KHUJAND, December 11, 2009, Asia-Plus — The 30-year-old woman from Sughd’s Bobojonghaurov district, M. Buranbayeva, that died in the Sughd central regional hospital in Khujand on December 6 was not infected with H1N1 virus, the deputy director of the Sughd Center for sanitary and Epidemiologic Supervision, Nasib Ikromov, told Asia-Plus today.
According to him, test of her blood samples for the H1N1 virus has proved to be negative. “According to the test results, she died from complications after influenza A,” said Ikromov. “All necessary measures have been taken in the hospital to prevent spread of any type of flu.”
We will recall that a woman suffering from swine-flu-like symptoms that was taken to the central regional hospital in Khujand on the night of December 5-6 died on December 6.
Sughd health authorities told Asia-Plus on December 7 that Buranbayeva was hospitalized on suspicion of having contracted an acute double-sided pneumonia. She also had an acute respiratory failure and unknown aetiology of influenza. Since local laboratories are not able to confirm if the woman had the H1N1 virus her blood samples were sent for testing to Dushanbe.
