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01.12.2009 / PAP
"Influenza was a new type of over several hundred thousand Poles"
Increasingly A/H1N1 VICTIMS IN POLAND
More and more victims A/H1N1
1158 people infected and 24 dead - the current balance of the incidence of influenza type A/H1N1 given on Tuesday by the Chief Sanitary Inspectorate.
- It's only cases confirmed by laboratory tests, 80 percent of cases of influenza so gently, that patients often do not report to a doctor - says spokesman John Bondar GIS.
According to him, the new virus has become the dominant seasonal virus, according to different evaluations and is responsible for 30-50 percent. cases of influenza. - It can be assumed that a new type of flu over several hundred thousand people - added Bondar.
He stressed that despite the 24 deaths caused by influenza A/H1N1 virus did not differ from the average seasonal influenza, can even accept that it is lighter, and among the dead was dominated by patients suffering from other serious diseases, including cancer and heart failure.
Bondar said that is always in season grypowym there were in Poland for a few tens, sometimes hundreds of deaths, but "has never been such a diagnosis and reporting of such, as in the case of A/H1N1 virus.
Another victim of influenza
On Tuesday, provincial sanitary-epidemiological inspector in Poznan Andrzej Trybusz informed that the hospital in Konin, died 51-year-old woman who has been diagnosed with the virus A/H1N1. - The immediate cause of death of patients was pulmonary embolism. It is possible that infection with the accelerated development of other diseases - stressed Trybusz. How Konin hospital spokesman Leszek Czajor, woman died from the village area Turek. The hospital was incorporated on Friday, was found in the severe symptoms of influenza.
Czajor said that the hospital in Konin staying out of five children found a new influenza virus. - There are no adults with A/H1N1 - he added. Trybusz said that so far throughout the Greater A/H1N1 virus was diagnosed in 69 people. Six of them are in severe.
New laboratory
Tuesday at the Laboratory of Microbiology and Parasitology Provincial Sanitary-Epidemiological Station in Poznan in Poland, started seventh device for diagnosing the virus A/H1N1. Day it can examine 20 samples. The machine, purchased for 200 thousand. golden from the budgetary reserve of the Council of Ministers will serve for the diagnosis of samples from patients with Wielkopolska and Lubuskie Province and other neighboring countries.
Poznan is the sixth in Warsaw (two facilities), Lodz, Gdansk, Katowice and the city of Olsztyn, where diagnosed with swine flu virus.
"Influenza was a new type of over several hundred thousand Poles"
Increasingly A/H1N1 VICTIMS IN POLAND
More and more victims A/H1N1
1158 people infected and 24 dead - the current balance of the incidence of influenza type A/H1N1 given on Tuesday by the Chief Sanitary Inspectorate.
- It's only cases confirmed by laboratory tests, 80 percent of cases of influenza so gently, that patients often do not report to a doctor - says spokesman John Bondar GIS.
According to him, the new virus has become the dominant seasonal virus, according to different evaluations and is responsible for 30-50 percent. cases of influenza. - It can be assumed that a new type of flu over several hundred thousand people - added Bondar.
He stressed that despite the 24 deaths caused by influenza A/H1N1 virus did not differ from the average seasonal influenza, can even accept that it is lighter, and among the dead was dominated by patients suffering from other serious diseases, including cancer and heart failure.
Bondar said that is always in season grypowym there were in Poland for a few tens, sometimes hundreds of deaths, but "has never been such a diagnosis and reporting of such, as in the case of A/H1N1 virus.
Another victim of influenza
On Tuesday, provincial sanitary-epidemiological inspector in Poznan Andrzej Trybusz informed that the hospital in Konin, died 51-year-old woman who has been diagnosed with the virus A/H1N1. - The immediate cause of death of patients was pulmonary embolism. It is possible that infection with the accelerated development of other diseases - stressed Trybusz. How Konin hospital spokesman Leszek Czajor, woman died from the village area Turek. The hospital was incorporated on Friday, was found in the severe symptoms of influenza.
Czajor said that the hospital in Konin staying out of five children found a new influenza virus. - There are no adults with A/H1N1 - he added. Trybusz said that so far throughout the Greater A/H1N1 virus was diagnosed in 69 people. Six of them are in severe.
New laboratory
Tuesday at the Laboratory of Microbiology and Parasitology Provincial Sanitary-Epidemiological Station in Poznan in Poland, started seventh device for diagnosing the virus A/H1N1. Day it can examine 20 samples. The machine, purchased for 200 thousand. golden from the budgetary reserve of the Council of Ministers will serve for the diagnosis of samples from patients with Wielkopolska and Lubuskie Province and other neighboring countries.
Poznan is the sixth in Warsaw (two facilities), Lodz, Gdansk, Katowice and the city of Olsztyn, where diagnosed with swine flu virus.
