17.04.2009,
MOSCOW, April 17 (Itar-Tass) - The Chinese woman who died on the Blagoveshchensk-Moscow train had no SARS (atypical pneumonia, severe acute respiratory syndrome) or dangerous influenza types, head of the Federal Supervision Agency for Customer Protection and Human Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor), RF Chief Sanitary Doctor Gennady Onishchenko said on Friday.
“The biopsy of the lungs, intestines, and brain of the deceased has shown that no SARS virus, no viruses of the H1, H3 and B flu types, and the highly toxic H5, H7 and H9 strains have been found,” the chief sanitary doctor said on the Vesti news television channel.
According to him, the tests are still being conducted and data from other laboratories will be received supposedly at about 11:00 – 13:00, Moscow time, Friday.
The 24-year-old Chinese citizen suddenly died on Wednesday. By sanitary doctors’ decision, the carriage where she was travelling was cut off from the train at the Zuyevka station on the same day. The train car was sent for disinfection and 51 passengers and 2 conductors of the train’ s car were taken to the local infectious hospital.
The RF chief sanitary doctor also said that the quarantine measures are being applied in full volume to the passengers of the train’s first and third cars that were also detached from the Blagoveshchensk-Moscow train and sent to a sanitary stub track. Passengers of the second carriage of the train that have been hospitalised are under full medical supervision.
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