Posted on 10/30/2009 4:42:41 AM PDT by Uncle Ike
SHOCK! Epidemic of pneumonic plague in Ukraine? (updated at 05:39 pm) MIGnews.com.ua
Ministry of Health has not established the exact diagnosis of the epidemic disease in the western regions of Ukraine. Health Minister Vasyl Knyazevich has given information about spread of diseases in the Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv Regions today at the meeting of Cabinet of Ministers.
According to the Minister, the World Health Organization is ready to render assistance to Ukrainian experts and the Ministry of Health in order to establish the cause of death and development of disease flu in the Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv Regions.
"We are working at receiving the vaccine against influenza A (H1N1) also", - said Vasily Knyazevich and asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to render assistance.
Answering question of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko about the definition of the specific nature of the disease, the head of the Ministry of Health said: "The nature of infections is viral one. But at the moment it is not defined, is it the Californian influenza H1N1, or it is our seasonal influenza. To date, there is no precise diagnosis."
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According to the Minister of Health, to date, 12 adults have died in the Ternopil Region. "There are problems, people of working age 20-45 years are sick, there is a problem with pregnant women (we have the death in the Ivano-Frankivsk and Ternopil Regions), 17 patients remain in the grave condition, 4 of them have artificial pulmonary ventilation", - said Vasily Knyazevych.
(Excerpt) Read more at mignews.com.ua ...
WHO Team to Investigate Ukraine H1N1 Outbreaks
"...Media reports included descriptions of blood filled lungs, raising visions of the 1918 pandemic, which also involved swine H1N1 that jumped to humans and was efficiently transmitted. Samples have already been sent to London for analysis, and immediate release of initial sequence data would be useful."
Severe H1N1 a risk for lung blood clots
Oct 19, 2009 ... UPI; 19 Oct 2009 -
Patients with severe cases of H1N1 flu are at risk for developing severe complications such as blood clots in the lungs, US researchers say.
thanks , for the link :)
My mom always said sweets make your stomach sour and sours make your stomach sweet...
Chapter XXIV. Symptoms And Medical Treatment Of Catarrh(Pratisyaya-Pratishedha)
I went to the Dr last week since my daughter had strep and my throat was sore (I figured I should get checked even though I've never had strep throat in my life and have been exposed to it dozens of times throughout). The doc asked me if I had lost sense of smell, now this makes me wonder if they know something or if maybe she was just being thorough.
Foreign ministry: Ukraine soon to receive 200,000 doses of Tamiflu
http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/51697/
Today at 14:11 | Interfax-Ukraine
Ukraine will soon receive 200,000 doses of Tamiflu, a medicine used to treat or prevent flu, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Valeriy Dzhyhun has said.
“Two hundred thousand doses of Tamiflu will soon be delivered to Ukraine,” he said at a briefing on Monday.
He said that 300,000 doses of the medicine had already been delivered to Ukraine.
He said that the ministry had set up an emergency headquarters to fight the consequences of the spread of flu and acute respiratory infections and had launched a round-the-clock phone line.
“The Ukrainian Health Ministry and the World Health Organization have held talks, and [WHO] experts are soon expected to visit [Ukraine]. Lists of the necessary medicines and equipment have been drafted and sent to foreign countries via diplomatic channels,” Dzhyhun said.
He also said that Foreign Minister Petro Poroshenko had held talks with a Swiss producer of Tamiflu, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, on the supplies of medicines at lower prices.
The ministry’s headquarters also agreed with Indian pharmaceutical companies on the supply of medicines and medical equipment to Ukraine, he said.
He said that Ukraine is already receiving humanitarian aid from Slovakia, Poland and Hungary, and is expecting assistance from NATO and the European Union.
The ministry also agreed that China and Singapore would provide expert assistance to Ukraine amid the flu epidemic in the country.
Ukraine
In Ivano-Frankivsk region declared a higher level of risk
02/Nov/09
In Ivano-Frankivsk region from November 2 declared a higher level of risk of influenza.
According to an UNIAN correspondent, this decision was taken today Ivano-Frankivsk Regional emergency epidemiological commission at the extended session, which discussed the situation with the spread in the field of influenza and ARI.
In accordance with the decision of the Commission until November 20 last quarantine in all educational institutions in the area, established a commission to monitor the distribution of medicines, which come in the region as humanitarian aid.
The commission agreed that health workers provide individual first aid kit, extra will be allocated to transport patients to visit doctors precinct, etc.
As UNIAN reported earlier, according to the Ministry of Health, to date, registered in Ukraine 255 thousand cases of influenza and ARI, 15 thousand of them hospitalized.
67 people died, including 12 in Ivano-Frankivsk region.
http://www.unian.net/rus/news/news-344596.html
Ukraine
In the Ternopil region are already preparing gyms to accommodate patients
02/Nov/09
In the Ternopil region at the growing number of patients prepare for their deployment gyms and military units.
According to an UNIAN correspondent, came during a press conference the chairman of the Governor Yuri CHIZHMAR.
Finish the project on the challenge, gyms, military units to accommodate patients. We take into account how much we have free beds in reserve, lounges (so-called cot) and other tools that can be used to adapt these institutions to the needs of patients “, - informed Yu CHIZHMAR. He expressed hope that the use of gyms and military units will not come.
In total, according to his data, compared with Friday morbidity in today doubled. “In general, influenza and ARI are sick 39.731 thousand people, the incidence rate of 364.5 per 10 thousand population”, - said Yuri CHIZHMAR.
According to his calculations, if current trends in the incidence of problems with where to put the patients to arise soon. After three city hospitals and Regional nearly filled, there is only a small reserve. Consequently the field manual has decided to urgently prepare a district hospital, which should soon be put into operation. “I think today or tomorrow administrative measures will be agreed and the state commission will take the hospital into operation, thus get the extra beds. Just look forward to clinic Combine Plant, although it is not included heating, so in this room is impossible to conduct medical manipulation, “- said Yu CHIZHMAR. It added that it plans today to hold a “hard conversation” with the town chairman Roman Zastavna to City Council at the expense of reserve funds offer one hundred percent financing of energy to combine plant clinics, so that she could work to the maximum of its capabilities. “We are prepared her for a few days to convert to accommodate patients,” - said the chairman of Regional State Administration.
http://www.unian.net/rus/news/news-344603.html
Is this one of these “we are all going to die” moments?
Ukraine
Epidemic: In half of the dead in the Ternopil region confirmed the swine flu
02/Nov/09
In Ternopil region influenza A/H1N1 officially confirmed half of the 14 deaths, reported today, 2 November, the head of the Ternopil Regional State Administration Health Bogdan Oniskiv.
“Officially influenza H1N1 confirmed in 7 dead,” - said, in particular, he said.
At the same time head of the department of Health has also denied reports that the first woman killed in the area since the epidemic began 14 October, before the disease returned from abroad.
“First we have lost a woman in labor. One of the first diseased returned from Europe “, - told Oniskiv.
In turn, the head of the Governor Yuri Chizhmar urged citizens not to trust information from third-mouth, especially if it is absolutely absurd.
“Again begin to spread rumors. At this time - that in the Ternopil region something dug up. As if aliens something buried, but we dug, and from there went all the infection. Well, what a pyramid of Cheops Ternopil level “, - said the head of state administration.
He also stressed that nothing like this in the area did not occur, and asked people and journalists not to spread absurd rumors.
Before it was reported that in the Lviv region A/N1N1 flu discovered in two of the 29 people who died in two weeks.
Thus, the number who died from swine flu in Ukraine is at least nine people.
Today the Deputy Minister of Health Mr. Lazoryshynets said that Ukraine has officially confirmed 22 cases of swine flu. He did not specify how many of them fatal.
As reported, the latest Health Ministry in Ukraine 255 thousand registered cases of influenza and SARS, 15 thousand of them hospitalized, 67 people - died. Furthermore, information appeared on yet another victim - in the Vinnitsa region.
Previously, NSDC Secretary Raisa Bohatyryova reported that as of Friday, 30 October, found that the swine flu deaths of four persons.
According to First Deputy Minister for Health Vasyl Lazorishintsa, in intensive care units were 170 patients.
However, now Ukrainian experts predict a second wave of the epidemic in January and February. Now the Ministry of Health of Ukraine are registered two vaccines against influenza A/H1N1.
Last night in the first batch arrives flu drug Tamiflu.
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Recall, on Friday in Ukraine confirmed its first cases of swine flu. After this, the Cabinet introduced a quarantine in the nine western areas.
Today, 2 November, First Vice Prime Minister Oleksandr Turchinov said that the Government intends to consider the feasibility of November 2-3 quarantine in areas where it has not yet entered.
Ukraine’s leaders acknowledged that their forces to stop the spread of the epidemic can not, therefore, appealed for help to a number of countries, as well as to NATO and the EU.
http://korrespondent.net/tech/health/1014094
Ukraine
At Prykarpattya tested a new method of treatment of viral pneumonia
02/Nov/09
In Ivano-Frankivsk region have begun to test a new technique for treatment of patients with viral pneumonia.
According to an UNIAN correspondent, reported by the chief physician Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Infectious Hospital Roman Ostyak broadcast by the local TRK 3-studio.
“We started to use alternative methods - is a direct blood oxygen saturation”, - he said.
According to R. Ostyako, new methods provide treatment for seriously ill flu, which struck the lungs, not through the respiratory apparatus, but “saturating the patient’s body with oxygen. He said that this method of treatment “breathing mixture is introduced directly into the blood through the main vessels on the legs.
R. Ostyak noted that this latest medical technique is applied in cases where the phenomenon of sharply increasing respiratory distress and using breathing apparatus had not “push” the oxygen in the blood.
“Because almost lungs so impressed that just oxygen, which contained breathing apparatus drives naturally in the lungs, can not prodyshatsya”, - explained the chief doctor of infectious diseases hospital.
According to him, the new unit is located in Ivano-Frankivsk in the regional perinatal center, where they treat severely ill pregnant women.
http://www.unian.net/rus/news/news-344616.html
I noticed in the thread with the H1N1 article from WND, that you mentioned that you have friends in Ukraine, so perhaps this messagethread would be of interest to you?
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan declared a health emergency on Monday to help the government prevent the rapid spread of H1N1, and ordered schools closed for three weeks as part of measures against the deadly virus.
The government has also advised the public against gatherings such as weddings in enclosed areas, after Afghanistan had its first death attributed to the virus last week.
Nearly 350 positive cases of H1N1 have been detected among foreigners and Afghans and several hundred more people are suspected to be infected, a public health ministry..."
http://uk.mobile.reuters.com/mobile/m/FullArticle/eUK/CTOPUK/ntopNews_uUKTRE5A115220091102?p=1
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125707905202121221.html
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KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine introduced some of the strictest measures in the world on Friday to combat swine flu after a spate of deaths in the west of the country.
Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko imposed travel restrictions, banned public gatherings and closed schools and universities for three weeks after the health ministry declared an epidemic of the H1N1 virus
Ukraine
In Transcarpathia the day sick 4,5 thousand people
02/Nov/09
In Transcarpathia the number of patients with influenza and ARI today increased by 4,5 thousand people.
As UNIAN reported in the management of information and public relations of the Transcarpathian Regional State Administration, with reference to health data management, as at 18.00 Monday, November 2, in the Transcarpathian region have already registered 11 thousand 605 patients with acute respiratory infection and influenza.
Of the total number of patients 598 people have been hospitalized. Among the sick - 2 thousand 595 preschool children, 3 thousand 468 - school age and 5 thousand 542 adults.
The overall prevalence of 93.3 per 10 thousand population.
Number of deaths in the region - 2 people, both adults.
At 8.00 this morning, the number of patients was 7 thousand 101 persons, the incidence rate - 56.3 per 10 thousand inhabitants.
http://www.unian.net/rus/news/news-344641.html
Ukraine
Over the past week incidence of ARI in the Crimea fell by 30%
02/Nov/09
Over the past week incidence of ARI in the Crimea fell by 30%
In Crimea, the incidence of SARS in the past week amounted to 4875 cases (25 to 10 thousand population), which is below their 2008 levels by 10,2% and below the previous week at 27.4%.
As reported at the meeting of the Emergency Anti-epidemic Commission (CHPK) executive committee at the Simferopol city council, the proportion of patients with acute respiratory children under 14 years old - 62,44%.
A total of 3044 registered cases in children (112.22 per 10 thousand population), which is lower than in 2008 at 0,98%.
In addition, in Simferopol on a support base for influenza per week was registered in 1441 cases (35.11 per 10 thousand population), which is lower than in 2008 to 1,7% below the previous week at 7.5%, below the 49 epidporoga , 25% (epidporog-55.2 per 10 thousand population).
It also reported that in Simferopol to prevent complications of influenza A/H1N1 epidsituatsii heads of enterprises, institutions and organizations of all forms of property entrusted to employees by means of individual protection at a cost of gauze mask 3 units. 1 staff member or disposable mask at the rate of 1 unit. 4 hours.
Also instructed to ensure vaccination against seasonal influenza officers subordinate structures at the expense of local budgets, funds of enterprises and own funds of the population.
At the same time, as reported in the press service of the Donetsk city council with reference to information the chief state sanitary inspector of the city Valeria Kovaleva, currently the incidence of SARS in half the epidemiological threshold.
According to him weekly in the incidence of ARI increased by 5-10%. From October 22 through October 28, the incidence was 30.6 per 10 thousand population, which is lower epidporoga (70.5) 2 times.
Kovalev also noted that in October in Donetsk ill ARI 12781 people, including children under 14 years - 7512, or 58,8%. No cases of influenza have been reported.
Meanwhile, the chief medical officer of Lugansk region Anatoly Dokashenko reported that in the epidemic threshold for acute respiratory illness in the past week is not exceeded.
Thus, according to him, cases of influenza are not registered. Also Dokashenko reported that in the Lugansk region several cases of hospitalized persons from western regions of Ukraine.
According to him, currently in the Lugansk region recorded the incidence of ARI within the seasonal fluctuations. Over the last week in the 9 thousand registered 50 cases of ARI. Factor intensity - 39.3 cases per 10 thousand population during the epidemic threshold of 44 per 10 thousand population. However, in Belokurakinskom and Trinity areas recorded achievement epidporoga.
However, according to Dokashenko, more than 60% of patients - children. Last week in the diagnosis of SARS raised 5 thousand 545 children.
At the same time, Head of Health Cherkasy Governor Yuri Kuvita reported that the region received from the state reserve for sewing multiple gauze bandages 7 thousand 739 thousand meters of gauze.
According to him, formed a list of enterprises that can quickly establish the manufacture of such dressings. Today received gauze transferred to these garment factories for sewing bandages. And on November 3 and 4 they will be giving away free area residents.
As reported, the latest Health Ministry, as a result of influenza and SARS in Ukraine, 70 people died, including three children and two pregnant women.
In particular, as the press service of the Ministry of Health, as of 17:00 Monday, most of all deaths in the Lviv region - 30, 16 victims in the Ternopil region, 12 - in the Ivano-Frankivsk. 5 people have been victims of the epidemic in the Chernivtsi region, and 2 people died in the Volyn, Transcarpathian and Rivne region. One person died in the Khmelnitsky region.
http://korrespondent.net/tech/health/1014116
http://www.segodnya.ua/news/14090782.html
Influenza epidemic: people lie in the corridors and burn for one day
So far, so terrible - such a general mood now prevails in Lviv.
Freaky Wedding. Life goes on and during the epidemic. However, kissing masked uncomfortable.
The town was deserted - the people and cars on the streets unusually low. Instead, continually drive ambulances (at the hospital said that 20 percent of calls these days comes not just from each Chihuahua from healthy people who had succumbed to panic and imagine themselves sick). Most cafes and restaurants are closed. People come out of the house occasionally and “muzzled” (as the people began to call bandages) to quickly go over to the store or the pharmacy. And there and there is no saving oxolinic ointment or bandages ...
Many of Lvov on Monday will not go to work: those who took sick leave, managers themselves who go on holiday for 10 days. Banks, institutions, some shops operate on a reduced schedule. But believers continue to attend church, despite the appeal of the authorities to avoid mass gatherings. Moreover, the head of UGCC Lubomir Husar asked the congregation not to be afraid of “swine flu”. “On this Sunday in the church was not as crowded as usual. Most of the parishioners prayed without masks, as, indeed, himself a priest. Without fear of contagion, was applied to the icons and the cross after communion. Have you read the ancient prayer of the epidemic “, - said Oksana Kozachuk, parishioner of the Greek Catholic Church Street. Pasichny in Lviv.
DEATH DENTIST. In the Lviv region of influenza and pneumonia deaths, 23 people, among them two children. Ill almost 80 thousand people, 1800 of them took an ambulance (just for one day, from 31 October to 1 November, was hospitalized thousand). In Lviv Influenza 40 pregnant women, three - in intensive care with pneumonia. From complications of influenza in the form of pneumonia among young people.
Relatives of 31-year-old bartender Cafe Gasova lamp Andrei Stakhova tell that the guy died five days after he first signs of the common cold - runny nose, sore throat, aching muscles. Four days later he was treated, as usual, from the flu - saw anti-virals, tea with lemon. The doctor did not call - they say, is not the first time caught a cold, I know how to be treated. “And on the fifth day, he suddenly became quite ill, suddenly the temperature soared to 40, brought home an ambulance,” - says the owner of a cafe Yuri Nazaruk. - At the hospital, found that Andrew is seriously impressed by the lungs, it connected to the ventilator. The next day he was gone, he burned in just a day.
It is striking that from contagious ailment die the doctors themselves. 35-year-old ladies from Lviv dentist died in the same hospital as the bartender, the day after. “Pre - from pneumonia. The final cause of death will know after the autopsy “, - said dryly Bogdan Matviy, head physician of 5-second hospital where the woman worked.
TREAT nothing. Tamiflu - a drug from the “swine flu” - in Lviv in a huge deficit. “On Friday, the city issued 100 packages, they are already gone. But the sister cities in Poland and Austria promised to send us a large batch of Tamiflu “, - said the representative of the Lviv city council Andrei Moskalenko. The fact that Tamiflu is not given, told us, and Lviv ladies Marina Dacko, whose husband fell ill with pneumonia.
“In the hospital I took him by car - an ambulance for a long time did not come. And there’s such a horror is going on: there is no free beds, people lie in the corridors. Doctors diagnosed with Oleg’s pneumonia, was discharged strong antibiotics and ... allowed to go home. We have two children at home, so not to infect them, took him to the village.
Restaurateur Yuri Nazaruk, who organized in their “Bandera” cafe “Kryivka” Information Center on the epidemic “swine flu”, said that doctors in Lviv can not distinguish the “swine flu” from the usual: “The authorities are lying, that the field has the necessary equipment. For example, there is no test systems that allow the results of intelligence analysis to determine whether a person is sick “swine flu”. How to find out whom to give Tamiflu? In the eye, randomly? Yes there Tamiflu ... Because the city does not even gauze bandages, speculators are selling them for 5 hryvnia ...
“THIS IS NOT A Plague. In Lviv continued to walk rumors that supposedly countrymen die from pneumonic plague, the death rate from which many times greater than from the “swine flu”. Hence, they say, and such a large number of victims. However, doctors insist that it is possible. “The tests do not show the plague, and the clinic of the disease there is another” - calms epidemiologist Lviv Citizens of Natalia Timko.
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Slovakia closed two border crossings with Ukraine
02/Nov/09
The Slovak authorities on Monday closed two of the five border crossings on the Slovak-Ukrainian border in connection with the growing epidemic of influenza in Ukraine, RIA Novosti reported with reference to the Agence France-Presse.
Interior Minister Robert Kalinak announced at a press conference on the closing transitions between settlements Wielkie Slementse and Small Selmentsy and Ubla and Small Berezniy. And also not exclude that in the event of further deterioration of the epidemiological situation in Ukraine, Slovakia will close the remaining three stages.
http://www.unian.net/rus/news/news-344651.html
Commentary
Ukraine H1N1 Deaths and Hospitalizations Spike Higher
Recombinomics Commentary 21:54
November 2, 2009
http://www.recombinomics.com/News/11020902/Ukraine_Spike.html
255516 Influenza/ARI
15810 Hospital Admissions
235 Intensive Care
70 deaths
The above numbers reflect the latest government update on cases in the Ukraine. They are dramatically higher than those reported in the past few days and raise concerns that the death toll will increase significantly over the next several days.
Some wire service reports and comments from WHO have downplayed these numbers, noting that the death rate for Ukraine is similar to other countries in Europe. However, the deaths in the other countries accumulated over the entire pandemic flu season, while the deaths in the Ukraine were in the past few weeks, with most cases reported in the past few days.
About 5% of patients admitted with H1N1 infections have died in other countries, so that rate in the patients currently hospitalized would increase the deaths in Ukraine 10 fold, which would be markedly higher than any other European country. Moreover, the vast majority of the cases, hospitalizations, ICU admissions, and deaths are in three Oblasts in western Ukraine. Lviv, Ternopil, and Ivano-Frankivsk (see map).
This concentration of H1N1, including serious and fatal cases, raises concerns that the virus in this region has changed. Samples have been sent to London for analysis and prompt release of that data would be useful.
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