Sweden : 5 swine flu suspects

[Gert van der Hoek]

10 people in swine flu alert in Denmark and Sweden

(AFP)

27 April 2009

COPENHAGEN - At least 10 people are under observation in Denmark and Sweden for possible swine flu after visiting Mexico and the southern United States, health authorities in the two countries said Monday.

At least five people are undergoing examinations in Sweden, according to Mia Mrytting, an official at the national institute for the control of infectious diseases, told the TT national news agency.

In Denmark, three women and a man who came back from a trip to Mexico and the United States last week were under observation in a hospital at Hvidovre, west of Copenhagen, the senior doctor at the hospital told TV2 news.

A fifth person was hospitalised in the northern city of Aalborg with flu symptoms after a visit to the southern United States, near the Mexican border.

But Danish authorities ruled out swine flu in the case of two people hospitalised over the weekend.

An international alert has been sounded after more the Mexican authorities said the probable death toll from the outbreak there had risen to 103.

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[Aruna]

Re: Sweden : 5 swine flu suspects

All five tests have come back negative for influenza but they are expecting to receive new suspect cases to test.

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[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Sweden : 5 swine flu suspects

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None of the Swedes infected

Published April 27, 2009 - 20:58

Updated April 27, 2009 - 22:15

None of the suspected Swedes carried the virus, swine influenza. The Infectious Diseases Institute announced on Monday evening. Several hospitals have heard of and want to submit new samples for analysis.

The answers to the five samples submitted to the Infectious Diseases Institute on Monday on suspected swine flu appeared to all be negative. The six samples taken Swedes have shown flu-like symptoms like fever, cough and muscle fatigue. All were mildly ill and none of them needed hospital treatment.
-None of them had influenza and was not swine flu either, "says Maria Break Ting, chief microbiologist at the Infectious Diseases Institute, told TT.
Several hospitals have made their
One of those surveyed had visited the USA and the rest of Mexico, where the death toll is now approaching 150 people.

Maria Break Ting says that more hospitals have heard of and said they will send samples to the Infectious Diseases Institute for analysis, but she has no idea of how many samples it is or when they can be analyzed.

Medicine Stock sufficient

At present there is no vaccine against the swine virus, but influenza drugs Tamiflu and Relenza is believed to operate.

According to Public Health Maria Larsson sufficient stocks of antiviral preparations in Sweden very well for our needs.
-But it is not successful on all start using them before we know the epidemiological situation. Then there is a risk for the development of a resistance to the preparations, she said.
Not as dangerous as avian flu
ECDC and the Infectious Diseases Institute agree that the pig H1N1 is not as serious as the dreaded bird flu virus H5N1.

Breaking Ting experiencing it anyway as the concerns of the public is great. On Monday, the phones and e-mail boxes at the Infectious Diseases Institute warm.

Fritidsresor, Ving and Apollo has a total of not more than about 20 Swedish travelers in or on the road to Mexico as the high season is over.

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[Aruna]

Re: Sweden : 5 swine flu suspects

All 13 tests from concerned travelers were negative today also but more tests are expected tomorrow.

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