# 3992
Although the Internet continues to be filled with wild, unsubstantiated(and frankly, unbelievable) stories of nefarious doings in Ukraine, there is nothing credible that I’ve seen to indicate anything more than a very nasty outbreak of the H1N1 flu.
The numbers today indicate more than 1 million infected, and roughly 200 deaths. A mortality rate not unlike what you would expect from seasonal flu.
The difference with this flu, of course, is the age groups it is affecting. Instead of infecting and killing the elderly, this H1N1 virus continues to show a preference for younger victims.
Three updates today. The first two from the Kyiv Post. The last one from RIA Novosti.
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Another seven regions introduce quarantine measures against spread of flu epidemic
Today at 15:04 | Ukrainian NewsThe authorities of Donetsk region, Zhytomyr region, Kyiv region, Kirovohrad region, Luhansk region, Poltava region, and Chernihiv region have introduced quarantine measures to fight the spread of the flue epidemic adding to 9 regions where the Cabinet of Ministers declared quarantine last week.
"Except the nine regions, among the newly added are Donetsk region, Kyiv region, Chernihiv region, and Zhytomyr region. Restricting anti-epidemic quarantine measures have been declared there. We follow the level of the epidemic in Poltava region, Luhansk region, and Kirovohrad. Restricting quarantine measures have been introduced there too," chief sanitary doctor of Ukraine Oleksandr Bilovol announced this at a news briefing.
Bilovol said the introduction of the quarantine measures is necessary to cut the rate of people suffering from the flu and acute respiratory viral infections.
The Cabinet of Ministers introduced quarantine in nine regions of Ukraine to fight the A(H1N1) flu epidemic on Oct. 30.The authorities of Poltava region have asked the Cabinet of Ministers cancel quarantine in educational institutions.
Seventy A(H1N1) cases confirmed in Ukraine, 17 die
Today at 14:51 | Interfax-UkraineSeventy cases of the A(H1N1) flu subtype have been laboratory-confirmed in Ukraine, and 17 of these cases ended up lethally, Ukrainian First Deputy Health Minister Vasyl Lazoryshynets said at a news briefing on Nov. 11.
"But this does not mean that the other deaths were not caused by this flu virus, because everything depends on the way laboratory samples are taken and transported," he said.
Ukraine flu death toll rises to 189
KIEV, November 11 (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine's death toll from an epidemic of flu and respiratory illness has risen to 189 people, and reported cases have exceeded 1 million, the health ministry said in a press release late on Tuesday.
The epidemic was declared in Ukraine in late October, when the first confirmed swine flu cases were also reported. Sixty-seven people have since been confirmed as having the A/H1N1 virus, of whom 14 have died.
The western Lvov and Ivano-Frankovsk regions of the ex-Soviet nation, home to 46 million, have been the worst-hit by the epidemic.
