Re: Austria : 1 patient confirmed swine flu
Re: Austria : 1 patient confirmed swine flu
Austrian source, google translated .
First case in Austria genetically confirmed
29. April 2009, 08:31
In the hospital in Steyr, there were the first swine flu case suspected in Austria.
All presumably with the pig flu virus infected people in Austria have recently taken a trip to Mexico.
In Austria, according to initial results apparently the first case of infection with swine influenza (H1N1). The first five suspects on Tuesday at the Vienna University Institute of Virology has been investigated.
They have shown that the genetic fingerprint of one case with normal influenza viruses, but to the cause of swine influenza passe, Franz X. Heinz, head of the Institution on the evening in the ZIB 2-program "Round Table" in the ORF.
That means that the infection, from which a 28-year-old woman is concerned, almost certainly be the H1N1 virus is expected to act, said the expert. As a final result was not the analysis described. The remaining three suspected cases in Vienna, and a possible infection in Upper Austria made the first investigation on Virology Institute proposed a negative result.
The woman was in his night on Tuesday at 0:23 clock with acute flu symptoms in the Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital hospital recorded, said the physician, primary Christoph Wenisch. The native Guatemaltekin have opted for a longer period of time abroad and read their parents attended. Since they are already on the return flight across the Atlantic had complaints, may be an infection of other patients in the airplane can not be excluded. We did all contact persons of the five may be infected "under control", said the health minister.
However, there is complacency in the patient in Steyr: She was instructed by her doctor and was in an isolation ward housed. Already the first rapid test was negative. Now also provided by the virological institute of the Medical University of Vienna carried out PCR-negative test result.
From Mexico to the hospital
The young woman was from Mexico City to Miami and had flown with six hours without a mouthguard at the airport waiting for their machine, reported Francis X. Heinz, director of the Vienna University, Institute of Virology. After a stay of three days traveling the 28-year-old on Dusseldorf to Vienna. The more than 40 degrees Fiebernde was picked up by friends and immediately brought to the hospital. The friends of the passengers were treated prophylactically and instructed to stay at home.
The patient is in a lock with Isolierzimmer treated with Tamiflu, Wenisch said. "There is no evidence of secondary complications, the treatment is relatively trivial." Two tablets, the 28-year-old has already received a treatment lasts up to ten days. Visit, they may not receive, the staff can only protect the patient mouth.
Visiting the doctor
The other suspected cases in Vienna is a 65-year-old, who in Mexico City urlaubte and there are already signs in it. One day after a visit to the doctor on Tuesday, she was also in the Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital recorded. You probably already on the road to recovery there. Only very mild symptoms, the suspected cases three o'clock-four o'clock, an approximately 70-year-old couple, which is several months in the Central American country was made. Both are in a private hospital treatment.
The fifth suspected case concerns a 28-year-old in the hospital in Steyr, Upper Austria is located. The patient remained under Hubert Hrabcik, director general for public health, to 17 April in Mexico and complained after their return on 26 April on influenza-like, but mild symptoms. It is like the other suspected cases in isolation.
Overall, according Hrabcik still currently around 170 persons from Austria to Mexico. You have on the basis of the epidemic on the Law Association of travel agencies started to provide information on whereabouts and identity of these tourists catch, single travelers are not included. On their return, the tourists as the landing contacted, informed and if necessary tested.
Test results are expected for Wednesday
All samples may be infected at the Vienna Institute for Virology evaluated by Wednesday afternoon. It was already clear that the 28-year-old Guatemaltekin in an influenza A virus is ill, not to ordinary flu pathogen adapts. Therefore, the probability that this is H1N1 is very large.
According Stöger in Austria are sufficient drugs available. The cost of the measures in accordance with the pandemic plan are covered by the budget. "There is no question of cost it is about the health of the people," he said.
Worldwide spread
Pig flu is spreading ever further. After America and Europe the disease was also in the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East demonstrated. Also in Austria, there are initial investigation found that appear to have a case of infection with the new flu. In Germany there were in various states several new suspected cases, final diagnoses are expected for Wednesday.
Two diseases were confirmed on Tuesday evening in the UK, two in Spain. In all patients the condition is not threatening. Suspected cases are available in many other European countries, including France, Italy, Greece, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland. In general, advises the EU from trips to Mexico and the U.S. border areas as a matter of urgency.
In the U.S., the number of confirmed illnesses to 64 According to the WHO, not all infected persons have been in Mexico, so some have probably infected in the United States. At one of the flu has already affected New York School were reported by the health authorities, several hundred students ill. To combat the flu claimed the White House in Congress 1.5 billion U.S. dollars (1.15 billion euros), as government spokesman Robert Gibbs announced.
In Canada, the number of confirmed infections on 13 In Israel are presently two confirmed infections. In New Zealand, according to the Ministry of Health at least eleven people in the pig flu sick. Also from South Korea, a suspected case.
Security measures
Worldwide, the security measures were increased. Russia, Hong Kong and Taiwan, said that passers-by with flu symptoms were received immediately in quarantine. As the first country to put the air from Cuba to Mexico and temporarily.
According to the EU, meanwhile, the United States for a renaming of the pig flu pronounced. The current title suggests that there is a problem with pork meat products enter, said Agriculture Minister Tom Vilsack. In the case of flu but there was not a food infection, and the virus had nothing to do with the consumption of pork to be done. The name swine flu could hurt farmers economically.
Earlier, the European Union, called for the disease in "New Flu" umzutaufen. The Israeli Health Ministry criticized the concept on Monday and described it as insulting to Jews and Muslims. In both religions are pigs as unclean animals, their consumption is prohibited. (APA / Reuters / dpa / AP)
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