New Delhi, India (AHN) - A four-year-old Surat girl from Gujarat died on Wednesday while she was undergoing treatment for swine flu. Doctors from the Surat Municipal Institute of Medical and Education Research said that the girl did not leave the city, causing concern for a new outbreak.
Resident of Bhakti Nagar in Pandesara, Muskan Gopal Singh was reportedly admitted to the hospital late on Tuesday in a very serious condition and was given medication for the virus immediately after being admitted to the hospital. However, the medication did not help and she died a day later.
The casualty in Gujarat came just three days after a 25-year-old woman, Jyoti Singh, died while undergoing a treatment at Utter Pradesh’s CSM Medical University in Lucknow. Hakkami village, from where Jyoti belonged, was put on swine flu alert and residents were requested to go for a swine flu test in case of any symptoms of the virus.
Meanwhile, 20 people, including five children and a pregnant woman, on Wednesday tested positive for swine flu. With this, the number of cases rose to 328 this month.
In Kolkata, 26 others were undergoing treatment at different hospitals in the city with two of them were in critical state. The H1N1 claimed life of city’s first victim, a 58-year-old, who was also suffering from multiple myeloma, on Tuesday.
In a separate development, Italy has reported second incidence of madcow disease in a 42-year-old woman from Livorno.
Soon after diagnosing the woman with a variant of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) - the human form of the fatal brain-wasting illness, the Milan neurological hospital transferred her to western Tuscan region of Livorno where she was believed to be in her final stages of the disease.
The doctors could not find out how the woman got infected from the CJD. This is the second madcow case in last eight years.
The news broke out less than a week after the European Union proclaimed that it had almost eradicated madcow disease in all animals from Europe.
source: allheadlinenews
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