Bangalore/Raipur/Pune: A 55-year-old man died of swine flu at a private hospital on Saturday morning, becoming the second victim of the deadly disease in Karnataka, health officials said.
Shivanna, who had been admitted to Wockhart Hospital on August 12, died on Friday, health officials who declined to be named said.
He was suffering from severe cough and breathlessness when he got admitted to the hospital. His condition became critical by yesterday afternoon and he was put on ventilator.
Shivanna's throat swab culture was sent to NIMHANS here and the results this evening said he was suffering from swine flu, sources said.
On August 12, a 26-year-old school teacher Roopa became the first casualty in the state.
Even as Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa assured this morning that the situation was well under control, the epidemic had its second victim and 11 more confirmed cases were reported in the state.
CRPF man among Chhattisgarh’s victims
The flu claimed three more lives, two of them in Chhattisgarh, taking the total number of casualties 25 even as government decided to issue new guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of suspected patients to calm fear among the people.
Seventy-year-old woman Parubhai Shinde died in Pune and 18-year-old youth Sitaram Varma and 40-year-old CRPF constable succumbed in Raipur and Bilaspur since Friday night.
Shinde, who was admitted to a hospital in Pune four days back following high fever and other symptoms of swine flu, died late last night, health officials said. With this, the toll in Pune, the ground zero of the disease, mounted to 15.
Varma died in Raipur on Friday of suspected swine flu to the first fatality in Chhattisgarh and it was followed by the death of CRPF man Y S Rao, who had recently been to Mumbai, in Bilaspur today.
Varma, hailing from Bhilai, was suffering from pneumonia and throat infection, hospital sources said. Nodal officer in-charge of swine flu cases in Chhattisgarh T K Aggarwal said Varma's throat swab was sent to Delhi for the flu test as the boy had recently visited Pune.
Besides the deaths in Pune, one person each has died due to the viral infection in Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Nashik, Thiruvananthapuram, Chennai, Bangalore, Raipur and Bilaspur and two in Mumbai.
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