Poland - Serious case of A/H1N1

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Severe case of A/H1N1 in Poland

IAR | Today 13:12, updated: 2009-07-06

This is the first new case of a serious influenza in Poland. Spokesman Chief Sanitary Inspector John Bondar IAR said that the child - the U.S. citizen of Polish origin - przyleciało June 26 from Atlanta to Warsaw. Currently staying in the intensive care unit at Children Hospital in Warsaw.

The first symptoms of the disease occurred in 3 days after her arrival. Later, her condition to deteriorate systematically. Probably there was also to bacterial infection and pneumonia. The girl is in serious condition. Persons who had contact with her have been placed under the supervision of sanitary-epidemiological.

Now 25 people are sick.

http://www.wiadomosci24.pl/artykul/ciezki_przypadek_a_h1n1_w_polsce_102731.html

 

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Google transl.

The heaviest so far the case of pig influenza in Poland. Eight-year-old girl infected with the virus A/H1N1 in a very poor state capital is in the hospital. On the status of girls affect the disease in addition to which the child suffer for years.

"This is a serious case of the first in our country" - said John Bondar tvn24.pl portal, spokesman Chief Sanitary Institute. Girl with A/H1N1 virus went to the hospital yesterday for Niekłańską. Previously, some hospitals refused to adopt it. *

"The problem with this is the girl that you have other diseases which worsen their condition. I can not say it, but it is not only the flu. In combination with the flu, it means that this state is the heaviest of these cases, which so far have been in Poland "- said Radio RMF FM Magdalena Tęczyńska from the hospital on Niekłańskiej

American Girl is of Polish descent. The Polish Examiner 26 June together with his brother and grandmother. They were traveling from Atlanta, and transfer in London.


*This is mistranslated. It should say "Earlier, several hospitals refused to admit her."
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Girl ill with influenza : condition worsens

The health status of infected 8-latki influenza A/H1N1 virus is very heavy - announced yesterday at the Warsaw Children's Hospital Niekłańskiej.

- Doctors are fighting all the time for the life of a child - said a hospital spokeswoman Magdalena Tenczyńska. The girl was taken to hospital on Saturday. She is a U.S. citizen of Polish origin who arrived in Polish at the end of June with the grandmother and younger brother. Influenza in her extremely difficult, because the child is immune defect.

- There is no resistance of its own. We strive to produce the pharmacologically, but this is very difficult, and influenced by the need to wait longer - Tenczyńska explained.

The ill still lies on the e-OIOM respirator. Her grandmother, brother and more than a dozen people from Warsaw and other regions that have contact with her, were tested. - They do not have symptoms of flu - said spokesman Chief Sanitary Inspectorate John Bodnar.

The 8 year old was the 25th person in Poland who has found a new influenza virus infection. GIS announced yesterday that such cases are already 27.

- We have two more new people infected with flu are hospitalized in Czestochowa - says Wojciech Dębiński, director of the department przeciwepidemicznego GIS.

He adds that, compared with Great Britain, where there were nearly 7.5 thousand. disease, in Poland the situation is very good. - Keep your hand on the beat, we get to each affected person - provides Dębiński.

Communication with GIS July 6 indicates that in the world for a new flu sick nearly 100 thousand. people. In Europe, 4 deceased person in the world - 431.

 

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8 year old with novel flu in critical condition

The 8 year old who for days has been hospitalized, is in critical condition. She is unable to breathe on her own - says TVP Info. The girl became infected with H1N1 probably during her stay in the US.

-The condition of the girl is critical. The next hours and days will be deciding. Generally her condition is declining said the director of the hospital on Nieklanska St. in Warsaw in interview with Radio TOK FM.

-It is known that the 8 year old also suffers from other illness. The H1N1 virus is therefore not the only cause of her worsening health.

-The girl, a citizen of Poland and USA returned from the US on 26 June. She flew from Atlanta via London to Warsaw. In 5 July she was admitted to the Intensive Care unit of the hospital on Nieklanska St in Warsaw.

-With the 8 year old flew her grandmother and brother. Both are under observations; neither has shown symptoms of the flu up to this time.

 

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Grandma tests positive but has no symptoms



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Third case of swine flu in capital


National Health Authority confirmed the presence of A/H1N1 virus in a 70 year old woman who had been caring for a young girl sick with swine flu in a hospital for infectious disease on Wolska St.


Says Jan Bondar, director of public health: she spent time with her in isolation, held her hand. The 8 year old flew to Poland from Atlanta on 26 June.

She was accompanied by her grandmother and 3 year old borther. She was admitted to the hospital on Wolska Street and on Sunday transferred to the hospital on Nieklanska St to the Intensive Care Unit. She is in critical condition now.

The girl's relative has no symptoms of the disease. Nevertheless she remains for observation at a hospital for communicable disease. This is the 28th case of swine flu in Poland.