In Moscow quarantine is declared, elementary schools are closed

[tetano]

Moscow, January 29 (the New Region, Olga Radko) ? In Moscow is declared quarantine on a flu: the epidemic threshold in capital is exceeded on all age, among revealed штаммов a flu is also so-called "pork".
To take root already late, unique rescue, according to the official, ? to carry masks, the chapter of department of healthcare of capital Leonid Pechatnikov has declared.
In the Moscow hospitals the significant amount коек specially for those who acts with the diagnosis ?ОРВИ? and "flu" is reorientated.
Besides special branches for the pregnant women who have ill ОРВИ and a flu are opened.

? We have started to exceed an epidemic threshold all over again on children small ? from zero till two years, then on children from seven till 14 years, ? the chapter of department has noted. ? and now the threshold is exceeded on all age groups ?.

According to Печатникова, among revealed штаммов a virus of a flu at muscovites present in winter is also famous H1N1. ? Clearly, that it does not require special hysterical reaction. It simply one of штаммов a flu ?, ? has told Printers. In its opinion, last year's history with so-called ? a pork flu ? ? ? absolutely lime hysterics ?.
? The today's flu ? in it especial is not present anything. Usual seasonal disease ?, ? was added with the chapter of department.


http://www.nr2.ru/rus/318242.html

 

[tetano]

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Re: In Moscow quarantine is declared, schools are closed

MOSCOW (AFP) – Moscow and at least two other cities shut all their elementary schools Saturday to help fight one of the worst flu outbreaks to hit central Russia in more than a decade, officials said.

The Moscow closure would affect more than 1,500 schools.

Education officials said this meant that nearly 500,000 children would get an unscheduled week-long vacation in the first such shutdown to strike the Russian capital since 1998.

"Even today, some classes are already missing half their students" an official with Moscow's health control service told the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily.

more...


http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110129/hl_afp/russiaeducationhealth

 

[jflorida]

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90,000 + Muscovites are currently suffering from the flu or respiratory infections.

Schools in Moscow, the city of Chelyabinsk and the town of Yakutsk closed/quarantines imposed, for a week. First such closure since 1998.

Flu epidemic shuts all Moscow schools [ http://www.google.com/hostednews/af...ocId=CNG.6ab8f5884bad69b8f15e02302b1aaae7.611 ]

 

[jflorida]

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[sharon sanders]

Re: In Moscow quarantine is declared, elementary schools are closed

Thank you tetano and jflorida.

From above link:

"Officials said that nearly 92,000 Muscovites are currently suffering from the flu or respiratory infections. More than 52,000 of them are children -- a 42 percent spike on previous years' averages."

 

[mixin]

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I wonder if they group the ages according to possible exposure in other years? 15-64 is a really big group...

Last year, Mexico divided theirs into smaller groups of 5 years from ages <1-75. I thought it presented a better picture of which of the adults were being hit the hardest.

 

[jflorida]

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What makes this all the more odd is this from earlier in the month:


[ http://en.rian.ru/health/20110108/162075084.html ]
Siberian city of Tomsk extends school break due to flu risk
15:51 08/01/2011

School vacations in the Siberian city of Tomsk will be extended by almost two weeks due to the threat of an outbreak of flu or SARS, a deputy mayor said on Saturday.

The winter break was due to end on Tuesday but Alexei Balanovsky, the deputy mayor for social policy, said classes would now resume on January 24.


It seems unusually difficult to get any specific information on this outbreak. Even though a significant disruption seems to be occurring.

 

[tetano]

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Flashes of a dangerous flu have been registered in territory of Georgia, Japan, Bulgaria and Russia. From the beginning of month desease of a flu in Moscow has increased more than in 2,5 times. Main инфекционист department of healthcare of Moscow Nikolay Malyshev ascertains: the virus does not spare even the smallest.

Under the application of physicians, city hospitals are filled ill by a pathogenic pork flu and usual seasonal штаммом. On official data, it is day-to-day with similar diagnoses are hospitalized more than 300 person, 2/3 of which ? children. Doctors are compelled to prepare additional a cot in chambers.

http://www.zdr.ru/news/2011/01/31/gripp-v-rossii-xroniki/index.html