Death of a typical passenger recognized

17.04.2009
In Rospotrebnadzor said that the cause of death of 23-year-old citizen of China, who died on Wednesday in a train Blagoveshchensk-Moscow, has a respiratory infection, not SARS, as it had the previous day. Nevertheless, at the border crossings in Russia and China put an additional check arrived. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China said that "to monitor the situation closely."

According to "Kommersant" in the management of Rospotrebnadzor of the Kirov region, was held yesterday by the autopsy the body 23-year-old Chinese Cui Tsynyan. She died on the morning of April 15 in a train N 349. Doctors suspected that she may have died from SARS - severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), which kills up to 20% infected. Car seats N 2, in which the dead girl, unhook in Kirov, and all its passengers, citizens of China, sent to the quarantine ( "Kommersant" reported in detail about this yesterday). "The preliminary diagnosis: bilateral pneumonia, - said yesterday," Kommersant "head of the Rospotrebnadzor Galyna Gruhina .- The girl was sick for five days, but not treated."
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Investigators interviewed the father and husband Cui Tsynyan, who rode with her to work. Native girl explained that she felt more upset in Chita during boarding the train, but they thought that this is the usual cold.

The remaining 53 passengers and the car conductors, who may be in contact with the deceased, remained quarantined in the Kirov Infectious Hospital. According to the head of the Department of Health Kirov region Alexey Maltsev, for the moment none of them has been elevated temperature and other signs of infection. "Nevertheless, all the while hospitalized will be in the hospital - to receive the analysis results," - Mr. Maltsev said, adding that passengers are in hospital "obscheukreplyayuschie procedure.
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Two other cars in which ehalo about 100 citizens of China (all of them were sent to the Kaluga region to work on greenhouse plants), the composition of the unhook in the Kostroma region at Sharya. According to the official message Rospotrebnadzor, the "epidemiological investigation" revealed that the deceased could communicate with the rest of the passengers. Both cars drive into a dead end and closed off, after which the doctors, together with rescuers have begun to disinfect and his passengers have to take the antiviral drug. Chinese, according to the press service of the Administration of Kostroma Region, provided water and hot meals. According to witnesses, the sanitary cordon around the standing impasse with the cars all night, and isolated foreigners asked the policemen vodka.
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Mr. Onishchenko said that the danger of contracting SARS in the towns through which followed the train, no. Nevertheless, at the border crossings, airports and train stations with the Far East yesterday, the medical team on duty. They inspect all arrivals from China, it refers to both the citizens of the PRC, and the Russians. In turn, China's Foreign Ministry said yesterday that "closely monitoring the situation surrounding the death of Cui Tsynyan and its efforts to obtain additional information."