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Three
fresh cases found positive for swine flu
Chennai: With three more persons including a Chennai couple who travelled
to India from the US testing positive for Swine Flu on Monday, the toll of cases
in the country to 59 in the country. While two cases were reported from Chennai,
the third one was reported from Delhi where a 15-year-old boy tested positive
for the disease. A 29-year-old man and wife, 25, who travelled from North Carolina
to Chennai on June 13, reported symptoms for swine flu five days later. "They
were tested positive today," a Health Ministry official said. The case from Delhi
was that of the teenager who reached the city on June 17 from New York. Of the
total 59 cases, 32 have been discharged while rest of the patients remain admitted
to various hospitals across the country. "So far samples of 421 persons have been
tested out of which 59 have been tested positive for novel Influenza A [H1N1].
Of these, six are indigenous cases who got the infection from people who travelled
from abroad," the official said.
-June
22, 2009 Go
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