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A (H1N1) cases go up to 17

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NEW DELHI: With a one-and-half-year-old boy, who arrived in Hyderabad from New York on Friday, testing positive for Influenza-A (H1N1), the total number of the cases in the country has risen to 17 on Saturday.

The boy’s six-year-old sister tested positive on Friday and the two are under treatment and are said to be stable.

Nine persons across the country have been quarantined and their samples taken for further investigation. Two persons in Delhi, two in Bangalore and a family of five in Chennai, including a six-month-old infant, have been quarantined.

“So far samples of 240 persons have been tested of which 17 have been tested positive for A (H1N1). Of these, two are indigenous cases who got the infection from the positive cases that came in from abroad. The rest of the samples have been found negative for the virus. Among the 240 tested, 82 were identified through health screening at international airports and the rest were samples from persons who have self reported,” said a senior health official.

“Of the 17 cases, nine have been discharged, while the rest are being treated at various hospitals,” he said.

The World Health Organisation has reported 29,699 laboratory-confirmed cases from 74 countries as on June 12. There have also been 145 deaths so far.

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