"This flu comes from beyond our borders, But every year it becomes wilder and more resistant" to treatment : Tehran, Health Minister Hassan Hashemi

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Swine flu outbreak claims 33 lives in Iran

Mon Dec 7, 2015 7:18PM

A digital rendering of the H1N1 virus

At least 33 people have lost their lives following an outbreak of swine flu mainly in two southeastern Iranian provinces in the past three weeks, Iran’s deputy health minister says.

Ali Akbar Sayyari said on Monday that the flu left 28 people dead in Kerman Province and five, including four pregnant women, in Sistan and Baluchestan.

He added that there are more cases of infection across the country.

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Swine flu outbreak nears Tehran as Iran death toll tops 40

 

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The World Health Organisation declared the swine flu pandemic over in August 2010 (AFP Photo/Sam Panthaky)

 

Tehran (AFP) - An outbreak of swine flu in Iran has claimed 42 lives since mid-November, including in a province neighbouring Tehran, Health Minister Hassan Hashemi said Thursday.

Hashemi, quoted by ISNA news agency, said 33 deaths from the H1N1 virus were recorded in Kerman and five in Sistan-Baluchistan, both provinces in southeastern Iran.

The other four deaths were in three northern provinces, including one in Karaj, near the capital, he said in an update recording nine new fatalities since Monday.

Hashemi has said the number of deaths from flu was similar to previous years, but that it was becoming harder to treat.

"This flu comes from beyond our borders, especially from Sistan-Baluchistan" near Pakistan, the minister said Monday. "But every year it becomes wilder and more resistant" to treatment.

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Iran : Record snowfall results in loss of life

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Record snowfall plagues northern Iranian provinces

Source: Radio Zamaneh
Heavy snowfall has reportedly paralyzed the northern Iranian provinces of Gilan and Mazandaran, knocking out gas, power and water supplies. The Chaloos representative in Parliament reported today, February 3, that 145 townships in western Mazandaran are without water and power, and access to 10 cities has been cut off by snowfall in the region.

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Citizens have been urged to plow snow from their roofs to avoid cave-ins, as reports indicate that the unprecedented snowfall has reached two metres in some regions.
In Savadkouh, 40 to 50 homes have been crushed by heavy snow.
Gilan Province is under similar conditions with some people unable to get out of their homes due to the heavy snowfall.
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Trend News Agency

Rescue efforts in Iranian snow-hit provinces continue, deaths reported

5 February 2014, 14:54 (GMT+04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, Feb. 5
By Umid Niayesh - Trend:
Rescue operations in 28 snow-bound provinces of Iran continue, spokesman of the Iranian Red Crescent Society, Hossein Derakhshan said, Iran's ILNA news agency reported on Feb. 5.
Derakhshan went on to say that only three provinces in Iran have not faced problems from the snowfall.
Two people have died in Gilan province, due to slipping and falling accidents, he added.
On Feb. 4, Tabnak news portal reported that four people died in Mazandaran province because heavy snowfall prevented people who needed medical attention from reaching the hospital in time.
The Red Crescent society's rescue efforts are mainly focused in Gilan, Mazandaran, Hamedan, East Azerbaijan, Markazi and Yazd provinces, Derakhshan said, adding that in some regions houses have been damaged by 80 percent, due to heavy snowfall.
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Nuclear Event - Iran , Province of Bushehr, [Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant] : Iran's Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant has suffered a malfunction in its main generator

Earth Watch Report  -  Nuclear Event

The Iranian nuclear power plant in Bushehr Photo: EPA

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Nuclear Event

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Province of Bushehr, [Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant]

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Nuclear Event in Iran on Wednesday, 12 June, 2013 at 03:25 (03:25 AM) UTC.

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Iran's Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant has suffered a malfunction in its main generator, the Islamic Republic's ambassador to Moscow said on Monday. Mahmoud Reza Sadjadi did not specify the nature of the malfunction or make clear whether it has caused the plant's shutdown, Russia's state Itar-TASS news agency reported. But he stressed that this fault was not caused by the series of earthquakes that shook Iran in recent weeks. "In close cooperation, our and Russian specialists are undertaking efforts to fix the malfunction," Sadjadi was quoted as saying. He added that the fault "was linked to the work of the generator" and had occurred some time ago, but provided no other details. Bushehr is Iran's only nuclear power plant and is located on the Gulf in the southern section of the country. The plant was officially opened in September 2011. Its initial construction was begun by Germany in the 1975 before being dropped because of Iran's Islamic revolution.

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FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2010, file photo, a worker rides a bike in front of the reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran. Several countries monitoring Iran's nuclear program have picked up information that the country's only power-producing nuclear reactor was damaged by one or more of several recent earthquakes, with long cracks appearing in at least one section of the structure, two diplomats said Tuesday June 4, 2013.

MEHR NEWS AGENCY, MAJID ASGARIPOUR, FILE — AP Photo

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Iran: Bushehr nuclear plant has generator problem

Published: June 10, 2013

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The Associated Press

MOSCOW — Iran's Russian-built nuclear power plant has had an electric generator malfunction, an Iranian official said Monday.
The flaw at the Bushehr plant wasn't caused by recent earthquakes in Iran, Mahmoud Reza Sajjadi, Iran's ambassador to Russia, was quoted by the ITAR-Tass news agency as saying.
Sajjadi said Russian and Iranian experts are trying to fix the problem, without saying when it occurred or whether it led to the plant's shutdown.
Russia's state-controlled Rosatom nuclear agency, which built the plant, had no comment on Sajjadi's statement.

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