Kathmandu, November 9 (IANS) Hundreds of people gathered in the hospital for testing pigs with flu-like symptoms, while public schools were closed for three days in a third district in western nepal after fears of an epidemic had great influence in the region after the discovery of viruses in high school students and security forces.
Myagdi district, next to Baglung and Parbat, where the H1N1 virus was detected in nine samples taken from 12 people who complained of flu symptoms such as fever, was the subject of panic after more than 250 people rushed to hospital with cough and cold symptoms that may or may not show itself.
For increased after the outbreak of the disease in Parbat district, last week, where schools and a military camp have reported positive for the virus.
The government has rushed a team of doctors in the district, while schools are closed to contain the spread of the disease.
As a medical team began consultations with local authorities and civil society in Parbat, were hampered in their efforts to control the disease, because the only objects of swine influenza were diagnosed in the capital.
The swine flu was confirmed in nine people in Parbat - which include school children and soldiers in a military camp in the main city Kusmi related symptoms were reported also in its neighboring district of Baglung, causing private and boarding schools the Organization Nepal (Pabson), coordinating body for private schools on the Republic of the Himalayas, to close.
Now PABSON has also decided to keep all private schools in Myagdi closed until Tuesday after fears that swine flu entered into by Parbat district.
The first case of swine flu was reported in Nepal in June, when three members of one family, who traveled to Kathmandu by the United States, gave positive Tribhuvan Airport in Kathmandu.
However, despite the recent panic, Nepal, unlike India and its southern neighbor, has not reported any deaths.
While the number of cases detected has reached 60, the cure rate was one hundred percent different from India, where about 500 people have died so far.
Myagdi district, next to Baglung and Parbat, where the H1N1 virus was detected in nine samples taken from 12 people who complained of flu symptoms such as fever, was the subject of panic after more than 250 people rushed to hospital with cough and cold symptoms that may or may not show itself.
For increased after the outbreak of the disease in Parbat district, last week, where schools and a military camp have reported positive for the virus.
The government has rushed a team of doctors in the district, while schools are closed to contain the spread of the disease.
As a medical team began consultations with local authorities and civil society in Parbat, were hampered in their efforts to control the disease, because the only objects of swine influenza were diagnosed in the capital.
The swine flu was confirmed in nine people in Parbat - which include school children and soldiers in a military camp in the main city Kusmi related symptoms were reported also in its neighboring district of Baglung, causing private and boarding schools the Organization Nepal (Pabson), coordinating body for private schools on the Republic of the Himalayas, to close.
Now PABSON has also decided to keep all private schools in Myagdi closed until Tuesday after fears that swine flu entered into by Parbat district.
The first case of swine flu was reported in Nepal in June, when three members of one family, who traveled to Kathmandu by the United States, gave positive Tribhuvan Airport in Kathmandu.
However, despite the recent panic, Nepal, unlike India and its southern neighbor, has not reported any deaths.
While the number of cases detected has reached 60, the cure rate was one hundred percent different from India, where about 500 people have died so far.
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