Sunday, May 3, 2009

Ministry of Foreign Affairs advised the Russians refuse to travel to Mexico.

Medportal.ruKaliforniya 04/200928.04.2009Voprosy & A on pigskin Flu
Recommends that the MFA of Russia for Russians to refrain from trips to Mexico because of the pig flu, reports said on Wednesday, April 29.
According to the Ministry, while none of those in Mexico, Russian citizens are not ill. On this said at a briefing on Wednesday an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Andrei Nesterenko. "We support the recommendation of Rospotrebnadzor temporarily refrain from traveling to Mexico to fully clarify the epidemiological situation in the country", - quotes agency Nesterenko.
According to diplomats, consular department of the Russian Embassy in Mexico City, suspended, like most other diplomatic missions, reception of citizens, but immediate treatment is objectively considered. Now Mexico is about 2.5 thousand Russian tourists. Most of them are located in the resort area of Cancun. Consular Affairs in Mexico City was closed on April 27, is expected to resume May 4.
Since mid-April 2009 a kind of virus, H1N1 ( "California") of Mexico had spread almost all over the world. On the outbreak of the disease was reported on 24 April. In Mexico, the disease was the presumed cause of death of almost 160 people. Seven deaths from swine flu confirmed officially. In France there are 20 suspected cases, two of which pork influenza infection belongs to the category potential. One death recorded in the United States.
April 27, in Moscow, was hospitalized 29-year-old girl arrived from Mexico. It was a preliminary diagnosis of ARI. April 28, the chief sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko told Russia that the Russians flu "California" have been found.

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