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Health Ministry: Flu, respiratory diseases claim 344 lives in Ukraine

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Nov. 18, 2009, 8:36 p.m. | Ukraine — by Interfax-Ukraine
The current flu epidemic and other acute respiratory diseases in Ukraine has claimed 344 lives by Wednesday evening, the Health Ministry said. It said 18 people had died of such diseases in the previous 24 hours.

The ministry said 1.502 million people had contracted such illnesses since the epidemic broke out and that 44,781 had fallen ill in the past 24 hours.

A total of 83,904 people have been hospitalized since the start of the epidemic, and 54,407 of them have been discharged from the hospital by Wednesday evening.

The ministry also said 2,878 people had been hospitalized for the previous 24 hours.

The ministry has published no separate statistics on cases of A/H1N1 influenza or swine flu.
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Anonymous Nov. 18, 2009, 9:59 p.m.    

The WHO has said no significant changes has occurred to the H1N1 virus, but only minor changes are required to make the virus more virulent. The WHO has not released the genetic sequence with its statement of no SIGNIFICANT changes which begs the question "why not", what are they trying to hide. Experts can then point to minor changes that allow the virus to more readily bind to receptors and replicate more easily in lung tissue. Everyone should demand that the WHO release the genetic sequence so independant experts can exaime the virus threat more closely.

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