Clown Viktor Yushchenko, Ukraine
Saturday, November 21, 2009
"Yevgeny Komarovsky, a pediatrician and popular author in Ukraine, said the media here so sensationalized the outbreak that "we should also be counting casualties from heart attacks and high blood pressure due to the panic." He recalled a five-hour television special in which a series of ill-informed politicians were interviewed instead of medical experts, calling it "a concentration of stupidity." '
KIEV, UKRAINE -- 'One night at the height of the panic over what people here call the California flu, as 24-hour news stations tracked a rising death toll and politicians speculated about a mystery lung plague, Ukraine's prime minister rushed to the airport to greet a shipment of Tamiflu as if it were a foreign dignitary. Not to be outdone, the president, a bitter political foe, dispatched a top aide to meet the plane, too.'
'In neighboring Belarus, the government took an opposite tack, accusing drug companies of fanning hysteria over swine flu to boost profit. In Poland, the health minister is under fire for refusing to stock up on a vaccine, while doctors in Hungary are resisting orders to administer the shot. In Turkmenistan, the authorities have been accused of covering up an epidemic, with infectious-disease wards reportedly full and people being turned away.'
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Related:
WHO: A/H1N1 flu rate lower in Ukraine than 7 other European countries
Journal Staff Report 11-21-09
'The infection rate of A/H1N1 flu in Ukraine is lower than in seven other countries where high flu rates were registered - Norway, Sweden, Bulgaria, Moldova, Iceland, Ireland and Russia - the European department of the World Health Organization has reported.'
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