Swine Flu In India

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More than 13,000 people have contracted the H1N1 virus

Swine flu has claimed 38 more lives in India, taking the total nationwide death toll to 812, according to the latest figures released by the country’s health ministry on Sunday.

The total number of people affected by the H1N1 virus has now crossed 13,000..

The new numbers represent a significant jump from the 774 deaths and 12,963 affected individuals cited by the ministry just a day earlier, but a senior health official said there has been an overall dip in the number of fresh cases.

Earlier, private doctors in the north Indian state of Haryana had accused the government of downplaying the number of swine flu cases there and discouraging laboratory testing for the virus.

However, the president of the Haryana Civil Medical Services Association said that private hospitals are forcing patients to pay large sums of money for swine flu testing.

“The private sector has been creating panic in society just to exploit the situation to make more money,” he said. “The public advisory issued has been in the wider interests of people.”

There are more reports of vaccines and facemask shortages.

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The numbers are continuing to increase with over 900 deaths and 15000 tested positive. However, these are understated official figures.

Officials in three Gujarat cities - Ahmedabad, Bhavnagar and Rajkot - have announced restrictions on public gatherings to contain swine flu.

The order prohibits gatherings of more than 10 people in an area under a law that has been invoked in the past during times of religious violence, including the 2002 anti-Muslim riots.

The restrictions this time are only for large public gatherings and weddings. Funerals and private parties are exempted.

But the order has left many confused.

Our thoughts are with the poor who are unable to afford decent care and medicine.

[JagsawSingh]

This amount of people in India, that have died recently of 'swine flu'.....Is this not the same number of people that die in India every week anyway from high temperature / flu like symptoms anyway ?

Do you remember a couple of years ago when swine flu panic was sweeping through Britain and as a result our NHS Managers wasted a few billions of our money of that tamiflu drug that has since been found to be not half as effective as claimed and the drug companies made a financial killing ?

I'm no doctor but I have to say this swine flu is a very very clever disease indeed. Clever in the sense that its rare to find an illness with an economics degree. It is so clever in the way it penetrates one country, causes panic, causes the drug companies to make billions and once the money has been spent it amazingly removes itself from that host country and places itself in a different country instead. There, the process is repeated: widespread panic, billions spent on the drug and once the money's finished it goes on to the next country where the process is repeated all over again, and so on and so on.