Pune Swine Flu

Aamir Khan's video message at the Satyamev Jayate Water Cup Awards event in Pune on Sunday has brought the focus back on swine flu in Maharashtra, especially Mumbai, which managed to control the outbreak last year but hasn't been so successful this year.

Aamir Khan, through video-conferencing during the 'Satyamev Jayate Water Cup 2017' event organised this evening in Pune by his NGO Paani Foundation, revealed that he has been diagnosed with swine flu.

Swine flu has claimed as many as 221 lives in Maharashtra so far this year with Pune accounting for more than one-fourth of the fatalities, a government official said today.

A family in Pune was in for a shock when three of its members went to get a shot for swine flu. The doctor from Sinhagad Road charged almost Rs 1400 for the vaccine - nearly 10 times the original price, and the reason she gave for the high charges was the "quality service" rendered by her before and while administering the doses.On top of that, the...

When it's payback time, there is no dearth of interesting excuses. Managing trustee of Balwant Kartar Foundation (known as Preet Mandir) Sardar Joginder Singh Bhasin allegedly tried to evade arrest in Pune for his involvement in illegal adoptions by pleading ill. Sources at Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said, "He came with the excuse t...

Four persons, including a six-month pregnant woman, died of swine flu in city hospitals in the last three days, taking the overall toll to 279, health officials said today.The city has recorded 68 H1N1 deaths since April this year.The civic and state health machinery has intensified screening for suspected swine flu cases with a renewed awareness c...

A day after two persons died of swine flu in Pune, doctors are fearing that there is a lurking danger of the disease spreading its roots again in the city. Pune was the epicenter of swine flu last year and this year again the health experts are witnessing a sudden spurt in number of swine flu affected cases.Doctors said that, on an average, one per...

A Pune-based firm today launched a vaccine for swine flu and said a similar drug for childrenbelow three years is likely to hit the market soon.     'Nasovac' is a indigenously developed intra-nasal vaccine for swine flu, a pandemic that has claimed over 1,000 lives in the country since its outbreak in May last year, SerumInstit...

Civic health authorities, concerned over a possible rise in Swine flu cases with the onset of the monsoon, have appealed to 'Warkari' devotees set to enter the city in the coming days via Pandharpur for 'Ashadhi Ekadashi' pilgrimage, to undergo a health check covering H1N1 symptoms."Thousands of Warkaris , devotees of Lord Vitthal , will commence t...

Clinical trials have started for the first time in India for H1N1 vaccine. The trials for foreign vaccine Senofi used in European countries, starts today for 3 weeks in three cities - Chandigarh, Pune and Delhi. One hundred subjects in total will be tested.

The Swine flu toll in the city rose to 158 with four more deaths reported in last two days, health officials said.

In view of the rampant swine flu pandemic in the city, Pune Municipal Corporation announced a hike in its fine for spitting in public.

In a country looking for fresh faces and fresh ideas in politics, here is an innovation.

Seventeen students of a boarding school at Shirgaon in Pune district have tested positive for swine flu.

Doctors say that Bangalore's famously cool weather could have contributed to this.

Aamir Khan's video message at the Satyamev Jayate Water Cup Awards event in Pune on Sunday has brought the focus back on swine flu in Maharashtra, especially Mumbai, which managed to control the outbreak last year but hasn't been so successful this year.

Aamir Khan, through video-conferencing during the 'Satyamev Jayate Water Cup 2017' event organised this evening in Pune by his NGO Paani Foundation, revealed that he has been diagnosed with swine flu.

Swine flu has claimed as many as 221 lives in Maharashtra so far this year with Pune accounting for more than one-fourth of the fatalities, a government official said today.

A family in Pune was in for a shock when three of its members went to get a shot for swine flu. The doctor from Sinhagad Road charged almost Rs 1400 for the vaccine - nearly 10 times the original price, and the reason she gave for the high charges was the "quality service" rendered by her before and while administering the doses.On top of that, the...

When it's payback time, there is no dearth of interesting excuses. Managing trustee of Balwant Kartar Foundation (known as Preet Mandir) Sardar Joginder Singh Bhasin allegedly tried to evade arrest in Pune for his involvement in illegal adoptions by pleading ill. Sources at Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said, "He came with the excuse t...

Four persons, including a six-month pregnant woman, died of swine flu in city hospitals in the last three days, taking the overall toll to 279, health officials said today.The city has recorded 68 H1N1 deaths since April this year.The civic and state health machinery has intensified screening for suspected swine flu cases with a renewed awareness c...

A day after two persons died of swine flu in Pune, doctors are fearing that there is a lurking danger of the disease spreading its roots again in the city. Pune was the epicenter of swine flu last year and this year again the health experts are witnessing a sudden spurt in number of swine flu affected cases.Doctors said that, on an average, one per...

A Pune-based firm today launched a vaccine for swine flu and said a similar drug for childrenbelow three years is likely to hit the market soon.     'Nasovac' is a indigenously developed intra-nasal vaccine for swine flu, a pandemic that has claimed over 1,000 lives in the country since its outbreak in May last year, SerumInstit...

Civic health authorities, concerned over a possible rise in Swine flu cases with the onset of the monsoon, have appealed to 'Warkari' devotees set to enter the city in the coming days via Pandharpur for 'Ashadhi Ekadashi' pilgrimage, to undergo a health check covering H1N1 symptoms."Thousands of Warkaris , devotees of Lord Vitthal , will commence t...

Clinical trials have started for the first time in India for H1N1 vaccine. The trials for foreign vaccine Senofi used in European countries, starts today for 3 weeks in three cities - Chandigarh, Pune and Delhi. One hundred subjects in total will be tested.

The Swine flu toll in the city rose to 158 with four more deaths reported in last two days, health officials said.

In view of the rampant swine flu pandemic in the city, Pune Municipal Corporation announced a hike in its fine for spitting in public.

In a country looking for fresh faces and fresh ideas in politics, here is an innovation.

Seventeen students of a boarding school at Shirgaon in Pune district have tested positive for swine flu.

Doctors say that Bangalore's famously cool weather could have contributed to this.