Identifier
Created
Classification
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09BRUSSELS748
2009-05-29 15:22:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Brussels
Cable title:
BELGIUM: H1N1: NINTH AND TENTH CASES REPORTED;
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UNCLAS BRUSSELS 000748
SIPDIS
STATE FOR OES/IHB
STATE PASS USTR JANE DOHERTY
STATE PASS USAID
STATE PASS HHS/NIH
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KFLU AEMR ASEC AMED CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL
PINR, AMGT, TF, BE
SUBJECT: BELGIUM: H1N1: NINTH AND TENTH CASES REPORTED;
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLOSED AS PRECAUTION
REF: BRUSSELS 728
UNCLAS BRUSSELS 000748
SIPDIS
STATE FOR OES/IHB
STATE PASS USTR JANE DOHERTY
STATE PASS USAID
STATE PASS HHS/NIH
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KFLU AEMR ASEC AMED CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL
PINR, AMGT, TF, BE
SUBJECT: BELGIUM: H1N1: NINTH AND TENTH CASES REPORTED;
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLOSED AS PRECAUTION
REF: BRUSSELS 728
1. Belgian health authorities announced via a May 29 press
release that two new cases of H1N1 had been confirmed in
Belgium, bringing the country's total number of positive
cases to ten. The ninth case involves a 10-year old boy from
Tervuren, a town close to Brussels, who had returned on
Sunday, May 24 with his family from a vacation in the United
States; case 10 involves a 30-year old man from Brussels who
came back to Belgium on May 28 from New York. The man is now
in Brussels' Saint Pierre hospital for treatment, but the
child, whose symptoms are mild according to a person at the
Government's influenza hotline contacted by the Embassy on
May 29, is receiving treatment at home with his family. The
school which the 10-year attends (located in the village of
Moorsel, a neighborhood or borough of Tervuran, has been
closed until June 2 as a precaution, with families being
asked to remain at thome to watch their children for
symptoms. Health authorities are closely monitoring the
situation. All students from the child's class as well as
his teachers are taking antiviral medication as of the
evening of May 28, and so far the families of 258 out of the
268 students at the school have been contacted by health
authorities to be made aware of the situation, although they
are not being treated with antivirals. The child had no
symptoms when he returned from the United States, and
attended school on May 25 and 26, falling ill with flu
symptoms on May 27 and thus did not attend school that day or
the next. The child's positive test result came back on the
evening of May 28, prompting the authorities to act.
2. Regarding the tenth case, the man in question had had
contact with only one person since his return; that person is
receiving antivirals.
BUSH
SIPDIS
STATE FOR OES/IHB
STATE PASS USTR JANE DOHERTY
STATE PASS USAID
STATE PASS HHS/NIH
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KFLU AEMR ASEC AMED CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL
PINR, AMGT, TF, BE
SUBJECT: BELGIUM: H1N1: NINTH AND TENTH CASES REPORTED;
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLOSED AS PRECAUTION
REF: BRUSSELS 728
1. Belgian health authorities announced via a May 29 press
release that two new cases of H1N1 had been confirmed in
Belgium, bringing the country's total number of positive
cases to ten. The ninth case involves a 10-year old boy from
Tervuren, a town close to Brussels, who had returned on
Sunday, May 24 with his family from a vacation in the United
States; case 10 involves a 30-year old man from Brussels who
came back to Belgium on May 28 from New York. The man is now
in Brussels' Saint Pierre hospital for treatment, but the
child, whose symptoms are mild according to a person at the
Government's influenza hotline contacted by the Embassy on
May 29, is receiving treatment at home with his family. The
school which the 10-year attends (located in the village of
Moorsel, a neighborhood or borough of Tervuran, has been
closed until June 2 as a precaution, with families being
asked to remain at thome to watch their children for
symptoms. Health authorities are closely monitoring the
situation. All students from the child's class as well as
his teachers are taking antiviral medication as of the
evening of May 28, and so far the families of 258 out of the
268 students at the school have been contacted by health
authorities to be made aware of the situation, although they
are not being treated with antivirals. The child had no
symptoms when he returned from the United States, and
attended school on May 25 and 26, falling ill with flu
symptoms on May 27 and thus did not attend school that day or
the next. The child's positive test result came back on the
evening of May 28, prompting the authorities to act.
2. Regarding the tenth case, the man in question had had
contact with only one person since his return; that person is
receiving antivirals.
BUSH