Another swine flu case detected in Multan

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Another case of swine flu Sunday case was detected in Multan on Sunday, taking tally to 22.

According to doctors, the disease has been identified in a 50-year-old man while a two and a half years old girl was shifted to isolation ward for proper medication.

As many as four people have fallen prey to the disease in the city so far.

Earlier, at least three more cases of swine flu surfaced in Lahore on Friday, raising the toll to 56 patients while the total number of deaths caused by swine flu has reached 18.

Swine flu virus mostly attack weaker and less immune people.

In 2009-10, the H1N1 swine flu pandemic spread from central Mexico to 74 other countries including India, killing an estimated 284,000 people, according to the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention.

More than 2,700 people died in India of swine flu between May 2009 and December 2010. Last year, India recorded 218 swine flu-related deaths and 937 cases, down from 2013, when 699 died.