Three days after the conclusion of the Rio 2016 Olympics, an Indian athlete, Sudha Singh, has been tested positive for H1N1 virus but negative for Zika virus, according to Fortis hospital doctors.
It was gathered that the athlete came back to India from Rio with fever and body ache last week and was admitted to the hospital for a suspected Zika Virus.
We learnt the 30-year-old athlete will be kept in isolation for seven days at the hospital in Bengaluru.
Sudha participated in the Women’s 3000m steeplechase category in Rio.
She finished ninth, clocking 9 minutes 43.29 seconds in the Round 1 Heat 3 at the Olympic Stadium.
H1N1 virus is the sub-type of influenza A virus that was the most common cause of human influenza (flu) in 2009, and is associated with the 1918 outbreak known as the Spanish Flu.
In June 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the new strain of swine-origin H1N1 as a pandemic. This strain is often called swine flu by the public media. This novel virus spread worldwide and had caused about 17,000 deaths by the start of 2010.
