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DHAKA, June 19 (Xinhua) -- The first H1N1 flu case was detected in Bangladesh on Thursday, the health ministry said in press statement on Friday, private news agency the bdnews24. com reported.
Six more test positive for swine flu in Bangladesh
Dhaka, Jun 24 : Six more Bangladesh citizens, who arrived here from the United States, were tested positive for swine flu.
Dr Mahmudur Rahman, Director of the Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control, told a health seminar here they conducted tests on 24 people, who came from the US on June 14, and detected six positive cases of H1N1 virus.
Dr Rahman said the patients, aged between two to 28, had been quarantined. There condition was stated to be stable.
The Bangladesh authorities had announced the first positive case of H1N1 on June 19. Six more test positive for swine flu in Bangladesh.
The government has decided to distribute yellow coloured health forms among the inbound passengers in every flight soon to strengthen the screening programme for swine flu virus in the country.
Meanwhile, another person who returned from India was found with the symptoms of swine flu in Chuadanga district yesterday.
The government officials at a seminar held at Mohakhali yesterday said the health forms would be distributed in the flight as many inbound passengers somehow escape the health help desk at the airport.
Under the screening programme, the inbound passengers have to report their health condition and if any of them report swine flu like illness he or she is tested immediately, said Director of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) Prof Mahmudur Rahman.
He said the government at its inter-ministerial meeting has decided to distribute the forms among the inbound passengers in every flight under the responsibility of respective airlines.
Soon after the pandemic alert of swine flu, the government has started health screening at 16 entry points of the country, including Zia International Airport. Due to a lax monitoring at the airport, a man carrying the A (H1N1) virus entered into the country and later spread it to a few others.
A total of eight persons who were detected with the virus are undergoing treatment in home confinement. They are getting well gradually, said Prof Mahmudur Rahman, adding that a total of 30 families of eight patients have been kept under close observation so that the virus cannot spread further.
The seminar was organised by One World One Health: Bangladesh Initiative at IEDCR auditorium.
Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Prof Shah Monir Hossain, Director General of the Department of Livestock Dr Habibur Rahman, President of One Health Nitish Devnath and Additional Inspector General of Police Aminul Islam, among others, spoke.
Our Correspondent from Kushtia adds: Another person was found with the symptoms of swine flu under the screening programme of Chuadanga Health Department yesterday.
Forty years old man who returned from Krishnanagar of India yesterday entered into the country through Darshana check post.
The health department found the man with symptoms of swine flu. Detailed information about the person was sent to Dhaka in the evening.
Civil Surgeon of the district Dr ANM Bazlur Rahman said if his condition does not improve within ten days, he would be sent to Dhaka.
The authorities concerned in Dhaka said the man is kept in his village home and steps have been taken to collect the sample of his saliva and nasal drop to be tested in the laboratory.
DHAKA, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- Two more A/H1N1 flu cases have been confirmed in Bangladesh, raising the total number to 38, leading English-language newspaper The Daily Star reported on Sunday.
Mahmudur Rahman, director of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research under the Health Ministry, was quoted as saying that one patient has come back from Malaysia while another patient contracted the flu from the other victim.
Now seven patients are undergoing treatment while the rest of the persons have been cured already, Rahman said.
Meanwhile, the Bangladeshi government is going to form a 13-member Pandemic Influenza Management Committee for every medical college hospital in the country within a day or two to deal with the increasing risk of A/H1N1 flu virus, according to The Daily Star.
The committees will review pandemic situation in the medical college hospitals, maintain liaison with authorities concerned, make a list of medical and surgical requirements (MSR) as well as report and notify to the proper authorities, officials said.
The work of the committees also includes managing patients according to national guidelines and maintaining standard working procedure, undertaking infection control measures and carrying out public health communication as and when necessary, the newspaper said.
Bangladesh's health department on June 18 confirmed the first A/H1N1 flu case while the first domestic transmission of A/H1N1 flu was found one week later on June 25.
And there are 13 domestic transmitted cases out of the total 38 cases.
Number of A/H1N1 flu cases rises to 87 in Bangladesh
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16:20, August 20, 2009
The number of A/H1N1 flu cases has risen to 87 in Bangladesh as the government confirmed more cases under its surveillance program, the country's health minister said on Thursday.
The Health Minister AFM Ruhal Haque disclosed this to reporters here in Dhaka on Thursday.
He said so far some 32 patients have been cured.
Haque warned that the situation might worsen but he said people need not to panic as the government is ready to tackle the threat with adequate anti-A/H1N1 flu vaccines.
"People now need to maintain personal hygiene and inform health professionals if they suffer from flu," he was quoted by local newspaper The Daily Star online as saying.
Bangladesh's health department on June 18 confirmed the country's first A/ H1N1 flu case while the first domestic transmission of A/H1N1 flu was found one week later on June 25.
Official swine flu tally approaches 200
Mon, Aug 31st, 2009 12:22 am BdST
Dhaka, Aug 30 (bdnews24.com)?Five more cases of swine flu were detected in the country on Sunday, taking the total number of confirmed cases in Bangladesh to 199.
Meanwhile, on Saturday, 31 new cases were confirmed, the highest one-day jump since the health ministry detected the first case in Bangladesh on June 18.
"Five more cases of the H1N1 flu virus were detected on Sunday, taking the total number of confirmed infections to 199," Mushtuq Husain, senior scientific officer at the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), told bdnews24.com on Sunday
He said staff at government hospitals and health centres and eight private medical colleges had received specific training on the H1N1 influenza virus, while doctors in all hospital wards in the metropolitan area were also receiving specialised training.
Husain told a seminar at BSMMU on Saturday that the country was now at alert level 2, but could soon be at level 3, signalling an epidemic, as the rising number of detected cases gave an indication of the actual spread of the virus across the country.
He said Bangladesh was now preparing for level 3, but the IEDCR or health ministry could not raise the alert as an epidemic could only be officially declared from the prime minister's office.
WHO declared a global H1N1 flu pandemic on June 11.
<SMALL class=fixedcap>File photo</SMALL>Star Online Report
Thirty-four fresh cases of swine flu detected today, bringing the toll to 247 across the country.
Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) this morning tested 34 people positive for the H1N1 virus.
After investigating huge new cases, IEDCR has stopped testing people rushed there with flu-like symptoms.
Now, it is giving treatment to the patients based on the symptoms, IEDCR sources said.
Earlier yesterday, the government confirmed the first death from swine flu in the country.
The authorities concerned said, as per the guidelines of the World Health Organisation, people need not waste time with testing for A (H1N1) since the virus has already spread widely. Rather, they should start symptom management treatments and isolating the patients with symptoms.
However, different hospitals, including some of the hospitals provided with special training by the government, are sending patients to test and confirm swine flu without giving them any cautionary messages or treatment.
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