” I will post it on your thread if that’s ok with you ? “
I don’t consider it my thread - it’s *our* thread, if it’s anything....
My sole contribution was that I stumbled, quite by accident, on the original article...
(I have kept an ongoing Google Search on ‘pneumonic plague’ - a phobia of mine - since the outbreak in Kenya a couple of years ago, and a serendipitous translation glitch brought that article up in the emailed Search Results...)
Thanks again for keeping me informed on developments... ;)
Sure , I appreciate you having this thread . This is a situation which needs to be watched very closely .
Thanks :)
WHO says it’s sending team to Ukraine to probe reports of serious H1N1 activity
(CP) – 6 hours ago - excerpt
GENEVA — The World Health Organization is sending a team of experts to Ukraine to look into reports of severe H1N1 disease there, a spokesperson for the global health agency said Friday. Gregory Hartl said the team was being pulled together by the WHO’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, which goes by the acronym GOARN.
The team will travel early next week to the eastern European country, which has closed schools and banned public meetings in response to a spike in cases of acute respiratory illness believed to be H1N1. “This is something that certainly needs investigating,” Hartl said from Geneva.”
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jTFG2-QOhRBqMONr9ZG0-NfS3_dA
Ukraine imposes social distancing steps amid flu surge
Lisa Schnirring Staff Writer
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/swineflu/news/oct3009ukraine.html
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.