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Belgrade - In Serbia, the recorded increase in the number of patients with influenza in all age categories, and most patients are among the youngest - from zero to four years. The circulation of all three types of viruses - A H1N1, A H3N2 and B, where the dominant pandemic virus - told Today Dragan Dimitrijevic, head of the Department of Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases at the Institute of Public Health of Serbia.
She recalls that the epidemic threshold is exceeded in Serbia in late January, influenza virus continues to have high intensity activities, and the rate of new cases is above the threshold for the epidemic period (usually six to 12 weeks). - As of yesterday's day to 14 hours, the number of reported laboratory confirmed cases of influenza is the 206th When 175 people confirmed the pandemic virus A H1N1, the H3N2 virus of 21 patients, eight patients with type B was detected, and the two people type A (subtype has not been done) - said Dimitrijevic. According to her, so far in Serbia registered 20 deaths in which influenza virus was detected. The deceased are aged from 24 to 74 years, of which one unknown vaccination status, while others were not vaccinated. Fourteen deaths belonged to groups at risk or had a chronic illness - lung, heart, diabetes, extreme obesity, neurological or renal disease. Ten patients is in critical condition. Institute Batut flu outbreaks were reported among the population of Pirot District, the City of Belgrade and Vojvodina. High activity of influenza was recorded in Central and Eastern Europe, while in the north and west of the continent passed the "peak" of epidemic waves.
Due to increase in number of cases of swine flu Provincial Secretariat of Health ordered the hospital in Vojvodina, a suspension of visits to patients. However, Dimitrijevic said that hospitals in Vojvodina "mode selectively adapted to the epidemiological situation, the limits on the duration and number of visits to a complete ban on visits to patients at high risk departments. City Institute of Public Health of Belgrade, by 8 February proposed a health care clinic that have to ban visits to patients, it is difficult to make a visit only with masks and only the healthy. Epidemiologist Predrag Kon said that if the hospital is well organized, does not have to be introduced a complete ban on visits
She recalls that the epidemic threshold is exceeded in Serbia in late January, influenza virus continues to have high intensity activities, and the rate of new cases is above the threshold for the epidemic period (usually six to 12 weeks). - As of yesterday's day to 14 hours, the number of reported laboratory confirmed cases of influenza is the 206th When 175 people confirmed the pandemic virus A H1N1, the H3N2 virus of 21 patients, eight patients with type B was detected, and the two people type A (subtype has not been done) - said Dimitrijevic. According to her, so far in Serbia registered 20 deaths in which influenza virus was detected. The deceased are aged from 24 to 74 years, of which one unknown vaccination status, while others were not vaccinated. Fourteen deaths belonged to groups at risk or had a chronic illness - lung, heart, diabetes, extreme obesity, neurological or renal disease. Ten patients is in critical condition. Institute Batut flu outbreaks were reported among the population of Pirot District, the City of Belgrade and Vojvodina. High activity of influenza was recorded in Central and Eastern Europe, while in the north and west of the continent passed the "peak" of epidemic waves.
Due to increase in number of cases of swine flu Provincial Secretariat of Health ordered the hospital in Vojvodina, a suspension of visits to patients. However, Dimitrijevic said that hospitals in Vojvodina "mode selectively adapted to the epidemiological situation, the limits on the duration and number of visits to a complete ban on visits to patients at high risk departments. City Institute of Public Health of Belgrade, by 8 February proposed a health care clinic that have to ban visits to patients, it is difficult to make a visit only with masks and only the healthy. Epidemiologist Predrag Kon said that if the hospital is well organized, does not have to be introduced a complete ban on visits
