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Four schools in Varna closed because of influenza

Fri, Oct 30 2009 16:40 CET

byNick Iliev

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Four schools in Varna closed because of influenza

Four schools in Varna were shut on October 30 2009 because of the H1N1 strain and authorities fear that Varna is the next Bulgarian town on the verge of a pandemic, Bulgarian National Television (BNT) said.

Local authorities claim that doctors have been "briefed and equipped with everything they need to handle the task", and that hospitals have enough medicine.

Doctor Vesselin Balkanski said that a 15-year-old girl from Kavarna was in serious condition in intensive care at a Varna hospital.

A nurse at Alexander Pushkin school in Varna told BNT that there were many infected children who were continuing to attend school.

Meanwhile, a 36-year-old pregnant woman in Bourgas was unconscious for the third day running, in critical condition and on a respirator. Doctors were concerned that because of the heavy intake of antibiotics, the foetus might be harmed.

On October 30, another patient was admitted to a Bourgas hospital with swine flu, a Russian national whose condition is said to be not serious.

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Anonymous VANKO Mon, Nov 02 2009 09:02 CET
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You dont say if the pregnant woman has H1N1 or not. Put all ailments together flu swine flu and any virus'and call them swine flu to frighten the masses and make huge pharma profits


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