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| 9 test positive in J&K | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 17: Even as the Health Minister Sham Lal Sharma today rated Jammu and Kashmir as number one state in country in combating the swine flu, the state today appeared racing with places like Pune with nine suspects testing positive for H1N1 viral influenza.
While one patient (a girl student) had already been put on vaccination and two cases were reported in Srinagar a couple of days back, the latest laboratory reports have put the total toll to nine. A one-year old girl is among the four swine flu patients’ doctors in GMC hospital informed. They said that GMC hospital administration received 12 reports from National Institute of Communicable Disease, New Delhi today in which four more persons confirmed positive and are put on Tamiflu and added that all the infected are asked to confine them in a room in their respective houses. In all the confirmed swine flu suspects in Jammu majority of them are students studying in swine flu caught states while in Kashmir majority is of tourists. Earlier blood samples of the suspects (28 from Jammu and 44 from Kashmir) were sent to NICD for test in which GMC hospital administration received 12 reports today while the reports of the rest are yet to be received.
Among the H1N1 infected persons in Jammu including four students and an infant have already put on Tami Flu following by their complaints of swine flu symptoms and are responding, doctors team constituted for the purpose informed.
Doctors in SMGS hospital informed that the one year old girl child who reported in the hospital on 12 August with the complaint of swine flu symptoms have confirmed positive as the girl student who was first to confirm positive being a tenant of the child family in Nanak Nagar locality was in regular touch with the child till she was confirmed positive . However putting the panic at the corner they said that girl child is responding as she has been put on Tami flu since the day she reported. Doctor RS Charak who is the head of doctors team constituted for swine flu purpose informed that all the four positive persons are responding and added that they are referred to their homes. He further informed that if their reports had indicated fatality they would have referred to Chopra Nursing home as adequate arrangements have been made in the nursing home for the serious.
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