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Re: Turkey - H1N1- total deaths increase to 415
Turkish authorities not to disclose swine flu deaths
14:42 / 12/23/2009Presently about 181 people undergo treatment for swine flu in Turkish hospitals. To date nearly 2 million citizens were vaccinated. According to the Turkish Health Ministry, A/H1N1 virus pandemia spread across the country?s provinces.
About 4 million infected with swine flu are registered in a 72-million Turkey. Third of those (400) died of swine flu are people under 50.
The Ministry spread information that thereafter the institution will not voice the number of death cases ?unless necessary.?
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Re: Turkey - H1N1- total deaths increase to 415
SWINE FLU: FIGURES TO BE CENSORED IN TURKEY, PRESS
(ANSAmed) - ANKARA - Turkey's Health Ministry will no more make public death toll from swine flu, as Turkish daylies Milliyet and Vatan report today. The ministry was expected to release the toll today but it announced that routine statements would not be made anymore as the World Health Organization, or WHO, has not recommended such a practice. However, WHO announces global figures every Friday. According data released by the Health Ministry, in Turkey - out of about 70 million inhabitants - 4 million people have been infected with swine flu so far. The illness has spread throughout the country. Two million people have been vaccinated. Number of people who gained immunity reached 6 million. However, this figure is not enough to halt the spread of the disease. Death toll rose to 458 from swine flu as of December 17, 2009. Health Ministry has decided not to announce the death toll unless it rises significantly, the sources said. (ANSAmed).
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Re: Turkey - H1N1- Epidemic declines - 627 deaths
T?rkiye'de domuz gribinden 627 kişi ?ld?
ANF08:24 / 21 Ocak 2010
ANKARA - T?rkiye?de domuz gribinden ?l?mlerle ilgili bilgi vermeme kararı alan Sağlık Bakanlığından yapılan yazılı a?ıklamada şu ana kadar 627 kişinin gripten ?ld?ğ?n? duyurdu.
Hastalığın d?ş?şe ge?tiğini kaydeden Sağlık Bakanlığı, hayatını kaybedenlerin 40'ını hamile veya loğusa kadınların oluşturduğunu a?ıkladı. Hayatını kaybeden kişilerin y?zde 35'inin, altta yatan kronik bir hastalığı bulunmayan sağlıklı kişilerden oluştuğu belirtildi.
Bakanlık a?ıklamasında, T?rkiye'de, domuz gribi hastalığında tehlikeli eşiğin aşıldığı, hastalığın azalma eğiliminde olduğu ve mevsimsel grip seviyesinde seyrettiği kaydedildi. Hastanelerde yatarak tedavi g?ren kişi sayısı da ciddi oranda azalarak 67'ye d?şt?. 22 kişinin yoğun bakımda, 17 hastanın ise solunum cihazına bağlı olduğu bildirildi.
627 people died from the swine flu in Turkey
ANF08: 24 / January 21, 2010
ANKARA - Turkey swine influenza in the area of the decision not to provide information about his death from the Ministry of Health
written statement made so far announced 627 people had died from the flu.
Noted that the Ministry of Health of the disease to decline, the 40 pregnant women who lost their lives or
confine women constitutes announced. Life of the person who lost 35 percent, chronic underlying
composed of healthy people who do not have a disease that was specified.
In the statement the ministry in Turkey, swine flu disease dangerous threshold has been exceeded, the disease
declining trend and the seasonal flu that were recorded at the level of the watch. In the hospital inpatient
treatment also significantly reduced the number of people who fell in 67'ye. 22 people in the intensive care unit, 17 patients
was reported to be connected to the breathing apparatus.
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Re: Turkey - H1N1- Epidemic declines - 627 deaths
Swine flu over, but may return in winter, say expertsFont Size: Larger|Smaller
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
ISTANBUL - H?rriyet Daily News
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The pandemic H1N1 virus, better known as swine flu, no longer poses a risk in Turkey, but may return next winter, physicians from the Turkish Medical Association, or TTB, said Tuesday at an Istanbul press conference.
No patients with swine flu have turned up at hospitals in Turkey since January, according to Haluk Eraksoy, a member of the TTB?s Pandemic Scientific Consultation and Inspection Board.
?That means the pandemic has ceased its influence in Turkey, but it also does not mean [the disease] will not be seen in the country again,? he said.
Another member of the board, Dr. ?ağrı Kala?a, said in a press statement that swine flu is likely to appear in the southern hemisphere, where it will be winter in the coming months. ?The pandemic has the possibility to move around the world depending on the seasons, and it may come back [to Turkey] in winter 2010,? he said.
Health Minister Recep Akdağ has also said the swine-flu threat has ceased to exist in Turkey, the Anatolia news agency reported.
?We do not know whether there is going to be a second wave in the fall, but we do not expect a strong wave,? Akdağ said at a press conference in Ankara on Tuesday. The health minister added that the number of people vaccinated against swine flu was low in Turkey compared to the rest of the world.
?We did not buy 43 million vaccines, we bought 17 million vaccines and still continue talks with the companies to give some of these back,? Akdağ said.
Doctors from the TTB agreed with Akdağ, saying the pandemic was not exaggerated and the vaccination was a necessity.
Unlike a seasonal flu, swine flu affected many young people, as well as children and pregnant woman, Kala?a said. The rate of pregnant women who died of pneumonia increased more than 10 times during the pandemic.
?The number of pregnant women who died of pneumonia increased from 2 to 38 between 2008 and 2009,? Akdağ said, adding that that 36 of those who died in 2009 had the H1N1 virus. No pregnant women who were vaccinated died from swine flu, the health minister added.
Many people avoided getting the vaccination due to controversial statements made last year about whether the vaccines were healthy or unhealthy. The TTB doctors said the swine-flu vaccines are no different than those for the seasonal flu.
Selim Batur, another doctor from the TTB, said the vaccines for the H1N1 virus will be combined with the regular seasonal vaccines for 2010.
Kala?a also said there have been misrepresentations about the swine-flu vaccines in the press and the Health Ministry was not completely able to handle the false information spreading in Turkish society.
?First, the ministry gave only information about the death tolls and then stopped delivering data about them,? said Kala?a.
According to Feride Aksu Tanık, the head of the Pandemic Board for the TTB, said the swine-flu vaccines are healthy and members of risk groups should especially get vaccinated. She also complained, however, about the lack of research and development policy in Turkey about the vaccines.
Vaccines were not produced in the domestic market due to the shortage of political policy and power supporting this kind of work, Tanık said.
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Re: Turkey - H1N1- Epidemic declines - 627 deaths
Influenza H1N1 made 656 deaths in Turkey
ANKARA - Influenza H1N1 made 656 deaths in Turkey since October, asserted on Thursday the Turkish Ministry of Health. This new balance sheet of the victims was given in a press release broadcast to deny information published by the press according to which Turkey would have bought but not used about 40 million doses of vaccine against the virus. " On July 29th, 2010, the total number of died persons after laboratories confirmed (that they were infected) was 656 ", asserts the document. The number of victims hard augmented in November before becoming stable. It attained 627 in January. Turkey, with a population of about 73 million inhabitants, initially ordered 43 million doses of vaccines, but finally bought only six millions, for 33 million euro (43,1 million dollars), asserted on Thursday the ministry. Three million doses were used and the balance stocked by circumspection, he added. The worldwide Organization of health (WHO) announced a pandemic of influenza H1N1 on June 11th, 2009, and enumerated 18.211 deceases caused by the virus in the world.
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