Kolkata, June 28 (Inditop.com) West Bengal got its second confirmed case of swine flu with a five-year-old girl testing positive for the influenza A (H1N1) virus, an official said Sunday.
The girl, a resident of Dhuliajan in Assam, is being treated at the state-run Infectious Diseases Hospital, said state health department official Tapas Sen.
The girl, along with her parents, had arrived at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport from Bangkok early Friday with symptoms of swine flu and was sent to the hospital by doctors.
“Her blood samples were sent to the National Institute of Communicable Diseases in New Delhi, which has confirmed that she is positive for flu,” Sen said.
The father of the girl has tested negative, while the mother’s test report is awaited.
The three members of the family have been kept quarantined in a special ward in the hospital, where another seven-year-old girl – the first confirmed swine flu patient in the state – is also being treated.
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