Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in...
Friday, October 23, 2009 MANILA: The Philippines is seeking international help in fighting an outbreak of a deadly bacterial disease following two devastating tropical storms, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. Filipino health authorities said 1 963 people had developed leptospirosis and 148 of them had died. The Philippines health department has ordered 1.3 million people to take antibiotics to bolster their defences. The outbreak has occurred in areas of Manila that remain flooded nearly four weeks after tropical storm Ketsana struck. The disease is transmitted mainly by exposure to animal urine in water in flooded areas and can lead to renal failure.
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