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Seven die of unknown flu virus in Ukraine’s Ternopol region

LVOV, October 27 (Itar-Tass) -- Seven flu deaths have been reported in the Ternopol region, the only Ukrainian area having a flu epidemic, head of the regional health department Bogdan Onyskiv told a Tuesday press conference.

Doctors explained the deaths of young and physically fit persons with flu complications.

The flu epidemic in western Ukraine started two weeks ago, yet the type of the virus is still unknown. “It is possible to name the type of the flu only in ten days. Ukrainian and British doctors are making tests. The final results will be announced once a London laboratory confirms them,” Onyskiv said.

The Ternopol region has over 10,000 flu cases. Public events are prohibited, and 109 schools with 42,000 students are under quarantine.

Experts explain the early cold and flu outbreak with a sharp drop of temperatures a week before the beginning of the heating season. The region did not have flu epidemics for the past five or seven years. The local residents had no immunity from flu.

An increase of the cold and flu rate was reported from all the Ukrainian regions, but the situation is generally stable, a source at the Ukrainian Health Ministry said. The rate is high in Chernigov, Lvov, Kiev, Vinnitsa, Dnepropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Kharkov.

5 people died from Drogobycha unknown virus - doctors

Five people died and of Drohobych through the action of an unknown virus, which caused lightning and severe pneumonia that is usually impossible.

This is an UNIAN correspondent on condition of anonymity told the two doctors from Drohobych with more than 20 and 35 years of working experience.

Both doctors noted that not seen in his practice cases such lightning fast action of the virus, which could not resist the strongest antibiotics.
According to the interlocutors of the agency, the lungs of the dead were so affected, if they are chronically sick pneumonia, most deaths are young people.

"Nobody knows what is happening" - said UNIAN hospital worker, expressing the view that likely is the action of some new unknown virus.

The source assured that doctors provide professional assistance to patients, including those provided by all the necessary drugs, which, however, led to vyzdorovlennya.

"This is a severe infection, in which, when the falls (the body), not the board: three days and killed a man" - she said.

According to doctors, among the dead - three young people aged 26-27 years, one 11-year-old child and 40-year-old man.

Employee urban clinics UNIAN also said that the most likely cause of death is some unknown virus.

She noted that, preferably, for the entire period of the season increased risk of influenza in the region of 1-2 people died.

"Nobody knows" - she described the situation of patients.

She also suggested that the virus has the effect similar to AIDS, which weakens the immune system. Something is killing immunity "- said the doctor.

Employee hospital also gave an inadequate diagnosis of the cause of death "pislyahrypovi complications, stressing that they can attack after a man prohvorila time.

"The flu can bring complications to the kidneys, for example, but then later - after the disease" - she said.

However, deaths were recorded in Drohobych literally after a few days after the patient got to hospital.

One interlocutor also reported that the body of one dead on the autopsy was planned to take to the city.

As UNIAN reported earlier, according to official data, in the Lviv region in October, died of pneumonia 10 people, 5 of which - in Drohobych and area.

Today, Health Minister of Ukraine Vasyl KNYAZEVYCH said that Ukraine confirmed cases of highly pathogenic influenza А/H1N1.

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