Austria - Cases - 47

[Gert van der Hoek]

Dutch radio announced a confirmation this morning .


First Austrian quarantined with possible swine flu

Posted : Tue, 28 Apr 2009

Vienna - An Austrian hospital put a woman in quarantine Tuesday on suspicion that she was the country's first patient with swine flu, a spokeswoman of the hospital in Steyr said. A laboratory in Vienna was running additional tests after initial results showed no infection with the virus.

The 28-year-old woman recently returned from Mexico, the centre of the outbreak.

When she was admitted to the hospital in the town of Steyr with flu-like symptoms on Tuesday, she set into motion an emergency plan, spokeswoman Christine Doerfel said.

"We are obliged to verify the results of the initial test," Doerfel told German Press Agency dpa, adding that a diagnosis was expected on Wednesday.
For now, hospital staff caring for the patient were wearing protective overalls, she said.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/266317,first-austrian-quarantined-with-possible-swine-flu.html

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Austria : 1 patient confirmed swine flu

Austria confirmed a first case of swine flu and patient is currently in stable condition

from: http://news.hexun.com/2009-04-29/117216000.html

By China in Prague, on April 29th,

?the Mexican swine flu virus has arrived in Austria?, Austrian media reported on the early morning of 29th.

The first case of swine flu has been confirmed, and the Professor from Austrian National Influenza Research Center, Heinz in a television talk on the night of 28th showed the announcement.

Austrian Health Minister Shi announced on 28th there are five cases of swine flu cases suspected cases, of which other 4 had test results in negative, and they have not been affected by this dangerous virus.

http://www.cnguy.com/financial/news/2009/04/28/6024/austria-confirmed-a-first-case-of-swine-flu-and-patient-is-currently-in-stable-condition.html

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Austria : 1 patient confirmed swine flu

Austrian source, google translated .

First case in Austria genetically confirmed


29. April 2009, 08:31


In the hospital in Steyr, there were the first swine flu case suspected in Austria.


All presumably with the pig flu virus infected people in Austria have recently taken a trip to Mexico.


In Austria, according to initial results apparently the first case of infection with swine influenza (H1N1). The first five suspects on Tuesday at the Vienna University Institute of Virology has been investigated. They have shown that the genetic fingerprint of one case with normal influenza viruses, but to the cause of swine influenza passe, Franz X. Heinz, head of the Institution on the evening in the ZIB 2-program "Round Table" in the ORF.

That means that the infection, from which a 28-year-old woman is concerned, almost certainly be the H1N1 virus is expected to act, said the expert. As a final result was not the analysis described. The remaining three suspected cases in Vienna, and a possible infection in Upper Austria made the first investigation on Virology Institute proposed a negative result.

The woman was in his night on Tuesday at 0:23 clock with acute flu symptoms in the Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital hospital recorded, said the physician, primary Christoph Wenisch. The native Guatemaltekin have opted for a longer period of time abroad and read their parents attended. Since they are already on the return flight across the Atlantic had complaints, may be an infection of other patients in the airplane can not be excluded. We did all contact persons of the five may be infected "under control", said the health minister.

However, there is complacency in the patient in Steyr: She was instructed by her doctor and was in an isolation ward housed. Already the first rapid test was negative. Now also provided by the virological institute of the Medical University of Vienna carried out PCR-negative test result.

From Mexico to the hospital

The young woman was from Mexico City to Miami and had flown with six hours without a mouthguard at the airport waiting for their machine, reported Francis X. Heinz, director of the Vienna University, Institute of Virology. After a stay of three days traveling the 28-year-old on Dusseldorf to Vienna. The more than 40 degrees Fiebernde was picked up by friends and immediately brought to the hospital. The friends of the passengers were treated prophylactically and instructed to stay at home.

The patient is in a lock with Isolierzimmer treated with Tamiflu, Wenisch said. "There is no evidence of secondary complications, the treatment is relatively trivial." Two tablets, the 28-year-old has already received a treatment lasts up to ten days. Visit, they may not receive, the staff can only protect the patient mouth.

Visiting the doctor

The other suspected cases in Vienna is a 65-year-old, who in Mexico City urlaubte and there are already signs in it. One day after a visit to the doctor on Tuesday, she was also in the Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital recorded. You probably already on the road to recovery there. Only very mild symptoms, the suspected cases three o'clock-four o'clock, an approximately 70-year-old couple, which is several months in the Central American country was made. Both are in a private hospital treatment.

The fifth suspected case concerns a 28-year-old in the hospital in Steyr, Upper Austria is located. The patient remained under Hubert Hrabcik, director general for public health, to 17 April in Mexico and complained after their return on 26 April on influenza-like, but mild symptoms. It is like the other suspected cases in isolation.

Overall, according Hrabcik still currently around 170 persons from Austria to Mexico. You have on the basis of the epidemic on the Law Association of travel agencies started to provide information on whereabouts and identity of these tourists catch, single travelers are not included. On their return, the tourists as the landing contacted, informed and if necessary tested.

Test results are expected for Wednesday

All samples may be infected at the Vienna Institute for Virology evaluated by Wednesday afternoon. It was already clear that the 28-year-old Guatemaltekin in an influenza A virus is ill, not to ordinary flu pathogen adapts. Therefore, the probability that this is H1N1 is very large.

According Stöger in Austria are sufficient drugs available. The cost of the measures in accordance with the pandemic plan are covered by the budget. "There is no question of cost it is about the health of the people," he said.

Worldwide spread

Pig flu is spreading ever further. After America and Europe the disease was also in the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East demonstrated. Also in Austria, there are initial investigation found that appear to have a case of infection with the new flu. In Germany there were in various states several new suspected cases, final diagnoses are expected for Wednesday.

Two diseases were confirmed on Tuesday evening in the UK, two in Spain. In all patients the condition is not threatening. Suspected cases are available in many other European countries, including France, Italy, Greece, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland. In general, advises the EU from trips to Mexico and the U.S. border areas as a matter of urgency.

In the U.S., the number of confirmed illnesses to 64 According to the WHO, not all infected persons have been in Mexico, so some have probably infected in the United States. At one of the flu has already affected New York School were reported by the health authorities, several hundred students ill. To combat the flu claimed the White House in Congress 1.5 billion U.S. dollars (1.15 billion euros), as government spokesman Robert Gibbs announced.

In Canada, the number of confirmed infections on 13 In Israel are presently two confirmed infections. In New Zealand, according to the Ministry of Health at least eleven people in the pig flu sick. Also from South Korea, a suspected case.

Security measures

Worldwide, the security measures were increased. Russia, Hong Kong and Taiwan, said that passers-by with flu symptoms were received immediately in quarantine. As the first country to put the air from Cuba to Mexico and temporarily.

According to the EU, meanwhile, the United States for a renaming of the pig flu pronounced. The current title suggests that there is a problem with pork meat products enter, said Agriculture Minister Tom Vilsack. In the case of flu but there was not a food infection, and the virus had nothing to do with the consumption of pork to be done. The name swine flu could hurt farmers economically.

Earlier, the European Union, called for the disease in "New Flu" umzutaufen. The Israeli Health Ministry criticized the concept on Monday and described it as insulting to Jews and Muslims. In both religions are pigs as unclean animals, their consumption is prohibited. (APA / Reuters / dpa / AP)

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[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Austria - SF - confirmed/suspected April 29 +

Fifth case confirmed in Austria


A fifth Austrian have a stay in the U.S. with evidence of pig flu (H1N1) infected. A young man from Baden near Vienna, after a weeklong U.S. tour ill, a laboratory test on Friday was the final proof of the infection, said Sigrid Rosenberg, spokeswoman for the Ministry of Health. The concerned showed only days after his symptoms returned and went to the hospital independently.

As early as last Sunday, on 31 May, the man returned, according to Rosenberg from his vacation to Austria back. He flew from New York to Schwechat. Flu symptoms developed by the Lower Austrian until Tuesday, after initially mild symptoms, he went on Thursday with clear signs of influenza in the hospital at Wiener Neustadt.

Using antiviral agents dealt with

The man was there before the test results are available precaution with antiviral agents and treated as stationary. The family have the Lower Austrian accompanied to the hospital, the Rosenbergs. Nobody in his personal life showed flu symptoms, prophylactic, but it all with an antiviral treatment begun.

Already on Thursday afternoon was in the country's Hospital of St. P?lten in Lower Austria, the fourth case of swine influenza have been confirmed in Austria. The patient was treated prophylactically on Wednesday. It is likely that when young men are infected, which on Wednesday with the disease in the hospital of St. P?lten was. "He comes from his personal environment," said Rosenberg.

First case in Austria at the end of April

The first Austrian case of infection occurred on 29 April at a 28-year-Urlauberin in Guatemala, which also included a flight over New York to be infected. On 2 May was the woman after treatment with antiviral drugs to leave the hospital healthy.

There were in Austria, according to the Ministry of Health in addition to the five confirmed infections to date 52 suspected cases clearly negative. For each of the five confirmed cases are mild, according to Rosenberg flu histories. Patients are going well in the circumstances. An order for vaccine production, there is still no.

Collection of data holidaymakers

However, the Austrian Health Ministry on Friday a new regulation for the collection and transfer of passenger data from airlines adopt. Already on 30 April was a kind of provision because of the epidemic Act came into force. This has now been adapted. According to department spokeswoman Sigrid Rosenberger was the goal of a simplified procedure. Explicitly mentioned would now also the countries of USA and Canada, where there are more and more concerned. The five previously infected Austrians put everyone in the U.S..

According to the decree will be for all direct flights from the U.S. and Canada to Austria on the future of the airline "Passenger Location cards distributed. These are the contact details recorded so that a determination of the residence as needed easier. The airline gets this information from any travelers.

So far 125 deaths worldwide

The number of swine flu deaths, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) to Friday risen to 125. Worldwide from 69 countries were 21,940 cases have been reported, most of which would be mildly lost. More than half of the cases occurred after WHO figures in the U.S., most deaths were in Mexico to complain, where the disease was first diagnosed.

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[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Austria - H1N1 - Confirmed cases - 7

Woman from Salzburg seventh pig flu patient


One is the seventh Salzburgerin pig flu sufferers in Austria. The woman fell ill to the H1N1 influenza virus after a U.S. tour . Her condition is very good, the
Authorities said.

Tamiflu for other tour participants

"We have Wednesday evening to confirm from the lab will receive. It is a woman
from Salzburg, from the U.S. one-day tour with a small group
come back, "said the Director General of Public Health, Hubert Hrabcik,
to the APA.

The woman is going very well, they will discuss this with the appropriate medicines treat. The
Investigation of contact persons from the tour group would currently run, said Hrabcik
further. You to acquire "Tamiflu" prophylactically.

AUA passengers should leave Addresses

"Since Wednesday received all travelers from AUA direct flights from Washington, New York and
Toronto 'Passenger Locator Card'. They should contact their address, "adds
Hrabcik.

The cards are in the health ministry two weeks and should be kept to
serve that in the case of any disease related contact persons from among the
Passengers quickly discover them.

Rapid assessment at the doctor with symptoms

Hrabcik: "Who after a trip to affected areas returned to Austria and
suspicious symptoms should be immediately reported to his doctor. That is for him
important, but also protects the environment and its citizens. "

The antiviral medicines work best if they are patient with the flu now
taking. In Austria, no serious disease progression occurred.

http://salzburg.orf.at/stories/367926/

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Austria - H1N1 - Confirmed cases - 8

8th Pig flu case in Austria


Klagenfurt, 17 June 2009 The pig flu case suspected in Carinthia has confirmed. A 25-year-old is in H1N1 disease.

Those 25 years old K?rntnerin, on Tuesday after a stay in Britain with the suspicion of swine influenza in the Hospital Klagenfurt been received, has in fact infected with the virus. The test at the Hygiene Institute in Vienna is positive.

"When people from the immediate environment of the patients come, was already a Tamiflu prophylaxis started," said the doctor Klagenfurter official, Klaus Fillafer, in a release. The health department of the city wants all 181 passengers of the flight, which the patient is entered from London, via e-mail contact. The young woman is on an isolation ward in LKH treated.

The patient will be stationary for so long maintained, until three consecutive pharyngeal swabs within three days are negative, said Councilor Peter Kaiser health (S) the further procedure. "Possible contacts, friends and acquaintances, including those in Vienna and with whom the patient in part of a wedding last weekend in Ljubljana closer contact had already been identified.

They are and have been through the Public Health Office in Ljubljana and one in Vienna and get contacted recipes for such drugs, called Neuraminidase inhibitors, "said Kaiser.

The remaining seven cases of swine flu in Austria occurred in men and women in various states almost exclusively to the USA Travel to. All showed a mild infection, a normal influenza very similar and well treatable course. The patients were referred to the hospital a few days' leave.

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Re: Austria - H1N1 - Confirmed cases - 10

[Google Translation from German into English]

Tenth case of the new A/H1N1

-Influenza in Austria on Friday was a 14-year-old boy in M?dling (Lower Austria) with symptoms to the hospital. A test confirmed the suspicion. "The search for the contact person is still ongoing. The 14-year-old came from a trip back from Hong Kong," said the Director General of Public Health, Hubert Hrabcik. After infection of a Viennese in Ibiza, this is another indication that with the import of A (H1N1) from a number of countries can be expected. Initially were mainly tourists from America have been among the patients. Hrabcik: "This is the next dimension, which is now up. The spread of the pandemic is currently very quickly into the depth (of the states concerned, note), but done in width (to other countries, NB) rather slowly. "

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Re: Austria - Cases - 47

Austria's confirmed A/H1N1 cases rise to 47

2009-07-16 07:55:02

VIENNA, July 15 (Xinhua) -- Six more A/H1N1 cases were confirmed in Austria on Wednesday, bringing the total in the country to 47.

The Austrian Press Agency (APA) said that one patient comes from capital Vienna and the other five are from the state of Lower Austria.

A 20-year-old Viennese was found infected with the flu when he came back from his holiday in the Philippines. And the other five people were also found infected after their holiday in Mallorca, according to a spokesman of the Health Ministry.

The first H1N1 flu case in Austria was confirmed on April 29.