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Russian to English translation
Archive number 20110210.125515
Publication date 10-FEB-2011
Subject PRO / RUS> Meningococcal disease (1 death) - Ukraine (Kiev)
Meningococcal disease (1 death) - Ukraine (Kiev)
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Date: February 10, 2011
From: ProMED-mail Corr. BA
Source: Portal 24.UA, February 9, 2011 [Mod. NP]
http://24.ua/news/show/id/90474.htm
In Kiev the second-form boy died of meningitis
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In the Metropolitan School District 230 Sviatoshynsky from infectious meningitis died second-form boy Pilipenko Maxim. He was an only child. As told in school, on 26 January in the classroom in the extended group of boy fell ill, his grandmother took.
A very early the next morning he called an ambulance. But on the night of 27 to 28 the boy died.
"At school there is no quarantine, but we spend all the activities prescribed by the SEA. All the children who come into contact with him, took the bacteriological samples. Only one first-grader identified the virus [agent?], he is now at home in quarantine, but this feels good," said Director of Svetlana Zavadskaya. Despite the fact that SES had all the necessary arrangements, parents fear for their children and many do not start to school.
"Yes, go to school, not all children, affirms the director. But most of them with the flu, meningitis epidemic there. If we find out that children are not allowed because they are afraid, then we call the parents and conducting a conversation with them. But it is their right.
[Comment Corr. BA. A survey of all children and school staff, as well as family members who spoke with a sick child, identified three carriers. One of them - the pupil of the first class that communicates with the dead child in a day of illness. Carriers were also two friends of the family of the deceased student. - Corr. BA]
Russian to English translation
Archive number 20110210.125515
Publication date 10-FEB-2011
Subject PRO / RUS> Meningococcal disease (1 death) - Ukraine (Kiev)
Meningococcal disease (1 death) - Ukraine (Kiev)
************************************************** ************
Date: February 10, 2011
From: ProMED-mail Corr. BA
Source: Portal 24.UA, February 9, 2011 [Mod. NP]
http://24.ua/news/show/id/90474.htm
In Kiev the second-form boy died of meningitis
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In the Metropolitan School District 230 Sviatoshynsky from infectious meningitis died second-form boy Pilipenko Maxim. He was an only child. As told in school, on 26 January in the classroom in the extended group of boy fell ill, his grandmother took.
A very early the next morning he called an ambulance. But on the night of 27 to 28 the boy died.
"At school there is no quarantine, but we spend all the activities prescribed by the SEA. All the children who come into contact with him, took the bacteriological samples. Only one first-grader identified the virus [agent?], he is now at home in quarantine, but this feels good," said Director of Svetlana Zavadskaya. Despite the fact that SES had all the necessary arrangements, parents fear for their children and many do not start to school.
"Yes, go to school, not all children, affirms the director. But most of them with the flu, meningitis epidemic there. If we find out that children are not allowed because they are afraid, then we call the parents and conducting a conversation with them. But it is their right.
[Comment Corr. BA. A survey of all children and school staff, as well as family members who spoke with a sick child, identified three carriers. One of them - the pupil of the first class that communicates with the dead child in a day of illness. Carriers were also two friends of the family of the deceased student. - Corr. BA]