Posted on 11/18/2009 3:02:11 PM PST by Mother Abigail
Health Ministry: Flu, respiratory diseases claim 344 lives in Ukraine
Yesterday at 20:36 | Interfax-Ukraine The current flu epidemic and other acute respiratory diseases in Ukraine has claimed 344 lives by Wednesday evening, the Health Ministry said.
It said 18 people had died of such diseases in the previous 24 hours.
The ministry said 1.502 million people had contracted such illnesses since the epidemic broke out and that 44,781 had fallen ill in the past 24 hours.
A total of 83,904 people have been hospitalized since the start of the epidemic, and 54,407 of them have been discharged from the hospital by Wednesday evening.
The ministry also said 2,878 people had been hospitalized for the previous 24 hours.
The ministry has published no separate statistics on cases of A/H1N1 influenza or swine flu.
NO kidding, it is astounding, and particularly troubling how many articles contain conflicting information.
Years ago, I read many messagethreads on many online forums about SARS, and then about Avian Flu, and although experts seriously do worry about the development of some brand NEW super bug which seriously reduces the human population... thus far, none of these recent outbreaks came anywhere near pandemic levels, much less anything even remotely connected to the survival of the human race.
I think that some of the translation programs may have added to bewilderment in the West of what was going on, and then there is also all that stuff about Joseph Moshe, something I am NOT current with, but somewhat aware of.
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