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Originally posted by infinite
Originally posted by AllexxisF1
The only credible announcement came from the WHO and they said its a normal H1N1 outbreak.
The WHO stopped giving weekly updates back in August. Many members, including those in Ukraine, have spent painstaking hours searching the internet for articles and translating them for us.
Please, do not post insulting comments against their hard work. It is execrable and uncalled for
Originally posted by infinite
reply to post by SunnyDee
A minority of idiots, on this site, are too paranoid to even venture out of their homes. Hard working members - like us - who spend hours covering a story are disinfo agents. Did you get the memo about it?
Thinking for yourself and researching is a social taboo in the conspiracy field. Remember, have to listen to those degenerates at infowars.com instead
[edit on 2-11-2009 by infinite]
Originally posted by infinite
reply to post by AllexxisF1
So Ukrainian media isn't credible. How Xenophobic.
[edit on 2-11-2009 by infinite]
Originally posted by infinite
reply to post by AllexxisF1
It was covered in the New York Times, few pages back.
Thank you for displaying your level of intelligence to the group. No seriously, if you wasn't lazy enough to read back a few pages, you could of answered your own question
Oh newbies...
hisz.rsoe.hu...
from
Situation Update No. 15
On 02.11.2009 at 17:54 GMT+2
Urging its citizens not to panic, Ukraine on Monday closed down all schools nationwide for a week to avoid the spread of swine flu and suggested that nightclubs, cinemas and food markets in the west also shut down. The World Health Organization said Monday there was no evidence that Ukraine had a bad outbreak of swine flu but at the government's request it had sent a health team in to help the country cope. "But this is not an indication that the situation is severe," said WHO spokeswoman Liuba Negru. "The information we have gotten (from the government), we have to double-check it and make sure it is real, evidence-based information." Ukraine's Health Ministry said Monday that 67 people in the nation of 40 million have died of flu, but did not say how many of those deaths were related to swine flu. Worldwide, outbreaks of regular seasonal flu claim 50,000 lives each year. Nevertheless, all schools have been closed for a week across Ukraine, even in the capital, Kiev, where there have been no confirmed cases of swine flu.
Ukraine is in a panic about swine flu, with officials closing schools, imposing travel restrictions and limiting public gatherings. Yet many suspect that politics, not health issues, are behind the uproar. The World Health Organization said Monday there is no evidence that Ukraine's outbreak is particularly severe, leading some political analysts to say Ukraine's politicians are using the swine flu scare to earn political points ahead of the country's presidential election in January. "Right now all the candidates are weighing their political options, looking around for a theme, and this is a very hot topic right now. The panic is there, and they are acting on it," said Konstantin Bondarenko, director of the Gorshenin Institute, a political think tank.