Wednesday, September 2, 2009

SWINE FLU

SWINEFLU
Swine flu continues its surge, toll reaches 93

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New Delhi, Aug 28 (PTI) Swine flu continued its surge with four more persons including a three-year-old child dying of the pandemic, taking the nationwide toll due to the deadly virus to 93 even as 139 fresh cases were detected today across the country.

While the deadly contagion claimed three lives in Karnataka with two dying in Bangalore and one in Bijapur, another person succumbed to the virus at Nasik in Maharashtra.

A three-year-old boy Gowdappa Biradar became the youngest swine flu victim in Karnataka, health officials said in Bangalore.

Admitted to a private hospital at Bijapur with swine flu symptoms on August 23, Biradar died on August 26 but report of his throat swab confirming H1N1 status was received today, they said.

Two women - Sowbhagya (48) and Azra Kausar (35) also succumbed to the virus at a private hosptial in Bangalore.
SOURCE;PTI
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