Swine flu in India
jayanta chatterjee
Friday, 14 August 2009 01:47 UTC
I just read an article by BBC’s Indian correspondent Sautik Biswas. It’s about swine flu in India. I liked to share it with other forum members (many seem not to read anything outside text books and own research topic). Let’s read it before posting any comment.
The swine flu hysteria
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/soutikbiswas/
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Anonymous
At least 200 children have died in an outbreak of Japanese encephalitis in northern India, health officials say. So far, 900 affected children have been admitted to hospitals in Uttar Pradesh state. Gorakhpur town is the epicentre of the disease. There is no specific cure for the mosquito-borne disease which has killed thousands in India since 1978.
While there is no specific cure for the disease after it has been contracted, three vaccines are in use worldwide that have reportedly been successful in preventing the disease. But India has so far failed to develop an effective vaccination programme.
After the disease killed 1,500 children in 2005, a public outcry forced the government to import vaccines from China and a mass vaccination project was started.
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