Infectious Diseases

Bogota, Colombia, August 31: 57-year-old Colombian President Alvaro Uribe is the second Latin American president to contract the lethal virus, after Costa Rica's president, 69-year-old Oscar Arias, was diagnosed with the influenza earlier this month on Aug. 11.

Copenhagen, Denmark, August 30: A significant research done by a team from the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance has discovered that obesity could be one of the major contributing causes in critical swine flu cases.

Pune, August 30: The dreaded swine flu virus sniffed life out of five more people, taking the toll of fatalities to 98 in the country. As many as 218 new cases were also reported positive of the influenza on Saturday.

New Delhi, August 29: The specter of the ongoing H1N1 virus has cast its shadow over the forthcoming Hajj, where millions will gather in Saudi Arabia in October this year.

New York, August 28: As health officials across the world battle it out to thwart the spread of the virus, a wave of panic has gripped some regions. These regions are basically the worst hit in terms of infections and fatalities of the virus.

Milan, August 28: The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned that the next target of H1N1 virus is the turkeys in Chile as the virus has entered these birds and this could put poultry at a high risk.

Perth, Australia, August 27: The state government is leaving nothing to chance as it intends to hold mass swine flu vaccinations in the immunization clinics for the residents of Western Australia (WA).

Washington, August 27: The U.S. health officials are urging the public not to panic over the estimates of 90,000 swine flu deaths this fall.

New York, August 27: Next time you plan to land in India, Pakistan or Bangladesh, beware of contracting typhoid fever, as scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, reported that cases of such fever are closely linked with foreign travel, especially to the Indian subcontinent.