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Swine flu is back
Swine flu is back | Health | bdnews24.com
Tue, Apr 17th, 2012 10:15 pm BdST
Nurul Islam Hasib
bdnews24.com Public Health Correspondent
Dhaka, Apr 17 (bdnews24.com) Swine flu strikes back in Bangladesh after two years as the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) has confirmed an outbreak in a northern district's nursing dormitory on Tuesday.
At least 14 have been tested H1N1 positive, director Prof Mahmudur Rahman told bdnews24.com.
A six-member IEDCR team rushed to the Kurigram nursing institute on April 12 after the deputy civil surgeon of the district informed the national institute that 42 students of the dormitory were down with an unknown ailment.
Prof Rahman said they were suffering from fever, cough and occasional vomiting. "All of them recovered as doctors started prompt treatment with anti-viral drugs."
The H1N1 influenza virus was first reported in April 2009 in Mexico before spreading across the globe. The World Health Organisation declared a global H1N1 flu pandemic on June 11.
Bangladesh's first case was detected on June 18, 2009, which created panic.
"We are not worried at this moment. But the thing is that the virus is back after two years," Prof Rahman said, adding it killed eight and caused sufferings to thousands during 2009 pandemic.
"Physicians should keep this in mind. They have to consider anti-viral drugs while treating flu in this season."
He urged people not to panic, rather be aware of the disease.
"Just maintain personal hygiene, cough into the crook of the elbow and avoid spitting just anywhere," he said. "A person with flu should be treated in isolation with protective measures."
"As it can pass one to another, it spread rapidly among the dormitory inmates," the director said, quoting his investigators that Kurigram nursing institute students live in a crammed room and share beds.
With four strains of flu virus H5N1, H1N1, H3N2 and H9N2 circulating in the air, global experts warn Bangladesh against resurgence of a new mutated form of a virus.
bdnews24.com/nih/sk/2205h
Swine flu is back | Health | bdnews24.com
Tue, Apr 17th, 2012 10:15 pm BdST
Nurul Islam Hasib
bdnews24.com Public Health Correspondent
Dhaka, Apr 17 (bdnews24.com) Swine flu strikes back in Bangladesh after two years as the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) has confirmed an outbreak in a northern district's nursing dormitory on Tuesday.
At least 14 have been tested H1N1 positive, director Prof Mahmudur Rahman told bdnews24.com.
A six-member IEDCR team rushed to the Kurigram nursing institute on April 12 after the deputy civil surgeon of the district informed the national institute that 42 students of the dormitory were down with an unknown ailment.
Prof Rahman said they were suffering from fever, cough and occasional vomiting. "All of them recovered as doctors started prompt treatment with anti-viral drugs."
The H1N1 influenza virus was first reported in April 2009 in Mexico before spreading across the globe. The World Health Organisation declared a global H1N1 flu pandemic on June 11.
Bangladesh's first case was detected on June 18, 2009, which created panic.
"We are not worried at this moment. But the thing is that the virus is back after two years," Prof Rahman said, adding it killed eight and caused sufferings to thousands during 2009 pandemic.
"Physicians should keep this in mind. They have to consider anti-viral drugs while treating flu in this season."
He urged people not to panic, rather be aware of the disease.
"Just maintain personal hygiene, cough into the crook of the elbow and avoid spitting just anywhere," he said. "A person with flu should be treated in isolation with protective measures."
"As it can pass one to another, it spread rapidly among the dormitory inmates," the director said, quoting his investigators that Kurigram nursing institute students live in a crammed room and share beds.
With four strains of flu virus H5N1, H1N1, H3N2 and H9N2 circulating in the air, global experts warn Bangladesh against resurgence of a new mutated form of a virus.
bdnews24.com/nih/sk/2205h
