Ukraine - School Closures Due to Influenza - December 2010

[Ronan Kelly]

06-12-2010 13:08 163 schools, seven kindergartens closed due to flu
Some 163 schools and seven kindergartens have been closed in Ukraine due to a local increase in the rate of influenza and acute respiratory viral infections.

At the same time the rate of influenza and acute respiratory viral infections in most regions in Ukrainian was below the epidemic threshold and no fatal case among patients with influenza and acute respiratory diseases had been registered.

http://www.nrcu.gov.ua/index.php?id=148&listid=134976

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

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06.12.2010

In Cherkassy - Flu epidemic

As of December 6 the incidence of SARS and influenza in Cherkassy 9% above the epidemic threshold. The total number of cases of almost 3,000 persons, of whom 70% - children.

As reported LІGA BіznesІnform the press service of the Cherkasy City Council, over the past week there were 15% more disease than in the previous week. According to the chief sanitary doctor of Cherkasy Basil Zagorodnov, in the coming days in the city to declare a state of the epidemic.

"Today, hard to predict how fast the disease will spread further. The only thing we can say - the number of patients with SARS and influenza in Cherkasy is constantly increasing. Therefore, I advise those people of the city that have not been vaccinated - it immediately made, and avoid areas with large concentration of people, "- said the chief medical officer.

Liga

Google flutrends is showing a little uptick in Ukraine; level in general still is "average".


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[Gert van der Hoek]

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machinetranslated; "SARS" can be translated as "ILI" (Influenza Like Illness)

Western Ukraine

In Lutsk the epidemic threshold of influenza and SARS is exceeded

As of today, December 6, the epidemic threshold incidence of influenza and SARS in Lutsk is exceeded.

This was during a meeting of local anti Commission said Chief Medical Officer Lutsk and Lutsk region

First Deputy Mayor Lutsk Svyatoslav Kravchuk said: "You know what the situation with the incidence of influenza and SARS. We now reap the fruits of previous years, when they began to carry out liberal policies regarding vaccinations. For now to immunize a child, you need written parental consent. They, in turn, through the information in the media about the negative impact and harm of vaccines for it are very reluctant.

According to the leader of miskraySES John Ulchanka today in Lutsk the incidence of influenza and SARS is 143.3 per 10 thousand inhabitants. And the epidemic threshold is 143. "That is a slight excess" - confessed Ulchak.

However, in the structure of influenza morbidity is only 0,6%. The most sensitive category Łučaj for infection have children under seventeen years - their share rises to almost two-thirds.

For example, already in five Lutsk schools the level of absenteeism of children exceeded 20%.

The critical situation was in school number 10 - are not there to study 26,7% of schoolchildren. "This is the first contender to stop learning" - said John Ulchak.

According to him, Lutsk vaccinating only half thousand people.

 

[Shiloh]

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Source: http://www.monstersandcritics.com/n...nistry-Flu-infection-hits-children-in-Ukraine

Health Ministry: Flu infection hits children in Ukraine
Dec 7, 2010, 15:08 GMT

Kiev - Flu infection is approaching epidemic levels in the former Soviet republic Ukraine and most of the victims are children, a senior health official said Tuesday.

More than 64,000 persons have been identified as having caught the flu since the season's first registered case in November, and almost 80 per cent of the victims have been school-age children, said Serhy Ryzhenko, chief of the Health Ministry's epidemics division.

Flu strains present in the outbreak include the influenza A subtype H1N1 'swine flu' virus and the A subtype H3N2 virus, according to laboratory testing cited by the report.

Infection rates increased more than 17 per cent since last week, he said, according to comments placed on the ministry web site...

 

[Sally Furniss]

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Influenza epidemic covered nine areas of Ukraine

Category: Country / / 07 December '10 at 21:20

Parts of 9 regions of Ukraine have already introduced influenza treatment. Thus, in Gulyaypolskom district of Zaporozhye region epidporog exceeded by 80%, at Charles district, Poltava region - to 64.90% in Reshetylivskiy and Kobelyatsky areas - by 59%.

Slightly exceeded the epidemic threshold in the 5-45% observed for 98 administrative areas (in the Crimea, Donetsk, Zhitomir, Zaporozhye, Kirovograd, Lugansk, Lvov, Poltava, Chernivtsi, Sumy region).

In the city of Chernivtsi from December 3, suspended classes in the preschool and school education and entered influenza treatment.

As the press service of the Ministry of Health, all restrictive measures were introduced in 345 schools and 78 kindergartens.

Laboratory confirmed that Ukraine circulating influenza virus type A (H1N1), A (H3N2), but the dominant virus type B.

No fatalities among the patients were not registered.

http://mycityua.com/news/country/2010/12/07/212000.html

 

[Ronan Kelly]

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Ukraine health officials close schools to limit flu outbreak
Dec 8, 2010, 10:40 GMT


Kiev - Ukrainian health officials on Wednesday ordered schools closed in a province hard hit by an influenza outbreak, the Interfax news agency reported.

All 42 middle schools in the central Poltava province will stay closed for the two weeks, said regional officials.

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Ukraine's government on Friday closed nursery schools and most kindergartens nationwide to control the outbreak, and has added staff to health clinics in areas of high infection.

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/n...officials-close-schools-to-limit-flu-outbreak

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

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The majority of Ukrainian schools closed for quarantine

December 8, 2010

Ukrainian schools are closed for mass quarantine. On the forced vacation leave had 308 schools. Around a hundred of them in Poltava, 54 - in the Lviv region, and vidzavtra not go to class and small Lvov.

In the Donetsk region there are 35 not-out schools. Cancel lessons in Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy, Vinnytsia region, Chernigov region and Chernivtsi. Most children have flu and SARS, epidemic threshold is exceeded almost everywhere twice.

For example, in the Santiago daily fixed to five hundred doctors call it to students in some classes the lessons remained less than half the students.

Sergei Kotov, head of health Poltava municipality:

"In fact, the sickness rate in the city twice exceeded epidemic threshold indicator of acute respiratory viral infections among schoolchildren. At City nadzvychanoyi anti Commission decided to suspend classes in schools for 10 days.

http://podrobnosti.ua/podrobnosti/2010/12/08/737517.html

 

[tetano]

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Kiev ? Ukrainian health officials on Wednesday ordered schools closed in a province hard hit by an influenza outbreak, the Interfax news agency reported.
All 42 middle schools in the central Poltava province will stay closed for the two weeks, said regional officials.
The province is at the centre of a nationwide flu outbreak in the former Soviet republic, with more than 4 per cent of the region?s population infected ? roughly twice the level of flu infection nationwide.
A similar across-the-board middle school closure will reportedly go into effect in the western Lviv province by Thursday evening.
Ukraine?s health ministry on Tuesday released statistics showing flu infection increased nationwide byt 17 per cent over the past week.
A nationwide flu epidemic was possible by the end of the month, if the disease?s spread is not controlled, said Serhy Ryzhenko, chief of the Health Ministry?s epidemics division.
Flu strains present in the outbreak include the influenza A subtype H1N1 ?swine flu? virus and the A subtype H3N2 virus, according to laboratory testing. Most victims are children.
Ukraine?s government on Friday closed nursery schools and most kindergartens nationwide to control the outbreak, and has added staff to health clinics in areas of high infection.

http://www.iewy.com/12456-ukraine-health-officials-close-schools-to-limit-flu-outbreak.html

 

[sharon sanders]

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Quarantine in the Lvov school extended a week

15:33, 20.12.2010​

15:33, 12/20/2010

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Quarantine in the Lvov school associated with the epidemic of influenza and SARS in the city, has been extended for a week.

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"Gather now the school community is equivalent to, to agree to an increased incidence, therefore, by the city of Lviv still this week, the school will be closed," - said on December 20 in comments to ZAXID.NET epidotdela Head of Lviv Oblast SES Natalia Timko.

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According to her, this is because the incidence of Lviv is kept at a stable level.For yourself every day that something opens up, something close," - she added with respect to quarantine in the Lviv region.

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Recall that a quarantine in the Lvov school was declared on December 9.


http://www.zaxid.net/newsru/2010/12/20/153343/