Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09ASHGABAT1391
2009-10-30 12:58:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Ashgabat
Cable title:
TURKMENISTAN: REPORTS OF DEATHS CAUSED BY FLU
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C O N F I D E N T I A L ASHGABAT 001391
SIPDIS
STATE FOR SCA/CEN; MED
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/09/2019
TAGS: AMED KFLU PGOV SOCI TX
SUBJECT: TURKMENISTAN: REPORTS OF DEATHS CAUSED BY FLU
REF: ASHGABAT 1370
Classified By: Charge d'Affaires Sylvia Reed Curran. Reasons 1.4 (B) a
nd (D).
C O N F I D E N T I A L ASHGABAT 001391
SIPDIS
STATE FOR SCA/CEN; MED
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/09/2019
TAGS: AMED KFLU PGOV SOCI TX
SUBJECT: TURKMENISTAN: REPORTS OF DEATHS CAUSED BY FLU
REF: ASHGABAT 1370
Classified By: Charge d'Affaires Sylvia Reed Curran. Reasons 1.4 (B) a
nd (D).
1. (SBU) Cases of the flu, probably H1N1, are still
widespread in Turkmenistan and Embassy local employees have
heard about several deaths. A lawyer from the local
government of the area where many embassy employees live, who
was reportedly around 30 years old, died the last week in
October. In addition, the 17 year-old neighbor of a local
employee died from the flu, and there are reports of deaths
of other children, including one who attended the
Turkish-Turkmen school.
2. (SBU) Lines at hospitals and pharmacies are unusually
long, even late at night, and ambulances are reportedly
receiving twice the usual number of calls. On the positive
side, pharmacies are now stocking face masks, and there are
no reports of any pharmacies running out of supplies of
medicine.
3. (C) The flu also seems to be making the rounds of the
diplomatic community. The Uzbek defense attach missed some
of the Turkmen Independence Day events because he was sick,
and a Turkish diplomat left the Turkish national day
celebration on October 29 early because she was unwell. Even
among the diplomatic community, information about how to
treat or prevent the spread of the disease is limited. DATT
overheard someone telling the sick Turkish diplomat that what
she really needed was hot soup.
4. (C) COMMENT: The Turkmen Government's unwillingness to
publish information about H1N1 is one of the major
complicating factors for the citizens trying to cope.
Conversations with local employees show that they can receive
either useful information or terrible information, depending
on the doctor who treats them. One employee said that the
school her son attended was requiring sick children to have a
doctor's note saying they are healthy before they could
return to class. But other employees have said that their
local schools are not providing any information, not even
telling children to stay home if they are feeling sick. END
COMMENT.
CURRAN
SIPDIS
STATE FOR SCA/CEN; MED
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/09/2019
TAGS: AMED KFLU PGOV SOCI TX
SUBJECT: TURKMENISTAN: REPORTS OF DEATHS CAUSED BY FLU
REF: ASHGABAT 1370
Classified By: Charge d'Affaires Sylvia Reed Curran. Reasons 1.4 (B) a
nd (D).
1. (SBU) Cases of the flu, probably H1N1, are still
widespread in Turkmenistan and Embassy local employees have
heard about several deaths. A lawyer from the local
government of the area where many embassy employees live, who
was reportedly around 30 years old, died the last week in
October. In addition, the 17 year-old neighbor of a local
employee died from the flu, and there are reports of deaths
of other children, including one who attended the
Turkish-Turkmen school.
2. (SBU) Lines at hospitals and pharmacies are unusually
long, even late at night, and ambulances are reportedly
receiving twice the usual number of calls. On the positive
side, pharmacies are now stocking face masks, and there are
no reports of any pharmacies running out of supplies of
medicine.
3. (C) The flu also seems to be making the rounds of the
diplomatic community. The Uzbek defense attach missed some
of the Turkmen Independence Day events because he was sick,
and a Turkish diplomat left the Turkish national day
celebration on October 29 early because she was unwell. Even
among the diplomatic community, information about how to
treat or prevent the spread of the disease is limited. DATT
overheard someone telling the sick Turkish diplomat that what
she really needed was hot soup.
4. (C) COMMENT: The Turkmen Government's unwillingness to
publish information about H1N1 is one of the major
complicating factors for the citizens trying to cope.
Conversations with local employees show that they can receive
either useful information or terrible information, depending
on the doctor who treats them. One employee said that the
school her son attended was requiring sick children to have a
doctor's note saying they are healthy before they could
return to class. But other employees have said that their
local schools are not providing any information, not even
telling children to stay home if they are feeling sick. END
COMMENT.
CURRAN