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09BERLIN744
2009-06-19 15:35:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Berlin
Cable title:
GERMANY H1N1 FLU UPDATE: 251 CONFIRMED CASES
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UNCLAS BERLIN 000744
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
STATE FOR EUR/CE PETER SCHROEDER
STATE FOR OES/IHB
STATE FOR AID/GH/HIDN
USDA PASS TO APHIS
HHS PASS TO CDC
HHS FOR OGHA
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: TBIO KFLU ECON PREL SOCI CASC EAGR MX GM
SUBJECT: GERMANY H1N1 FLU UPDATE: 251 CONFIRMED CASES
REF: A) Berlin 735, B) Berlin 720 and previous.
UNCLAS BERLIN 000744
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
STATE FOR EUR/CE PETER SCHROEDER
STATE FOR OES/IHB
STATE FOR AID/GH/HIDN
USDA PASS TO APHIS
HHS PASS TO CDC
HHS FOR OGHA
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: TBIO KFLU ECON PREL SOCI CASC EAGR MX GM
SUBJECT: GERMANY H1N1 FLU UPDATE: 251 CONFIRMED CASES
REF: A) Berlin 735, B) Berlin 720 and previous.
¶1. (SBU) SUMMARY: The number of H1N1 cases in Germany rose to
251 on June 19, as twenty-two further infections were
confirmed. The majority of newly confirmed cases occurred in
North Rhine-Westphalia. END SUMMARY.
¶2. (SBU) On June 19, the National Reference Center for
Influenza at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) announced in its
press briefing 22 new laboratory-confirmed cases of H1N1 for
Germany. This increases the total number of confirmed cases
in Germany to 251 (Refs A, B and previous). The new cases
were distributed among the federal states as follows: North
Rhine-Westphalia (18),Hesse (2),Berlin (1),Lower Saxony
(1),Rhineland-Palatinate (1),and Bavaria (-1). (A previously
confirmed H1N1 infection in Bavaria was found not to be the
new flu.)
School closings due to H1N1 infection
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¶3. (SBU) Media reports indicate that an entire school class
in Munich (Bavaria) has been put under quarantine at home this
week after an 18-year old student in the class tested positive
for the flu. He reportedly had recently returned from a trip
to the US.
¶4. (SBU) In Leer (Lower Saxony),a kindergarten has been
closed after a female student passed the virus to a female
teacher. The student had been infected by her 56-year-old
grandmother, who had recently returned from a trip to the US
and Mexico.
¶5. (SBU) A School in Wahnbek (Lower Saxony) was also closed
after a female teacher was confirmed to be infected with H1N1.
The case was not connected to the infection in Leer, as the
teacher had just returned from a trip to Central America.
North Rhine-Westphalia shows highest number of infections
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¶6. (SBU) North Rhine-Westphalia remains the state showing the
highest number of infections among all German states with 122
confirmed cases, followed by Bavaria (36 cases) and Baden-
Wuerttemberg (26 cases). The number of cases resulting from
human-human transmission of the virus inside Germany now sits
at 131.
KOENIG