Via Deccan Herald :
" Today, a year after the dreaded H1N1 Influenza first surfaced in Bangalore on June 13, 2009, things seem much calmer. Deccan Herald spoke to some doctors who were in the thick of action during the H1N1 Influenza scare last year in Bangalore to find if the City is safe from the virus.
There may still be cases of H1N1 deaths and people testing positive, but the scale of incidence has significantly come down in the last few months, throwing up a double-barrelled question: was the flu hyped or has the virus become less severe?
Deccan Herald spoke to some doctors who were in the thick of action during the H1N1 Influenza scare last year in Bangalore to find if the City is safe from the virus.
“There was an outbreak last year. The only difference between this and the last influenza outbreaks is that we have a drug now,” said Dr V Ravi, Head of Neuro-virology department, Nimhans.
The Nimhans lab was commissioned to screen throat and nasal swabs of suspected patients after the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, was unable to manage the burden.
The virus attack was felt the most between August and September when the number of deaths escalated. The lab used to receive 100-120 samples a day during these months, with as many as 220 swabs on one particular day. This has now come down to 20-40 a day since December 2009."
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