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he first swine flu case was detected in a footballer, Silvit Tongper, on August 11. A Sports Authority of India (SAI) player, he had gone to the Arsenal Superstar Club in Surrey, England to take coaching.
On August 3, he returned with symptoms like sore throat, running nose and high fever. Tongper had stayed in the SAI hostel for some days and more than 100 people attended his felicitation programme.
Of the four more persons found H1N1 positive, three were in touch with Tongper a Class VII student friend of the footballer, a ward boy of Shillong Civil Hospital where Tongper was admitted to and a SAI hostel boarder where he stayed after returning from the UK.
"The fifth case is a woman from Shillong working in Pune," officials at the Shillong Civil Hospital said on Sunday. "The sample reports of the four cases were received from the Kolkata-based National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases on Saturday night," an official said.
Director of health services KH Lakinag said all the patients were undergoing treatment at isolation wards of the Shillong Civil Hospital.
The health department has so treated over 150 people, most of whom had no flu-like symptoms but had come into contact with Tongper.
At least 80 people, mostly boarders and officials from the SAI complex, have been kept in isolation and asked not to move out for another 10 days.
he first swine flu case was detected in a footballer, Silvit Tongper, on August 11. A Sports Authority of India (SAI) player, he had gone to the Arsenal Superstar Club in Surrey, England to take coaching.
On August 3, he returned with symptoms like sore throat, running nose and high fever. Tongper had stayed in the SAI hostel for some days and more than 100 people attended his felicitation programme.
Of the four more persons found H1N1 positive, three were in touch with Tongper a Class VII student friend of the footballer, a ward boy of Shillong Civil Hospital where Tongper was admitted to and a SAI hostel boarder where he stayed after returning from the UK.
"The fifth case is a woman from Shillong working in Pune," officials at the Shillong Civil Hospital said on Sunday. "The sample reports of the four cases were received from the Kolkata-based National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases on Saturday night," an official said.
Director of health services KH Lakinag said all the patients were undergoing treatment at isolation wards of the Shillong Civil Hospital.
The health department has so treated over 150 people, most of whom had no flu-like symptoms but had come into contact with Tongper.
At least 80 people, mostly boarders and officials from the SAI complex, have been kept in isolation and asked not to move out for another 10 days.
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