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Article: RUSSIA: FAR EAST CITY LEARNS ABOUT SARS DIAGNOSIS FROM NATIONAL TV.(severe acute respiratory syndrome confirmed for local patient in Amur Oblast)(Brief Article)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- June 4, 2003
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Doctors and local residents in Amur Oblast first learned that Blagoveshchensk hospital patient Denis Soinikov had been diagnosed with SARS from a national television news broadcast, "Kommersant-Daily" reported on 30 May. The oblast press service issued a statement on 29 May saying, "the results of analyses and the official confirmation of the diagnosis has not arrived from Moscow, and [we have] nothing to say about it." According to the daily's local correspondent, no additional measures to contain the disease have been introduced in the city. Local officials say the health of locals who have traveled abroad is being monitored, and markets are being checked. However, the ...