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The WHO’s (World Health Organization’s) GOARN (Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network) team is slated to arrive in the Ukraine sometime today, to begin investigating the outbreak of flu that - by some reports – is unusually virulent in that region.
Meanwhile an emergency shipment of the antiviral Tamiflu has arrived, and the death toll has been adjusted upward to at least 67.
A hat tip to Anne on FluTrackers for this morning’s update. You can follow FluTrackers ongoing coverage on this thread.
Health ministry: Sixty-seven people die of flu in Ukraine
Today at 14:45 | Interfax-Ukraine
Sixty-seven people have now died of flu and acute respiratory infections in Ukraine, according to First Deputy Health Minister Vasyl Lazoryshynets.
He said at a briefing on Monday that 255,000 patients with flu and acute respiratory infections have been registered so far, and 15,000 of them in hospital, including 170 in intensive care units.
Lazoryshynets said that the Health Ministry had bought 67,000 doses of Tamiflu and received another 60,000 from the World Health Organization.
Moreover, 300,000 doses of Tamiflu were delivered from Switzerland to Ukraine in the early hours of Monday, on the basis of agreement reached between Foreign Minister Petro Poroshenko and Health Minister Vasyl Kniazevych. This amount will be enough to treat patients for a month, he said.
Previous reports on the Ukrainian situation include:
Decree: Ukraine Flu Threatens National Security
WHO Statement On The Ukraine Flu Outbreak
Ukraine: A Rush To Buy Flu Supplies
WHO Dispatching Team To Ukraine
Ukraine Update: H1N1 Quarantine
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