Hyderabad: Telangana has witnessed a rise in the number of swine flu cases, the recent data shows that 892 people were tested positive at the Institute of Preventive Medicine lab over the last three months.
Officials believe that the rise in number of swine flu cases is due to the drop in temperature as the virus can survive easily in low temperatures.
Swine flu is an infection caused by one of the several Swine Influenza Viruses (SIV), with the H1N1 strain being the most common across the country, particularly in Telangana.
The H1N1 virus spreads when an individual touched an infected or breathes droplets of coughs and sneezes that are in the air.
The symptoms of this virus are the same as the seasonal flu, commonly known as viral fever which includes cough, sore throat, and body ache.
We urges our readers to take all the necessary precautions to prevent themselves from getting swine flu.
