Health director-General Tan Sri Dr. Mohd Ismail Merican told that the cases of swine flu is increasing by 25 per cent in the week ended from 8th to 14th of this month. He declared that the cases from 51 increased to 64 in the said week. This information was reported in the Malaysian news service, Bernama.
So far 15,584 cases were tested positive to this virus with death toll of 92. Seven new cases of swine flu like illness detected in five states of Malaysia. About 513 patients having influenza like …

Food and Drug Administration informed that recalling of suspected contaminated eggs with salmonella carried out by another Hillandale Farms of Iowa Inc., It voluntarily recalled the shell eggs. FDA told that this is the second largest recall during this salmonella outbreak.
FDA added that it is carrying out its investigations nation wide for Salmonella Enteritidis and informed that Hillandale Farms in Iowa is the second potential source of contaminated shell eggs.
It is already declared by FDA that the first potential source of contaminated shell eggs with salmonella is Wright County Egg. …

First case of the reputed deadly superbug NDM 1 was identified and it is the Ontario’s first of case of the deadly superbug. This has been identified at the William Osler Health Centre in Brampton.
The William Osler Health Centre released its first positive case details recently and said one patient was recently tested positive for the bacteria that contains the enzyme NDM 1.
It is learnt by CBC news.
The hospital authorities added that the patient tested positive was observed for having treatment at India. It further added that the patient is …

The salmonella outbreak caused the recall of eggs which was preventable-says federal officials. CDC said that hundreds of Americans have become affected in the recent months. The acting director of CDC told that they are not certain to state the exact number of persons affected to salmonella infection so far. He added that a total number of cases reported were 1,953 up to July 31 from May 1 and further added that the number of salmonella cases is expected to grow. Wright County Egg started recalling 380 million eggs on …

Swine flu had the value of super star in the media for the last one year and slightly its fame was reduced in the last few months. But there came a superior star named Superbug NDM-1 named after the Indian capital (New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase). It is alleged that the new gene NDM 1 was found in the gut bacteria of patients who went treatment in India. The name NDM 1 has become popular as soon as the British Journal Lancet started writing about this gene.
The publication of Lancet immediately …

The state screened about 61,524 people on Thursday for swine flu symptoms and recorded eight new cases of swine flu. The state had forty swine flu symptoms and out of which four were isolated and the rest of them were given precautionary treatment.
The new 8 confirmed cases came from different parts of the state, three belongs to Jaipur, one from Jodhpur and two from Udaipur and Kota each, said the director of health department.
About ten affected people were under treatment in different hospitals of the state till Wednesday. About 1.2 …

Though the state Maharashtra lost 270 lives since April 2010 due to swine flu, about only 35 persons were lost by Mumbai. The same Mumbai was mostly hit by swine flu last year, it seems that Mumbai is under control for this virus this year and it is thought that this virus spared it of its virulence this year.
It is said by doctors that many hospitals are admitting patients in ICUS and they have swine flu symptoms and treated with anti swine flu drugs like oseltamivir without testing the blood …

After the publication of report of NDM 1 in Lancet, it created a global scare and India immediately responded the report and it took the offence for the name given after the national capital. The health ministry defended the report and told that the study was conducted by the funds provided by welcome trust and wyeth.and also told several authors of the study team have declared conflict of interest in the publication, health ministry added.
The Indian doctor Kumarasamy said that that he had not written many of the interpretations in …

Premature mature baby breast growth has no link with milk powder made in china and it is proved by clinical trials – say China’s health ministry. This is followed by three infants to grow their breasts prematurely.
The china made investigations in Hubei where there were complaints that infant girls developed sexual bodily changes due to milk powder manufactured by China.
The official health spokes-man told that the hormone contents of the milk powder were within the norms. Xinhua stated that the samples of the milk powder consumed by three infants tested …

UK already warned experts about the danger of NDM 1 that this NDM 1 may reproduce new superbugs by replication and now it warned the possibility of having new infections in numerous patients with the superbug.
A study conducted in patients recorded 37 cases carrying the NDM 1 gene and it may confer the almost total resistance to antibiotic.
Another study conducted last year revealed for 140 cases of NDM 1 in South Asia. This raise in the superbug carrying cases in South Asia threatens for global transmission of the enzyme. It …