Hungary: number of swineflu patients tripled

[Gert van der Hoek]

Hungary also takes on new types of influenza

2009th September 17 13:50 MR1 - Kossuth Radio

Within a week tripled the number of physician rounds, the Central Hungary region, is already an epidemic area.

In the meantime, do not know whether an effective vaccine against the virus, even for a few days to wait for a response. Slowly but steadily spread of H1N1 virus-es, changing from hour to hour, how many so-called flu foci in the country - said Zsuzsanna Molnar, chief medical officer of the National Center for Epidemiology.

Local outbreaks have mainly been developed in schools, the most recent data show that thirty educational institutions are infected, but not necessarily to other communities, families with sick people is not only the school is the place to be detected as soon as the students appear immediately on the basis of the absence - said of the MR1 - Kossuth Radio.

Recently Hajd?s?msonban of H1N1 appeared in the local elementary school on Wednesday thousands of students from 126 people missing.

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[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Hungary: number of swineflu patients tripled

H1N1 epidemic is in Central Hungary


Started a continuous spread of the virus

Territorial H1N1 pandemic is in the Central Hungary region, as reported by the National Center for Epidemiology. Last week, the laboratory-confirmed illness in the three-quarters of which came from a country. Nationwide increase in the number of flu-like illness, but there is no pandemic yet.

2009-09-18, 7:42

The past week has tripled the number of flu-like symptoms seek medical rounds. The previous week compared with an increase in the number of respiratory diseases.

The ?NTSZ 16 ilyenről aware of this 14 community, a family area and a pandemic was a disease in which a total of 560 registered.

The epidemics 5 elementary schools, 7 secondary schools, 1 kindergarten, elementary and secondary schools and 1 occurred. These are 5 of the virological tests confirmed the outbreak of pandemic flu, the presence of which four "institutional" and one family was epidemic. Virological test at 30 percent of the 158 found to be H1N1-et, that started the continuous spread of the virus.

Almost half of the patients in Budapest and Pest County, Hungary, known as the Central region registered. The country has seen above-average frequency of disease in Győr-Moson-Sopron, from Pest-Szolnok and Szabolcs-Szatm?r-Bereg county as well. Round to the doctor, 30 percent of child patients, 46 percent are between 15 and 34 years respectively, while the middle 16 percent rate, up to 60 years of age and to 7 percent.

Source: Independent News Agency

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