Journalist Hospitalized With Bird Flu Symptoms in Russia’s Siberia
Created: 12.08.2005 17:18 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 17:18 MSK, 4 hours 42 minutes ago
MosNews
A Russian journalist who has been covering the recent bird flu outbreak in Siberia has been taken to hospital with symptoms of this disease, the Interfax news agency reported on Friday.
Maria Pashkova, a reporter working for the state-owned broadcasting company Novosibirsk visited the districts of the Novosibirsk Region where the bird flu outbreak was reported. After the trip she was admitted to the Vektor virology and biotechnology center in Novosibirsk suburban town of Koltsovo.
The journalist played down the report of her illness saying that hospitalization was a normal procedure for all who felt ill after visiting these areas and contacting infected birds.
A local news agency said that doctors had already taken tests from the woman but no results were immediately available.
The bird flu was first reported in Russia’s Novosibirsk Region in July. In three weeks it spread over neighboring Tyumen Omsk and Kurgan regions as well as Kazakhstan and Mongolia. Initial reports said that the disease was caused by the strain of the virus potentially dangerous to humans, but no one has been diagnosed with the disease in Russia so far.
MosNews
A Russian journalist who has been covering the recent bird flu outbreak in Siberia has been taken to hospital with symptoms of this disease, the Interfax news agency reported on Friday.
Maria Pashkova, a reporter working for the state-owned broadcasting company Novosibirsk visited the districts of the Novosibirsk Region where the bird flu outbreak was reported. After the trip she was admitted to the Vektor virology and biotechnology center in Novosibirsk suburban town of Koltsovo.
The journalist played down the report of her illness saying that hospitalization was a normal procedure for all who felt ill after visiting these areas and contacting infected birds.
A local news agency said that doctors had already taken tests from the woman but no results were immediately available.
The bird flu was first reported in Russia’s Novosibirsk Region in July. In three weeks it spread over neighboring Tyumen Omsk and Kurgan regions as well as Kazakhstan and Mongolia. Initial reports said that the disease was caused by the strain of the virus potentially dangerous to humans, but no one has been diagnosed with the disease in Russia so far.
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