<p class="title">A swine flu outbreak in Rajasthan has killed 76 people so far this year, government officials said on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Colder weather has worsened the seasonal outbreak of the H1N1 virus, with Rajasthan recording more than a third of all swine flu deaths in India, officials said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rajasthan's cities, with their imposing fortresses and palaces, attract many overseas tourists, although officials said there no reports of any of them catching the virus.</p>.<p class="bodytext">More than 8,700 people in Rajasthan have been screened for H1N1 this year, and 1,976 had tested positive by Tuesday, a state health department spokesman told Reuters.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The worst affected area was Jodhpur district, which recorded 23 of the 76 deaths in the state so far this month.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rajasthan reported 705 cases of swine flu and 53 deaths in the month of January last year.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A team from the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) arrived in Jodhpur on Tuesday and will spend two days to investigate the outbreak, the spokesman said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Nationwide, 4,571 cases of H1N1 virus and 169 deaths were reported by Jan. 27, according to NCDC data.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Doctors said that the severity of the current outbreak in Rajasthan was partly due to colder than normal weather.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"It's a seasonal disease and the weather is conducive to viral multiplication," said Raman Sharma, senior professor at SMS Medical College in Jaipur. </p>
<p class="title">A swine flu outbreak in Rajasthan has killed 76 people so far this year, government officials said on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Colder weather has worsened the seasonal outbreak of the H1N1 virus, with Rajasthan recording more than a third of all swine flu deaths in India, officials said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rajasthan's cities, with their imposing fortresses and palaces, attract many overseas tourists, although officials said there no reports of any of them catching the virus.</p>.<p class="bodytext">More than 8,700 people in Rajasthan have been screened for H1N1 this year, and 1,976 had tested positive by Tuesday, a state health department spokesman told Reuters.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The worst affected area was Jodhpur district, which recorded 23 of the 76 deaths in the state so far this month.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rajasthan reported 705 cases of swine flu and 53 deaths in the month of January last year.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A team from the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) arrived in Jodhpur on Tuesday and will spend two days to investigate the outbreak, the spokesman said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Nationwide, 4,571 cases of H1N1 virus and 169 deaths were reported by Jan. 27, according to NCDC data.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Doctors said that the severity of the current outbreak in Rajasthan was partly due to colder than normal weather.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"It's a seasonal disease and the weather is conducive to viral multiplication," said Raman Sharma, senior professor at SMS Medical College in Jaipur. </p>