A Hyderabadi student, pursuing his higher education in engineering in Texas, returned to the city three days ago with symptoms of flu and voluntarily approached the doctors at Institute of Preventive Medicine, who suspected it to be a case of Swine Flu.
The identity and other particulars of the student were kept secret by the doctors, on the request of his parents, in order to avoid panic reaction among their relatives, friends and other people of Hyderabad. Later, he was referred to the Government Chest Hospital, where he was quarantined and is now undergoing symptomatic treatment.
State medical and health minister K Rosaiah, who on Thursday confirmed that tests had been conducted on the boy, said, “We keep confidential the details of this boy of marriageable age”.
He said the doctors had conducted tests on him as a part of the special screening for foreigners and NRIs, who arrived in city in the last 10 days. And the student was found to have symptoms of Swine Flu.
