ISLAMABAD - Medical practitioners on Wednesday asked to adopt standard protocols to treat and protect the people from seasonal influenza in rural and urban areas of the country. According to them, there should be a strategy to strengthen the surveillance systems and develop better global tools for ...

NEW DELHI — The spread of H1N1 virus causing swine flu has claimed 226 lives in India so far this year, and more than 6,700 people have been infected with the disease and undergoing treatment, official sources said. The situation is quite alarming compared to last year, as 798 cases and 68 deaths ...

MULTAN - Three more patients under treatment from seasonal influenza at Nishtar Hospital, including two women, breathed their last on Tuesday, taking the total death toll from the disease in the past month-and-a-half to at least 38. The deceased belonged to Multan, Khanewal and Layyah. Earlier, ...

MULTAN - At least thirty wife people died in a past month after an outbreak of seasonal influenza hit cities in South Punjab. Multan Health Department spokesperson said that the casualties occurred in Multan, Rahim Yar Khan and Bahawalpur due to the epidemic. Around 106 cases surfaced in Multan ...

MULTAN - An outbreak of seasonal influenza has taken 14 lives so far in Multan city of Punjab with concerned quarters struggling to contain the epidemic. Nishtar Hospital's focal person for infectious diseases, Dr Irfan Arshad said that 35-year-old Zakiya hailing from Muzaffargarh was a suspected ...