3rd & 4th fatality reported in India

[Shiloh]

Source: http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200908090320.htm

One more succumbs to swine flu; toll mounts to 3

Pune (PTI): Hours after a woman died of swine flu in Mumbai, a 42-year-old teacher succumbed to the disease here, taking the total number of deaths to three in the country.

Sanjay Tukaram Kokre, who was admitted on Friday to government-run Sassoon Hospital here, was in a critical condition.

Hospital sources said Kokre, a schoolteacher from a nearby village, was put on ventilator after his condition deteriorated but he later died.

With Kokre's death, the total number of deaths here has climbed to two. Earlier on August 3, 14-year-old schoolgirl Reeda Shaikh, died due to the H1N1 virus.

Another swine flu patient, 53-year-old Fahmida Panwala, who was a diabetic with a history of hypertension, died in Mumbai on Saturday.

The country has now seen three deaths from swine flu with the number of infected cases rising to 782.

Of the total cases, 71 were reported on Saturday with 34 cases from Pune alone. Altogether 511 patients of the total cases have been discharged while three have died. The rest are being treated in stipulated government hospitals across the country.

 

[Shiloh]

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Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...e-flu-toll-rises-to-4/articleshow/4873108.cms

Ahmedabad man dies of swine flu, toll rises to 4
PTI 9 August 2009, 07:59am IST

AHMEDABAD: A 43-year-old man died of swine flu early morning on Sunday at the city civil hospital here, a senior official said.


Confirming the first swine flu death in Gujarat, state health secretary Ravi Saxena said Praveen Patel, an NRI, died of swine flu at city civil hospital at around 1:30am.

"He was admitted to the hospital in critical condition yesterday morning. His left lung was badly damaged," Saxena said.

Patel, who had returned from Atlanta on July 31, was admitted to a private hospital for pneumonia and common flu on Friday.

"He was referred to the civil hospital after doctors treating him realised that it was not common flu," Saxena said, adding where he was confirmed having swine flu.

Patel's wife has also been confirmed suffering from swine flu and is being treated at the civil hospital, he said. So far, 10 people have been tested positive for H1N1 virus in the state, he added.

The country has now seen four deaths from swine flu with the number of infected cases rising to 782.

On Saturday, 53-year-old Fahmida Panwala from Mumbai and 42-year-old teacher Sanjay Tukaram Kokre from Pune had died of swine flu. Earlier on August 3, 14-year-old schoolgirl Reeda Shaikh also from Pune, had died due to the H1N1 virus.

 

[rikkitikkitavi]

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I think only 3 deaths have been reported so far in India - Reeda Shaikh, the 14-year-old girl in Pune; Famida Panwala, the 53-year-old woman from Mumbai; and Sanjay Tukaram Kokre, the 42-year-old teacher, also from Pune.

Incidentally, all three deaths have been in the state of Maharashtra. Pune and Mumbai are only about 50-60 miles apart, and some intrepid souls actually commute to Mumbai from Pune.

ETA: Sorry! Just noticed the post above mine, which mentions a 4th casualty, this one in Ahmedabad (which incidentally is very near where my parents live - ack!). Ahmedabad is in a neighboring state - Gujarat.

 

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H1N1 kills Pune teacher, Mumbai housewife
Malathy Iyer & Sharad Vyas, TNN 9 August 2009, 04:00am IST


PUNE/MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: The highly infectious H1N1 virus claimed two lives on Saturday,with a 33-year-old Mumbai woman and a 42-year-old Pune school teacher succumbing to it. This comes five days after the death of Pune schoolgirl Reeda Sheikh, the country’s first swine flu casualty.

Pune’s latest victim was Sanjay Tukaram Kokre who died at Sassoon Hospital around 12.30am. He had been put on a ventilator since he was admitted to the hospital’s critical care unit as a suspected H1N1 patient. He was moved to the confirmed H1N1 cases CCU on Saturday afternoon after the National Institute of Virology (NIV) confirmed that he was H1N1 positive.

Two more suspected H1N1 patients have also been admitted to Sassoon Hospital even as a doctor and a chemist continue to battle for life.

In Mumbai, flu claimed the life of Fehmida Panwalla, a housewife.

Civic officials, however, were at pains to point out that she was brought to Kasturba Hospital in a critical condition and had a history of diabetes and hypertension. It is an established medical fact that the H1N1 infection is severe in people who have an underlying condition such as diabetes or heart disease.

Asked whether the hospitals she was admitted to earlier had established if she had travelled abroad, her doctor said, ‘‘This was probably not thought about at that stage.’’

It is still not clear how Panwalla contracted H1N1. Overall, India is now seeing a spike in secondary cases of H1N1 infection — people who haven’t travelled to an infected country but may have got the virus from an infected individual.

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