Swine flu causes death of two people in past two days
Swine flu is the popular name for influenza caused by a relatively new strain of influenza virus A. Photo: Nino Alavidze/ Agenda.ge
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Swine flu (H1N1) has caused one more death in Georgia.
A pregnant woman died from flu in Kutaisi.
Doctors performed a Caesarean section delivery to protect the health of the baby.
The patient was 38 weeks pregnant. She was transferred to a critical care unit. We performed a Caesarean delivery within 24 hours. The condition remained extremely serious during treatment”, stated a local doctor.
Previously the virus had killed a 53-year-old woman, living in Adjara, west Georgia.
Swine flu is contagious, and it spreads in the same way as the seasonal flu. The most serious complication of the flu is pneumonia, leading to fatal cases.
Minister of Health Davit Sergeenko stated earlier today that two deaths have been reported in Georgia during the current flu season.
We hope the flu will not reach epidemic levels. I urge the population to visit doctors after detecting early flu symptoms. We have two regrettable cases in Adjara and Kutaisi. Both persons were high-risk patients,” Sergeenko reported.
Moreover, director of the National Centre for Disease Control and Public Health Amiran Gamkrelidze warns pregnant women, children, older people and persons with chronic diseases to be cautious, taking into account that the strains of H1N1 are more aggressive than the previous year’s strain of H3.
The majority of the flu cases detected this year are H1N1. Currently, we have 221 reported cases per 100,000 citizens, we do not have any influenza outbreak”, Paata Imnadze, Scientific Director at National Centre for Disease Control and Public Health Georgia, reported.
Swine flu is the popular name for influenza caused by a relatively new strain of influenza virus A. It was responsible for the flu pandemic in 2009. The virus is officially known as influenza virus A/H1N1.
About 63 cases of influenza have been reported in the last 3 weeks and 95% of them were H1N1, known as the swine flu, reports director of the National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, Amiran Gamkrelidze.
Georgia’s Health Minister is giving an example to society by offering his work car to doctors so they can visit flu patients isolated at home.Georgia’s Minister of Health Davit Sergeenko announced he will offer his work car to the Republican Hospital in Tbilisi to be used by local doctors to serve patients all over the capital city.
The Influenza season begins and Georgia’s health officials encourage people to better protect themselves, try to avoid crowded places and see a doctor in case their flu symptoms are severe.
About 200 schools across Georgia have been temporarily closed as a preventive measure to avoid the spread of the seasonal influenza virus.
The latest statistical data from the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) shows that every 276 people in 100,000 have contracted the flu in Georgia.
A thirty-nine-year old woman has died in a hospital in Gori, in a town of eastern Georgia, from the flu, doctors say.
Georgian Health Minister Davit Sergeenko says there is no risk of a swine flu epidemic in the country
The H1N1 virus has caused the death of eight people in Georgia this winter.
Four pharmacy chains have received an additional supply of anti-flu medicine Tamiflu, totalling 800 packages from the Ministry of Health.
Thirteen people have died because of the HINI acute respiratory illness in Georgia, which is also known as swine flu, the Georgian National Disease Control Center says.