Tuesday, May 5, 2009

India still has one suspected influenza A/H1N1 case pending test results

Special Report:
World Tackles A/H1N1
Flu


NEW DELHI, May 3 (Xinhua) -- Indian health authorities are testing the
saliva and blood samples of a 28-year-old man found with symptoms of A/H1N1
influenza virus after he arrived last weekend from the United States, reported
the private Indo-Asian News Service on Sunday.


The samples have been sent to the National Institute of Communicable
Diseases in New Delhi while the patient has been admitted to a hospital in
Hyderabad in central India, said the report quoting hospital sources.

The man, who is a software professor, arrived in Hyderabad on Saturday from
San Francisco via Dubai.

He was the second man to be found with suspected A/H1N1 influenza flu
symptoms in the central Indian city, after a 26-year-old man, who had landed in
Hyderabad from Texas last Tuesday, was tested negative of influenza A/H1N1 on
Saturday.

On Saturday, three other people who were suspected to have been infected
with A/H1N1 influenza virus and quarantined in New Delhi were tested negative,
said health officials.

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