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Two more people were diagnosed with the A/H1N1 virus (swine flu) in Azerbaijan on Thursday, bringing the number of infected persons in the country to three, according to the Health Ministry.
According to Viktor Gasymov, a department head at the ministry, one of these people is a middle-aged woman. The woman is a relative of the person who returned to Azerbaijan from Ukraine by train a while ago and was diagnosed with the A/H1N1 strain on Wednesday.
The other virus carrier is a 30-year-old man. He has also returned from Ukraine in the past few days.
The female patient who was previously diagnosed with the disease is a 40-year-old resident of the Kurdamir district and had temporarily lived in Ukraine’s Ivanovo-Frankovsk province. She came back to Azerbaijan in late October.
All the three patients are being treated at the Institute of Lung Diseases in Baku.
Concerns over the threat of swine flu mounted in Azerbaijan in July when two persons - residents of Baku and the northwestern city of Ganja – contracted the virus while in France and Britain. The two were subsequently treated and discharged from hospital.
Swine flu, which began to spread rapidly this spring, has killed 5,000 people around the world so far, and about 415,000 people are infected with the strain, according to the World Health Organization.
Ukraine’s health officials announced an epidemic of swine flu on October 30. Azerbaijan will send 20 tons of aid to Ukraine on Friday to help fight the deadly virus, which has already claimed 81 lives in the country. The assistance includes medicine, protective masks and other basic items needed to counter the H1N1 strain.*