70-year-old tested positive for swine flu

JAIPUR: A 70-year-old person was tested positive for swine flu in Ajmer on Monday. With the recent spurt in swine flu cases, the health department officials are confused over the nature of its virus as it is continuously changing its time of victimizing the people over the years.
Health minister Rajendra Rathore has already expressed his surprise over the recent rise in swine flu cases saying that swine flu had arrived before its usual time.He has issued directions to the health department officials to maintain the facilities in government hospitals for treatment of the swine flu patients.
The health department figures show that they took 135 samples of suspected swine flu case from April 1 (2014) so far. Out of 135, as many as 16 of them were tested positive for swine flu. Eight persons tested positive for swine flu died. The swine flu virus has caught the health department officials off guard as the death rate due to the H1N1 influenza is quite high.
The mortality rate of swine flu cases is quite high. Out of 16 positive cases, 10 of them died. Ajmer reported highest number of deaths. In Ajmer three persons died and in Jaipur 2 persons died of swine flu. Four other districts, including Jodhpur, Pali, Bhilwara and Rajsamand witnessed death of one person each due to swine flu.
However, the health department has intensified its efforts to check the spread of the diseases. It has constituted team to survey the areas where the cases of swine flu were reported.
A health department official said that when the swine flu struck first time, it was winters. Over the past five years, the virus is victimizing people in different weather. Now, it has hit the state when the temperature is soaring high.
Medical education department has already sent samples to national Institute of Virology of Pune to check if the virus is mutated.