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  • Pandemic flu returns to Lithuania

    Pandemic flu, which last year declared an epidemic, again approaching. s the days of the second virus in this disease. A dangerous flu virus H1N1 has not yet been so active as last year. From October OPENING National Public Health Laboratory SUPERVISION itirti 29 samples obtained from different country's health institutions, on suspicion of complications from influenza.

    Of these samples, only two studies have confirmed that the agent is a pandemic influenza virus A (H1N1). One of these samples have recently arrived from Kaunas Clinic.


    It is hard to even tell you how influenza virus is currently around in Lithuania, we are ready to carry out research in so far as they are needed, "- said the national public health laboratory director Romuald Brusokas. Previously, a study was carried out of Infectious Diseases and AIDS Center Laboratory. The former head of the laboratory Algirdas Griskevicius argued that such research is no longer: "Is it possible to speak of several studies on the characteristics of seasonal flu, it is hard to say. My understanding is we are not ready for flu. "

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