The number of cases of influenza A/H1N1 in the United Kingdom to 27
LONDON, May 4 – RIA Novosti, Alexander shows. The number of infected influenza A/H1N1 in the UK rose to 27 people, reported in Monday, the British Health Protection Agency.
Doctors have confirmed nine new cases, seven of them – the children.
sick five students in the London area Dulich likely infected with a virus infection among from each other. Earlier, one of the disciples of the same school, visited the United States, was diagnosed with A/H1N1. Two other sick children in London also had contact with people whose disease was diagnosed earlier.
In addition, on Monday became aware of the positive diagnosis of the two adult residents of London and the county of West Midlands.
in the United Kingdom so far registered 27 cases of influenza A/H1N1, 23 of them in different parts of England and four – in Scotland.
The first two patients – returning from honeymoon in Mexico newlyweds from Scotland – are already discharged from hospital.
Because influenza closed four schools, the students are sick of.
greatest concern are medical cases of transmission from people who were in Mexico or the United States , residents of countries not traveled outside the United Kingdom, especially children.
Health Minister Alan Johnson, Britain assured residents that the spread of the virus under control, and all affected are successfully treated. Total worldwide by over a thousand cases of this kind of flu. United Kingdom is the second largest number of infected people in Europe after Spain.
Cases of human infection in Mexico and the United States previously unknown strain of influenza virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported in late April 2009. The new virus reported as a pig flu, but later the WHO at the insistence of a number of Governments and representatives of the meat industry has decided not to use this term, and replace it with the technical name of the virus – influenza A/H1N1 .