Another fatal case of swine flu in Hong Kong

Monday, January 31, 2011

Official representatives of Health of Hong Kong said on Wednesday registered a deadly case of swine flu. A woman aged 27 years died as a result of swine flu. This is the first year and a half after the tragedy, when an explosion of infectious disease has killed 80 people in the city.

The patient was rushed to the hospital Tuesday for treatment of infection A/H1N1 - already known worldwide as the swine flu - but she died later in the day, despite intensive care and supervision of physicians, reported by the hospital management of Hong Kong in an interview with reporters.

"She suffered from respiratory organs and damage was connected to the artificial ventilation. The state of her health continued to deteriorate as a result of the death of the patient was registered on the same day" - so says the hospital management team.

Also became known information that the hospital did the boy at the age of 16 years diagnosed with swine flu, which is under the close supervision and intensive care specialists.

On Friday, a spokeswoman for the city hospital of Queen Elizabeth told news agency AFP that the 21-year-old woman and a two-year-old girl were taken to threatening to their health condition after the swine flu.

The hospital also reported that 15 patients diagnosed with influenza have been subject to intensive care in public hospitals in Hong Kong regardless of specific diseases.

Staff of the Chinese financial center are seriously concerned about outbreaks of infectious diseases that followed the explosion of the virus SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) in 2003, which has killed about 300 people in Hong Kong and approximately 500 people across the country.

Representatives of city department of health of the citizens to provide information about that deadly swine flu cases increased to 83, from the moment of explosion of the disease which occurred in 2009.

At present, there is growing concern over the massive spread of the disease probability in the next few weeks, ahead of the Lunar New Year, when hundreds of millions of Chinese will travel across the country to celebrate with family and friends.

Moscow schools will be closed to quarantine

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Head of Moscow Rospotrebnadzor Nikolai Filatov, issued a decree according to which the first through eighth grade all Moscow schools will be closed for quarantine, RIA Novosti reported.

"Given the current epidemiological situation of influenza and SARS in Moscow, in order to prevent further spread ... I decree to suspend the training process with the January 31, 2011," - says the decision. According to this document, quarantine in the capital's schools last for five days.

Such measures associated with the onset of the epidemic of influenza and SARS in Moscow. Epidporog morbidity in all age groups has been exceeded on 27 January. Identify cases of seasonal flu, pandemic H1N1 influenza and other respiratory viral infections.

According to the main infectious disease of the capital of the Department of Health Nikolai Malyshev, daily for influenza and SARS are admitted about 300 people. Two-thirds falling in hospitals - are children.

Epidemic threshold incidence of influenza and SARS are currently exceeded in dozens of subjects of the Russian Federation. Many of them are in quarantine closed classes of schools, groups of kindergartens and the whole educational institution.