With three more swine flu cases detected in Lucknow on Wednesday, Uttar Pradesh's count of the dreaded virus has gone up to 15, indicating a clearly rising trend in India's most populous state.
With three fresh samples testing positive, the number of swine flu cases in Uttar Pradesh has shot up to 19 on Thursday. "We had tested about 27 samples out of which 3 turned out to be positive," Dr T N Dhole, head of the Mircrobiology department at the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences said.
In a shocking incident of familicide, a 35-year-old man allegedly killed 14 of his family members, and then committed suicide.