Tenth patient tests positive for swine flu in Indore

Indore: With a 40-year-old woman testing positive for swine flu, the number of those infected with the H1N1 virus in the district has gone up to 10, a health official said.

The woman, a resident of Ramkrishna Bagh colony, was admitted to a private hospital in Indore October 27.

Later, her swab samples were sent for lab testing where it tested positive for swine flu, said Dr GL Sodhi, district unit in-charge of Integrated Disease Surveillance Project. She is in a serious condition, he said.

This year, ten persons in Indore have so far tested positive for swine flu, out of whom six succumbed to the infection, Sodhi added.