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Number of victims to unknown virus growing! State of emergency to be imposed in Ukrai

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Yesterday, on October 29 some media reported that allegedly in the Ternopil Region cases of ill people with typhus were registered, and that militarized detachments limited entrance and departure from the territory of the Ternopil Region. However, the Public Relations Center of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Ternopil Region denied information about it.

Yesterday, on October 29 the chief physician of the regional sanitary-epidemiological station Halyna Hrynchuk assured that Kyiv Region is ready for prophylaxis and treatment of influenza, reported Yulia Makoveeva, MIGnews.com.ua correspondent.

In the Ternopil Region 25 percents of infectiologists who worked with patients with acute respiratory viral infections are ill, the chairman of the Association of infectiologists of Ukraine Mykhaylo Andreychin reported yesterday, on October 29 at a press conference.

"One fourth of doctors had such a disease or they are ill with it now. Fortunately, they are recovering now and soon again be able to work", - said Mykhaylo Andreychin.

Yesterday, on October 29 in Morshyn, Lviv Region a doctor from a local hospital, who contacted with patients with viral infection and visited them, died, is reported by the Deputy Chief of the Health protection department in the Lviv Region Iryna Mykytchak. According to her, a 56-year-old woman "had been previously diagnosed with pneumonia," UNIAN reports.

The medical facilities in the Lviv region have medicines for treatment of influenza and acute respiratory infections for the three-day supply, is said in the summary of information of the General Directorate of Health Protection in the Lviv Regional at the State regional Administration, UNIAN reported.

Because of the mass acute respiratory infections residents of the Lviv Region began to buy up antiviral drugs and flu masks. Yesterday, on October 29 the Lviv residents could not purchase masks. Consequently, the director general of the Lviv regional pharmaceutical corporation Nelia Byk appealed to all residents of the region with the request not to buy drugs without the need, Glavred cites the Ministry’s report as saying.

Ministry of Health recommends using the methods of traditional and alternative medicine for prevention of acute respiratory viral diseases, including influenza, Ukrainian News cites the report of the Ministry as saying.

According to experts of Ministry of Health, filling nutrition, conditioning to the cold and frequent airing of premises are effective during the period of active disease. Also, the Ministry recommends using general health-improving and tonic immunomodulatory drugs. In addition, the Ministry recommends frequent hand washing and cover a nose and mouth with a handkerchief when coughing and sneezing.

The number of people suffering from unknown virus in Ukraine is growing. According to the latest data of Ministry of Health, 30 deaths of flu and acute respiratory viral diseases have been recorded, starting from October, 19, in the Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv Regions. In particular, from October, 19 and until 04:00 p.m. on October 29 6 deaths have been recorded in the Ivano-Frankivsk Region, 12 - in the Lviv Region (including 1 child) and 12 - in the Ternopil Region. As of 04:00 p.m. on October 29 the number of people sick with influenza and acute respiratory viral infections in these regions has reached 37, 923 people, 951 out of them have been hospitalized.

Let's hope that this can be contained and dealt with, before it spreads over to other countries!
http://mignews.com.ua/en/articles/376537.html
 
Most likely its a case of bad journalism or translation, and what they are dealing with is swine flu as we know it.

Other possibilities are that the swine flu has become more dangerous there, ie mutated, or that it is another disease entirely.

Such reports therefore tend to be investigated by global health authorities to make sure nothing new & horrific is occurring, but these reports usually turn out to be nothing abnormal.
 
Most likely its a case of bad journalism or translation, and what they are dealing with is swine flu as we know it.

I read it as such, I think when they mention an "unknown virus" I think they bare referring to an as yet undiagnosed condition, possibly an influenza of some sort.
 
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.

He said the government of Ukraine is being forthcoming with information on the outbreak, which is said to centre on three regions in the western part of the country.

The country, which is in the midst of an election campaign, has reportedly imposed strict measures to slow the spread of the virus.

According to the BBC, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said there would also be restrictions on what she called non-urgent travel between different parts of Ukraine.

Reports on the number of deaths vary, some suggesting Tymoshenko had said only one person has died of the virus but her rival, President Viktor Yushchenko, has said 11 Ukrainians have died so far.
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Up to eleven dead, huh? My little corner of Ontario passed that number several months ago.
 
which goes by the acronym GOARN.

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I wonder if the restrictions on travel will get worse on ballot day itself - when it looks as if the wrong person might be in with a chance of winning!
 
It's the government of Ukraine over egging the flu to make political gains.



KYIV, November 2. /UKRINFORM/. All activities within the presidential election campaign have been cancelled after the H1N1 flu epidemic and quarantine were declared in Ukraine, Premier Yulia Tymoshenko has said.

As UKRINFORM reported, the government placed nine Ukrainian regions in quarantine as the А(H1N1) flu epidemic spreads across the country.

In addition, the authorities introduced a three-week ban for mass events, as well as vacation at all educational establishments.

http://bsanna-news.ukrinform.ua/newsitem.php?id=10844&lang=en


So banning political rallies up coming up to a close election? :hmm:

She may be corrupt but she's a little easier on the eye than Brown...

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ooer, good job I'm using my work pc :D

*refrains from posting the conspiracy stuff related to this* :D
 
Fuck's sake, given that I live in a neighbouring country to Ukraine which isn't exactly famed for its first-class medical service I might just start doing that :mad:
 
Well assuming it is swine flu as we know it, I would be interested to know if it is only the politicians there that have ramped up the panic, or of there are some other factors in the Ukraine which would cause more people to react dramatically to the swine flu reaching there than people have in many other countries.
 
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