Re: Ukraine- Pandemic Influenza - Ministry of Health says 255,000 cases & 67 deaths
The above article is in the Kyiv Post, a source that I have found reliable so far. Perhaps it isn't, though. Someone did post the following comment on it. It figures that if people were going to blame this on plague, someone would suggest H5N1:
This story is very interesting but frightening. It's just the kind of thing that breeds panic. According to a press conference just held is Kyiv what has hit UA is a mutated version of the N1HA virus. It's been named the "California" flu and classified a A/H1N1. Again, according to Ukie sources as of yesterday, of the 33 deaths in UA,11 have been CONFIRMED as N1H1. The Gov't went out of it's way to stress that ALL that has hit UA is the flu, nothing else. There have been all kinds of rumours that there are outbreaks of typhus, scarlet fever, you name the sickness and it's rumoured to have hit UA. Not true.
Also according to Poroshenko, the gov't has approached several manufacturues of "Tamiflu" and all stock in various warehouses will be sold to UA at lowest possible prices. Exact volumes will be known Monday. Also 16 drug manufacturers in India have agreed to supply anti-flu medecines. By Monday, a delegation from WHO will be in UA to study the situation firsthand.
The situation is UA is serious, but not catastrophic as of yet, and all indications are that it won't become catastrophic.
The above article is in the Kyiv Post, a source that I have found reliable so far. Perhaps it isn't, though. Someone did post the following comment on it. It figures that if people were going to blame this on plague, someone would suggest H5N1:
This story is very interesting but frightening. It's just the kind of thing that breeds panic. According to a press conference just held is Kyiv what has hit UA is a mutated version of the N1HA virus. It's been named the "California" flu and classified a A/H1N1. Again, according to Ukie sources as of yesterday, of the 33 deaths in UA,11 have been CONFIRMED as N1H1. The Gov't went out of it's way to stress that ALL that has hit UA is the flu, nothing else. There have been all kinds of rumours that there are outbreaks of typhus, scarlet fever, you name the sickness and it's rumoured to have hit UA. Not true.
Also according to Poroshenko, the gov't has approached several manufacturues of "Tamiflu" and all stock in various warehouses will be sold to UA at lowest possible prices. Exact volumes will be known Monday. Also 16 drug manufacturers in India have agreed to supply anti-flu medecines. By Monday, a delegation from WHO will be in UA to study the situation firsthand.
The situation is UA is serious, but not catastrophic as of yet, and all indications are that it won't become catastrophic.
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