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Second case of influenza A (H1N1) registered in Almaty

The second case of the influenza A (H1N1) virus was registered in Almaty, the agency reports citing the press service of akim of Almaty.

Almaty. July 31. Kazakhstan Today - The second case of the influenza A (H1N1) virus was registered in Almaty, the agency reports citing the press service of akim of Almaty.

According to the press service, a nine-year-old Almaty citizen having caught the new virus of the influenza, arrived from Great Britain on July 22. He had a sore throat on July, 28. The child's parents treated their son at home because he did not have any other symptoms of the disease. They went to a doctor on July 29.

The reference-laboratory of the Republican Sanitary Epidemiological Station on July 30th laboratory confirmed the virus of the influenza A (H1N1).

"The patient now is undergoing out-patient treatment in connection with his satisfactory condition," the Department of Gossanepidnadzor Committee of the Ministry of Health of Kazakhstan of Almaty informed.

As of July 30, 14 cases of the disease of the influenza A (H1N1) virus have been registered in Kazakhstan.

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