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| New HIV/AIDS surveillance data for the European Region | ||
| 01 December 2009 | ||
| Nearly 51 600 people in the WHO European Region were newly diagnosed as infected with HIV in 2008, more than double the annual rate in 2000. In the 43 countries in the Region that consistently reported HIV surveillance data during this period, the infection rate rose from 41 to 89 cases per million population, according to HIV/AIDS surveillance in Europe 2008, a report released today. | ||
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| 10 countries report high pandemic (H1N1) 2009 activity | ||
| 10 November 2009 | ||
| Belarus, Bulgaria, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, the Russian Federation, Sweden and the United Kingdom (Northern Ireland only) reported high or very high pandemic activity during the period 27 October to 4 November 2009. Ukraine reported high rates of acute respiratory infection, compared to the same period in five previous years, and a WHO team of experts is investigating the outbreak. | ||
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| Pandemic (H1N1) 2009, Ukraine | ||
| 01 November 2009 | ||
| On 28 October 2009, the Ministry of Health of the Ukraine informed WHO, through its Country Office in Ukraine, about an unusually high level of activity of acute respiratory illness in the western part of the country, associated with an increased number of hospital admissions and fatalities. | ||
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