A teacher examines a child for signs of infection from a kind of intestinal virus, identified as enterovirus 71 or EV71, at a kindergarten in Baokang, Hubei province May 8, 2008.
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Moscow Joined the Enterovirus Battle
Test samples taken from Khakass children killed by the enterovirus infection have been forwarded to the leading laboratories of Russia. Experts in Khabarovsk, Novosibirsk and Moscow will spare no efforts to determine the infectious agent, said Tatiana Zaitseva, who is the deputy chief of Rosprirodnadzor department for Khabarovsk region.
The samples will reach laboratories in the following two days, Zaitseva specified. Meanwhile in Khabarovsk, they endeavor to prevent the contagion, toughening control over the food supplied from China, where the outbreak of enterovirus disease has been recently reported.
The Krasnoyarsk Department of Rosprirodnadzor has recommended to locals to avoid frequent contacts with the people from Khakassia during summer vocation.
Sick children from Elochka kindergarten and two adults are currently in the infectious hospital of Abakan. Five children have enterovirus, two are dead already.
Seven children have been admitted this morning; their diagnosis is the acute respiratory viral infection. Khakass Health Minister Galina Artemenko told Interfax that the authorities decided to check Elochka after the death of two children. “210 children were examined, 37 of them had acute respiratory disease and it was decided to hospitalize seven children… We had 24 children in the hospital, now seven more have been hospitalized. It has never been the question of enterovirus in the latest cases,” Artemenko specified.
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