Doctor, nurses among swine-flu suspects in Meghalaya

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Shillong, Aug 18
(PTI) A doctor working in New Delhi and two nurses of Shillong Civil Hospital here were among the five persons suspeted of having swine flu-like symptoms and their throat swab samples were today sent for H1N1 tests.

All the five have been kept in isolation and necessary treatment is being given, state's Director of Health Services K H Lakiang said.

Dr Natasha Sangma, who had recently returned from New Delhi, and two nurses of Shillong Civil Hospital who had come in contact with the two H1N1 patients admitted at the hospital, have been admitted with flu-like symptoms.

A 26-year-old youth, who returned from Bangalore and a girl, who had come from Vellore, also showed suspected flu-like symptoms.

"We are screening people having travel history to places where the flu is prevalent. We have sent the samples today to the laboratory at Dibrugarh in Assam," Lakiang said.:tiphat:http://www.ptinews.com/news/235551_Doctor--nurses-among-swine-flu-suspects-in-Meghalaya

 

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Re: Doctor, nurses among swine-flu suspects in Meghalaya

Press Trust Of India
Shillong, August 17, 2009
First Published: 21:20 IST(17/8/2009)
Last Updated: 21:21 IST(17/8/2009)

Over 100 students quarantined in Meghalaya

Altogether 117 students and 15 teachers of a premier school in Shillong were on Monday quarantined while three more samples of suspected swine flu patients were sent for tests by Meghalaya health authorities.

Students of all the three sections of Class VII and 15 teachers of St Edmunds School were screened, prescribed medicines and isolated for 10 days, Director of Health Services K H Lakiang said.

The move was prompted after one of the students, Joshwa Lyngwa, tested positive on Sunday.

Five persons have tested positive for swine flu in Meghalaya in less than a week.

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