Norway: many people sick with swine flu

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BERGEN and STAVANGER (VG) hospitals will receive more and more patients with the swine flu. Last night was six people to treatment in Oslo, Akershus and Stavanger.

At Stavanger University Hospital has five patients have been hospitalized with the swine flu during the last two weeks. Two patients are still in the processing of the hospital.

- None of these patients has been seriously ill.
They have had mild to moderate symptoms, with headaches and sore in the body, and no one has needed for cc application, says seksjonsoverlege Jon Sundal of the hospital.

According to Sundal is all of the five patients are adults. The last patient that did go home, was discharged on Thursday.

http://www.vg.no/helse/svineinfluensa/artikkel.php?artid=10064036

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Dozens of hospitalized for swine flu today

After an update evening 31 January has Akershus University Hospital (Ahus) registered a total 84 cases of swine flu, according to his colleagues at infeksjonsavdelingen, Jan Erik Cold Prey.


Today, 22 patients have been hospitalized after having been tested positive for either swine flu, common flu or influenza B.

- These are the large majority demonstrated swine flu, said Berdahl.


- It could be people who will be added in a few hours of observation, but also people who will be added in several days.

At Haukeland university hospital is 14 persons hospitalized with flu.
It is taken trying to check whether these have swine flu, says Health Dublin on their home pages.

http://www.vg.no/helse/svineinfluensa/artikkel.php?artid=10064142

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14 new cases of swine flu has been detected by Ahus

Only today has Akershus University Hospital detected 14 new cases of swine flu.- it is a kjempeh?yt numbers, says his colleagues Jan Erik Cold Prey to NRK1
.
In total, 72 people had been detected H1N1 virus at the hospital since December 17. Not all are hospitalized, and for the time is three children and two adults hospitalized at the hospital.
Superior however says to NRK that the high server load is a challenge for the hospital. In Stavanger has three persons had proven swine flu, and in Trondheim one person.

http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/14-nye-tilfeller-av-svineinfluensa-pa-Ahus-i-dag-7080680.html

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Swine Influenza in Sunndal

A woman in 40 years from the Sunndal should according to the newspaper'll operate on have been inlaid with the swine flu
. There is concern about one more case.

It has been a long series of influensatilfeller in romjula, and vakthavende physician
at Sunndal medical center has been working on blast.



However, it is so far not been added to facilitate any special measures in connection
with that infection is demonstrated.

http://www.tk.no/nyheter/article6420729.ece

"I have also not received any official notification about it, says smittevernlege
Svein Anders Grimstad in Sunndal.

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Norway health authorities discourage flu alarm


According to regional paper Nordlys, there are many incidents of the Swine Flu in Nord-Norge. Eastern Norway?s B?rum hospital personnel tell local paper Asker og B?rums Budstikke two younger non-risk group people have been admitted there.

State broadcaster NRK reports, Wednesday, 24 people in southern Norway have been diagnosed with the illness, though senior medical staff says they do not believe their conditions to be serious.

?What we can say is that we do have some cases of this type of influenza, but these are just part of many respiratory diseases total,? Hanne N?kleby, division of infectious diseases director tells The Foreigner.

In Rogaland, western Norway, Stavanger University Hospital?s infectious diseases physician Jon Sundal tells NRK that, ?there are a large number of patients with respiratory disease. It may be common pneumonia and can be influenza.?

The FHI?s Hanne N?kleby to The Foreigner that the situation looks worse because ?there is a lot of pressure on hospitals at the moment, but H1N1 is only part of this.

?Many labs have been closed due to the Christmas holidays, meaning a lower rate of testing.?

?We are also really just at the start of this year?s influenza season, which begins in October, but we do expect a rise in flu cases during the next few weeks. We?re now in the third week of about eight before the rate starts to decline,? she adds, stating there is no indication the current H1N1 strain is different to 2009?s.

NRK writes there have been 181 cases of Swine Flu at Ahus University Hospital since November last year, 72 in the last two weeks before Christmas.

An 11-year-old Porsgrunn boy died last week after being admitted with the Swine Flu to Oslo's Rikshospitalet University Hospital.

http://theforeigner.no/pages/news/norway-health-authorities-discourage-flu-alarm/

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machine translated;
Influenza Situation in Norway Christmas 2012
Published 29.12.2012, updated: 01.01.2013, 14:44

Influenza activity in Norway increased across the country before Christmas, and we assume that the increase will continue in the new year. It's not too late to get vaccinated, and we encourage everyone at risk to take the seasonal flu vaccine.
Oversight
The Institute monitors each winter influenza situation in that 201 medical offices scattered across the country reported the proportion of patients who are diagnosed with influenza-like illness. As part of the monitoring also sends medical offices in virus samples to Public Health for testing. Hospitals Laboratories reports the weekly influenza which they have demonstrated.

The different influenza viruses have been detected regularly in the country since October, but disease incidence remained very low until the middle of December. In week 50 showed flu monitoring the incidence of influenza-like illness outbreaks were still under the limit, but that the increased markedly compared with the week before. We estimate that there are now occurring outbreaks of flu in some places in the country, and an increasing number of people will get the flu in the future. The first monitoring report for July will be published 3 January.

Virus Monitoring
Virusp?visninger number more than doubled from week 49 to week 50 It was proven 114 influenza A and 56 influenza B. It circulates three different influenza this season: Influenza A (H1N1) (pandemic virus from 2009), influenza A (H3N2) and influenza type B. The proportion of influenza A (H1N1) increased in week 50. This corresponds to findings made in other European countries who are heading into their annual flu season, although influenza B currently appears to be most common in Europe.

Flu virus pandemic has now become a regular seasonal influenza viruses and is proven every year since the pandemic, although we have had a low incidence in Norway after the 2009-10 season. It is too early to determine what viruses are the main winter variant.

Vaccination against seasonal influenza
This year's seasonal vaccine protects against the three influenza viruses circulating, and we assume that the effect is good. It's still not too late to get vaccinated, as this year's epidemic is in its early stages. It takes 1-2 weeks before you achieve good protective effect. It appears that the level of protective antibodies in those vaccinated with Pandemrix in 2009, or who were ill during the pandemic, could have fallen so much that one can not rely on that protection is still adequate. , we especially recommend that those who have an underlying risk factor takes the season vaccine. Risk groups are:


persons who are 65 years or older
residents of sheltered housing and nursing homes
pregnant women, especially in the 2nd and 3 trimester
adults and children with chronic respiratory diseases, particularly those with reduced lung capacity
adults and children with chronic cardiac / vascular disease, especially those with severe heart failure, low cardiac output or pulmonary hypertension
adults and children with impaired defense against infection
adults and children with diabetes mellitus (both type 1 and type 2)
adults and children with chronic renal failure
adults and children with chronic liver failure
adults and children with chronic neurological disease or injury
adults and children with very severe obesity, ie body mass index (BMI) over 40 kg/m2
Also recommended health care providers to get vaccinated. They are more susceptible to infection from patients, and also risk infecting their patients if they become ill.

Serious illness from influenza infection
Outbreaks of influenza occur every year and infects up to 10-15% of the population. For most people the disease is a temporary illness that goes away on its own without medical treatment. Sometimes, however, complications arise that require hospitalization, also in intensive care. This is something that hospitals observe each year.

Risk groups are most vulnerable to severe illness, and it is rare in healthy people have serious complications after influenza infection. Risk groups may also have an exacerbation of their illness from influenza infection. Children are often sick with flu, A (H1N1) virus is relatively new and therefore more likely to cause disease in children than the other virus types. Rare cases of life-threatening illness can occur with all three circulating influenza viruses, but has been somewhat more frequent in adolescents and young adults with A (H1N1) virus. So far we have no indication that the A (H1N1) virus has evolved to a more aggressive influenza. All influenza virus can cause severe influenza, this is not limited to A (H1N1) virus. There are currently no indications that this year's flu season is more severe than in previous years, but the situation is closely followed by the NIPH.


The advice to the Public Health are:

Take the flu vaccine if you are at risk
Do not cough on others if you are sick
If you belong to risk groups and are ill: low threshold for contacting a doctor
Children get the flu more often than adults. Most children recover through infection without medical attention. Make sure kids get enough drink and food; consult a doctor promptly if the child dehydration, shortness of breath, difficult reachable or if you are worried about your child

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19 hospitalized with the swine flu by SUS

19 people have so far been demonstrated and have been or are now embedded in Stavanger Universitetessjukehus (SUS) with svinenfluensa.

Thursday evening was announced by the hospital that they have15 then patients which have all been proven swine flu.- one is in the ICU, for this person's health more seriously, says communications manager Gottfred Tongue at Stavanger Universitetssjukehus (SUS).

http://www.aftenbladet.no/nyheter/lokalt/stavanger/19-innlagt-med-Asvineinfluensa-ved-SUS-3097474.html

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Suspect swine flu in Finnmark



- Two patients are entered into the sykeshus in Finnmark with suspicion of
swine flu, according to communications adviser in health Finnmark, Eilert
shall be healed.



The one patient is added in the Hammerfest hospital and the other at Kirkenes hospitals.




- Some very few can respond very serious of swine flu and in v?rste case, death, and it is clear you have to take it seriously, says shall be healed.



Anyway i unfolds the disease itself as a fully normal seasonal flu for the majority

http://www.finnmarkdagblad.no/nyheter/article6430938.ece

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Over 100 disease of swine flu

DRAMMEN: - the last four days we have analyzed samples from 430 people. 25 Per Cent of these turn out positively for svineinfuensa. This is very much," says department head Paul Arne Jenum by hospital to Drammen's darling and great tidings.

Number of studies and analyzes by laboratory by Drammen hospitals is also record, the whole 2.5 time higher than normal.

- We pass probably 19,000 analyzes during January. People have probably gone a little bit of the shaft. All should know more about their own health to a greater extent than ever, says Jenum.


Most serious is the with samples taken at B?rum hospitals. There are 26 of 86 analyzes positive for swine flu.

"Capacity by laboratory is broken. Two out of five people is sykmeldt, and we work long days we even bother, tells Jenum head of department.

http://dt.no/nyheter/over-100-smittet-av-svineinfluensa-1.7712974?localLinksEnabled=false

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A person in ICU for swine influenza


South Coast Hospital sends out daily updates on the situation, and here is
Tuesday's status:


South Coast hospital HF has today, Tuesday 8 January, then a total of 10
patients with proven flu, eight of these have proven swine flu. In
addition, we have six patients with suspected flu.
We have an adult patient
in intensive care unit that is seriously sick, triggered by the swine flu.
The condition for the other influensapasientene is not serious.


Today, south coast hospital HF examined 43 samples for flu. 13 Of the samples
were positive for influenza A, of which nine were swine flu.
A sample
was positive for influenza B.

http://www.austagderblad.no/lokale_nyheter/article6432597.ece

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Swine Flu also in V?gan

Friday sent kommuneoverlege Jan H?kon Juul out information that they had received
responses on the samples of a influensasyk man. The samples showed that the man has had
swine flu.



- He was influensasyk, but not more than hvermannsen, says the chief local authority medical officer.




He says that what separates swine flu from seasonal flu in essence
is that a few fresh young also can become seriously ill.




"We take samples of all who are seriously ill, he says.

http://www.lofotposten.no/lokale_nyheter/article6443149.ece