40,000 contract serious virus in Ukraine, kills 30 Not Swine Flu

[Ed Jewett]

Add the following to the general mix of information and sources:



Ministry of Pulic Health of Ukraine
http://www.health.gov.ua/www.nsf/0/9...c?OpenDocument


(+38 45) 253-52-71; 253-61-65
(+38 45) 253-69-75
Ministry address: 7 Hrushevsky st., 01021, Kyiv - 21, Ukraine
interdep@moz.gov.ua

It would really help if I could speak the language; perhaps there is someone here who can.


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There is the background question of "electioneering" and the Ukraine's own version of the fear versus control mechanism.

Another has also raised the generalized question about what role the radiation from Chernobyl might be playing.

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International Bioterrorism Tabletop Exercise

In September 2009, senior law enforcement officials, health care professionals and experts from international organizations joined their forces to confront a chilling crisis – the plague had just been unleashed on their countries by unknown evildoers. More here:

http://www.interpol.int/Public/BioTerroris...top/default.asp

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"... The WHO said a team of specialists who arrived in the country on Monday will initially focus on the Lvov region, where reported “severe” cases of acute respiratory illness “have been especially high.”

Samples from Ukraine have also been received by the WHO’s influenza research laboratory in London for tests.

“Many questions remain to be answered,” the WHO said.

“The outbreak in Ukraine may be indicative of how the virus can behave in the northern hemisphere during the winter season, particularly in health care settings typically found in eastern Europe,” it added.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?con...a&aid=15945

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http://www.fraza.ua/

I can't begin to translate ...

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a Yahoo Babel translation of the home page of that web site...

read THIS PAGE!

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?d...TrUrl=Translate

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Ukrainian live news streams [link to media.wnet.ua]
http://media.wnet.ua/

http://media.wnet.ua/index.php?go=Tvprog&id=54


It helps if you speak the language, but you can gain something just by watching...

play with the buttons ... some audio, some video ...

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Why Isn’t the H1N1 Pandemic Flu Being Investigated as a Designed Bioweapon?
by Bill Sardi

http://www.lewrockwell.com/sardi/sardi133.html

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http://ukraineplague.blogspot.com/

Contact this blogger at sherriequestioningall@yahoo.com

http://sherriequestioningall.blogspot.com/


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VIDEO: Bell Tolling for the Swine Flu

History and scientific data pertaining to "A type flu"
by Dr. Teresa Forcades (in Spanish, with subtitles)

[She is a Benedictine nun in Montserrat who was trained as a physician and a public health specialist in the States at SUNY; she discusses the differences between "A", "B", and "C" types flues, the variants, the meaning of the H and the N in A-H1N1, a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine, and more...]

video from VIMEO embedded here:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?con...a&aid=15980

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As I said elsewhere:

"... the epidemiological sampling and assay process needed to nail down the vectors and fomites is in the hands of someone else... but this is precisely what is necessary, as was designed [by Ed Jewett] into the team communications/decision-making cycles of the now-aborted multi-player PC game developed to teach civilians how to respond to the outbreak of the avian influenza in the poultry industry in Georgia [USofA] by key people at the Georgia Tech Research Institute and the University of Georgia's College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences in conjunction with the company involved in the design and creation of DARWARS....

Another good geography-oriented question has to do with the location of this all in the Ukraine and its proximity to the Black Sea, the new US bases in and around the Black Sea, the purpose of those bases that seem to be "encircling" Russia, and the rest of the geo-politics, energy and narcotics issues that pertain to the greater Caspian basin:

http://www.thedossier.ukonline.co.uk/MAPS%...RT%20ROUTES.JPG


If only the Ukraine had the Critical Response Incident Simulation Exercise System (CRISES) Program.

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Swine Flu Outbreak In Ukraine Claims 144 Lives
Vince Veneziani|Nov. 10, 2009, 9:25 AM

Ukraine is becoming more and more like a post-apocalyptic movie of sorts by the minute. Reports say that over 1 million people in the country have H1N1 or swine flu and 144 people have died so far from the disease:

RT: As the death toll from respiratory diseases continues to rise, panic is spreading among the population. Although the country’s capital remains so far untouched by the outbreak, it’s impossible to find anti-flu drugs in Kiev’s pharmacies.

Roughly every third citizen there wears a protective mask. At times home-made ones, as they’re also a rare commodity in drug-stores. Angry people are pointing fingers at everyone – from drug store owners to authorities – for the lack of medication. However, officials say that it’s the people who are responsible for the problem.

Sooner than later, the country is expected to declare a state of emergency regarding the outbreak.

http://www.businessinsider.com/swine-flu-o...4-lives-2009-11

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Yesterday morning:

Head of the WHO international mission Jukka Pukkila has forecast that Ukraine could face a second, longer wave of the epidemic of A/H1N1 flu.

"We really are facing the virus of A/H1N1 flu… We have overcome the peak of the wave [of the epidemic in Ukraine]… The country should be ready for the fact that we could face a [new] wave of the epidemic that could last for several weeks or even several months," he said a meeting of the WHO mission with Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko in Kyiv on Monday.

At the same time, the WHO representative said "it is extremely hard to foresee the further development of the epidemic in Ukraine, as in other countries of the world."

According to Pukkila, the experience obtained by Ukraine during its fight against the epidemic is important for other countries.

"This result is important not only for Ukraine but for all other regions too. People of all countries are watching what is taking place in the country. The experience will help them to improve the response [to flu outbreaks] in their own countries," he said.

http://www.interfax.com.ua/eng/main/24328

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Kiev - The death toll in Ukraine's flu outbreak continued to rise on Thursday.

A total of 95 persons have died from flu-related symptoms since the disease struck Ukraine's western provinces late last month, said Zinovy Mytnik, vice health minister, in comments reported by the Interfax news agency.

A total of 633,877 Ukrainians nationwide have registered with health authorities as suffering from the flu, though some have recovered since the disease's late October outbreak, Mytnik said.

Ukraine's Ministry of Health on Wednesday gave a total of currently infected at some 470,000.

The particularly virulent A/H1N1 flu strain, or swine flu, was likely responsible for a significant proportion of the infections, based on laboratory testing thus far, Mytnik said, speaking at a Kiev press conference.

Since the beginning of the flu outbreak, Ukraine's Health Ministry had sent 31 samples from persons infected with flu to a British laboratory to be checked for the presence of swine flu, of which 15 tested positive.

A former Soviet republic, Ukraine lacks a modern public health infrastructure and, since the beginning of the flu outbreak in late October, has seen severe shortages of even simple medical supplies such as protective masks and flu remedies.

No Ukrainian laboratory is capable of testing for the presence of swine flu, Mytnik said.

International medical assistance continued arriving in Ukraine on Thursday, with European Union nations taking the lead. Top contributors were Slovakia, Austria, Hungary and Poland - the last being the first country to respond to a Ukrainian October 31 appeal for foreign aid, according to an Intefax report.

EU-donated medical supplies en route or already in Ukraine included protective masks, respiration equipment and surgical gloves.

Emergency shipments of the swine flu treatment Tamiflu, produced in Switzerland, first began arriving by cargo plane to Ukraine on Sunday.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, on a visit to the western city of Chernovtsy, near the epicentre of the flu outbreak, said government efforts to control the flu's spread were working.

'There is no need to to invoke a national emergency,' she said, according to a Korrespondent website report.

Tymoshenko's government has attempted to control the flu outbreak with the imposition of a partial quarantine of eight western provinces most badly hit by the disease, a military-style mobilization of state-owned fabric and clothes factories to mass-produce protective masks, and limits to allowable public gatherings.

In the midst of a campaign for Ukraine's presidency, Tymoshenko has, since the beginning of the flu outbreak, repeatedly attacked the private health industry, accusing drug manufacturers of inflating prices artificially and pharmacists of hoarding medical supplies.

A government consumer protection agency in Lviv, one of the worst-hit cities in the flu outbreak, on Thursday filed a class-action suit against local health officials, accusing them of conspiring with private health suppliers to price-gouge consumers of medical supplies, the Unian news service reported.

Nov 5, 2009, 12:38 GMT
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/hea...-s-flu-outbreak

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A million infected in Ukraine flu epidemic: minister: Ukraine's epidemic of flu and acute respiratory disorders has now affected more than a million people, the country's deputy health minister said on Tuesday. Vasyl Lazoryshynets said the death toll from the epidemic had risen to 174, as President Viktor Yushchenko warned the country must brace itself for a second wave of infections

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/artic...ADWAZteRNljNEnQ