Russia Chief Sanitary Dr Fears Mutation of Virus H3N2 with 2009 H1N1 California Strains

Moscow. On November 17. INTERFAX.RU - Russian doctors have not ruled out in the world, you may receive a dangerous new swine flu virus mutation. It can occur as a result of the merger of the virus H3N2 and H1N1 strains of the 2009 "California." While avian influenza is not transmitted from birds to humans and from person to person. But can all happen.

"In July and August 2011 in two U.S. states had three cases of febrile respiratory illness caused by influenza H3N2 swine origin that carries the gene for the matrix protein of the virus H1N1 pandemic of 2009. For these mutations on a very subtle genetic level, a global monitoring - said on Thursday the head of Rospotrebnadzor, chief sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko. - If, God forbid, the H3N2 with the 2009 H1N1 "California" somewhere will converge in some biological substrate in the form of a human or animal, then it can happen something very serious. "By itself, the bird flu, cases which continue to register in the world, is not transmitted from person to person.

"Officially registered somewhere 580 cases (bird flu). 56% (sick people) die. With him joking. But he (bird flu) could not break through the barriers to intra - it is from birds to humans is transmitted, but within the human population is not passed, "- said Onishchenko. In addition, the disease caused by H1N1 swine flu virus in 2009, "California", is mild, but it is easily transmitted from person to person. "For one season he literally traveled the globe for two laps. Began with Mexico and the United States and came to us" - said Onishchenko.At the end of March 2010 in the Russian Security Council, "Interfax" reported that in October-December 2009, during the epidemic of swine flu had been ill about 4.6% of the population of Russia. This fall, seasonal flu shots do more than 27 million people. Total budget funds make 32 million vaccinations Russian citizens from the so-called vulnerable groups - is, first of all, seniors and children.With regard to the current epidemiological situation, it is still the incidence of influenza and ARI is at epidemic threshold. "The incidence of influenza and SARS at epidporog observed in 7 regions of Russia: Ryazan, Volgograd, Nizhny Novgorod, Chelyabinsk Region, Moscow, and the Nenets Autonomous District, Republic of Mari El," - said the Federal Service.Rising incidence of SARS in excess of the weekly epidemic threshold for the population as a whole is registered in Kalmykia. Basically, the incidence of viral respiratory infections occur among children.In Moscow, a flu epidemic may begin after the holidays, according to Onishchenko. He recalled that, as a rule, the rise of the epidemic lasts up to eight weeks in Moscow - up to 10 weeks. According to Onishchenko, according to the situation today, the epidemic threshold of Moscow may come in the second half of December. "And then students will go on vacation, and everything will be fine," - he said. Immediately after the Christmas holidays and vacations students will return to employment, and "everything will be in fu

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