New Death from Pork influenza: a man died in Obninsk

In the Kaluga region, the first case of death from the pork flu (virus a/h1n1) was recorded, the chief sanitary doctor Obninsk Anatoly Ivanov told TASS.

“The 37 -year -old resident of Obninsk turned to a medical institution for help only on the fourth day, as he fell ill. He was hospitalized, he died two days later,” said Ivanov. “During a laboratory study, he confirmed the diagnosis of Pig influenza.”

Doctors suggest that the disease began in a resident of Obninsk from a pork flu, who quickly flowed into pneumonia. As the head physician emphasized, two weeks have passed since the disease. New cases in Obninsk are not registered.

Nevertheless, this was the third revealed case of pork flu in Obninsk. In the first two cases, the sick people turned to medical assistance in time, were hospitalized and recovered.

Influencing Research Institute: In Russia, more than 60 cases of pork flu are registered

In Russia, since the beginning of the epidemiological season, 64 cases of the disease of the A/H1N1 virus have been registered, TASS was reported at the end of last week at the Research Institute of influenza. The information was confirmed by the agency in the press service of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation. They noted that several cases of pork flu disease were detected in Kabardino-Balkaria.

“In general, according to Russia, the flu laboratory methods were confirmed in 1292 cases - 35.7% of the number of SARS examined patients. Laboratory was confirmed by the pandemic flu A/H1N1 (PDM09) - PWINA PWICP. It was detected in 64 cases, which is 1.8% of the diseases,” said the Research Institute of influenza. According to experts, most patients were infected with the seasonal influenza virus A/H3N2.

According to the flu research, in Russia, the sharp growth of diseases of the flu occurred due to changes in the structure of the A/H3N2 virus. Due to the circulation of a modified strain of this virus, even vaccinated people began to hurt.

"В начале недели поступили сообщения о выделении 102 вирусов гриппа. В Москве, Санкт-Петербурге, Новосибирске, Омске, Калининграде, Чите, Владивостоке, Хабаровске и Улан-Удэ выделено 70 вирусов гриппа А/H3N2. Выделено 30 вирусов гриппа В в Санкт-Петербурге, Новосибирске, Челябинске, Владивостоке, Kaliningrad, Astrakhan and Stavropol is also allocated. They added that in recent days the intensity of the influenza epidemic in 59 cities of Russia was average.

"In Russia as a whole and in the four districts (north -west, Siberia, Urals and Volga region), the wide geographical spread of SARS and influenza was noted, in the Southern Federal District and the Far East - the regional and in the Central District - local. In Nizhny Novgorod, Chita and Ulan -Ude, the flu epidemic began for a month compared to the last epidemic" said. " At the Research Institute of influenza.

According to the Ministry of Health, at the seventh week of the epidemician (from February 9 to 15), "in the Russian Federation, the incidence of influenza and SARS continued to register, especially in the subjects of the North-West, Volga, Ural and Siberian Federal Districts." "An increase in the incidence of SARS in excess of weekly epidemic thresholds was registered in 36 constituent entities of the Russian Federation," the press service of the ministry added.

Two people died in the SCFO from the pork flu

Earlier it was reported that in the North Caucasus Federal District two local residents who were ill with Pork flu died - the man died in the city of Lermontov, the Stavropol Territory, the woman died in North Ossetia. The Minister of Health of North Ossetia Vladimir Selivanov reported that about ten people were sick in the republic in the republic. He noted that "there is no terrible epidemic of pork flu in the republic." However, according to local media, about six thousand residents of the republic turned to doctors.

In North Ossetia, Karantan for influenza and SARS was introduced on February 10 in 53 schools, on February 16, all schools and kindergartens closed on quarantine. On Monday, March 2, they resumed their work, the press service of the head and government of the region reports.

As Interfax was told in the regional department of Rospotrebnadzor, the leadership of schools is ordered to control attendance in order to resume quarantine measures if necessary. "It is allowed to resume their studies in educational institutions, but with the condition of a tough filter of students with signs of respiratory diseases. And if the total number of cases exceeds 20%, quarantine will be renewed," said the representative of Rospotrebnadzor.

According to the Republican Ministry of Health, as of March 1, 139 adult patients with pneumonia and 27 children are in the hospitals of the republic. In the medical institutions of the republic, anti-epidemic measures continue, 13 people died from pneumonia in North Ossetia.

Meanwhile, the chief therapist of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation Alexander Chuchalin, commenting on the epidemiological situation in Russia in Russia, said in an interview with RSN that although "Pork flu raised his head", the situation is not very serious.

The strain of the A/H1N1, better known as Pork flu, was opened in the 1930s. The last major outbreak of this disease was recorded in Mexico in 2014. In 2009, in Mexico, a pandemic of pork flu began, covering several more countries. As a result, 280 thousand people around the world died , including in Russia.

In Russia, the A/H1N1 flu epidemic was recorded in February-March 2013. Then more than 30 local residents fell ill in Kamchatka, one of them died. Also reported about two cases of death of children in the suburbs.

Last summer, the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation announced the statistics of mortality from seasonal flu and SARS in the country. It was reported that in five months of 2014, 232 people died from influenza and SARS in Russia, including 57 children under the age of a year. At the same time, Rospotrebnadzor reported only 32 dead for the same period.