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Commentary
H1N1 Swine Flu Fatal Cluster and Spread In Libya
Recombinomics Commentary
December 29, 2014 02:30
Technical Committee to follow up
pandemics National Center for combating diseases held an emergency
meeting at the Centre appeared Sunday, 12/28/2014, during which the
study of the current situation with regard to the emergence of cases of
severe pneumonia was found registration number (10) cases of acute her
pneumonia same common symptoms which "cough - heat - phlegm accompanied
by blood - acute respiratory failure," died, including 5 cases were as
follows: - the Tripoli Medical Center ((two cases of Moatntan pregnant
women in their thirties from work and one of them proved experimentally
infected with H1N1 and Asalta subsurface artificial respiration
superior care - the third case of a young man in the forties is still
in the intensive care waiting for lab results - the fourth case of a
young man in his thirties died and proven results Almuamm, was
diagnosed with influenza type A - A fifth case of the young man in his
thirties was still receiving treatment in the intensive care unit and
in waiting for the results Alhaleil - sixth case for citizenship holder
of the same symptoms have been converted from the Tripoli Medical
Center to Asabieh Hospital and died at the hospital)) cases city of
Tobruk ((registered 4 cases with the same symptoms of whom died three
patients, two of them brothers aged 28 and 40-year-old who died was not
a sample is taken of them - the second case Feb died in Egypt and there
is no sufficient information about the patient and the fourth case, it
is a laboratory technician is still under the care and through the
presentation of these cases, the Committee emphasizes that the current
situation does not constitute an outbreak in accordance with current
data and began to communicate with hospitals to prepare for any
emergency
The above comments from the Libya
Ministry of Health web page offer considerable detail on the fatal
and hospitalized severe pneumonia cases in Tripoli and Tobruk.
The cases are previously healthy young adults including 2 or 3 who were
pregnant. There is no indication of a poultry exposure or any
indications that these patients have bird flu.
One has been H1N1pdm09
confirmed, while another is influenza A positive, consistent with an
H1N1pdm09 infections. The ages of the patients match those most
susceptible to H1N1pdm09, which will be the likely diagnosis for all of
the above cases.
Media reports had cited
10 bird flu infections. Some said the strain had not been
identified, while others cited H5N1, which is not supported by the
above report.
WHO is sending an
investigative team, and sequences of the H1N1pdm09 isolates would
be useful. This outbreak has similarities with the 2009 H1N1pdm09
outbreak in Ukraine, where direct sequencing of lung samples from fatal
cases had D225G, D225N, or both.
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