"As a reminder, yesterday, on October 28 flu epidemic in the Ternopil Region, which had appeared a week ago, mowed down nearly 10,000 of residents. Moreover - unknown virus has already killed seven people. Ministry of Health has confirmed 20 deaths from pneumonia in Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv Regions. By Yulia Makoveeva, MIGnews.com.ua"
Those former USSR bio-engineers just can’t contain their research is it? Listen, their bugs are loose!!!!
05:39 p.m. Doctors are calling on citizens not to vaccinate against influenza, because such vaccination in the midst of the epidemic may injure the health, coordinator of epidemic influenza in Lviv Miron Borysevich claimed at a press conference, proUA.com reports.
“When an outbreak of influenza begins, nobody is being vaccinated. From the point of view of epidemiology this can not be done because it is harmful. It may harm the patient,” - he said.
Not good at all.
The globull pres_ent’s fault.
I have a 2nd cousin who communicates with family in the Ukraine. Just emailed this article to her as an FYI.
Thanks for posting it!
BTTT
How soon is zero going to send them a brazillion dollars to fix it?
Also, Keep up with other H1N1 update stories on this thread: H1N1 flu victim collapsed on way to hospital [Latest H1N1 updates downthread] thanks to DvdMom and others.
Ukraine
Ministry of Health plans to declare a quarantine on the entire territory of Ukraine
30/Oct/09
Ministry of Health is planning to declare a quarantine on the entire territory of Ukraine. This was at a press conference today said Health Minister Vasyl Knyazevych.
The Minister confirmed that Ukraine has recorded epidemic of highly influenza A/H1N1.
“Unfortunately, we must note that in Ukraine actually started the epidemic of influenza in California,” - he said.
According to him, in two laboratories confirmed the diagnosis - recorded 11 cases of 33 samples.
“We consider the possibility of declaring a quarantine, not only in the western areas, but also throughout the country, as the virus spreads very quickly,” - said V. Knyazevych.
As reported with reference to the data of the operational headquarters of the Ministry of Health, thirty people, including one child who died in the Ukraine as a result of acute respiratory infections during the period from October 19.
According to the Ministry of Health, in the Lviv region - 12 victims, including one child, in the Ternopil - 12, in Ivano-Frankivsk 6 people died.
In addition, according to the media, victims also Chernivtsi, Rivne and Transcarpathian regions - just 34 people died.
The doctors admit that the cause of death - the rapid development of SARS. At the same time, do not exclude the possibility of influenza virus A/H1N1.
Earlier in Ukraine have been officially confirmed 2 cases of highly flu. June 5, 2009 the laboratory in London confirmed the disease of influenza A/H1N1 among Ukrainians, who arrived from Paris. Before that he lived in Detroit (USA), worked as a salesman in a grocery store. After treatment, the patient went home in Chernivtsi. In addition, in late September, a man who came from the Kirovograd region Kiev and was hospitalized with a diagnosis of “pneumonia”, confirmed ownership of the isolated strains of influenza virus of type A/N1N1.
http://health.unian.net/rus/detail/201637
Ukraine
Cabinet introduces quarantine in the nine western regions of Ukraine
30/Oct/09
According to an UNIAN correspondent, reported by Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, revealing an extraordinary meeting of the Cabinet.
She noted that today in Lviv, Ivano-Frankovsk and Ternopol areas of the state of incidence of influenza has reached epidemic threshold.
Also, according to the prime minister, in the neighboring areas - Transcarpathian and Chernivtsi, Rivne, Volyn, Khmelnytsky and Vinnitsa - is the threat of the spread of influenza.
According to Tymoshenko, in connection with the present day in all of these nine areas of quarantine.
The Premier noted that this provides an offensive today in these regions, a three-week holiday in all educational institutions.
Also, she says, will be canceled all public events.
Y. Tymoshenko added that will also put a special regime, which will include the restriction of transport of people from these regions to other regions of Ukraine.
After opening remarks, Prime Minister, her press secretary Maryna Soroka explained to reporters that the quarantine is introduced in the nine regions of Ukraine, but the situation on the three-week holiday in all educational institutions in respect of all Ukraine.
Also Soroka added that the territory of all other quarantine measures will be specified during the cabinet meeting and a special commission, which is continuing.
http://health.unian.net/rus/detail/201650
Ukraine considers quarantine after first H1N1 death
Today at 14:00 | Reuters
http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/51526/
Ukraine has closed schools, banned all public events, and imposed restrictions on people’s movements around the country for a three-week period after confirming its first death from H1N1 swine flu.
“All educational institutions without exception...will be switched on to a three-week holiday period,” Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko announced. She indicated this period could be extended if it was deemed necessary.
“Apart from this, we will make the decision to cancel all mass meetings...for three weeks,” she said at an emergency government session.
“We will introduce a special system to stop unnecessary travel by people from one region to another,” she added.
Earlier, the Health Ministry confirmed that one of 30 deaths in western Ukraine since mid-October that had been attributed to flu and pneumonia had been caused by the H1N1 strain, commonly known as swine flu.
“So far, not all the dead were tested [for H1N1],” a Health Ministry spokeswoman said. “However, tests on one dead [person] proved positive.”
“We are considering [imposing] a quarantine not only in the west, but also across the country because
I knew they were going to let something “loose” to justify this whole pandemic thing, and so it begins ...
Now that I’ve re-read it it sound like H1N1 to the “T”, how low do you think the average Ukraniun is on Vitamin D, pale as a ghost coupled with heavy alcohol drinking doesn’t make for a great defense ...
Having trouble understanding what this article is really trying to get across. Are they simply saying they are seeing cases of pneumonia develop in H1N1 infected cases, like we are seeing over here. I’m not understanding what’s so upsetting about this development that we’ve already seem developing over here.
Ukraine
Transcarpathia: “the first stage of panic” in connection with the flu was
30/Oct/09
Chairman Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State Administration Mykola Paliychuk believes that “the first stage of panic” in connection with influenza in the area took place.
According to an UNIAN correspondent, he expressed this opinion at today’s briefing.
The governor denied reports that appeared on some local Internet sites that Ivano-Frankivsk will “spray antibiotics. “No! Such activities are not conducted and does not hold “- he said.
At the same time in the city can meet the passers-by in gauze bandages. However, this is not a mass phenomenon, because pharmacies do not. There are times that dressing “special” sell several times more expensive. The Governor called on the authorities to report on each case, and violators will be applied “strict measures”. And in the coming days, he promised, pharmacies will be provided with all necessary: masks and antiviral drugs.
On the streets of Ivano-Frankivsk decreased children, parents with young children, freely and in public transport, shops.
http://health.unian.net/rus/detail/201685
Ukraine
The President instructed to urgently change the national pandemic plan
30/Oct/09
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko ordered to urgently make changes to the national pandemic plan in the light of the situation with the flu.
According to an UNIAN correspondent, he told journalists today.
According to Yushchenko, he instructed the Ministry of Health of Ukraine to develop a realistic plan of action that will guide all the while overcoming the consequences of an influenza pandemic.
In particular, according to the President, it is necessary to amend the national pandemic plan. He hoped that even at today’s meeting of the Council of National Security and Defense, these changes will be presented.
V. Yushchenko said that the plan should be clearly formulated recommendations for citizens and professionals how to act in these conditions. In particular, should be elaborated on the steps of quarantine measures, movement of transport and the public in related fields, etc.
Yushchenko also stressed the need to ensure full control over the situation in all regions of Ukraine. According to the President, the situation is complex. In three regions of Ukraine - Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil - found more than 30 thousand cases of respiratory disease, 951 people hospitalized. Has registered 32 deaths, including 11 - of the influenza virus A/H1N1.
V. Yushchenko said that today a big problem for Ukraine is the issue of virus typing. He noted that individual professionals today may be assumed that influenza detected in the western regions of Ukraine, “is a mutated virus among swine and avian influenza.
http://health.unian.net/rus/detail/201689
I would translate it as: "He said that various specialists do not exclude the possibility that the flu detected in the western regions of the Ukraine "appears to be a swine-avian mutant virus".
Ukraine is restricting rail traffic
http://www.nrcu.gov.ua/index.php?id=148&listid=103330
Rail traffic in Ukraine will be restricted due to the epidemiological situation in the country, Health Minister Vasyl Kniazevych has said.
Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said earlier that travelling between the regions and abroad could be restricted. Border guards also tightened controls, and if they find any symptoms of flu in people who cross the state border, they will immediately send them to local hospitals. Quarantine was imposed in the country’s nine western regions due to the epidemic of the H1N1 influenza, commonly known as swine flu. It was also decided to declare a three-week ban on all mass events and introduce a three-week holiday period at all educational institutions.
Then it isn't pneumonic plague. That disease is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. A small point, perhaps, but reporters really need to get this sort of thing straight or the rest of us won't really know what's happening. And I wouldn't want to be sick with the one and be treated for the other.
While I'd avoid alarmism, from what this story details it sounds pretty bad. Vaccines don't do as well to treat an epidemic as they do to prevent it from starting in the first place. And it's a little late for that.
ping ...