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As many as 135 people have died from the flu and other acute respiratory viral infections in Ukraine as of November 6, including 25 who had died over the previous 24 hours, the Ukrainian Health Ministry reported on Saturday.
Since the moment the epidemic started to spread, 871, 037 people have been diagnosed with flu and other respiratory viral infections, including 101, 317 over the past 24 hours. As many as 39, 603 of these people have been hospitalized, including 4, 732 over the past 24 hours, and 317 are in intensive care.
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Speaking on the popular fifth TV channel on Nov. 6, the secretary of the national security and defense council, Rayisa Bohatyryova, said the number of flu victims is so large it may be necessary to declare the state of emergency to effectively deal with the outbreak. Read the story here. Today at 14:15 |
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Ivano-Frankivsk, November 7 (Interfax-Ukraine) - Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko has called for the creation of a regional network of laboratories in order to detect viral infections Today at 13:10 |
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Uzhgorod, November 7 (Interfax-Ukraine) - Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has called on President Viktor Yuschenko to urgently sign the law on allocating UAH 1 billion to fight the epidemic of flu and acute respiratory viral infections. Today at 13:07 |
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Ukraine’s Health Ministry on Nov. 6 reported the death toll of patients with flu-related and acute respiratory illnesses (ARI) had jumped to 135, with the total number of registered cases increasing to 871, 037. Today at 09:52 | Staff and wire reports |
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An epidemic of flu and respiratory infections raging through Ukriane has claimed 109 lives, with 14 of the deaths confirmed linked to swine flu, health officials said on Friday. Meanwhile, an expert from the World Health Organisation suggested that thousands more patients in Ukraine's hospitals could be infected with the A(H1N1) virus that causes swine flu. Read the story here. Yesterday at 23:07 |
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Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and some of the ministerd have not been vaccinated against swine flu, the prime minister’s press officer Maryna Soroka said. She denied information that had appeared earlier in mass media claiming that Tymoshenko had been vaccinated. As Korrespondent.net reported, referring to one of the closest assistants to prime minister, Tymoshenko and other ministers were vaccinated three months ago. Read the story here. Yesterday at 18:20 | Korrespondent magazine |
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The international mission of the World Health Organization has said that the actions of Ukraine's government aimed at battling the flu epidemic were appropriate. Yesterday at 18:07 |
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Fears of a repeat of the January dispute that saw Russia cut gas supplies to Europe eased on Friday after Ukraine said it had paid its latest bill on time. Yesterday at 17:56 | Associated Press |
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In an effort to stop the global spread of pandemic 2009 H1N1 influenza virus, the United States is planning to donate 10 percent of US domestic H1N1 vaccine supply, as it becomes available, to a WHO-led H1N1 vaccine initiative. The US donation to WHO, equivalent to 25 million doses of vaccine, would be valued commercially at approximately $10 million. Yesterday at 17:45 |