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The best laboratory for free diagnosing virus influenza A/H1N1I of Eurolab clinic has been closed n Kyiv today, UNIAN quotes founder and president of the foundation Eurolab, head of headquarters Kyivers against influenza Andriy Palchevskyi.
"I think it is caused by the fact that we fix the real scope of epidemics of swine influenza. In recent days more than 100,000 people have appealed to us. Many of them could do tests free of charge. It is simply unacceptable and crime to close the laboratory during the epidemic. We believe it is score-settling", - said Andriy Palchevskyi.
He presupposed that officials want to reduce the real scope of the swine flu epidemic in Ukraine. He doubts Ukraine’s Health Ministry is giving reliable information about scale of the epidemic and the real number of people ill with swine flu. "For example, in America during 6 months of the epidemic of swine influenza 22 mn people were infected with virus A/H1N1, about 4,000 people died, among them were 540 children. But in the United States there are more than 20 laboratories, and we have only 3," - said Andriy Palchevskyi.
According to him, the laboratory Eurolab is closed by the municipal sanitary-epidemiological station, because allegedly, “there were some problems with the documents." "But we have been working for 5 years. And there were no problems. We have the only Ukrainian private laboratory diagnosing influenza virus A/H1N1," - said Andriy Palchevskyi.
Originally posted by JBA2848
I wonder what the real story is behind the closing of this testing laboratory. Were they fixing the numbers or falsifying reports to boost there chance of gaining money or contracts due to h1n1 epidemic?
All victims of the virus in Bukovyna (22 people at the age of 20-40) died not from bilateral pneumonia, as was previously thought, but as a result of viral distress syndrome, i.e the total destruction of the lungs.
At first the cardio-pulmonary insufficiency comes, and consequently cardiogenic shock is developed, which causes cardiac standstill and death, told the chief of bureau of the Chernivtsi regional forensic examination, doctor of science, Professor Viktor Bachynsky, UNIAN reports.
"During a bilateral pneumonia some morphological picture is observed. As of data of deaths, there is no such morphological picture. The virus, which causes death, is very aggressive, it does not strike the trachea, but immediately gets into the lungs and causes heavy swelling and solid hemorrhage. Mixed types of parainfluenza and influenza A/N1N1 lead to this state. This is a very toxic strain, which has not yet answered to the treatment of the Ministry of Health", - said Viktor Bachinsky.
According to him, there is a need to change the treatment standards, because those which were used earlier, resulted in nothing – doctors failed to save all people infected with the virus in the reanimation. The belt ventilators did not help also.
For this reason a group of professors of Chernivtsi Medical University appealed to the Ministry of Health and National Security and Defense Council with a demand to review the standards of treatment of patients in Bukovyna. Scientists-morphologists sent to Kyiv reports, studies and analysis of critically ill patients and people who died of virus.
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Besides swine influenza, AN3N2, AN2N2 and group B have been found in the territory of Ukraine. In particular, at present at least 8 different viruses are circulating in the territory of Bukovyna. Such conclusions are made by experts of regional sanitary epidemiological stations following the results of almost 6,000 studies on the identification of acute respiratory viral infections, said the chief state sanitary doctor of the Chernivtsi Region Oleksandr Svitlichny on November 11 at the briefing.
05:46 p.m. 85 cases of pandemic influenza A/H1N1 are confirmed in Ukraine, including 16 – fatal one. This was reported by chief doctor of the Central sanitary-epidemiological station Lyubov Nekrasova at a press conference in Kyiv on Thursday.
"According to the preliminary conclusion, we can assume that today this type of virus (A/H1N1 - editor.) prevails in the country, and most of all the diseases are caused by this same type of virus. But now other types of viruses are circulating - a seasonal influenza and respiratory viruses" , - she added.
Lyubov Nekrasova reported that since the beginning of the epidemic 533 samples had been taken, out of them 108 specimens were analyzed and pandemic influenza A/H1N1 is confirmed in 85 cases.
She also noted that currently there is no need to conduct research on each case of disease, because the cost of a study is Hr 220.
In addition, Lyubov Nekrasova stressed that the spread of the virus occurs so rapidly that it is necessary need to define a certain number of studies for the objective analysis, which would confirm indeed the majority of cases among men is a pandemic of influenza A/H1N1. These studies should be done in order to understand how to act when the next wave of the epidemic will appear, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
Lyubov Nekrasova also said that the central laboratory conducts up to 50-60 researches daily. "According to these data, we can say that up to 85 percents of all positive results is influenza A/H1N1," - she said.
They are using old tests and testing methodologies. Immunflourescent assays are largely subjective and are dependemt on sample prep, reagent concentration (high concentration of reagents (or degradation) can give false positives), etc. They said they found H2N2 which hasn't been circulting since 1968. If they really have H2N2 they should be issuing a pandemic alert becasue no one born after 1968 would have immunity. They should also isolate it and sequnece it, not put it in a press release about other viruses in circulation. These are poor assays and poor interpretations of the data. The VAST majorit of the 1.3 million cases in Ukraine are due to swine flu.
Originally posted by ecoparity
So why are there press reports coming out of Ukraine which claim a number of other viruses are circulating?
According to Dr Niman:
They are using old tests and testing methodologies. Immunflourescent assays are largely subjective and are dependemt on sample prep, reagent concentration (high concentration of reagents (or degradation) can give false positives), etc. They said they found H2N2 which hasn't been circulting since 1968. If they really have H2N2 they should be issuing a pandemic alert becasue no one born after 1968 would have immunity. They should also isolate it and sequnece it, not put it in a press release about other viruses in circulation. These are poor assays and poor interpretations of the data. The VAST majorit of the 1.3 million cases in Ukraine are due to swine flu.
Ukraine’s flu death toll reaches 239
[ 13 Nov 2009 12:09 ]
Baku – APA. 239 people died in Ukraine as a result of influenza and hard respiratory diseases, APA reports quoting Ukrainska Pravda online source. Health Ministry of Ukraine said 26 more people, including three children, died from pneumonia over the past 24 hours. Lab analysis confirmed only 85 “swine flu” infection cases in the country so far and 16 of those cases had fatal results.