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The number of deaths registered in Romania in patients infected with H1N1 virus has reached 85, after the Ministry of Health announced that from Friday to today, three people died of influenza in November. Also during this period were 116 confirmed new cases of infection with H1N1 virus, most of them in Bucharest (33). Since the pandemic occurrence in Romania have been confirmed 6177 cases.



http://www.gds.ro/Ultima%20ora/2010-01- ... in+Romania

Romania Galati county


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A fifth person in the county died over the weekend - in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. Implied that he was partly to blame (I guess for not seeking treatment soon enough)

Despite the fact that, amid these disturbing realities, the population has changed attitudes [about the vaccines], tripling the number of requests for vaccination is Dr. Boldea argues that hysteria triggered by swine flu has not covered and the Galatians.

[Immunization clinics in Galatians were closed on the weekend, but many people showed up hoping to be immunized. Thus people will be obliged to miss work to be vaccinated or forgo vaccinations.]

[Bucharest has people forming long lines at vaccination centers.]

[129 Galatians have been infected with h1n1 so far, including a doctor and two nurses]

This report was dated January 14, a day before the last update from ovidiu...but I thought it might provide some additional information about what's been going on lately:

http://www.regnum.ru/news/1242499.html

Translated from Russian:

Mortality from the pig influenza in Rumania in 6 weeks grew 13

The level of mortality from the virus A (H1N1) in the recent 6 weeks in Rumania grew from 0,1% to 1,32%. About this testify data of the analysis of situation on the morbidity by the virus of the pandemic influenza, promulgated on January 14 by the Ministry of Public Health of Rumania, [peredaet] the correspondent [IA] REGNUM of the news.

According to the information of Ministry of Pub. Health, due to the state in Rumania it was on January 14 registered 6381 cases of infection by pig influenza, from which 131 there was [podtverzhden] in the recent twenty-four hours. The total number of those passing away from the virus reached 100 people.

Within the framework state program on the mass vaccination of population to graft from the virus A (H1N1) obtained 517 thousand citizens of Rumania, from whom 300 thousand were vaccinated in the period on January 4 to 10.

Swine flu toll reaches 107

http://www.nineoclock.ro/index.php?page ... 0117-12361

The latest death count from the Health Ministry shows that 107 people died following AH1N1 infection in Romania, three more deaths were recorded over the past 24 hours. The number of infected people currently reaches 6, 597, the Ministry confirms.

Meanwhile, in Bucharest, all the vaccination centers were closed on Sunday, following a dramatic decrease in request from the population. The people requesting inoculation will have to address their family physician, the hospital administration in Bucharest says. Thus, all the centers that were under the Mayor Office’s administration are no longer functioning for vaccination, the only center in the capital still open to the public is the one within Matei Bals Institute, belonging to the Health Ministry. Last week, the number of people willing to ask for the antiviral vaccine raised exponentially, following the death of actor Toni Tecuceanu from AH1N1 caused complications. According to statistics from the Health Ministry 516, 905 people were inoculated since the campaign start, most of them without any side effects.

http://www.realitatea.net/three-new-dea ... 97165.html

Three new deaths caused by swine flu in Romania in the past 24h, number of victims raises to 114

Some 35 new contaminations with the virus were confirmed in the past 24 hours, of which 15 in the county of Iasi. About 6,908 Romanians caught swine flu so far.

More than 1.2 million Romanians were vaccinated against the A/H1N1 virus by January 17, out of which 700,000 between January 11 and 17, according to the representatives of the Health Ministry.

The Health Ministry distributed more than 2.24 million doses of vaccine countrywide by January 18.


The first swine flu contamination in Romania occurred on May 23 last year, on a young woman who had returned from the United States.

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Swine flu outbreak at a kindergarten in Iasi (ages 3 to 7)

A new outbreak of swine flu broke out in Iasi. Este vorba despre Grădiniţa Junior, unde au fost confirmate, în ultimele 24 de ore, 13 cazuri de îmbolnăvire, din care 11 copii şi doi contacţi ai acestora. It is the Junior Kindergarten, which were confirmed in the last 24 hours, 13 cases of disease, of which 11 children and two of their contacts.
"New cases of swine flu were detected and confirmed in follow up epidemiological surveillance carried out in kindergarten in Iasi, where last week was based on laboratory confirmed in a child aged 5 years. Children have been in contact with the case and had confirmed symptoms. . Their health is good, as are the two adult contacts of children, "said Marius Voicescu, spokesman for the Department of Public Health Iasi.

Junior Kindergarten work at the University "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" Iaşi, and here teaches children aged between 3 and 6 to 7 years whose parents are employees or students of the university.

Kindergarten classes were suspended last Tuesday, after the first case of avian nine and will be resumed tomorrow.

Outside the outbreak of swine flu in kindergarten, in Iasi were confirmed today and two cases of disease in adults.