600 positive tests for the H1N1 virus and dengue cases down

Chennai: The state health department is grappling with an increase in the number of H1N1 cases with more than 600 people tested positive and a total of 15 deaths in the US. state. Meanwhile, the number of dengue cases seems to be decreasing.

Four people died in Coimbatore on Saturday as a result of swine flu, dengue fever and viral fever. Vasantha, 62, and Ganesan, 57, from Tirupur, were admitted to the government hospital in Coimbatore and died unanswered for swine flu treatment, hospital sources said. Amuthan, a five-year-old boy from the city who was hospitalized for a high temperature and was diagnosed with dengue, succumbed to fever, the sources said. Sunitha, 35, from Coonoor, Nilgiris district, died of a mysterious fever, they said. According to sources, 11 people were currently being treated for swine flu, four for dengue and 52 for a mysterious GH fever from Coimbatore.

During the outbreak of swine flu in the Tirunelveli district, 30 patients were admitted to the hospital of Tirunelveli Medical College. During the first three days of November, seven patients with symptoms of swine influenza were admitted, three of whom died from Gomathi, Selvam and Muthukrishnan, and four more were on treatment.

Chithra and Muthulakshmi were treated at Madurai for a viral fever. . They also succumbed, said the doctors, because they did not respond to treatment.

In Krishnagiri District, a pregnant woman, Ramayee, suddenly fainted on Saturday morning. She had been feverish for a few days, family members said. The doctors who examined her said that she had been brought dead.

There is no reason to panic, said the Director of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, K. Kolandaswamy. "Most deaths have been recorded in people with additional complications such as heart disease or kidney failure," said Kolandaswamy. The department asked hospitals to ensure that there is no cross infection within the hospital itself.

The state also advised all health care workers to protect themselves and use an N95 mask to treat patients. Health Secretary J. Radhakrishnan said that the state has a sufficient stock of protective equipment and medicines for all viral diseases. Schools and schools have been advised to ask students with fever and flu symptoms not to go to school until the fever is gone.

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