Deadly swine flu claims 83 lives across India last week
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
New Delhi, Aug 10, IRNA -- The deadly swine flu seems to have made a comeback with a vengeance in India with a whopping 83 deaths due to the disease being reported across the country in the week ending August 8.
Maharashtra reported the maximum number of 51 deaths, 12 were reported from Karnataka and 6 from Andhra Pradesh.
Seven deaths were reported from Gujarat and one each from West Bengal, Goa and Uttar Pradesh.
Till date, samples from 1,54,259 people have been tested for influenza A H1N1 in government laboratories and a few private laboratories across the country and 36,240 (23.4 per cent) of them have been found positive.
All the 942 cases reported during the week are indigenous cases.
Swine flu is an infection caused by a virus. It's named for a virus that pigs can get. People do not normally get swine flu, but human infections can and do happen. The virus is contagious and can spread from human to human.
Symptoms of swine flu in people are similar to the symptoms of regular human flu and include fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue.
After early outbreaks in North America in April 2009 the new influenza virus spread rapidly around the world. By the time WHO declared a pandemic in June 2009, a total of 74 countries and territories had reported laboratory confirmed infections. To date, most countries in the world have confirmed infections from the new virus.
Nearly 10,000 people have reportedly died from swine flu since it emerged in 2009 and developed into a global epidemic.
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