2009-2010 flu pandemic in Norway
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 105 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5087-7288-8
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Norway experienced the initial phases of a new influenza pandemic in the spring of 2009. Initial cases were tourists returning from other affected areas. In the summer of 2009, local person-to-person infection within Norway established itself. Soon thereafter, the number of patients tested for swine flu exceeded capacity, and authorities recommended that only patients with severe symptoms be tested. The first death from swine flu was reported in early September. As of October 2009, Norway is notable among the Scandinavian countries for a high number of swine flu deaths - 29 deaths as of January 4, 2010. All 19 counties of Norway now have confirmed cases, and 5 of these have had deaths from swine flu. Only Svalbard has no cases of swine flu. Norwegian authorities had a pre-existing pandemic flu vaccine agreement with the pharmaceutical industry, and when the World Health Organization declared a pandemic, about 10 million doses of new flu...