Apr
29
EU Foreign Ministers discuss the situation with pork flu
BRUSSELS, April 27 – RIA Novosti, Alexander Shishlov. European Commissioner for Health Andrulla Vassiliou will inform the foreign ministers of 27 countries-members of the European Union, meeting at a scheduled meeting on Monday in Luxembourg, on the situation on the pork influenza, told RIA Novosti the representative of the European Commission.
According to the latest figures, 103 people died from swine flu in Mexico, 1614 hospitalized with symptoms of the disease. In the United States infected 20 people in Canada – six. The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Margaret Chan said that the outbreak in Mexico has the potential pandemic.
According to the interlocutor Agency, Czech Republic Presidency of the EU and the European Commission adopted a decision as soon as possible, convene an extraordinary meeting of the EU Council of Health , which will focus on pig influenza and discussion needed to take in this regard at EU-level measures.
As previously reported, according to the expert federal agency for the Belgian food safety network (AFSCA), pigs do not carry the virus H1N1 , the so-called pig flu outbreak in Mexico, which led to the deaths of more than 100 people.
Specialists AFSCA confirmed appeared prior information that the virus is H1N1, which is distributed in Mexico and the United States, constitutes a recombination of human, of avian and swine influenza. Belgian experts point to the fact that the H1N1 virus in pigs never identified.
According to experts, the risk of getting infected when dealing with these domestic animals or through consumption of pork is not.
Belgian Veterinarians, however, advise all visiting from the United States and Mexico for seven days to monitor his condition and with symptoms of flu – the temperature, cough, rhinitis, and muscular pain – medical treatment.
According to the Rospotrebnadzor supposedly Mexican as a result of virus mutation altered its biological properties and acquired the ability to infect humans and cause severe clinical forms of disease.