Via Express India.com: 19 more swine flu cases; alarm bells sounded.
With 19 more people testing positive for swine flu, the total number of patients has gone up to 61 in the city.
“At present, 21 patients are admitted in the isolation ward of the Infectious Diseases Hospital in Beleghata, two of them in critical condition. The situation is being monitored daily,” said Ashim Biswas, H1N1 Nodal Officer of the Health and Family Welfare Department.
Swine flu had subsided for some time after it hit Bengal last year. This year it resurfaced in June. However, the fact that none of this year’s victims had visited any foreign country has triggered panic among the people. A majority of them have not traveled anywhere in the recent past, indicating that the disease must have some local origin.
Even State Water Resources Minister Nandagopal Bhattacharya was detected with the H1N1 virus a few days ago. He is undergoing treatment at the Apollo Gleneagles Hospital near Salt Lake.
