Women with H1N1 is recovering well

THE 39-year-old Moldovan woman with H1N1 is recovering well and should return home soon, the Health Services said yesterday.

Infectious disease specialist Dr Chrystalla Hadjianastasiou said the patient was responding to treatment and that her flu symptoms had started to subside.

She said the woman had been administered the right treatment and there was no reason for her to remain isolated.

“She can continue to lead a normal life,” the senior ministry official said.

Furthermore, everyone in the woman’s close environment had also been given the all clear, she said.

“People must not panic. It is a common flu and is not more serious than the cases of flu in past years and so people must remain informed and become familiarised with this issue,” she said.

Hadjianastasiou was confident that although this case of H1N1 had been imported to the island, even if there was an outbreak in Cyprus, it would be overcome.

“Even if the new flu comes to Cyprus there are ways to deal with it and we will overcome up it without particular difficult,” she said.

Health Minister Christos Patsallides reiterated the island’s health services were in a state of continued preparedness and called for calm.

He said there was no need for panic and nor would the ministry announce every patient who went to hospital after having simply sneezed.

Patsallides said the Moldovan woman had “a mild form of the flu” and that Limassol hospital services had the situation under complete control. He also said the sample results from her travelling companion had come back H1N1 negative.

The minister said the state’s health services would continue to monitor the development of H1N1 and assured that it had a number of contingency plans ready to put into action depending on the scenario which unfolded.

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