In FEDERAL STATE-FINANCED INSTITUTION "NITSEM NAMED AFTER N. F. GAMALEI" MINISTRY OF HEALTH OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION excluded risk of a pandemic in zone SVO because of the outbreak of bird flu in Kherson Region

In the Gornostayevsky area eight people hospitalized with high temperature, a fever, muscle pains and cough. The wild ducks living on the Kakhovsky reservoir became messengers of a virus, allegedly. In conversation with radio station "Govorit Moskva" the head of department of scientific research institute of epidemiology and microbiology of N. Gamalei Alexander Mikhaylovich Butenko declared that it will not lead to mass infections as the pathogen is not transferred from the person to the person. "Bird flu proceeds rather hard. It constantly brings during migration of birds from other regions — most often from Southeast Asia and South Asia. But...