H1N1 virus

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With the start of the new year H1N1 virus strain or the so-called swine flue appeared all around the world. Balkan countries have not been exempt with new cases of swine flu appearing every day. According to the confirmed data from the hospitals more than 14 cases of H1N1 virus infections have been reported in Macedonia and more than 20 people have been placed under caranteen where 1 person has died. 2 persons have died in Romania and 2 cases of swine flu have been reported in Bulgaria, a 34-year-old and a 4-year-old child. 8 persons have been hospitalized in BiH and laboratories' tests have confirmed H1N1 infections with 30 people. A 37-year-old woman has died in Kosovo due to the complications caused by the swine flu.

Doctors are warning that patient numbers will grow in the coming weeks, and the H1N1 infection will become widespread. Read more:

http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2013/01/29/feature-04

Although doctors are recommending vaccination against this virus strain there are more and more people in the world opposing to this vaccination. The reasons for this are serious diseases reported with large number of children and people appearing after vaccination like Guillain-Barre syndrom (GBS) and narcolepsy.

Parents are preparing to sue the Government after their children took a swine flu vaccine and promptly started sleeping up to 19 hours a day...
You can more read on this link:

http://www.thisisbath.co.uk/Parents-claim-swine-flu-vaccine-link-children-s/story-17994416-detail/story.html

Emelie Olsson is one of around 800 children in Sweden and elsewhere in Europe who developed narcolepsy, an incurable sleep disorder, after being immunised in 2009 with the Pandemrix H1N1 swine flu vaccine made by British drug-maker GlaxoSmithKline. Picture taken January 20, 2013.(source: http://news.yahoo.com/photos/emelie-olsson-sleeps-during-daytime-stockholm-photo-075922056.html)

 

Photo By INTS KALNINS/REUTERS

 Here are some of the comments from Twitter and forum regarding this topic: 

 

Experts claim that in the clinical description of the diseased with this virus dominating symptoms include coughing, high temperature, headaches and increased muscular pains. Doctors also recommend avoiding spending time in the confined spaces with large number of people, but also consuming adequate diet with lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, a lot of sleep and increased physical activity.

Zagreb explosions

Series of explosions which rocked the Croatian capital Zagreb last night occured near the bus stop in Stenjevec, a suburb west of the city, injuring one person. Since tonight police has closed several city parts to traffic and is currently investigating who is behind the explosions.Two days ago, an explosive device was set off by a freight train several hundred metres from the bus station, causing damage but no injuries. The latest explosions in Zagreb have caused consternations among the citizens of Zagreb, but also among the citizens all over the country, who are afraid for their personal safety.  

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According to unofficial data published on some media sites the perpetrator of the explosions in Zagreb is the man who was injured during last night's explosions. Read more in the following blog:  http://www.euinside.eu/en/blog/police-in-zagreb-on-alert-because-of-a-series-of-explosions

On twitter you can find many comments of the Zagreb citizens discussing the latest explosions which occured in their city. Read some of them below:

 

Earlier today police has been anonymously informed that «a suspicious object» could be found at the Zagreb public garage in Tuskanac. Police reacted immediately blocking that part of the city and all the traffic in the vicinity of the garage. Members of the anti-explosive police division came to to the spot, but determined that the report was false and that no explosive device could be found in the garage.

You can see the police action in the public garage in Tuskanac in the following video:

                                               Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjeaJfAv1gI

Although there have been many speculations in some media in Croatia and the regionan that last night's explosions in Zagreb have been an act of terrorism Zagreb chief of police Goran Burusic has stated today that he excludes terrorism as a motive behind the latest explosions in Zagreb. You can read more in the article published by BalkanInsight on the following link:

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/one-wounded-in-zagreb-explosion 

After the police in Zagreb arrested a 53-year-old man on suspicion of being responsible for the explosions on the bus stop in Stenjevec in Zagreb on January 11th, police in Split arrested a person calling himself commander Samil who put his video message on youtube in which he took the responsibility for the explosions in Zagreb and calling for new ones. Police identified him as a citizen of Trogir and arrested him for the criminal act of public encouraging of terrorism. In the following clip from youtube you can see his video message:

                                                                     Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk5FNQzpIP4