Swine flu death toll rises to 47 in state
Bhubaneswar: Two more persons succumbed to swine flu on Saturday, taking the death toll to 47 in the state this season.
The deaths of a three-year-old boy and a 50-year-old woman were reported from Jagannath Hospital and SUM Hospital in the state capital respectively.
On the other hand, all 29 swabs sent to Regional Medical Research Centre here for examination tested negative.
So far, 1195 samples have been tested and 368 found positive for the viral influenza, health department sources said.
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