IMPHAL, July 31 – Swine flu has reached Manipur. This was confirmed by the State Health Director Dr Motilal during a press meet here today.
The victim is a 19-year-old State sportperson from Imphal East district, he informed while declining to give the name of the girl. The girl had recently gone to Singapore for particpation in a championship, and had returned to Imphal on July 23 via Delhi.
The State Government had sounded an alert last week after reports of four fencers, including two from Manipur, and their coach testing positive for the H1N1 virus on their return journey from Singapore, where they joined the recently concluded Junior Asian and Cadet Championship. The team had arrived in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Maintaining that there is no cause for panic as the State has ample stock of tamiflu which can be used for the treatment, Dr Motilal informed that as part of the preventive programme, State doctors have already been deployed at the Imphal airport to check passengers, particularly those coming from abroad.
The State Veterinary and Animal Husbandry department has already imposed a ban on importing pigs from Myanmar.
NNN adds: The victim a school-going girl in Manipur. Giving details about the case, Dr Th Bobonchandra, additional director, RIMS stated that the infected girl was a member of a team of fencers who had gone to Singapore. The team was examined at Delhi Indira Gandhi International airport on July 22, where she was declared uninfected, the doctor continued.
On reaching Manipur on July 23, she started showing swine flu-like symptoms – fever, cough, cold, etc – and on July 27 the Rapid Response Team (RRT) of the Health Dept got information about her and took her throat and nostril secretion samples and preserved it till July 28, said Dr Bobonchandra. He also said that a team of experts from Delhi would come to impart training to RRT from August 3.
Source: Assam Tribune
The victim is a 19-year-old State sportperson from Imphal East district, he informed while declining to give the name of the girl. The girl had recently gone to Singapore for particpation in a championship, and had returned to Imphal on July 23 via Delhi.
The State Government had sounded an alert last week after reports of four fencers, including two from Manipur, and their coach testing positive for the H1N1 virus on their return journey from Singapore, where they joined the recently concluded Junior Asian and Cadet Championship. The team had arrived in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Maintaining that there is no cause for panic as the State has ample stock of tamiflu which can be used for the treatment, Dr Motilal informed that as part of the preventive programme, State doctors have already been deployed at the Imphal airport to check passengers, particularly those coming from abroad.
The State Veterinary and Animal Husbandry department has already imposed a ban on importing pigs from Myanmar.
NNN adds: The victim a school-going girl in Manipur. Giving details about the case, Dr Th Bobonchandra, additional director, RIMS stated that the infected girl was a member of a team of fencers who had gone to Singapore. The team was examined at Delhi Indira Gandhi International airport on July 22, where she was declared uninfected, the doctor continued.
On reaching Manipur on July 23, she started showing swine flu-like symptoms – fever, cough, cold, etc – and on July 27 the Rapid Response Team (RRT) of the Health Dept got information about her and took her throat and nostril secretion samples and preserved it till July 28, said Dr Bobonchandra. He also said that a team of experts from Delhi would come to impart training to RRT from August 3.
Source: Assam Tribune
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