Ukraine- H1N1 Outbreak October 27 2009 - November 30 2009

[Treyfish]

Re: Ukraine: at least 30 die of possible/confirmed swine flu - most were "young and healthy"

Re: Ukraine: at least 30 die of possible/confirmed swine flu - most were "young and healthy"

Ukraine suspends autumn conscription because of influenza A/H1N1
15: 30 31/10/2009

KIEV, October 31 - RIA Novosti, Alain Мейта. Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has decided to suspend the autumn recruitment in response to the outbreak of influenza A/H1N1 in the western regions of the country, said at a press conference on Saturday, head of the chief medical management, the head of the Medical Service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Peter Miller.

This week in the west of Ukraine broke influenza A/H1N1. According to the latest Ministry of Health, identified 13 cases of swine flu, among them - one with a fatal outcome. In general, in the west of Ukraine fell ill respiratory diseases, according to various sources, over 90 thousand people. From 33 to 39 people - information specified - died.
On Friday, Health Ministry declared a state of highly epidemic influenza. Government has announced quarantine in nine regions of Ukraine in the west of the country and banned public events throughout the country.

"A decision to suspend for two or three weeks calling in the army until the situation stabilizes," - said Peter Miller.

According to him, all who have already called this fall, are in quarantine, they were seen by doctors.

:tiphat:http://www.rian.ru/flu_news/20091031/191433584.html

 

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Re: Ukraine: at least 30 die of possible/confirmed swine flu - most were "young and healthy"

Re: Ukraine: at least 30 die of possible/confirmed swine flu - most were "young and healthy"

http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/51593/

President: 48 die of swine flu in Ukraine
Today at 15:08 | Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) ? The Interfax news agency quotes Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko as saying that 48 people have died of swine flu in the ex-Soviet nation.

Ukraine closed schools and banned cinema showings and concerts Friday in a bid to stop the epidemic, which Yushchenko says sickened 150,000 people.

The outbreak began in the western Ternopol region, health officials said. Ukrainian media reported severe shortages of anti-flu medication and masks in pharmacies.

The World Health Organization said last week that about 5,000 people have been reported as having died from swine flu worldwide.

The figure is considered an underestimate, since most countries have stopped counting individual swine flu cases.

 

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Re: Ukraine: at least 30 die of possible/confirmed swine flu - most were "young and healthy"

Re: Ukraine: at least 30 die of possible/confirmed swine flu - most were "young and healthy"

http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/51595/

Governor: Lviv region needs 15,000 packs of Tamiflu
Today at 16:25 | Interfax-Ukraine Lviv, October 31 (Interfax-Ukraine) ? Lviv region needs an additional 15,000 packs of Tamiflu, a medication used to treat and prevent flu.

Regional Governor Mykola Kmit made the comment at a council chaired by Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in Ternopil on Friday, the press service of Lviv Regional State Administration reported.

Kmit said earlier that the region has 2,500 packs of Tamiflu.

He also said that the region requires UAH 40 million to buy the necessary medicines.

The press service said that regional drugstores had sold nearly all of the necessary medications so far.

A total of 234 people diagnosed with flu and another 110 people diagnosed with pneumonia have been hospitalized in the region, while 19 people are in intensive care units, the press service said.

 

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Re: Ukraine: at least 30 die of possible/confirmed swine flu - most were "young and healthy"

Re: Ukraine: at least 30 die of possible/confirmed swine flu - most were "young and healthy"

Apparently both seasonal and pandemic flu have been detected. As seasonal flu causes very little atypical pneumonia, one can assume most of the severe cases and deaths are due to Pandemic H1N1.

http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/51551/

Health Ministry: Flu epidemic spreading around Ukraine
Yesterday at 19:18 | Interfax-Ukraine An active epidemical process of both seasonal and A(H1N1) pandemic flu subtypes are spreading in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Health Ministry said.

As of October 30, the number of flu patients in Ukraine had surpassed 81,000, including 33,500 children, with 2,341 of them, 1,100 children, being hospitalized, it said.

"Unfortunately, 33 lethal cases have taken place," it said.

The information available gives grounds to presume that flu viruses will be spreading across Ukraine rapidly, with a large number of new patients within a short period of time and a relatively large number of lethal cases, the ministry said.

 

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Re: Ukraine: at least 30 die of possible/confirmed swine flu - most were "young and healthy"

Re: Ukraine: at least 30 die of possible/confirmed swine flu - most were "young and healthy"

150,000 cases with 48 deaths.

President: 48 die of swine flu in Ukraine



Associated Press
2009-10-31 09:03 PM


The Interfax news agency quotes Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko as saying that 48 people have died of swine flu in the ex-Soviet nation.
Ukraine closed schools and banned cinema showings and concerts Friday in a bid to stop the epidemic, which Yushchenko says sickened 150,000 people.

The outbreak began in the western Ternopol region, health officials said. Ukrainian media reported severe shortages of anti-flu medication and masks in pharmacies.

The World Health Organization said last week that about 5,000 people have been reported as having died from swine flu worldwide.

The figure is considered an underestimate, since most countries have stopped counting individual swine flu cases.

http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1096359&lang=eng_news&cate_img=316.jpg&cate_rss=news_Health

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Ukraine - H1N1 - death toll rises to nearly 50 - 150.000 cases

Re: Ukraine - H1N1 - death toll rises to nearly 50 - 150.000 cases

Ukraine's swine flu death toll rises to nearly 50 - Summary

Kiev - The death toll from a swine flu outbreak in Ukraine has risen to nearly 50, President Viktor Yushchenko announced Saturday, having put the number of dead at only 11 the day before. Quoted by the Interfax news agency, Yushchenko said the epidemic was spreading at a furious pace, with a total of 48 deaths and around 150,000 people sick.

The president said that alone in Lviv region in the country's west, more than 60,000 people had been infected with the H1N1 virus.

All schools, kindergartens, and universities were closed for a three-week period on Friday. A ban on massed gatherings - forcing the wholesale cancellation of concerts and political rallies - was also in effect.

Ukraine's national security council also approved the equivalent of 55 million dollars in emergency funding, for swine flu control, and earlier Saturday the Ukrainian government announced new measures to control the spread of the virus.

Health Minister Vasyl Kniazevych told Channel 5 television that the flu was thought still to be limited to the country's western provinces as of Saturday morning, but because of the number of suspected cases, a spread was likely. "The country must prepare for a wider outbreak," Kniazevych said. "Its direction of movement is towards central Ukraine."

More than 80,000 people in the swine flu outbreak area had registered with authorities as displaying possible flu symptoms, but because of the similarity of swine flu symptoms to those of common flu, health workers were struggling to estimate the extent of the swine flu's spread, Kniazevych said.

"We had a problem with identifying the (swine flu) antibody in flu sufferers," he said. "There is a mass of work we have to do."

Panic purchasing of flu remedies, surgical masks, and even citrus fruits took place in most major cities in the former Soviet republic, 1+1 television reported.

The swine flu deaths thus far have been limited to the nine western provinces, most along the borders with Slovakia, Poland, and Romania.

Shortages of over-the-counter medicines used to treat the common flu were reported as far away as the eastern city Zaporizhia, some 900 kilometres from the epicentre of the outbreak.

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was scheduled to hold an emergency meeting with regional health officials Saturday, to discuss new disease control measures.

Invoking a rarely-used law allowing the state to take temporary control of private property, Tymoshenko declared all health-related organizations in the country, including privately-owned health clinics and hospitals, to be "directly subordinate" to the government, effective immediately.

The government would pay particular attention to medical supply retailers, to head off artificial goods shortages and price gouging, she said, in comments reported by the Unian news agency.

Retail price spikes of as much as 300 per cent for cold and flu remedies have taken place in recent years in Ukraine, during avian flu outbreaks.

Tymoshenko claimed privately-operated chemists in the country were "absolutely supplied in full volume with all necessary medical supplies," contradicting spot reports of shortages.

Trains operated by the national railroad Ukrzhelesnitsiya were running according to schedule, but staff were ordered to wear surgical masks, and instructed to report passengers who appear to have flu symptoms.

Medical personnel aboard "every passenger train" were available to provide first aid to potential flu sufferers, and would report people treated to the Health Ministry, according to statement on the Ukrzhelesnitsiya website.

Traffic in Ukrainian airports and intercity highways meanwhile appeared to be at normal levels despite a call by Tymoshenko for Ukrainians to avoid long-distance travel if possible.

Traffic police and airport security personnel have been briefed to screen travellers visually, Tymoshenko said.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/...u-death-toll-rises-to-nearly-50--summary.html

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Ukraine: Government says 150,000 cases & 48 deaths from swine flu - most were "young and healthy"

Re: Ukraine: Government says 150,000 cases & 48 deaths from swine flu - most were "young and healthy"

A quick count based on this reports takes death toll to aprox. 60.

scroll for English translation

Количество умерших от пневмонии и гриппа продолжает расти

Сегодня, 19:59

Эпидемия свирепствует на западе Украины

Власти Львовской, Тернопольской и Черновицкой областей сообщили о новых жертвах эпидемии. Число умерших от вирусных заболеваний на западе Украины перевалило за четыре десятка.

Так, главное управление здравоохранения Львовской облгосадминистрации проинформировало, что количество умерших от вирусной пневмонии возросло до 19.

По состоянию на 12 часов дня, 31 октября, общее количество больных по области составило 62 тыс. 963 человека, из которых более 32 тысяч - дети до14 лет. Госпитализированы 1,3 тыс. человек (из них дети до 14 лет - 481 , взрослые - 819). В реанимационных отделениях находятся 33 человека, в том числе 3 детей и 3 беременные женщины. Еще 39 беременных, заболевших после ОРВИ и гриппа пневмонией, изолированы в блоке интенсивной терапии. За минувшие сутки во Львове с пневмонией госпитализированы 115 человек, с ОРВИ - 15 человек. Сегодня утром от пневмонии умерла врач-стоматолог. Это уже второй случай смерти медиков от пневмонии во Львовской области.

В Тернопольской области количество умерших от ОРВИ достигло 13 человек, сообщил глава Тернопольской областной государственной противоэпидемологической комиссии, заместитель главы обладминистрации Федор Шевчук.

По его словам, на утро 31 октября в области зафиксированы 29 528 случаев заболевания на ОРВИ и грипп, в том числе детей - 16 293, взрослых - 13 235. Госпитализированы 741 людей, из которых 454 взрослых и 287 детей.

Еще один человек в субботу утром умер от гриппа в Черновицкой области. Таким образом, эпидемия в Черновицкой области забрала жизни уже пяти человек. Еще 15 жителей области находятся в крайне тяжелом состоянии в реанимационных отделениях области, свыше 170 человек - под надзором врачей в стационарах. Такую информацию обнародовали на пресс-конференции начальник управления здравоохранения Черновицкой облгосадминистрации Игорь Шкробанец и главный санитарный врач области Александр Свитличный.

У одного из умерших подтвержден диагноз свиного гриппа. Пробы еще четверых находятся в лабораториях Киева и Лондона.

Как сообщалось, в Ивано-Франковской области от неустановленного вируса скончались уже 8 человек.

Как известно, в Ровненской области вирусное заболевание забрало жизни четырех человек.

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Как сообщалось, по состоянию на субботу, 31 октября, в Украине официально подтверждено 13 случаев заражения гриппом калифорнийской мутации (грипп A/H1N1) в том числе один случай со смертельным исходом.

Президент Украины Виктор Ющенко в субботу, 31 октября, заявил, что жертвами эпидемии гриппа в Украине стали уже 48 человек.

30 октября Украина признала третий, наивысший уровень угрозы распространения эпидемии гриппа в стране.

Во всех учебных заведениях страны объявлены трехнедельные каникулы. На территории девяти западных областей Украины - Ивано-Франковской, Тернопольской, Львовской, Закарпатской, Черновицкой, Ровенской, Хмельницкой, Винницкой, Волынской - вводится карантин.

Кабинет министров ввел запрет на проведение массовых мероприятий по всей Украине в связи с угрозой эпидемии свиного гриппа.



Number of deaths from pneumonia and influenza continues to grow

Today, 19:59

The epidemic is rampant in western Ukraine

The authorities of Lviv, Ternopil and Chernivtsi regions reported new victims of the epidemic. Number of deaths from viral disease in western Ukraine has exceeded four dozen.

Thus, the main board of health of the Lviv regional state administration has informed that the number of deaths from viral pneumonia rose to 19.

As of 12 pm, October 31, the total number of patients in the area amounted to 62 thousand 963 persons, of whom more than 32 thousand - children up to 14 years. Hospitalized 1,3 thousand people (including children under the age of 14 - 481 adults - 819).

In intensive care units are 33 people, including 3 children and 3 pregnant women.

Another 39 pregnant women, ill after SARS and influenza pneumonia, isolated in the intensive care unit.

Over the past day in Lviv with pneumonia hospitalized 115 people with SARS - 15. This morning, died of pneumonia dentist.

This is the second death, doctors from pneumonia in the Lviv region.

In the Ternopil region the number of deaths from SARS to 13 people, said the head of the Ternopil regional state protivoepidemologicheskoy Commission, deputy head of the regional administration Fedor Shevchuk.

According to him, on the morning of October 31 in the area recorded 29 528 cases of SARS and influenza, including children - 16 293 adults - 13 235. Hospitalized 741 people, of whom 454 adults and 287 children.

Another man on Saturday morning died of influenza in the Chernivtsi region. Thus, the epidemic in the Chernivtsi region has already taken the lives of five people.

Another 15 residents of the area are in critical condition in intensive care units of more than 170 people - under the supervision of doctors in hospitals.

This information is made public at a press conference the head of the health of Chernivtsi Regional State Administration Igor Shkrobanets and chief medical officer of Alexander Svitlichny.

One of the dead confirmed the diagnosis of swine influenza. Samples were four more are in laboratories of Kiev and London.

As reported, in Ivano-Frankivsk region from an unidentified virus have died already 8 people.

As is known, in Rivne region, a viral disease visor lives of four people.

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It was reported that as of Saturday, October 31, Ukraine officially confirmed 13 cases of influenza infection in California mutation (influenza A/H1N1), including one case of fatal.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on Saturday, October 31, said that the victims of a flu epidemic in Ukraine were already 48 people.

October 30 Ukraine recognized the third, highest level of the threat of the influenza epidemic in the country.

All educational institutions declared a three-week vacation. On the territory of nine western regions of Ukraine - Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil, Lviv, Transcarpathian and Chernivtsi, Rivne, Khmelnytsky, Vinnytsia, Volyn '- introduced quarantine.

The Cabinet of Ministers introduced a ban on holding public events throughout Ukraine in connection with the threat of an epidemic of swine flu.

http://korrespondent.net/ukraine/events/1013587

 

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Re: Ukraine: Government says 150,000 cases & 48 deaths from swine flu - most were "young and healthy"

Re: Ukraine: Government says 150,000 cases & 48 deaths from swine flu - most were "young and healthy"

From flu deaths to 48 Ukrainians
Details, 31/10/2009, 17:13 Print


8 people have become victims of flu epidemic in Ukraine, said Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko.

"48 people died in the territory of Ukraine, and sick for more than 150 thousand", - the president said during a meeting with the heads of governors of western regions of Lviv.

According to him, the largest increase in incidence is observed today in the Lviv region.

As the president noted, compared with previous days had increased incidence of 4-5 times, now the number of patients with SARS and influenza in the Lviv region is more than 60 thousand people.

The President, speaking at the meeting, called on politicians to give way on TV screens and front pages of medical professionals.

"I want to emphasize that in these challenging times, we should listen to specialists and to stop the politicization of this issue, give the opportunity to appear on air specialists", - Yushchenko said.

Also the head of state again turned to the media asking them not to speculate on unverified facts, which can only exacerbate the situation.

The President stressed that the main body, which is responsible for all activities is the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, and just need to listen to his recommendations.

The president also stressed that in time the Ministry of Health "lost battle for the vaccination and therefore, according to Viktor Yushchenko, there is a distrust of what is said by doctors and the authorities must do everything to make this confidence to doctors to return.

"We have to admit that the only structure responsible for combating the epidemic, is the Ministry of Health. We need a unified plan of action, and then we will succeed", - said the president.

Yushchenko also said that today we should do everything to support the government and the Ministry of Health, to 6-7 days could report on progress in the fight against the disease.

"We must show that we can hold such successful action" - the president added.

According to recent data, in Ukraine confirmed 13 cases of influenza A/H1N1.

Today also learned about new deaths in the western regions of Ukraine. In the Lviv region has already killed 15 people in Ivano-Frankivsk region - 8.

As is known, the Ministry of Health announced an epidemic of influenza A/H1N1 in Ukraine and the Cabinet of Ministers introduced a quarantine in 9 areas. In addition, the Ministry opened a telephone hot line to inform the public about the proliferation of influenza A/H1N1 - (044) 200-07-80 (044) 200-07-80. Effective and constant government hot line - 0-800-507-309.

Chief sanitary doctor of Ukraine Alexander Bilovol considers one of the causes of the epidemic in Ukraine influenza and acute respiratory failure citizens from vaccinations.
:tiphat:http://www.tribuna.com.ua/news/210002.htm

 

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Re: Ukraine: Government says 150,000 cases & 48 deaths from swine flu - most were "young and healthy"

Re: Ukraine: Government says 150,000 cases & 48 deaths from swine flu - most were "young and healthy"

From CIDRAP. Note the references to FT.

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/swineflu/news/oct3009ukraine.html

Ukraine imposes social distancing steps amid flu surge
Lisa Schnirring Staff Writer


Oct 30, 2009 (CIDRAP News) ? Ukranian officials today shuttered schools and banned public meeting for the next 3 weeks in the wake of a spike in pandemic flu and the country's first H1N1 deaths, which have sparked speculation that the disease has become worse in some patients or that another pathogen is circulating.

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko announced that the spikes in virus activity were affecting three parts of western Ukraine where large number of respiratory illnesses have been reported since the middle of October, Reuters reported today.

She said the emergency order banning public events also applies to political rallies. She is running as a candidate in the presidential election against other candidates, including current President Viktor Yushchenko. Both candidates have cancelled election events.

Yuschenko told reporters that 11 people have died of pandemic H1N1 infections, though the health ministry said it has confirmed only 1 death, according to the Reuters report. The National Radio Company of Ukraine (NRCU) reported that two labs have confirmed 11 pandemic H1N1 cases, but it didn't mention the number of deaths.

Meanwhile, Polskie Radio, based in Warsaw, reported today that more than 2,000 people have been hospitalized and that 33 had died from an unknown virus in the Ukraine. The report said Polish health officials are monitoring the outbreak.

Though authorities in Poland have not ordered border closures, they are advising those traveling to the Ukraine about how to protect themselves from the flu.

The report identified the hardest hit areas as the Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Lviv regions.

For at least the past week contributors to influenza news blogs and message boards have been translating Ukranian news sources to sift for clues about the Ukraine's spike in respiratory diseases.

One translated report posted on the Flutrackers message board said some of the fatalities were young people who had severe hemorrhagic pneumonia. A regional health chief was quoted in one of the translated stories as saying autopsy revealed lungs soaked with blood.

CIDRAP News was unable to confirm if officials from the World Health Organization had sent a team to assess the flu outbreak in the Ukraine or if experts from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had been asked to consult on the outbreak. No information was immediately available from the US Embassy in Kiev.

See also:

Oct 30 Reuters story
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-SwineFlu/idUSTRE59T2YA20091030

Oct 30 Polskie Radio report
http://www.polskieradio.pl/thenews/...nd_closely_monitors_ukraine_flu_epidemic.html

Oct 30 NRCU report
http://www.nrcu.gov.ua/index.php?id=148&listid=103341

Flutrackers Ukranian outbreak thread
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=130185

 

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Re: Ukraine: Government says 150,000 cases & 48 deaths from swine flu - most were "young and healthy"

Re: Ukraine: Government says 150,000 cases & 48 deaths from swine flu - most were "young and healthy"

Ukraine's swine flu death toll rises to nearly 50 (Roundup)
Health News

Oct 31, 2009, 16:04 GMT

Kiev - The death toll from a swine flu outbreak in Ukraine has risen to nearly 50, President Viktor Yushchenko announced Saturday, having put the number of dead at only 11 the day before.

Quoted by the Interfax news agency, Yushchenko said the epidemic was spreading at a furious pace, with a total of 48 deaths and around 150,000 people sick.

The president said that alone in Lviv region in the country's west, more than 60,000 people had been infected with the H1N1 virus.

All schools, kindergartens, and universities were closed for a three-week period on Friday. A ban on massed gatherings - forcing the wholesale cancellation of concerts and political rallies - was also in effect.

Ukraine's national security council also approved the equivalent of 55 million dollars in emergency funding, for swine flu control, and earlier Saturday the Ukrainian government announced new measures to control the spread of the virus.

Health Minister Vasyl Kniazevych told Channel 5 television that the flu was thought still to be limited to the country's western provinces as of Saturday morning, but because of the number of suspected cases, a spread was likely.

'The country must prepare for a wider outbreak,' Kniazevych said. 'Its direction of movement is towards central Ukraine.'

More than 80,000 people in the swine flu outbreak area had registered with authorities as displaying possible flu symptoms, but because of the similarity of swine flu symptoms to those of common flu, health workers were struggling to estimate the extent of the swine flu's spread, Kniazevych said.

'We had a problem with identifying the (swine flu) antibody in flu sufferers,' he said. 'There is a mass of work we have to do.'

Panic purchasing of flu remedies, surgical masks, and even citrus fruits took place in most major cities in the former Soviet republic, 1+1 television reported.

The swine flu deaths thus far have been limited to the nine western provinces, most along the borders with Slovakia, Poland, and Romania.

Shortages of over-the-counter medicines used to treat the common flu were reported as far away as the eastern city Zaporizhia, some 900 kilometres from the epicentre of the outbreak.

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was scheduled to hold an emergency meeting with regional health officials Saturday, to discuss new disease control measures.

Invoking a rarely-used law allowing the state to take temporary control of private property, Tymoshenko declared all health-related organizations in the country, including privately-owned health clinics and hospitals, to be 'directly subordinate' to the government, effective immediately.

The government would pay particular attention to medical supply retailers, to head off artificial goods shortages and price gouging, she said, in comments reported by the Unian news agency.

Retail price spikes of as much as 300 per cent for cold and flu remedies have taken place in recent years in Ukraine, during avian flu outbreaks.

Tymoshenko claimed privately-operated chemists in the country were 'absolutely supplied in full volume with all necessary medical supplies,' contradicting spot reports of shortages.

Trains operated by the national railroad Ukrzhelesnitsiya were running according to schedule, but staff were ordered to wear surgical masks, and instructed to report passengers who appear to have flu symptoms.

Medical personnel aboard 'every passenger train' were available to provide first aid to potential flu sufferers, and would report people treated to the Health Ministry, according to statement on the Ukrzhelesnitsiya website.

Traffic in Ukrainian airports and intercity highways meanwhile appeared to be at normal levels despite a call by Tymoshenko for Ukrainians to avoid long-distance travel if possible.

Traffic police and airport security personnel have been briefed to screen travellers visually, Tymoshenko said.

 

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Re: Ukraine: Government says 150,000 cases & 48 deaths from swine flu - most were "young and healthy"

Re: Ukraine: Government says 150,000 cases & 48 deaths from swine flu - most were "young and healthy"

Ukraine gripped by swine flu fears

31/10 19:41 CET

Ukraine?s swine flu epidemic is spreading at an alarming rate. The number of deaths has risen to nearly 50.

President Viktor Yushchenko made the announcement, having put the number of victims at 11 just 24 hours earlier.

The latest figures suggest 150,000 are sick with H1N1.

Schools, universities and playgroups have been closed for the next three weeks. Mass gatherings have also been banned.

Panic buying of masks and flu remedies is sweeping the country according to local media reports.

The government also announced an emergency package of 40 million euros to go towards anti-swine flu measures.

One woman queuing for medicine said:
?What can I say? There is no medicine in the chemists. How come nobody prepared for this epidemic? Children are sick. The elderly are sick. There are no masks, not even basic pills. People are queuing and waiting for supplies to come, but nobody knows if they will come or not.?

The price of flu medicines rose by as much as 300 per cent in Ukraine during the previous bird flu outbreak.

 

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Re: Ukraine: Government says 150,000 cases & 48 deaths from swine flu - most were "young and healthy"

Re: Ukraine: Government says 150,000 cases & 48 deaths from swine flu - most were "young and healthy"

I don't think the title of this article is consistent with this article (or for that matter the other information in the thread), but I am posting it because it is slightly alarming.

http://mignews.com.ua/articles/376733.html

31.10.2009 / / 12:09 / /
Ukrainians do not die from flu, but from an unknown illness?
MIGnews.com.ua
Today, struggling with HIV, hepatitis, to do with serious forms, because the world is that the very first step should be diagnostic. Need to know the causative agent in the face and then will know the correct tactics of treatment. This is in the air of one of the Ukrainian TV reported virologist, head of the virology laboratory of the Ministry of Defense Irina Kostenko.

In clarifying the question the moderator, I now understand the causative agent in the face, she replied: "No, because the number of patients who were examined, it is absolutely not informative for this epidemic."

She said that a true and 100% say that those people who have discovered the flu virus and died from him, it was necessary to make the study of lung tissue after autopsy, I do not know, the analysis of biological material of these people studied. "

"To say that is happening at the moment, we need more reliable information about the diagnosis, one must explore the people and be aware of the epidemiology of what is happening and statistics, how many people are infected with what - a viral pneumonia or bacterial or fungal pneumonia. That that arrivals from the region, say experts at the clinic to viral infection is not similar. diagnostically it is necessary to detect promptly ", - added Irina Kostenko.

All material that was brought from areas with epidemics of influenza, is investigated. This, in turn, informed the director of the Ukrainian Center for Influenza at the Ministry of Health, Alexander Grinevich.

When asked why so long awaited, and not convened NSDC not traveled to Ternopil, did not say anything, if on Monday it was known that there have been casualties, he said: "The information is not received in time. In regions attempt to establish the cause of the disease . Unfortunately, they have not happened. They were not able to identify the causative agent, and only after the samples were transferred to Kiev. "

WHO predicts that each year of the viruses that will circulate in the northern and southern hemispheres. Every year in Ukraine influenza epidemic begins to develop almost at the 40th week. This year, nothing new has happened, "said Alexander Grinevich.

"By the end of September SARS ill almost 40 000 people. By the end of October, their number increased, but with the advent of cold weather and the start of the school period, the situation is deteriorating. On 41-42-43 week in EU, Britain began to circulate virus A (H1N1) began the second wave of disease in the United States, and against this background, against the backdrop of cooling, the number of sick people in Ternopil and Ivano-Frankivsk region, "- he said.

According to Alexander Grinevich, people are trying to deal with all those self means that there is, but no results. "At such a person for 4-5 days already starting complications. And if it starts viral pneumonia - it is practically impossible to treat such people is difficult to save," - he added.

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I believe this is the source of the pneumonic plague rumors.

http://rkm.kiev.ua/obschestvo/24746/

More than half the cases of deaths in western Ukraine have taken place not on the A/H1N1. Если это даже и может быть свиной грипп в некоторых случаях, то конкретно видоизмененный. If it even can be swine flu in some cases, the specific variations. Нынешний грипп уж точно не похож на обычный свиной грипп. The current influenza certainly does not look like a normal swine flu. Все больше людей в Тернополе, Калуше, Луцке и других городах склоняются к мнению, что эпидемия в Украине - массовое заболевание легочной чумой. More and more people in Ternopil, Kalush, Lutsk and other cities are inclined to believe that the epidemic in Ukraine - mass disease pneumonic plague.

Почему власти скрывают факты не совсем понятно? Тернополь обнесли по периметру тяжелой техникой, врачи из Восточной Украины так и не доехали? Видимо, начинается массовая изоляция Западной Украины, то ли от легочной чумы с гриппом, то ли от чего-то еще более серьезного. Why do the authorities conceal the facts do not quite understand ... Ternopil fenced around the perimeter of heavy equipment, the doctors from eastern Ukraine has not arrived ... apparently begins mass isolation of western Ukraine, either from pneumonic plague to influenza, whether from something more serious.

 

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And five deaths in Kiev itself.

http://www.vovremya.info/news/1257004224.html

5 died from flu Kiev

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Связавшись с пожелавшим остаться неизвестным источником в одной из столичных больниц, были получены новые данные о смертности по причине гриппа и осложнений, вызванных этим заболеванием. Upon contacting the anonymous source in one of the capital's hospitals were obtained new data on mortality due to influenza and complications caused by the disease. Так, по нашей информации, на данный момент в больницах Киева умерло уже пятеро пациентов. Thus, according to our information, at this time in the hospitals of Kiev, five patients have died.
Кроме упомянутых нами молодых людей 27 и 17 лет, жертвами инфекции стала девушка в возрасте до 20 лет (больница, в которой она скончалась, пока не установлена), а также пациент Киевской областной клинической больницы и пациент Центральной (Октябрьской) больницы. Also referred to us young people 27 and 17 years, victims of infection was a girl under the age of 20 years (the hospital where she died, not yet installed), as well as the patient of the Kiev Regional Clinical Hospital and the patient Central (October) of the hospital.

Нельзя не обратить внимания на тот факт, что жертвами заболевания становятся молодые, трудоспособные люди, что как раз характерно для т.н. It is impossible not to draw attention to the fact that the victims of the disease are young, able-bodied people, that just typical of the so-called свиного гриппа. swine influenza.

Кроме того, мы располагаем информацией о том, что в Киевской городской клинической больнице №4 терапевтическое и пульмонологическое отделения перепрофилированы в инфекционное. In addition, we have information that in the Kiev City Clinical Hospital № 4 therapeutic and Pulmonology redeveloped into infectious. ?Легких? и ?средних? больных стараются, по возможности, выписать, ?тяжелых? - перевести в другие больницы города. "Light" and "average" patients try, if possible, to write, "heavy" - to transfer to other hospitals of the city.

 

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And one in Odessa. The translator here not only incorrectly added the word SARS, but added avian flu.

http://www.vovremya.info/news/1256989968.html

In the Odessa region recorded death from pneumonia

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В районной больнице Балтского района Одесской области в среду умерла женщина, которой предварительно был поставлен диагноз "пневмония", сообщают "Интерфакс-Украина" со ссылкой на одесские интернет-издания. In the district hospital Balta village, Odessa region on Wednesday, a woman died, which previously had been diagnosed with pneumonia, "Interfax-Ukraine", with reference to the Odessa Internet editions.

"Женщина умерла в день обращения за медицинской помощью. Экспресс-диагностика диагноз калифорнийского гриппа А/Н1N1 не подтвердила. Анализ биологического материала взят, окончательные результаты будут известны только через несколько дней", - цитируют СМИ заявление начальника отдела охраны здоровья Балтской райгосадминистрации Ларисы Стреминовской. "The woman died a day to seek medical assistance. Express-diagnosis of influenza diagnosis Californian A/N1N1 not confirmed. The analysis of biological material is taken, the final results will be known only after a few days" - the media statement quoted chief of the health of Balta district administration Larissa Streminovskoy.

По данным СМИ, женщина сорока лет работала на местной швейной фабрике и продолжала ходить на работу, будучи больной. According to media reports, a woman of forty years, she worked at a local sewing factory and continued to go to work, being sick. Скорая помощь забрала женщину из дома уже в критическом состоянии с острой пневмонией. Ambulance took the woman out of the house is already in critical condition with severe pneumonia. Спасти больную врачи не смогли. Save the patient the doctors could not.

В то же время, по словам районных эпидемиологов, причин для паники нет. At the same time, according to regional epidemiologists, there is no reason to panic. Заболеваемость ОРВИ и гриппом находится на сезонном уровне. The incidence of [ARI and seasonal] influenza is at a seasonal level.

Других обращений с признаками острой инфекции и пневмонии, кроме указанного случая, в районной больнице не зарегистрировано. Other applications with signs of acute infection and pneumonia, except for the case, in a district hospital is not registered.

Вместе с тем, отдел охраны здоровья райгосадминистрации, по словам Стреминовской, в срочном порядке сделал запрос о поставке в город новой партии противогриппозных препаратов. However, the department of health district administration, according to Streminovskoy, promptly made a request to supply the city of the new party influenza drugs.

Напомним, в Ивано-Франковской области количество умерших от вирусной пневмонии по состоянию на утро 31 октября увеличилось на 2 человека - до 8 человек. Recall in Ivano-Frankivsk region the number of deaths from viral pneumonia on the morning of October 31 rose by 2 people - up to 8 people. Во Львовской области подтверждено 15 смертей. In the Lviv region confirmed 15 deaths.

 

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To me, the red text is the admission that this is all H1N1 and no other significant pathogen is suspected.

http://www.vovremya.info/news/1256976937.html

Ministry of Health: The epidemic is moving to the center and east of Ukraine

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Эпидемия гриппа распространяется с Западной Украины в центральные регионы государства. Influenza epidemic spread from the western Ukraine in the central regions of the state. Об этом в эфире "5 канала" заявил министр здравоохранения Василий Князевич. This is in the air "5 channel" said Health Minister Vasyl Knyazevich.

"По динамике грипп движется в Центральную Украину и нам нужно готовить всю Украину", - подчеркнул он. "On the dynamics of influenza moves in central Ukraine, and we need to prepare all of Ukraine", - he stressed.

"У нас была проблема с идентификацией возбудителя. Он циркулировал только в Западном регионе. Разные версии отрабатывались. Сейчас масса идет дополнительных анализов, чтобы мы не пропустили еще другую патологию, которая может наслоится", - заявил министр. "We had a problem with the identification of the parasite. It was circulated only in the Western region. Various versions are studied. Now the mass is further analysis that we have not missed yet another pathology that could grew stratifying" - said the minister. По словам Князевича, после отмены занятий в школах и высших учебных заведениях на Западной Украине "есть стабилизация процесса". According Kniazevych, after the abolition of classes in schools and tertiary institutions in Western Ukraine "is the stabilization process."

Он также заявил, что дефицит медицинских средств в аптеках, вызван чрезмерным ажиотажем, будет "закрыт за пару дней". He also said that the shortage of medicines in pharmacies, due to excessive hype, will be "closed for a couple of days."

По словам министра, Украина обратилась к всемирной организации здравоохранения с просьбой помочь с вакциной против гриппа. According to the Minister, Ukraine asked the World Health Organization to help with the vaccine against influenza. "Она была бы очень уместна для вакцинации центральных и южных регионов, и особенно наших медицинских работников", - заявил он. "It would be very appropriate for vaccination of central and southern regions, and particularly our health care workers," - he said.

Комментируя проект постановления о своей отставке, зарегистрированный депутатом от Партии регионов, Князевич сказал: "Меня уже трижды отправляют в отставку по тем или иным вопросам". Commenting on the draft decision on his resignation, registered as a deputy from the Party of Regions, Knyazevych said: "I was already three times was dismissed due to certain issues."

Он призвал не политизировать ситуацию с эпидемией. He called not to politicize the situation with the epidemic. "Идет дискредитация органа здравоохранения, который в чрезвычайно тяжелых условиях выполняет свои функции. Нет другого органа, чтобы нацию спасти", - считает министр. "There is discrediting public health agency, which is in extremely difficult conditions performs its functions. No other body in order to save the nation" - the minister said.

По словам Князевича, "на уровне государства необходимо иметь один институт, одну мощную лабораторию, которая дала бы ответ на все вопросы". According Kniazevych, "at the state level need to have one institution, a powerful laboratory, which would give the answer to all questions."

"Я дал поручение привлечь все медицинские вузы, особенно 6 курс, тех, кто может уже быть как врачи, к этому вопросу. Беспрецедентным решением правительства подчинены все медицинские средства в государстве министру здравоохранения", - сказал он. "I have instructed to bring all the medical schools, especially for 6 cycles, those who may already be as doctors, to the issue. In an unprecedented decision by the Government subject to all medical facilities in the State Minister for Health," - he said.

Первоисточник: 5 канал First Source: Channel 5

 

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Just so everyone knows, which you probably already know so this is for our readers mostly. The language that most of these articles are in is ukrainian, most people confuse ukrainian and russian because they look similar but they are two very different languages.

 

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Just so everyone knows, which you probably already know so this is for our readers mostly. The language that most of these articles are in is ukrainian, most people confuse ukrainian and russian because they look similar but they are two very different languages.

Actually, most of these articles (at least the ones that I posted) are actually in Russian. I believe many Ukrainians speak and read both languages as a remnant of the Soviet era.

 

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Apparently, a politician (either out of ignorance or for political reasons) is blaming this outbreak on pneumonic plague, hence the rumors.

http://tsn.ua/ukrayina/bogoslovska-v-ukrayini-pochalasya-epidemiya-chumi-a-ne-gripu.html

Theological: in Ukraine started in pneumonic plague epidemic, not flu
Друкувати Print Київ, Вчора, 23:00 Kyiv, Yesterday, 23:00
Кандидат у президенти звинуватила владу в приховуванні інформацію про епідемію грипу в Україні, але представники РНБО спростовують це. The candidate accused the government of concealing information about the flu epidemic in Ukraine, but representatives of the NSDC refute it.




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Опозиціонери назвали нову причину епідемії в Україні Opposition named a new cause of the epidemic in Ukraine
Незважаючи на інформацію про епідемію грипу , в західних областях України насправді почалася епідемія легеневої чуми . Although information about the epidemic of influenza in the western regions of Ukraine actually started the epidemic of pneumonic plague. Про це заявила народний депутат, кандидат у президенти Інна Богословська. This was stated by deputy, presidential candidate gallery contains.

За словами Богословської, вона побувала у кількох західних областях України та поспілкувалася з місцевими лікарями, які й повідомили їй про чуму. According to the theological, she visited several western regions of Ukraine and talked with local doctors, who also told her about the plague.

За словами кандидата у президенти, легенева чума є не вірусною хворобою, як грип, а бактеріальною, тому лікування від неї ведеться неефективно. According to presidential candidates, pneumonic plague is not viral diseases like influenza, and bacterial, because of her treatment being ineffective.

У свою чергу, секретар Ради національної безпеки та оборони Раїса Богатирьова категорично спростувала інформацію про легеневу чуму, заявивши, що жодного випадку цієї хвороби в Україні не було підтверджено. In turn, the Secretary of National Security and Defense Raisa Bohatyryova categorically denied information about pneumonic plague, saying that no cases of the disease in Ukraine was not confirmed.

Нагадаємо, у дев'яти областях України запроваджено карантин через епідемію грипу . Recall that in nine regions of Ukraine introduced quarantine because of epidemic influenza. Карантин оголошено у Львівській, Івано-Франківській, Тернопільській (ці області найбільше постраждали від грипу), Закарпатській, Чернівецькій, Рівненській, Волинській, Хмельницькій і Вінницькій областях. Quarantine announced in Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil (these areas are most affected by the flu), Transcarpathian, Chernivtsi, Rivne, Volyn, Brussels and Vinnitsa regions.

Крім того, в усіх школах України на три тижні припинено навчання, заборонені масові заходи. In addition, all schools in Ukraine for three weeks longer learning disabled events.

За даними Міністерства охорони здоров'я, від епідемії в Україні вже померли 33 людини, із них чотири - від свинячого грипу A/H1N1. According to the Ministry of Health of the epidemic in Ukraine has already died 33 people, four of them - from swine influenza A/H1N1. Всього свинячий грип діагностовано в 11 людей. Total swine flu diagnosed in 11 people.

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And now the estimate of 154,200 cases.

http://tsn.ua/ukrayina/rosiya-vstanovila-na-kordoni-z-ukrayinoyu-sanitarni-posti.html

Russia set on the border with Ukraine sanitary posts
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До Воронезької області Росії не пропускають людей з ознаками будь-якого респіраторного захворювання або навіть температурою. In the Voronezh region of Russia do not let people with symptoms of any respiratory disease, or even temperature.




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Росія встановила на кордоні з Україною санітарні пости Russia set on the border with Ukraine sanitary posts
Уряд Воронезької області Росії, яка межує з Україною, встановив на двох головних автомобільних переходах санітарні карантинні пости, які працюють цілодобово. The Government of the Voronezh region of Russia, which borders Ukraine, installed on two major road crossings sanitary quarantine posts, working around the clock.

Росспоживнагляд вживає заходів з недопущення поширення на території регіону грипу А/H1N1. Rosspozhyvnahlyad take measures to prevent spread of flu in the region А/H1N1. Як відомо, епідемія "свинячого грипу" в Україні оголошена офіційно. As you know, the epidemic of "swine flu" in Ukraine announced officially. Наразі підтверджено 13 випадків захворювання, чотири людини померли. Now 13 confirmed cases, four people died.

"Жодна людина з ознаками будь-якого респіраторного захворювання або навіть з температурою не буде пропущена до Воронезької області. Поки подібних випадків не було", - повідомив головний санітарний лікар області Михайло Чубирко. "Any person with signs of any respiratory disease, or even the temperature will not be omitted in the Voronezh region. While such cases were not" - said Chief Medical Officer Michael Chubyrko region.

Він підкреслив, що постійно контактує зі своїми українськими колегами. He stressed that constant contact with their Ukrainian counterparts. "Наскільки мені відомо, найбільш важка ситуація з грипом в південно-західних регіонах України, а не в східних, які ближче до нас", - зазначив він. "As far as I know, the most difficult situation of influenza in south-western regions of Ukraine, not in the east, which is closer to us" - he said.

Чубирко додав, що наразі у Воронезькій області виявлено 36 випадків захворювання свинячим грипом, зокрема у 11 курсантів. Chubyrko added that currently in the Voronezh region found 36 cases of swine flu, particularly in the 11 cadets.

"Хворі за межі області не виїжджали. В даний час вони госпіталізовані в спеціально обладнані інфекційні бокси, організовані на базі обласної дитячої клінічної лікарні №2. У випадку, якщо декілька боксів не вистачить, аналогічні бокси будуть відкриті і в інших воронезьких лікарнях", - наголосив він. "Patients are not outside the area traveled. They are currently hospitalized in a specially equipped infectious boxes, organized at the Regional Clinical Hospital № 2. If multiple boxes are not enough, the same boxes will be opened in other hospitals Voronezhskye" -- he said.

Епідемія грипу в Україні досягла таких масштабів, що було призупинено осінній призов до армії, запроваджено карантин у дев'яти областях та місті Києві, закриті навчальні заклади усіх форм власності. Flu epidemic in Ukraine has reached such proportions that has been suspended autumn conscription, introduced quarantine in nine regions and in Kyiv, closed educational institutions of all forms of ownership.

Від пневмонії, яка була викликана ускладнення грипу, у західноукраїнських областях померли 48 людей. Of pneumonia that was caused by complications of influenza in the Western regions of 48 people died. На грип та ГРВІ хворі 154 тисячі 200 осіб, кількість хворих постійно зростає. Influenza and ARI patients 154 thousand 200 persons, the number of patients is growing