan in handling the coronavirus situation and criticized the former vice president for how he handled the H1N1 swine flu outbreak during the Obama administration.

US President Donald Trump has claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised him for doing a great job in coronavirus testing, as he continued to slam his Democratic opponent Joe Biden for being a complete disaster in handling the swine flu during the previous administration.

Germany on Thursday confirmed a first case of African swine fever, threatening to severely hit the country's key pork market.

China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said on Saturday that the so-called "G4" strain of swine flu virus is not new and does not infect or sicken humans and animals easily, rebuffing a study published earlier this week.

China on Wednesday played down the threat of a new swine flu strain with pandemic potential that researchers discovered in pigs, saying the study is "not representative".

Researchers in China have discovered a new type of swine flu that is capable of triggering a pandemic, according to a study published Monday in the US science journal PNAS.

The government devised an "intelligent testing strategy" and scaled up its preparedness to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, taking lessons from the 2009 swine flu outbreak that had "exposed glaring gaps" in the country's diagnosis infrastructure, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said on Monday.

With over 2,000 pigs dead is six Assam districts in just a few weeks due to a mysterious virus, the state animal husbandry department today said it is suspected that the African swine flu has infected pigs and it has been transmitted from China through Arunachal Pradesh.

A 30-year-old man has been arrested from Thane in Maharashtra for allegedly assaulting a doctor at a COVID-19 care centre, police said on Saturday.

The novel coronavirus is 10 times more deadly than swine flu, which caused a global pandemic in 2009, the World Health Organization said Monday, stressing a vaccine would be necessary to fully halt transmission.

Medicines used for the treatment of swine flu, malaria and HIV appear to have helped in the treatment of at least two coronavirus patients in Rajasthan, doctors and health officials in the state have told NDTV.

At least 13 people, including two children, have tested positive for swine flu in West Bengal, a senior official said on Friday.