Two new cases of swine flu in Telangana, AP

Hyderabad: Two women, one each from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, were on Thursday found infected with swine flu, a health department official said.

A woman from Kadapa in AP and another woman from Telangana tested positive for swine flu, said Dr K Subhakar, the nodal officer for the disease here.

In 2014, 88 cases of swine flu were reported in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh together; of them 22 cases were reported in the last week of December alone.

Around 10 persons reportedly died of swine flu last year. Noting that swine flu is not a life-threatening disease for healthy people, P Sambasiva Rao, Director of Health of Telangana, had said that the government had taken various steps for checking the spread of the disease.