Bosnia and Herzegovina - Cases - 2

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[Google Translation from French]

First case of swine flu reported in Bosnia

BANJA LUKA (Bosnia and Herzegovina) - Bosnia has recorded its first case of swine flu, a young woman who had recently traveled to South America, reported Monday the Minister of Health.

"We received this afternoon a report that we see (in Bosnia) where our first patient infected with the virus A (H1N1)", told the press the minister, Ranko Skrbic.

The test on this woman of 24 years was conducted in a laboratory in Banja Luka in northwestern Bosnia, and will be sent to London for confirmation, he said.

The patient returned last week from a trip to South America, where she visited her family, added the minister, without specifying in which country she had visited.

Tests have been conducted on members of the family of the young woman but they were negative.

The influenza A (H1N1) of the swine flu continues to spread at high speed. It has infected 70,893 people worldwide and 311 deaths in 116 countries and territories, according to the latest balance sheet published Monday by the World Health Organization (WHO).

(? AFP / 29 June 2009 20h47)

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

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Bosnia identifies first H1N1 flu case

01 Jul 2009 T

Source: Reuters

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia, July 1 (Reuters) - Bosnia has identified its first confirmed case of the H1N1 flu virus in a patient who came from abroad last week, Bosnia's Serb Republic Health Ministry said on Wednesday.

"We have registered the first case of swine flu in a 24-year-old female who arrived from South America," Assistant Health Minister Amela Lolic told a news conference.

She said that local tests detected the virus and were confirmed on Wednesday by Serbia's National Reference Laboratory Torlak. Postwar Bosnia is made up of two autonomous regions, the Serb Republic and the Muslim-Croat federation.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L1717766.htm

 

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Bosnia Reports Second Swine Flu Case
Sunday July 5th, 2009 / 21h10

SARAJEVO (AFP)--Bosnia announced on Sunday its second swine flu case, a week after reporting a first case, in a teenage girl who recently returned from Australia.

"We have a definite confirmation that it is the A(H1N1)) virus," Bosnia's Muslim-Croat Health Minister Safet Omerovic told national television.

The 13-year-old girl is from the southern town of Ljubuski, he said.
She is undergoing treatment at her home while persons who have been in contact with her are under medical surveillance, the minister added.

On June 29, the first swine flu case was confirmed in Bosnia in a 24-year-old woman who recently traveled to South America.

Last month, the World Health Organization declared swine flu a global pandemic.

So far, the virus has infected almost 90,000 people in 125 countries and territories worldwide and caused more than 380 deaths, according to the latest WTO figures.


Sunday July 5th, 2009 / 21h10 Source : Dowjones Business News