WASHINGTON: Researchers have discovered a special type of ultraviolet (UV) light that can kill airborne flu viruses without harming human tissues, according to a new study. Broad-spectrum ultraviolet C (UVC) light, which…
KARACHI: Pollution, a result of widespread construction of roads and buildings, is a major reason accounting to the increase in breathing issues as well as the H1N1 epidemic, Karachi Director Health Dr…
Seasonal influenza (also known as ‘flu’) took four lives in Multan on Saturday. About 22 people were reported to have contracted influenza in December alone. However, the Health Department Spokesperson Dr Atta-ur-Rehman…
LAHORE: Punjab Minister for Specialised Healthcare and Medical Education Khawaja Salman Rafique has said that all the teachings, tehsil and district hospitals must ensure all arrangements of prevention and treatment of seasonal…
Punjab Chief Secretary Khizar Hayat Gondal said on Friday that he is chairing a meeting daily to review steps being taken to control influenza in the province. Addressing a meeting at the…
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said that law and order situation was better in Sindh now and target killing in Karachi had been reduced by 60 percent and other…
Chinese sate media has reported two deaths from the H1N1 flue in Beijing. A 65-year-old woman cancer patient died on Friday and a another 22-year-old woman migrant worker died on December 27,…
Authorities in China’s remote northwestern region of Xinjiang have culled more than 150,000 chickens following an outbreak of bird flu, officials said. The outbreak of the H5N1 strain of avian flu initially…
An eight-year-old girl in Indonesia has died of bird flu, the health ministry reported Thursday, in the country’s eighth fatal case this year. The girl from Karawang district in western Java died…
India has ordered the immediate culling of chickens in an eastern part of the country in a bid to contain an outbreak of bird flu. Outbreaks were confirmed in two villages in…
HONG KONG – At least 12 people have died from swine flu in Hong Kong in less than a month, the territory’s health authority said Thursday, after the latest death from the disease. A spokeswoman for the health authority said one elderly person had died of confirmed swine flu, while another had died of influenza type A, of which swine flue is a sub-type.
An increase in swine flu cases caused densely populated Hong Kong to step up surveillance for the virus on January 24. Since then
LAHORE – Swine flu cases are continuing to make appearance in the city as two more cases were reported in the Mayo Hospital on Thursday, Pakistan Today has learnt. Mayo Hospital MS Dr Zahid Pervaiz confirmed the entry of the two cases and added that these samples were sent by the Combined Military Hospital (CMH). To a question, he said, “Someone might have caught the virus at the CMH and is spreading it around from personal contact.”
Almost a week ago, sources at CMH revealed
LAHORE – Swine influenza seems on the loose again, as right after detecting a swine flu case in Karachi, 20 patients have appeared to be infected with influenza A in Lahore, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Sources at CMH revealed that the hospital has been sending two to three blood samples of Influenza A patients everyday to Mayo Hospital for a week. CMH doctors have confirmed that most of the patients are retired army personnel, and are said to be residing in Lahore or the city
ISLAMABAD – Seasonal flu cases are on the rise in the federal capital, with around 300 patients visiting the city’s two major hospitals daily. Seasonal flu or influenza is a contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses and it spreads from person-to-person and can cause mild to severe illness.
Dr Sharif Astori, spokesman of the government-run Polyclinic Hospital said around 250 patients infected with seasonal flu, throat infection, chest infection and dry cough
LAHORE – Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif is sick for the past few days and has been unable to attend to all his official assignments and duties, an official at Chief Minister Secretariat told Pakistan Today.
“He is attending office daily, holding meetings and receiving delegations. But considering his ailing condition, he has slashed 50 percent his official workload and is not going outside,” the source added.
According to another senior official, CM was staying
ISLAMABAD – A 26-year old young man, infected with the swine flu virus, died in Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) on Wednesday marking the country’s first swine flu-related death this season.
Mansoor, who got admitted in PIMS a week ago in critical condition, was from Attock. He was kept in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for one week but could not survive. Three swine flu infected patients were admitted of which two survived.
“We tried very hard to save him but when
ISLAMABAD – The National Institute of Health (NIH) on Monday confirmed that 85 positive cases of swine flu (H1N1 virus) have been reported throughout the country including 28 in the capital city.
A total of 125 samples were received by the institute out of which 85 were confirmed as H1N1 positive. They said that 28 cases were reported from Punjab, 28 from Federal Capital, 19 from Sindh and 10 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Dr Wasim Khawaja of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences
