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Viewing cable 09BERLIN908, GERMANY H1N1 UPDATE: 5,324 CONFIRMED CASES

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
09BERLIN908 2009-07-30 10:58 2011-08-24 01:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Berlin 
VZCZCXRO0061
RR RUEHAG RUEHAST RUEHDF RUEHDH RUEHHM RUEHLN RUEHLZ RUEHMA RUEHPB
RUEHPOD RUEHSL RUEHTM RUEHTRO
DE RUEHRL #0908 2111058
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 301058Z JUL 09
FM AMEMBASSY BERLIN
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 4731
INFO RUEHZN/ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COLLECTIVE
RUCNFRG/FRG COLLECTIVE
RUEHLO/AMEMBASSY LONDON 0076
RUEHME/AMEMBASSY MEXICO 0387
RUEHFT/AMCONSUL FRANKFURT 8127
RUEHRC/DEPT OF AGRICULTURE USD FAS WASHINGTON DC 0152
RUEAUSA/DEPT OF HHS WASHINGTON DC
RUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHINGTON DC
RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK 0810
RUEHGV/USMISSION GENEVA 1521
 
UNCLAS BERLIN 000908 
 
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 UPDATE: 5,324 CONFIRMED CASES 
 
REF:  A) Berlin 906, B) Berlin 903 and previous. 
 
1. (U)  SUMMARY: The number of H1N1 infections in Germany rose 
by 879 cases to a total of 5,324 on July 30. The majority of 
new infections occurred abroad, mainly during travel to 
Spain.  END SUMMARY. 
 
2.  (U)  At its July 30 press briefing, the National Reference 
Center for Influenza at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) 
announced 879 new (laboratory and non-laboratory) confirmed 
cases of H1N1.  This increases the total number of H1N1 cases 
to 5,324.  New cases were distributed among all federal 
states: North Rhine-Westphalia (486), Baden-Wuerttemberg (72), 
Lower-Saxony (69), Hesse (49), Bavaria (34), Rhineland- 
Palatinate (33), Saxony-Anhalt (26), Saarland (26), Thuringia 
(25), Saxony (17), Bremen (14), Berlin (11), Brandenburg (9), 
Hamburg (6), Schleswig-Holstein (1) and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 
(1). 
3. (U)  According to RKI, the increase in the number of 
infections is mainly due to people returning from travel 
abroad (710 new cases), with most of the reported infections 
occurring while in Spain.  Newly confirmed cases include 
laboratory-confirmed cases of H1N1 as well as non-laboratory- 
confirmed cases, mainly from people who have showed symptoms 
after being in contact with a patient who has been tested 
positive at a labor for the new virus.  So far, all cases are 
reportedly mild. 
4. (U)  North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) remains the German state 
with the highest number of virus cases among all German states 
with a total of 2,184, followed by Lower-Saxony (971) and 
Baden-Wuerttemberg (511 cases).  Less than 22 percent (1151) 
of all confirmed infections in Germany have resulted from 
domestic transmission. 
 
 
BRADTKE