DUSHANBE, November 27, Asia-Plus — Four cases of the A/H1N1 flu, known as Californian or swine flu, have been registered in Tajikistan by this day, Navrouz Jaffarov, the head of the Center for Sanitary and Epidemiologic Supervision with the Ministry of Health (MoH), said in an interview with Asia-Plus.
According to him, three of those having contracted the infection are foreign citizens and the fourth one is Tajik national that came back from abroad. “They are well now, and one of the foreign citizens has already returned to homeland, Jaffarov said.
The ministry now has 13,000 doses of “Tamiflu” and “Oseltamivira” for treatment of the California flu and another consignment of medicines provided by the World Health Organization (WHO) will be delivered to the country in the near future he added.
We will recall that the initial outbreak was called the “H1N1 influenza”. It is officially called pandemic H1N1 flu” by the World Health Organization (WHO), while US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) refers to it as “novel influenza A (H1N1)” or “2009 H1N1 flu.” The World Organization for Animal Health proposed the name “North American influenza.” The European Commission adopted the term “novel flu virus.” The main strain of virus has been termed “A/California/07/2009 (H1N1)” by scientists.
