In the eighth week of 2005 (as of February 28), according to data from the Ukrainian Center for Influenza, in 10 control cities compared to the previous week a slight decrease in influenza and ARVI incidence was observed – by 6.4% (85,404 patients were registered). This was reported to "proUA" by the press service of the Ministry of Health.
In general, a gradual decrease in incidence was observed in 6 of the 10 control cities. The influenza epidemic continued in 5 cities, where the excess over the epidemic threshold was: in Vinnytsia – by 25.5%; in Kyiv – 16.8%; in Donetsk – by 13.4%, in Chernihiv – by 7.3%; in Lviv – by 24.4%. In all cities except Lviv, where an excess over the epidemic threshold was still observed, the incidence level began to decline.
In Kharkiv, the increase in incidence among the entire population was 37%, and among schoolchildren – 43.8%, although the incidence did not reach the epidemic threshold level.
The incidence level in all children's age groups across the 10 cities as a whole decreased.