Pune: With the city earning the dubious distinction of having the largest number of swine flu victims in the country, a heavily burdened health care apparatus is banking on development of herd immunity to combat the pandemic.
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Swine flu toll rises to 96 in Pune
Confronted with an unrelenting spread of the virus in urban, semi-urban and rural areas in and around Pune which claimed its first swine flu fatality on August 3, the state health authorities are eagerly awaiting the findings of a research undertaken by National Institute of Virology (NIV) here on herd immunity.
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While NIV, the sole designated agency for testing the H1N1 infection, has not come out with any official word on its survey, health department sources said the findings appear to be encouraging.
