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Influenza Foundation of India (IFI)
This website aims to promote awareness of influenza among healthcare professionals, with the intention of enhancing control measures and boosting pandemic preparedness in the India region.
By using this website you will find up-to-date information on the work of the IFI and on current issues in the field of influenza. Expert opinions and information resources on a number of influenza-related topics are also accessible here.
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Source: Times of India, Delhi edition; Saturday the 29 May 29, 2010, page 23
“Is US the incubator for global flu pandemic? “, certainly makes you think. This changes the thinking that mostly the flu strains are made in China & Southeast Asia.A team of researcher at University of Michigan, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Florida State University find that not all flu strains circulating in North America disappears at the end of influenza season, but some finds way to South America and mutate further.The H1N1 is the latest pandemic 2009 strain is the best example.
Source: Yahoo News, May 27th, 2010
Modified measles virus may help treat childhood brain tumours
H1N1 in India : Since the declaration of the first H1N1 influenza case by Indian Health Ministry, 28, 560 confirmed cases and 1, 184 deaths have been reported in India as on 24th January 2010.
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