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MOSCOW, September 1 - RIA Novosti. The incidence of flu in Moscow in the first seven months of 2011, compared to the same period last year
increased 24.2 times and reached 34.28 thousand cases
told RIA Novosti on Thursday, head of the department of social and hygienic monitoring in Moscow Rospotrebnadzor Mikhail Yefimov.
Peak flu this year was recorded at the end of January. Epidporog on morbidity were exceeded in almost 60 regions of Russia and in all age groups.
Among the viruses in this year's flu strain predominated A/H1N1/2009, or so-called 'swine flu' virus and influenza B viruses, which account for 30% of colds.
In Moscow, a flu epidemic has also begun in late January.
According to figures published on the website of Rospotrebnadzor in Moscow in January-July 2010 there were 1.409 thousand flu,
and in the first seven months of 2011 - already thousands of 34.28. This, in turn, is 13.43 and 325.36 cases per 100 thousand, respectively.
Earlier, the chief physician of Russia,
Director of the Institute of Pulmonology FMBA Russia, Prof. Alexander Chuchalin stated
that there is a relationship between severe flu this winter, the Russians and the abnormal weather last summer that caused a large number of forest fires,
accompanied by strong smog and air pollution, which affected the lungs of Russians.
Head of the Pulmonology Federal Medical Biophysical Center (FMBTS) named Helen Burnazyan Zapadinskaya also noted that the situation
which occurred in July-August 2010, 'could not pass without leaving a trace, and can contribute to severity of flu. "
Summer in 2010 was the warmest in central Russia in the history of weather observations.
Almost every day in Moscow were set temperature records, the temperature sometimes rose above 38 degrees.
The situation was aggravated by smoke from burning peat and forest fires: the content of the air pollutants exceed the maximum permissible concentration in three or more times.
http://www.ria.ru/moscow/20110901/428361870.html
increased 24.2 times and reached 34.28 thousand cases
told RIA Novosti on Thursday, head of the department of social and hygienic monitoring in Moscow Rospotrebnadzor Mikhail Yefimov.
Peak flu this year was recorded at the end of January. Epidporog on morbidity were exceeded in almost 60 regions of Russia and in all age groups.
Among the viruses in this year's flu strain predominated A/H1N1/2009, or so-called 'swine flu' virus and influenza B viruses, which account for 30% of colds.
In Moscow, a flu epidemic has also begun in late January.
According to figures published on the website of Rospotrebnadzor in Moscow in January-July 2010 there were 1.409 thousand flu,
and in the first seven months of 2011 - already thousands of 34.28. This, in turn, is 13.43 and 325.36 cases per 100 thousand, respectively.
Earlier, the chief physician of Russia,
Director of the Institute of Pulmonology FMBA Russia, Prof. Alexander Chuchalin stated
that there is a relationship between severe flu this winter, the Russians and the abnormal weather last summer that caused a large number of forest fires,
accompanied by strong smog and air pollution, which affected the lungs of Russians.
Head of the Pulmonology Federal Medical Biophysical Center (FMBTS) named Helen Burnazyan Zapadinskaya also noted that the situation
which occurred in July-August 2010, 'could not pass without leaving a trace, and can contribute to severity of flu. "
Summer in 2010 was the warmest in central Russia in the history of weather observations.
Almost every day in Moscow were set temperature records, the temperature sometimes rose above 38 degrees.
The situation was aggravated by smoke from burning peat and forest fires: the content of the air pollutants exceed the maximum permissible concentration in three or more times.
http://www.ria.ru/moscow/20110901/428361870.html