The patients who showed symptoms similar to that of swine flu are not carrying the virus, according to hospital sources.
Though the H1N1 virus has not yet surfaced in the city this year, Government Medical College and Hospital ( GMCH) is taking no chances. The patients who showed symptoms similar to that of swine flu are not carrying the virus, according to hospital sources.
Since April, the hospital has sent about ten samples for testing the presence of the virus that spelt dread last year. All ten samples have tested negative.
Earlier the doctors of the hospital had predicted that the disease may not take the form of an epidemic this time around. However, pregnant women should be cautious of any kind of fever as the instances of death among them was 100 percent last year, they warned.
The disease had assumed its worst form in the city from August 2009 to September 2010. In fact, 50 lives were lost during the months of July and August last year, most of them being pregnant women.
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