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    Source: http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/jam...es/379288.html


    Jammu Kashmir
    Posted at: Mar 20, 2017, 12:41 AM; last updated: Mar 20, 2017, 12:41 AM (IST)
    Viral infection: Health dept collects samples

    Srinagar March 19
    Amid panic among people, the J&K Government has taken samples from different hospitals to identify the virus, which has infected thousands of children across Kashmir.

    After the outbreak of the viral infection among schoolchildren in the first week of March in north Kashmir?s Bandipora district, the Directorate of Health Services, Kashmir (DHSK), immediately sent a team of doctors to prevent the viral infection from spreading further.

    The viral infection had engulfed almost all the children of the Pethkot hamlet of Bandipora. Besides, a 5-year-old boy, Nazim Khan, who was also suffering from viral infection and had underlying comorbidity of a congenital heart disease, had died at his home on March 4.

    The team of doctors treated 68 children having viral infection at Pethkot hamlet on March 6.

    ?Initially, we had information that the infection is restricted to Pethkot village only but later, it came out to have infected other areas of the district also. We distributed over 1,000 bottles of cough syrups among the patients in Pethkot,? block medical officer, Bandipora, Dr Syed-ur-Rehman said.

    As the viral infection turned into an epidemic, the DHSK sent a team of doctors from epidemiology division to Bandipora to collect samples on March 16...

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    Children are not infected by swine flu, confirms NCDC
    Published at March 24, 2017 05:03:37 0Comment(s) 59 views

    Rising Kashmir News

    Srinagar
    Dispelling the suspicion among parents that their children might be infected by swine flu, the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in New Delhi have been found all the samples taken from these children negative for swine flu.

    ?The samples taken by the epidemiology division of the Directorate of Health Services, Kashmir, (DHSK) on March 16 were sent to the NCDC for identification of the virus, which had infected over 68 children at Pethkot village of north Kashmir?s Bandipora district,? reported a English daily The Tribune.
    ...
    ?However, the NCDC report accessed by The Tribune has revealed that the samples taken from children in the age group of two to 13 years were found negative for influenza A and B,? said the report.
    ...
    ?We had sent the samples of suspected swine flu cases to the NCDC. Fortunately, all the six cases have been declared negative and there is no chance of any epidemic,? SM Qadri, state surveillance officer was quoted by the newspaper.
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    He said the people should not panic and the infection would go within two weeks. ?It is a normal flu (lacking clarity of language from a state health care representative yet again!!! - Ro) and can?t lead to health complications. People should avoid taking antibiotics,? he said.
    ...
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      Influenza ?Circulating? in Kashmir, 26% samples test positive: DG ICMR
      Published April 14, 2017 - الجمعة 18 رجب 1438 | By Editor-Online
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      After hospitals in Kashmir witnessed a huge rush of patients with ?flu-like sickness? last month, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has confirmed that influenza is ?circulating? in the Valley. It has said that over 26 percent samples have tested positive for various strains of influenza.
      In response to queries e-mailed by Kashmir Post, the Director General (DG) of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Dr Soumya Swaminathan responded that ?influenza season has commenced? in Kashmir and that ?Influenza- B has predominated the positivity.?
      Dr Swaminathan said that as per the National Institute of Virology (NIV), 26.5 percent samples had tested positive for various influenza viruses in Kashmir. Of these, 20.5 percent samples had tested positive for Influenza B. Further, the data supplied by the NIV to the ICMR reveals that Influenza-A was found to be the strain infecting 6 percent of samples tested. The data had been collected from SKIMS lab run by Dr Parvaiz Koul, as per the official information.
      The emailed communication by ICMR elaborates that ?Influenza A (H3N2) and influenza A (H1N1)pdm09 was observed in 4.1 and 1.9 percent patients tested.?
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      After hospitals in Kashmir witnessed a huge rush of patients with “flu-like sickness” last month, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has confirmed that influenza is “circulating” in the Valley. It has said that over 26 percent samples have tested positive for various strains of influenza. In response to queries e-mailed by Kashmir Post, […]
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