Fears of pneuomic plague spread to India

Some in India is now in fear after a few deaths have been reported of h1n1 symptoms but there was no trace of it in their bodies. In Pune's Sassoon hostpital in India up to 30% of the deaths that was thought of people to be infected with swine flu actually did not have it.

Director of major hospitals Sanjay Oak said the BMC had written to the National Institute of Virology about this observation. "Recently, we lost two patients at Nair Hospital who had classic symptoms of swine flu, but tested negative," he said. "It could be some variant of H1N1 but not classic H1N1, and so the tests are showing negative," he said.

Arun Jamkar, dean of BJ Medical College, Pune also said: "We have found that 36 patients who died in Sassoon Hospital had all the classic symptoms of H1N1 and had even responded to Tamiflu, but they tested negative for the virus"

It was also blamed on suppliers.

Director of Haffkine Research Institute Abhay Chaudhary also said that this could just be seasonal related.

This has now caused some to believe that the same pneumonic plague that spread through Ukraine is now also in India although no confirmation from any officials whether the 30% that have died had symptoms of the pneumonic plague.

Updates to follow.