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 In Uttar Pradesh, swine flu H1N1 cases have swelled from 50 last week to more than 80 till yesterday, in the capital Lucknow.

The super speciality hospital of state, Sanjay Gandhi Institute of Post graduate Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) has 65 swine flu infected cases and all of them are employees of the institute.

Most of these employees are from Microbiology department of the institute which got infected while treating the patients of H1N1 cases.

AIR Correspondent from Lucknow reports that Chief Medical Officer Dr S.N.S Yadav has said, despite being sudden spurt in swine flu cases, no one is serious and all of them are well under control. He has asked the director of SGPGIMS to make available large quantity of disposable napkins for all the entrants of PGI campus.

SGPGIMS authorities have said that all the in-house patients with even normal flu symptoms are being thoroughly investigated to detect the swine flu. They said, utmost care is being taken to check its further spread.

Meanwhile Uttar Pradesh, 5 more children have succumbed to encephalitis at BRD Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur during the last 24 hours.

With this, the death toll due to the disease, has mounted to 263 this year. Our Gorakhpur Correspondent reports that three more encephalitis patients have been admitted to the hospital during the period.

As many as 260 patients are being treated at BRD Medical College Hospital and other government hospitals of the region.



In Bolivia, an epidemic of swine flu has infected almost 900 people and claimed 11 lives. The Director of the ministry of health's epidemiologist service, Johnny Rada said on Tuesday that most of the cases occurred in the last few weeks and the outbreak does not rise to the level of a national epidemic. He said at the national level, the situation is under control.

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