Open AccessCommunity perception about swine flu in an urban slum of Haryana: A cross-sectional study
Author(s) -
Ramesh Verma,
Vinod Chayal,
Raj Kumar,
Kapil Bhalla,
Mukesh Dhankar,
Rohit Dhaka,
Ginni Agrawal
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_151_18
Subject(s) - medicine , cross sectional study , slum , environmental health , perception , socioeconomics , population , pathology , neuroscience , sociology , biology
Swine flu caused by influenza virus and it's a respiratory disease of pigs. The people like farmers and pork processors working in close proximity with pigs are at higher risk of getting swine flu. In India, a total of 117 deaths and 1,154 cases have been reported in the first two months of year 2018.