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Romania confirms first swine flu case

Wed, May 27 2009 12:25 CET byNick Iliev 1303 Views
Romania confirms first swine flu case

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The first swine flu case has been confirmed north of the Bulgarian border, in Romania. A 30-year-old woman has been diagnosed with the H1N1 flu virus, Romanian media reported on May 27.

The woman arrived from New York a week earlier, healthcare minister Ion Bazac told reporters. After tests confirmed the presence of the H1N1 strain, she and three other members of her family were quarantined in a Bucharest hospital.

Authorities said that they would test all people that the woman has been in contact with over the previous week, as well as all the other passengers of the New York-Bucharest flight.

Romanian researchers could isolate the strain on their own and prepare a vaccine within three months, Bazac said. After that, the Cantacuzino contagious diseases centre in Bucharest had the capacity to produce 2.5 million vaccine shots a month, which meant that the country was fully prepared to deal with the flu strain, he said.

The first confirmed case in Romania on May 27 coinsides with the second such case confirmed in Greece, where a 21-year-old male returning from Scotland was diagnosed with the virus on the same day.

Influenza A virus subtype H1N1, also known as A(H1N1), is a subtype of influenza virus A and the most common cause of influenza (flu) in humans.

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