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Pune doctor dies of swine flu, toll rises to 5
TIMESOFINDIA.COM 10 August 2009, 08:06am IST
NEW DELHI: A Pune doctor died after being hit by swine flu becoming the fifth victim to die of the disease. Dr Babasaheb Mane died at Sasoon
Hospital on Monday morning.
The 36-year-old Ayurvedic doctor was admitted to hospital in a critical condition on Saturday.
On Sunday, the highly infectious H1N1 virus claimed its first victim in Gujarat when US-based NRI Pravin Patel (43) succumbed to the contagion. Unlike Pune and Mumbai earlier, where the patients had contracted infection from a secondary source within the country, Patel died of an infection he probably carried from the US.
Indicative of the rising numbers, Pune reported 42 fresh H1N1 cases on Sunday - two of whom have been put on ventilator - while the condition of an infected four-year-old Chennai boy turned critical.
Patel's wife Naina, who too has tested positive, is in the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad. Doctors say her condition is stable but she has not been told about her husband's death.
The Patel couple run a store in Atlanta and had landed in Ahmedabad on July 31 to spend a month with the family. They took a Lufthansa flight from Atlanta to Mumbai and then came to Ahmedabad by Air India. Their three teenage children stayed back in the US to attend school and Patel's mother is with them.
Pune doctor dies of swine flu, toll rises to 5
TIMESOFINDIA.COM 10 August 2009, 08:06am IST
NEW DELHI: A Pune doctor died after being hit by swine flu becoming the fifth victim to die of the disease. Dr Babasaheb Mane died at Sasoon
Hospital on Monday morning.
The 36-year-old Ayurvedic doctor was admitted to hospital in a critical condition on Saturday.
On Sunday, the highly infectious H1N1 virus claimed its first victim in Gujarat when US-based NRI Pravin Patel (43) succumbed to the contagion. Unlike Pune and Mumbai earlier, where the patients had contracted infection from a secondary source within the country, Patel died of an infection he probably carried from the US.
Indicative of the rising numbers, Pune reported 42 fresh H1N1 cases on Sunday - two of whom have been put on ventilator - while the condition of an infected four-year-old Chennai boy turned critical.
Patel's wife Naina, who too has tested positive, is in the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad. Doctors say her condition is stable but she has not been told about her husband's death.
The Patel couple run a store in Atlanta and had landed in Ahmedabad on July 31 to spend a month with the family. They took a Lufthansa flight from Atlanta to Mumbai and then came to Ahmedabad by Air India. Their three teenage children stayed back in the US to attend school and Patel's mother is with them.