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Created
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09BERLIN908
2009-07-30 10:58:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Berlin
Cable title:
GERMANY H1N1 UPDATE: 5,324 CONFIRMED CASES
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UNCLAS BERLIN 000908
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: 5,324 CONFIRMED CASES
REF: A) Berlin 906, B) Berlin 903 and previous.
UNCLAS BERLIN 000908
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: 5,324 CONFIRMED CASES
REF: A) Berlin 906, B) Berlin 903 and previous.
1. (U) SUMMARY: The number of H1N1 infections in Germany rose
by 879 cases to a total of 5,324 on July 30. The majority of
new infections occurred abroad, mainly during travel to
Spain. END SUMMARY.
2. (U) At its July 30 press briefing, the National Reference
Center for Influenza at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI)
announced 879 new (laboratory and non-laboratory) confirmed
cases of H1N1. This increases the total number of H1N1 cases
to 5,324. New cases were distributed among all federal
states: North Rhine-Westphalia (486),Baden-Wuerttemberg (72),
Lower-Saxony (69),Hesse (49),Bavaria (34),Rhineland-
Palatinate (33),Saxony-Anhalt (26),Saarland (26),Thuringia
(25),Saxony (17),Bremen (14),Berlin (11),Brandenburg (9),
Hamburg (6),Schleswig-Holstein (1) and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
(1).
3. (U) According to RKI, the increase in the number of
infections is mainly due to people returning from travel
abroad (710 new cases),with most of the reported infections
occurring while in Spain. Newly confirmed cases include
laboratory-confirmed cases of H1N1 as well as non-laboratory-
confirmed cases, mainly from people who have showed symptoms
after being in contact with a patient who has been tested
positive at a labor for the new virus. So far, all cases are
reportedly mild.
4. (U) North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) remains the German state
with the highest number of virus cases among all German states
with a total of 2,184, followed by Lower-Saxony (971) and
Baden-Wuerttemberg (511 cases). Less than 22 percent (1151)
of all confirmed infections in Germany have resulted from
domestic transmission.
BRADTKE
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: 5,324 CONFIRMED CASES
REF: A) Berlin 906, B) Berlin 903 and previous.
1. (U) SUMMARY: The number of H1N1 infections in Germany rose
by 879 cases to a total of 5,324 on July 30. The majority of
new infections occurred abroad, mainly during travel to
Spain. END SUMMARY.
2. (U) At its July 30 press briefing, the National Reference
Center for Influenza at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI)
announced 879 new (laboratory and non-laboratory) confirmed
cases of H1N1. This increases the total number of H1N1 cases
to 5,324. New cases were distributed among all federal
states: North Rhine-Westphalia (486),Baden-Wuerttemberg (72),
Lower-Saxony (69),Hesse (49),Bavaria (34),Rhineland-
Palatinate (33),Saxony-Anhalt (26),Saarland (26),Thuringia
(25),Saxony (17),Bremen (14),Berlin (11),Brandenburg (9),
Hamburg (6),Schleswig-Holstein (1) and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
(1).
3. (U) According to RKI, the increase in the number of
infections is mainly due to people returning from travel
abroad (710 new cases),with most of the reported infections
occurring while in Spain. Newly confirmed cases include
laboratory-confirmed cases of H1N1 as well as non-laboratory-
confirmed cases, mainly from people who have showed symptoms
after being in contact with a patient who has been tested
positive at a labor for the new virus. So far, all cases are
reportedly mild.
4. (U) North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) remains the German state
with the highest number of virus cases among all German states
with a total of 2,184, followed by Lower-Saxony (971) and
Baden-Wuerttemberg (511 cases). Less than 22 percent (1151)
of all confirmed infections in Germany have resulted from
domestic transmission.
BRADTKE