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More than 100 000 Bulgarians down with influenza as H1N1 claims third death in the country

Tue, Nov 03 2009 10:18 CET byNick Iliev 1236 Views 5 Comments
More than 100 000 Bulgarians down with influenza as H1N1 claims third death in the country

An influenza pandemic has been declared in 11 Bulgarian municipalities with reports suggesting that more than 100 000 Bulgarians are affected by the strain, Bulgarian National Television said on November 3 2009.

Medical authorities have said that all cases of seasonal flu will be treated as swine flu, on the advice of the World Health Organisation, WHO, as the latter is the more potent virus of the two. A total of 37 schools in the municipality of Gabrovo have been closed until November 9, with a pandemic emergency also declared late on November 2 in Stara Zagora, Shoumen and Lovech.

Meanwhile, the H1N1 strain claimed another death in Bulgaria, after a 30-year-old pregnant woman succumbed to the strain on November 2 in a Stara Zagora hospital.

The woman was five months pregnant; she had first been admitted to the emergency ward on October 19 in a Sliven clinic, with high fever and respiratory problems. She was later released on her own insistence but had to be re-hospitalised shortly afterwards, this time in Stara Zagora, BNT says.

Upon her arrival, doctors in MBAL Stara Zagora suspected that she had the H1N1 strain and immediately initiated treatment with Tamiflu.

"We had positive confirmation that she was infected by the strain on October 30," said doctor Elena Kaneva.

In spite of the medical unit's efforts, the woman eventually died after suffering "sharp respiratory complications".

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Anonymous vk Thu, Nov 05 2009 13:24 CET
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Astradeni, you are right. While the woman had high fever and respiratory problems, the doctors seemed not to suspect and examine if she had H1N1 strain, or at least they didn't it in proper time.

Anonymous astradeni Wed, Nov 04 2009 16:04 CET
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Анонимен, she left of her own PRIOR to having the diagnose that she had the H1N1 strain. Had she known that, maybe she wouldn't have insisted on going home. Maybe you should read the article again?

Преглед на профил Анонимен Wed, Nov 04 2009 10:19 CET
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Astradeni, try reading the text before sounding off about Bulgarians doing their jobs properly!
"She was later released on her own insistence but had to be re-hospitalised shortly afterwards, this time in Stara Zagora, BNT says".
If she left under her own insistence, then how can any Bulgarian proffesional be targetted by illiterate morons like you?

Anonymous astradeni Tue, Nov 03 2009 18:36 CET
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why did it take 11 days for the medical "experts" to confirm that she had the H1N1 strain? and why wasn't she treated more aggressively from the beginning when it's a well known fact that the H1N1 strain is especially virulent in pregnant women? When will people in bulgaria start to do their jobs properly?

Anonymous Vanko Tue, Nov 03 2009 11:32 CET
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Why should all cases be treated as swine flu? Just to up the numbers and increase pharma profit. They are definitely not the same and this is scare mongering. Even normal virus' are to be treated as H1N1 what a load of bull####Did you know that a pregnant woman taking the vaccine is 7 to 14 times more likely to have a child with autism whereas without the placenta protects the child from virus attacks

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