Health authorities at Chennai airport are gearing up to install four swine flu thermal detectors for testing arriving passengers.

Airport director Mr E.P. Hareendranathan said the screening would sta

Experts in the city are worried that panic about swine flu is spreading faster than the virus itself.
Doctors have urged the media not to create hype over swine flu infection or any deaths that may oc

Health officials issued a statewide alert over swine flu on Sunday evening with the wake of the death of a 70-year-old farmer near Coimbatore due to the suspected H1N1 virus and four patients having t

First swine flu case has been detected in the district in a thirty-year-old man who is battling for life at a private hospital here, district authorities said on Saturday.

The man whose identity has

A 37-year-old man has died of swine flu at a private hospital here, a doctor said on Thursday.

Anil Hole, a resident of Saket Nagar was admitted to a hospital on March 25 with severe cold and lung co

The swine flu epidemic has been very grave in Pune this year, when compared to anywhere in the state of Maharashtra or even in the country.

However, doctors feel this is partly to do with the erratic

The Goa government has alerted all its health officers to keep a watch on Swine Flu symptoms among patients following the outbreak of H1N1 virus in neighbouring Maharashtra.

The Directorate of He

Twelve people have died from swine flu in India since the beginning of March and nearly 110 others have been infected with the virus, the country's health ministry said.

The ministry announced in a s

Swine Flu claimed its fifth victim in the last six days following the death of a 60-year-old man in a city hospital here, civic health officials said on Tuesday.

The victim, one Balasaheb Paigude, wh

A 48-year-old woman died of H1N1 virus infection here, the first Swine Flu death in the city since April last year.

The woman, who developed cough and breathlessness tested positive for H1N1 on March