In the mean time, I am copying from this website's section H1N1 reports/Europe/Ukraine
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At present, experts have confirmed 29 cases of influenza A/H1N1 in the Odessa region and one case of death from complications (pneumonia) caused by the "swine" influenza. Such data has led today to the board meeting of the Odessa regional state administration deputy chief health officer of the region, Nina Vegerzhinskaya.
However, Vegerzhinskaya noted, "the incidence of influenza and acute respiratory viral infections in the past week fell in the area twice: during the day is fixed on average a thousand cases, the rate of intensity as before, close to the level epidporoga writes UNIAN.
Based on the projected second and third waves incidence of these illnesses oblSES appealed to the leadership
for the allocation of funds for the purchase of test kits for detection of influenza virus A/H1N1 specialist virology laboratory.
In addition, added the Deputy Chief Doctor oblSES it is necessary to provide the region with antiviral medicines, cotton-gauze bandages and masks.
http://www.glavred.info/archive/2009/11 ... 117-0.html
I was thinking, remembering reports from local doctors from the early days of the Ukraine epidemic, that test kits were not working properly in the majority of cases. Also from other countries there have been reports that not all test kits did pick up H1N1 when they should have. Ironic that Odessa is thinking now of ordering such ....
On a whole other note, I think at some time there is need for reseach to find out why such a high percentage of test kits in Ukraine did not pick up H1N1, what brand of tests they were, if they were real or fake tests etc. In the early days of the pandemic only for
proven cases of H1N1 Tamiflu was released to the relevant hospital from central storages here in Ukraine, and most of the tests seem to have failed to give the proper reading ....
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