Thursday, August 13, 2009 PUNE: With 75-year-old person dying of H1N1 at Sassoon Hospital here today, death toll has risen to 19 in the country. So far, 12 people have died of swine flu in Pune only. A 10-month-old boy from Pune succumbed to H1N1 late Wednesday night. The child tested positive for the swine flu and was admitted to Sasoon Hospital where his condition deteriorated. Thereafter, he was shifted to Sahyadri hospital where he succumbed to the virus.So far H1N1 has claimed 19 lives, including 12 in Pune, two each in Mumbai and Gujarat, one each in Nasik, Chennai, and Trivendrum, in India.The virus that travelled from abroad to India didn't show its affect in the beginning. But it started affecting people gradually and killed Pune school girl Reeda Sheikh on August 3. Since then virus is on prowl and killed an Ayurvedic doctor, who was also from Pune.A NRI, who came down to meet his family members in Gujarat, succumbed to the virus infection at a hospital. His wife tested positive for H1N1 and was battling for life in a hospital.Wednesday witnessed highest number of six deaths from swine flu, while today a 75-year-old man became the victim of H1N1. With the elderly man's death, swine flu toll rose to 19.
BAGHDAD: Nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives started shifting to southern Afghanistan."We are probably going to be the beginning of the influx you are going to see to Afghanistan," Lt. Col. Kevin Landers, commander of the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Engineer Battalion, said as crews packed crates and cleaned vehicles for the flight to Kandahar.Obama has ordered 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan to bolster the 38,000 American troops already battling the resurgent Taliban."We are going to take this footprint out of Iraq," said Landers, whose battalion received word of its reassignment last month just after taking command of clearing roads in Baghdad of bombs and debris.
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