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Finland detects a new epidemic outbreak of swine flu
Finland detects a new epidemic outbreak of Influenza A
10.12.2010 / 13:40 h
Helsinki, 10 dic (EFE) .- The Finnish health authorities have detected a new H1N1 influenza epidemic outbreak that was responsible for a pandemic in 2009, and that could be affecting hundreds of people, reported the YLE national television.
The outbreak originated in a military barracks in the city of Parola, 110 miles north Helsinki, where about 200 recruits who perform military service show symptoms of H1N1 virus, although so far only seven cases have been confirmed.
According to the same source, the Finnish health authorities are preparing to face a new epidemic of influenza A, as they have found several cases among the civilian population the same region and in three quarters of the west and north.
"It is clear that the disease is spreading among the recruits, their families and other people, so it is difficult to stop an epidemic now that so many people have fallen ill, " Ilkka Julkunen told YLE, professor National Institute of Health and Welfare in Finland (THL).
According to this expert, the next few weeks will be critical to see how quickly and virulence of the epidemic spreads, but is confident that it will not be as severe as in 2009, and More than half of the Finnish population is vaccinated.
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Source: http://www.abc.es/agencias/noticia.asp?noticia=620050
10.12.2010 / 13:40 h
Helsinki, 10 dic (EFE) .- The Finnish health authorities have detected a new H1N1 influenza epidemic outbreak that was responsible for a pandemic in 2009, and that could be affecting hundreds of people, reported the YLE national television.
The outbreak originated in a military barracks in the city of Parola, 110 miles north Helsinki, where about 200 recruits who perform military service show symptoms of H1N1 virus, although so far only seven cases have been confirmed.
According to the same source, the Finnish health authorities are preparing to face a new epidemic of influenza A, as they have found several cases among the civilian population the same region and in three quarters of the west and north.
"It is clear that the disease is spreading among the recruits, their families and other people, so it is difficult to stop an epidemic now that so many people have fallen ill, " Ilkka Julkunen told YLE, professor National Institute of Health and Welfare in Finland (THL).
According to this expert, the next few weeks will be critical to see how quickly and virulence of the epidemic spreads, but is confident that it will not be as severe as in 2009, and More than half of the Finnish population is vaccinated.
EFE
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Source: http://www.abc.es/agencias/noticia.asp?noticia=620050
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