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| 14-yr old girl becomes first Swine Flu victim in India | | |
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Pune, Aug 3: A 14 year girl in Pune has become the first victim of the swine flu epidemic in India. Three more persons had tested positive for H1N1 virus on Sunday, taking the total number of Swine flu cases in Pune to 101, health officials said.
The fresh cases included two students and a 26-year-old youth who returned from Germany, they said adding that the patients had been admitted to isolation ward of civic Naidu hospital. As many as 64 Swine flu cases in the city have been treated and discharged so far, officials said. The number of H1N1 infection in Maharashtra now stands at 147.
The total cases of swine flu detected in the country stood at over 525 on July 31st. Pune has been one of the worst affected with 10 cases reported on the 31st of July itself.
A total of 2,361 people have been tested so far out of which 525 are positive for swine flu. Of the 525 positive cases, 369 have been discharged.
Concerned over the spread of Swine flu cases in the state, Maharashtra government has decided to boost homeopathic research on the H1N1 virus with an initial provision of Rs five lakh.
Announcing the fund for Dhondumama Sathe Homeopathy college here at a workshop on 'Swine flu and homeopathy', state health minister Dr Shobha Bachhav, who reviewed the anti-Swine flu measures over the weekend, said the research project would be first of its kind to find an effective alternative medical treatment for the infection which has become a global pandemic.
A senior city homeopath Dr Sreerang Oak had on Friday advocated a preventive treatment combining two bio-chemic substances of homeopathy -- 'Kali Mur' and 'Ferrum Phos' (with power of 12 X) -- which he said could arrest the spread of the H1N1 virus among population.
Four tablets each of the two medicines, easily and cheaply available with chemists could stop the infection in the first stage, bestowing immunity on the person against the virus, he claimed.
Pune has registered over 90 positive cases of Swine flu, mostly school children, during the last three weeks which account for the largest share of the over 110 reported from various parts of Maharashtra.
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