WHO Targets Hemorrhagic H1N1 Cases in Lviv Ukraine! Has it Spread to Belarus?

• The seriousness of this outbreak is no longer in doubt. Will this become a full-blown pandemic like the 1918 Spanish Flu with high mortality rate? It remains to be seen. If it is the H1N1, then it clearly has mutated to a more deadly form. Virus mutates into less and less harmful strain in general. They do not in normal circumstances mutate into a more and more deadly strain. Otherwise, they will kill their host quickly and they will not be able to infect and spread to survive.
   
• This outbreak in Ukraine is looking more and more like the 1918 Spanish flu. This has all the markings of an engineered virus, a biological weapon. Cui Bono? Big Pharma! Recombinomics reports:
   
  Recombinomics Commentary 19:54
  November 3, 2009
  Work will initially begin in Lviv region, where reported numbers of cases showing severe manifestations of acute respiratory illness have been especially high. Two virologists on the team have started working at the National Influenza Centre and the laboratories of the Central Sanitary and Epidemiological Station in Kyiv to provide diagnostic support.
   
  The above comments from the WHO update on Ukraine strike a more serious tone than yesterday’s quotes from WHO spokespersons playing down the alarming number of hospitalized and fatal cases, as well as media reports spinning political considerations, or politicians claiming only 15 confirmed H1N1 cases.  As the WHO update clearly states, the dominant influenza circulating worldwide is swine H1N1 and it is assumed that most cases in the Ukraine (see map) are swine H1N1.  Since the official government website lists 19,189 influenza cases (in addition to more than 235,000 ARI cases), the willingness of politicians to cite 15 confirmed cases, as well as media support in the distribution of the propaganda, is unfortunate.
   
  The more severe manifestation of ARI cases are clearly hemorrhagic disease that fills lungs with blood and produces bleeding at all orifices, which are stark reminders of 1918 pandemic cases which were also linked to a swine H1N1.Samples have arrived at Mill Hill in London, and sequence data should be available shortly.  Since current swine H1N1 produced lethal infections in previously healthy young adults, and produced hemorrhagic disease, changes in the viral genome may be absent or minor.  Therefore, release of the sequences to the entire scientific community would be useful.
   
  Similarly, an update on the number of hemorrhagic cases would be useful.  Rumors have suggested that such the number of such cases is significantly higher than the six described in media reports.
   
• Has this spread to other countries? There are unconfirmed reports of its spread to Belarus! Note: this is not confirmed so be critical! The cause: A/H1N1 or some mutant strain needs confirmation! There are confirmed 2 deaths of pneumonic plague in north west China and a locked down of a city of more than 10,000 people. See earlier post: Ukraine: What Deadly Virus is Gripping the Nation? Pneumonic Plague? Typhus ? Ebola?
   
  Belarus registers first swine flu death
  The first Belarusian death from swine flu was registered by health officials on Tuesday. The victim, a 37-year-old female resident of the town of Drogichin, died on Friday, but results of blood tests confirming the presence of the H1N1 virus only became available Tuesday, said Oleg Arnautov, chief doctor of the western Brest province. The Agency, citing the National Center for Influenza, announced that Belarus also recorded 38 cases of a new influenza A/H1N1, 35 people in this group is already healthy. First Deputy Minister of Health Robert Czasnojt assured that hospitals are prepared to accept the increased number of patients, and pharmacies are required adequate supply of medicines.
   
  BiełaPAN announced the metropolitan sanitary-epidemiological services, to extend to November 6, autumn holiday for students Schools in Minsk. The reason is the increase in the incidence of acute respiratory infections, recorded from 20 October in this city.
   
  People dying from swine flu in Minsk?
  Information about death of sme people in hospital #5 has appeared on the Internet, but the Health Committee is unsure whether it was the swine flu. On October 28, Minsk blogger sammy_belarus wrote all doctors and nurses in the fifth clinical hospital wear face masks. “We have just been informed that two persons, 30 and 37 years old, died from the H1N1 influenza in the intensive care unit. Two persons are fighting for a chance to live. Symptoms are fever and fluid lungs…” the girl wrote in her blog.
   
  The website www.charter97.org phoned hospital #5 of Minsk, but the personnel refused to give any information and just advised to refer other persons. Finally, the deputy chief doctor of medical unit said she couldn’t discuss the theme and told we could get any information from the Health Committee of the Minsk city executive committee.
   
  Asked to comment on the situation about the death in hospital #5, Alena Rudkova, the head of the specialized medical aid of the Health Committee, shouted: “You are the tenth to call us! Do not spread panic! We don’t know if it was the swine flu virus!” To a question what caused the death, the doctor said: “They died from pneumonia” and hang up. We remind that death from the swine flu have not been recorded in Belarus officially so far. The authorities denied such information every time it appeared.
   
  Belarusians die from pneumonia complicated by swine flu
  Medical workers report to the Health Care Ministry that, about 10 people have died in Minsk from pneumonia, a A(H1N1) flu complication. Journalists managed to get a medical report saying the cause of death of two persons of 27 and 36 years old (they died on the same day) was pneumonia. RNA of A(H1N1) flu were detected in their tissue samples.
   
  The woman reportedly had visited Ukraine’s western Kovel region, currently near the centre of Ukraine’s flu outbreak, in early October. 
  She became ill in the latter half of October and experienced severe flu symptoms for four days before consulting doctors, Arnautov said. The victim had been suffering from other illnesses before having been infected by the flu, which may have contributed to the respiratory problems causing her death, he said. In recent weeks, the Belarusian capital Minsk has seen an estimated 10 deaths of persons suffering from pneumonia preceded by flu-like symptoms. Public health workers were working to identify the virus causing the illnesses. 
   
  Belarus Acute Respiratory Infections
  In Belarus there has been increase in the incidence of acute respiratory infections and flu. In the past two weeks, fell ill more than 65 thousand people – 20 percent more than in the corresponding period last year – announced in Belarusian BiełaPAN agency.
   
  60 percent All cases are Belarusians aged under 18 years of age. In the last week of 19 percent increased the number of people hospitalized due to acute respiratory infections. As of Friday, due to influenza infection, and staying in hospitals 958 people – reported BiełaPAN.
   
• See also:
   
  Panic in Ukraine Over Mystery Flu!
  Ukraine Mystery Flu OutBreak!
  Has Baxter International Released a Biological Weapon in Ukraine?
  Ukraine: What Deadly Virus is Gripping the Nation? Pneumonic Plague? Typhus ? Ebola?

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