After Monday scare,few H1N1 cases

After a sudden surge in influenza A and H1N1 positive cases on Monday that had doctors worried,the city on Tuesday reported only three positive swine flu cases.

After a sudden surge in influenza A and H1N1 positive cases on Monday that had doctors worried,the city on Tuesday reported only three positive swine flu cases. Civic officials maintain that the much talked about second wave of swine flu has still not hit the city.

On Monday,BMCs health department had reported 12 positive cases of H1N1,a sudden rise in number of cases after a gap of two months. Over the last two months,every day city hospitals report one or two swine flu positive cases. The last death reported was in September, said Manisha Mahiskar,additional municipal commissioner (health),BMC.

A 54-year-old woman is in the special swine flu ICU ward of Nair Hospital. Of the 12 reported cases,10 were from outside Mumbai and were referred by the airport to Kasturba Hospital,which is the primary isolation centre in the city. Airport authorities referred 10 patients to Kasturba Hospital and only two out of 12 are from Mumbai. The woman in the ICU is also stable, said Mahiskar.

Experts have predicted a second wave of H1N1 in winter globally. Even as doctors assure that India is still not in the grip of the second wave,doctors from BMC health department as well as state health department are not taking any chances and preparing to tackle it.

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