No swine flu detected in Azerbaijan
By Laman Sadigova
No symptoms of swine flu were observed in Azerbaijani citizens, who returned from abroad after the holidays, said Rakif Abdullayev, the director of the Republican Anti-Plague Station under the Azerbaijani Health Ministry.
Some countries neighboring Azerbaijan already afflicted the deadly virus. Over the past weeks, several people were diagnosed with the H1N1 flu in Georgia, Turkey, and Armenia.
Abdullayev said thermovisors were installed at all the border checkpoints of Azerbaijan to determine the temperature of border-crossing persons.
"If anyone has a fever, the appropriate tests are taken and later sent to us. The analysis results are issued immediately. Until today, all the answers were negative, that is, no virus is detected," said Abdullayev.
The State Customs Committee also announced that it is taking necessary prophylactic actions to prevent spread of swine flu, identified in Turkey, in the country. It informs that so far the virus has been detected in no one of the border checkpoints.
Eight people died from the swine flu in Turkey since early 2016, Turkish Health Minister Mehmet Muazzinoglu said. Swine flu killed 30 people throughout Turkey in 2015.
As many as 27 cases of flu caused by H1N1 virus subtype have been registered during the last few weeks in Armenia, Armenian Health Minister Armen Muradyan said, Novosti-Armenia reported. In total, more than 350 cases of acute respiratory infections, 67 of which are accompanied by pneumonia, have been recorded in the country, he said.
Swine flu, which first detected in the United States in April 2009, could spread rapidly to reach other continents. H1N1 virus is a unique combination of influenza virus genes never previously identified in either animals or people. H1N1 is distributed by airborne transmission and its symptoms are high fever and pyrexia.
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