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| Swine flu cases cross 1,000 mark, |
| Swine flu cases cross 1,000 mark, death toll climbs to 15
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| INDIA
, 12-August-2009
3:25:59 AM |
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A doctor, a 33-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman succumbed to swine flu in Nashik and Pune on Wednesday, taking the toll in the deadly pandemic to 15.
With the latest flu death, the toll in Maharashtra due to the viral infection has risen to 11.
In Pune, the worst hit city in Maharashtra, A 33-year-old man suffering from swine flu died today at a government in Pune.
Balu Kuland was diagnosed with H1N1 and died on Wednesday at the Sassoon hospital, a senior official said.
A 38-year-old doctor Rupesh Gangurde died of the viral infection at the Nashik civil hospital on Wednesday morning, hospital sources said.
He was admitted to a private hospital on Monday after he complained of vomitting and fever, they said. His blood samples were sent to Pune for testing after which the report tested positive for H1N1.
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Gangurde was brought last night to the Nashik civil hospital where he died at 0230 hours, they said.
in Pune, Shrawani Deshpande died at 2.30 AM on Wednesday morning following severe lung infection caused by the virus, attending doctors said.
Shrawani, a resident of Kothrud area, was admitted to Sasoon hospital in a critical condition on August 10 after being referred from Sashwat private hospital, they said.
So far, the flu has claimed a total of 14 lives – one each in Ahmedabad, Vadodra, Thane, Chennai and Thiruvananthapuram, two in Mumbai and seven in Pune.
As the Centre and the states intensified their battle against the infection, central teams have been despatched to all states and Union Territories after Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad chaired a meeting of 35 additional secretaries and joint secretaries drawn from various ministries who would fan out across the country.
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