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09BERLIN894
2009-07-24 13:54:00
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Embassy Berlin
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GERMANY H1N1 UPDATE: German Cases Triple This Week
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UNCLAS BERLIN 000894
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SUBJECT: GERMANY H1N1 UPDATE: German Cases Triple This Week
REF: A) Berlin 889, B) Berlin 884 and previous.
UNCLAS BERLIN 000894
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 UPDATE: German Cases Triple This Week
REF: A) Berlin 889, B) Berlin 884 and previous.
¶1. (U) SUMMARY: The number of confirmed H1N1 cases in Germany
has more than tripled this week. The one-day rise was 389
cases to a total of 2,844 on July 24. The majority of new
infections occurred abroad, mainly during travel to Spain.
END SUMMARY.
¶2. (U) The number of confirmed virus cases in Germany has
more than tripled compared to Friday of last week when 834
people had tested positive for the virus. According to the
National Reference Center for Influenza at the Robert Koch
Institute (RKI),the increase in the number of infections is
mainly due to people returning from vacation (320 new cases),
with most of them reportedly infected while on holiday in
Spain.
¶3. (U) RKI announced in its press briefing July 24, 389 new
laboratory-confirmed cases of H1N1. This increases the total
number of H1N1 infections in Germany to 2,844. New cases were
distributed among all sixteen federal states: Lower-Saxony
(165),Hesse (37),Bavaria (32),Baden-Wuerttemberg (23),
North Rhine-Westphalia (21),Thuringia (20),Berlin (17),
Saarland (17),Rhineland-Palatinate (14),Saxony (12),
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (10),Brandenburg (8),Saxony-Anhalt
(6),Bremen (3),Hamburg (2) and Schleswig-Holstein (2).
North Rhine-Westphalia reaches the 1,000 mark
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¶4. (U) North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) remains the German state
with the highest number of virus cases with 964 (34 percent of
German cases). However, media reports indicate that over
1,000 people in NRW are infected with the virus, citing
figures from the state institute of health and labor in
Muenster which has confirmed 1,195 cases. Over 700 cases
reportedly occurred from travel abroad. Another major share
is related to the outbreak at a Japanese school in Duesseldorf
in June where 79 people were confirmed to be infected with the
new virus.
BRADTKE