Swine flu: Death toll rises to 5 in UP

With two more persons succumbing to swine flu in Lucknow, the death toll due to the disease rose to five in Uttar Pradesh in less than a month time, officials said on Saturday.

With two more persons succumbing to swine flu in Lucknow, the death toll due to the disease rose to five in Uttar Pradesh in less than a month time, officials said on Saturday.

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Two persons, aged 27 and 40 years, died of H1N1 infection at Chattrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University (CSMMU) in Lucknow on Friday, taking the death toll due to swine flu to five in less than a month time, they said.

Five more persons have been tested swine flue positive after which an alert has been sounded in all the hospitals in the city, the officials said.