Bangalore, June 18 : A South Korean and a Thai national tested positive for swine flu today taking the total number of cases in Karnataka to five, Health officials said.
The two men arrived from South Korea and Bangkok respectively at the Bengaluru International Airport on June 14 and were sent to National Institute of Virology (NIV) Pune, the officials told Zeack.
Earlier, a 29 year-old woman, her four year-old child and another passenger who arrived at BIA from San Francisco tested positive. They were being treated at the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases, the officials said.
Two baby girls, aged one-and-a-half and eight months, who arrived from Singapore and Dubai, were quarantined at the Institute today with suspected symptoms of swine flu and their samples were sent for tests, they said.
In all 1,48,116 air passengers had been screened in the state. Ze
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Two test positive for swine flu in Karnataka
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