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  • Russia - Officials close 76 schools due to flu and respiratory outbreak -197 currently treated - Lipetsk oblast

    Apparently widespread schools closures for only 297 treated in a population of 500,000. Seems odd. Also, out of the 297 persons currently under treatment, only 1 is H1N1pdm09.

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    March 3, 2014, 12:26 (MSK) | Society | Gorod48.ru
    Lipetsk region was closed for quarantine to 76 schools
    In addition, fully suspended classes in 5 kindergartens.



    As reported in GOROD48 Department of Education and Science of the Lipetsk region , according to the March 3, in our region in quarantine for influenza and SARS are completely closed 76 schools: 65 in Lipetsk and 11 - in the districts. Suspended classes in four schools Lebedyanskiy District 2 schools Griazinsky district, one school closed in Dankovsky, Dobrovskij, Leo-Tolstoy, Lipetsk and Hlevensky areas. Fully suspended classes in pre-school institutions in the region 5 2 kindergartens closed in Stanovlyansky district and one - in Dobrinsky, Izmalkovsky and Usman areas. In addition, a number of schools and kindergartens region entered a partial quarantine - classes suspended in separate classes and groups. While doctors assess the situation of influenza in the region as a fairly calm. As the main GOROD48 Specialist in Infectious Diseases, Health Department of the Lipetsk region Anatoly Chesnokov, now being treated at the Lipetsk Regional Clinical Hospital of Infectious Diseases are 197 people with various types of infectious diseases - influenza, acute respiratory infections, parainfluenza, adenovirus and others. 23 patients lie with the flu, 17 of them confirmed A/H3N2 virus laboratory.

    Swine Influenza A/H1N1 in our region is still there, except for a single imported case. During the last night in Lipetsk Oblast Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital received 20 people: 8 adults and 12 children, including two children under the age of one year. March 2 were hospitalized with the flu 3 people - all children older than one year.


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