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Two
girls test positive for swine flu, toll rises to three in Gujarat Ahmedabad:
Two girls from Ahmedabad were reported to have tested positive for swine flu and
two others were suspected to have the disease on Sunday in Gujarat. The girls
were a part of a troop of students who had gone to the US on a year-long cultural-cum-educational
programme organised by an NGO. “The group returned to New Delhi on July 5 and
the girls boarded the Ashram Express next day from the National Capital and reached
Ahmedabad on July 7,” Principal Secretary (Health) Ravi Saxena said. The positive
and the suspected victims have been kept in the isolation ward of the civil hospital
in Ahmedabad. “Two other member of the group, a girl and a caretaker were also
suspected of the Swine Flu symptoms and they too have been kept in isolation.
Blood sample of all four were sent to National Institute of Communicable Disease
(NICD) in New Delhi . Two girls tested positive for the disease,” he added. With
the two confirmed cases the total number of reported Swine flu has rose to three
in Gujarat.
-July
12, 2009 Go
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