A tourist from Maharashtra on Wednesday afternoon died due to swine flu. Dr. Ramesh Chand Medical Superintendent of the Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) informed that a tourist from Maharashtra Avinash Patil died after he was admitted last midnight just after his arrival in Shimla. He died today afternoon . The IGMC has handed over the body to the relatives and friends of the deceased. Swine flu also known as 2009 H1N1 type A influenza is a human disease. People get the disease from other people not from pigs. The disease got stuck with the name swine flu because it