Re: Ukraine Influenza Surveillance 2013-2014
situation with the incidence of influenza and SARS in Ukraine from 27 January to 2 February 2014
02/04/2014
According to the Center for influenza and acute respiratory viral infections of the State Institution "Ukrainian Center for Disease Control and monitoring of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine" for the period from 27 January to 2 February 2014 the incidence of influenza and SARS epidemic thresholds do not exceed in any region of Ukraine and range from - 10.3% to Khmelnitsky - 83.1% in Ivano-Frankivsk.
During the reporting week with flu and SARS ill 201,120 people, including 132,782 persons (66.0%) were children under 17 years. The incidence of influenza and SARS (total) population of Ukraine is 44.2 to 10 thousand.
The highest incidence of influenza and SARS are registered in Kyiv and Kyiv region to 73.1, and the lowest in the Kharkiv region - 16.8 per 10 thousand population.
During the reporting week were hospitalized 7 206 people, among them - 5 548 (77.0%) were children under 17 years. Compared to last week, the growth rate of influenza and acute respiratory viral infections in adults and children has increased by 14.2% and 17.8%, respectively.
By the fifth week of 2014 in Ukraine deaths among patients with influenza and SARS are not registered as the previous week. Overall, the epidemiological situation regarding the incidence of influenza and SARS in Ukraine corresponds to an average level for that time of year.
Since the beginning of the epidemic season, the total number vaccinated against influenza accounted for 242,515 people. During the reporting week vaccinated against influenza 1 431 person, which is 73.1% less than last week. Among persons vaccinated against influenza, the number of children under 17 is 12.5%.
Detailed information on the prevention and treatment of influenza posted on the website of Ministry of Health of Ukraine in the section " Important. Carefully flu " , and under the banner " How to protect yourself from the flu . "
Press Service of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine
Newsletter for week 05 2014
Ukraine faces a flu epidemic
Ukraine threatens flu epidemic. In nine areas the number of patients is very close to the epidemic threshold. At risk - south and east of the country, the city clinics are working in full force. Most pupils and students suffer. Already a few days as an elementary school teacher Valentina can not talk. Valentine Kurakova, visitor center is: - Sore throat and then the voice was gone, I work in a school, a lot of talking, for two days and it is completely gone. District Capital clinic serves more than one hundred and fifty thousand citizens. Infectiologists note: actually become sick anymore. Statistics worsen warming. Luschitsova Tatiana, an infectious diseases doctor: - More are active, working, and live an active lifestyle, ride public transportation, as well as children. influenza center in Ukrainian state: last week incidence increased by 20%. Most southern and eastern Ukraine. But sound the alarm early. To the strains in the 2013-14 Ukrainian already formed immunity. Demchishin Irina, Head of the Laboratory of Virology of the Ukrainian Center of influenza Health of Ukraine: - On the territory of Ukraine is celebrated simultaneously circulation type A virus - H1N1, California in 2009, and the virus type A H3N2, these type Texas 2012 years, in some areas, and notes virus circulation type B viruses although familiar, but control the outbreak in Ukraine have not learned to speak at the Institute of Infectious Diseases.
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situation with the incidence of influenza and SARS in Ukraine from 27 January to 2 February 2014
02/04/2014
According to the Center for influenza and acute respiratory viral infections of the State Institution "Ukrainian Center for Disease Control and monitoring of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine" for the period from 27 January to 2 February 2014 the incidence of influenza and SARS epidemic thresholds do not exceed in any region of Ukraine and range from - 10.3% to Khmelnitsky - 83.1% in Ivano-Frankivsk.
During the reporting week with flu and SARS ill 201,120 people, including 132,782 persons (66.0%) were children under 17 years. The incidence of influenza and SARS (total) population of Ukraine is 44.2 to 10 thousand.
The highest incidence of influenza and SARS are registered in Kyiv and Kyiv region to 73.1, and the lowest in the Kharkiv region - 16.8 per 10 thousand population.
During the reporting week were hospitalized 7 206 people, among them - 5 548 (77.0%) were children under 17 years. Compared to last week, the growth rate of influenza and acute respiratory viral infections in adults and children has increased by 14.2% and 17.8%, respectively.
By the fifth week of 2014 in Ukraine deaths among patients with influenza and SARS are not registered as the previous week. Overall, the epidemiological situation regarding the incidence of influenza and SARS in Ukraine corresponds to an average level for that time of year.
Since the beginning of the epidemic season, the total number vaccinated against influenza accounted for 242,515 people. During the reporting week vaccinated against influenza 1 431 person, which is 73.1% less than last week. Among persons vaccinated against influenza, the number of children under 17 is 12.5%.
Detailed information on the prevention and treatment of influenza posted on the website of Ministry of Health of Ukraine in the section " Important. Carefully flu " , and under the banner " How to protect yourself from the flu . "
Press Service of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine
Newsletter for week 05 2014
Ukraine faces a flu epidemic
Ukraine threatens flu epidemic. In nine areas the number of patients is very close to the epidemic threshold. At risk - south and east of the country, the city clinics are working in full force. Most pupils and students suffer. Already a few days as an elementary school teacher Valentina can not talk. Valentine Kurakova, visitor center is: - Sore throat and then the voice was gone, I work in a school, a lot of talking, for two days and it is completely gone. District Capital clinic serves more than one hundred and fifty thousand citizens. Infectiologists note: actually become sick anymore. Statistics worsen warming. Luschitsova Tatiana, an infectious diseases doctor: - More are active, working, and live an active lifestyle, ride public transportation, as well as children. influenza center in Ukrainian state: last week incidence increased by 20%. Most southern and eastern Ukraine. But sound the alarm early. To the strains in the 2013-14 Ukrainian already formed immunity. Demchishin Irina, Head of the Laboratory of Virology of the Ukrainian Center of influenza Health of Ukraine: - On the territory of Ukraine is celebrated simultaneously circulation type A virus - H1N1, California in 2009, and the virus type A H3N2, these type Texas 2012 years, in some areas, and notes virus circulation type B viruses although familiar, but control the outbreak in Ukraine have not learned to speak at the Institute of Infectious Diseases.
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