VZCZCXRO8470
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RUEHPOD RUEHTM RUEHTRO
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ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 150557Z JUN 09
FM AMEMBASSY BERLIN
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 4342
INFO RUEHZN/ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COLLECTIVE
RUCNFRG/FRG COLLECTIVE
RUEHLO/AMEMBASSY LONDON 9917
RUEHME/AMEMBASSY MEXICO 0345
RUEHFT/AMCONSUL FRANKFURT 8041
RUEHRC/DEPT OF AGRICULTURE USD FAS WASHINGTON DC 0113
RUEAUSA/DEPT OF HHS WASHINGTON DC
RUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHINGTON DC
RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK 0755
RUEHGV/USMISSION GENEVA 1474

UNCLAS BERLIN 000710 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR EUR/CE PETER SCHROEDER 
STATE FOR OES/IHB 
STATE FOR AID/GH/HIDN 
USDA PASS TO APHIS 
HHS PASS TO CDC 
HHS FOR OGHA 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: TBIO KFLU ECON PREL SOCI CASC EAGR MX GM
SUBJECT: GERMANY H1N1 FLU UPDATE: 111 CONFIRMED CASES 
 
REF:  A) Berlin 704, B) Berlin 695, C) Berlin 686, D) Berlin 
672, E) Berlin 663, F) Berlin 657, G) Berlin 641, H) Berlin 
626, I) Berlin 545, J) Berlin 537, K) Berlin 526, L) Berlin 
518, M) Berlin 512, N) Berlin 495, O) Berlin 488 
 
 
¶1. (SBU)  SUMMARY: The number of H1N1 cases in Germany rose to 
111 on June 12, as sixteen more people were confirmed to be 
infected with the new virus.  More school children have 
contracted the virus. Despite the raise in the WHO pandemic 
alert level, there is no change in German measures.   END 
SUMMARY. 
 
¶2. (SBU)  On June 12, the National Reference Center for 
Influenza at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) announced in its 
press briefing sixteen new laboratory-confirmed cases of H1N1 
in Germany. This increases the total number of confirmed cases 
in Germany to 111.  The new cases were distributed among the 
federal states as follows: North Rhine-Westphalia (9), Bavaria 
(1), Thuringia (1), Schleswig Holstein (1), Baden-Wuerttemberg 
(1), Hesse (1), Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (1), and Saxony-Anhalt 
(1). 
 
 
More School Children 
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¶3. (SBU)  Media reports that the number of children at a 
Japanese international school in Duesseldorf (North Rhine- 
Westphalia) who have tested positive for H1N1 has risen from 
27 to 46, in addition to three parents who are reportedly 
infected with the virus.  As reported in Ref A, the school has 
been temporarily closed to minimize the risk of further 
transmission to other children.  According to the media, the 
infected children are under quarantine at home. 
 
¶4. (SBU)  In response to WHO's raise of the global pandemic 
level, German health officials have voiced concerns about the 
general H1N1 situation, saying that it is serious and that 
people should consider certain preventive measures. However, 
they caution against panic, considering the low number of 
infections in the country compared to some European neighbors 
and countries like the US and Mexico. "We have expected WHO to 
raise the alert level", German Health Minister Ulla Schmidt 
said yesterday in Berlin.  "There is no need to take on 
additional measures. Measures implemented during the previous 
alert levels remain in place and will consequently be 
followed", the minister said. 
 
 
KOENIG