Russia - 2 more swine flu deaths in Krasnodar - total 5

[Gert van der Hoek]

In Krasnodar, swine flu killed hunter

Swine flu is slowly but surely continues to "mow".

The man died at the Hospital for Infectious Diseases

Olga SUKHOV - 19.11.2009

Swine flu is slowly but surely continues to "mow" the ranks of the inhabitants of Krasnodar region. They are sick already on 29 Kuban. Nineteen of the victims - children. Infection they brought from Ukraine, Egypt, Turkey, Poland, Khakassia, and also from Volgograd, Smolensk and Murmansk regions.

Two diseased hitched A/H1N1 / from relatives who came to stay with him from France.

And today, 19 November, in the Krasnodar infektsionke swine flu died on 33-year-old man I. Zhuravlev.

As we know, a few days ago he went hunting in the Altai, and, returning home, came down with fever. Pills did not help, and the column thermometer below 39 would not descend. Relatives of the patient called for an ambulance. Medics took the man to the hospital where he died several hours later.

- Unfortunately, the patient was unable to save, - breathed in the regional infectious diseases hospital. - Now we have declared a quarantine. Therefore, in the next few days, we had better not come.

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[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Russia - 2 more swine flu deaths in Krasnodar - total 5

In the Kuban two people died of swine flu

KRASNODAR, 2 December.

In Krasnodar two people who have had laboratory-confirmed influenza A (H1N1), died from complications of the disease. According to RBC, this today at a press conference told journalists the health department of Krasnodar Krai Elena radish. According to her, the cause of death was pneumonia.

According to the Department of Health to the province recorded 78 cases of pandemic influenza A (H1N1), including in 38 children.

Recall Rospotrebnadzor head Gennady Onishchenko, said recently that the likely emergence of hybrid avian and swine influenza. "The worst thing that can happen, what we fear - H1N1 and H5N1, that avian influenza. If this mutation, and the probability is high - it's a catastrophe "- Onishchenko told a press conference in Moscow. But fortunately, he said, "this is not happening."

According to Onishchenko, monitoring changes in influenza viruses are maintained very carefully. He noted that the regions where the detected virus A/H1N1, he collected and sent to Moscow lab, where genetic analysis is carried out.

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