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more person with symptoms of swine flu quarantined in Tamil Nadu Coimbatore:
One more person with symptoms of the dreaded swine flu was quarantined in
Coimbatore . Presently, he is in the isolation ward of the Coimbatore Medical
College Hospital . The blood samples of a youngster named Harijan (24) who returned
to India from Malaysia has been sent to the National Institute of Communicable
Disease (NICD) in New Delhi for further analysis. So far, nine cases of swine
flu have been reported in Tamil Nadu out which, two from Coimbatore were confirmed
positive cases. "Thirteen cases were reported here out of which two were positive
and all others were negative. The two positive cases have been treated successfully
and sent back home. This is the fourteenth case referred from the nearest district,"
said Dr. Durai Kannan, Joint Director, Health Department, Coimbatore Medical College
Hospital . Meanwhile, experts from the New Delhi-based National Institute of Communicable
Diseases visited the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital and examined the quarantine
wards in the hospital. "We have come to see the situation. The Joint Director
is here and the Regional Director looking after this area," said Shahai Hussain,
Joint Director, National Institute of Communicable Diseases, New Delhi . The World
Health Organisation (WHO) had declared influenza pandemic last month and advised
governments to prepare for a long-term battle against an unstoppable new flu virus.
The WHO had no immediate comment on the case of Tamiflu resistance. -July
14, 2009 Go
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