Re: In Luhansk NOT found ( in the past year) a mutated strain of swine influenza
And a ProMED Russian post, although the above find by tetano seems to indicate this is an errant report.
http://www.promedmail.org/pls/apex/..._BACK_PAGE,F2400_P1001_PUB_MAIL_ID:1090,86062
Russian to English translation
Archive number 20101201.124248
Publication Date 01-DEC-2010
Subject PRO / RUS> A mutation Influenza H1N1/o4/2009, preliminary information - Ukraine (Lugansk)
Mutation Influenza H1N1/o4/2009, preliminary information - Ukraine (Lugansk)
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Date: November 30, 2010
From: ProMED-mail Corr. BM
Source: IA "fakty.ua", November 29, 2010 [edited]
http://fakty.ua/123326-v-ukraine-obnaruzhili-ne-izvestnyj-ranee-mutirovavshij-shtamm-svinogo-grippa
Ukraine has discovered previously unknown mutated strain of swine influenza
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Recently, experts Lugansk sanepidemstantsii revealed a new kind of flu in one patient. - It's a mutated strain of influenza H1N1, better known as pork or California - says the chief medical officer of the Lugansk region, Anatoly Dokashenko. - Our results first confirmed in the laboratory of Kiev, and later in England, where samples have been sent. A new kind of flu called "Lugansk". Since opened in international practice - called viruses in their place of discovery.
By the way, according to forecasts of epidemiologists in this flu season pereboleyut about 300 thousand residents of Luhansk region. The epidemic is expected to average intensity, it will start around mid-December and reaches a peak and a half months.
The spread of SARS and influenza will help the weather. According to forecasters, winter is expected to be not so cold, like last year, and with a sharp temperature jump.
In this regard, physicians strongly recommend be vaccinated against influenza now because you need some time to get immunity from the virus has evolved in the human body.
- No complications after vaccination against influenza for all years, how much I work, was not, - says Anatoly Dokashenko. - And I've worked epidemiologist for over 35 years. As for the fact that people get sick after the vaccination, because there may be grafted from all strains of the disease at once, I would say that such cases tend to occur more easily. And most importantly - do not give the complications that are so dangerous flu.
Doctors even financially motivated to argue their appeals. One dose of vaccine costs from 65 to 180 hryvnia. Treatment for influenza also result in several hundred hryvnia. That if no complications.
[Comment Korr.VM / Mod.NP. The flu epidemic in 2009, began with the western borders of Ukraine, the beginning of a flu epidemic in 2010 is expected from the eastern regions of the country. In this connection it is interesting information about what the East of Ukraine marked a new mutation of pandemic influenza H1N1, which was titled "Lugansk" - on behalf of the regional center of the easternmost region of the country. Data on new mutations rather scarce. If the mutation led to the emergence of a new strain of the virus, it is no longer a strain that caused last year's pandemic. Perhaps it is a point mutation in the surface antigens of a pandemic strain of the virus - hemagglutinin and neuraminidase. In this case it may either lead to the emergence of resistance to oseltamivir, or change the severity of the disease. At the present moment more detailed information about this mutation in the Russian iangloyazychnyh Internet sources have been found. - Corr. VM / Mod.NP
