# 3019
A little more than 24 hours after we started following this story out of Russia the mainstream media has picked up on it.
In the past few hours Hong Kong Television has broadcast news reports about the incident and the wire services around the world are running with what little information we have.
A few examples include:
WHO says 53 quarantined after death on Russian train
Kyiv Post - 46 minutes ago
WHO spokeswoman Sari Setiogi said the UN health agency had not received any information to support the report, nor have Russian authorities identified SARS ...
Chinese woman dies of respiratory infection in train to Moscow
ITAR-TASS - 4 hours ago
Russian Railways officials said the passengers who had arrived in Moscow by the Blagoveshchensk-Moscow train have no complaints about health. ...
Chinese embassy actively handling sudden death of woman in Russia
Xinhua - 4 hours ago
MOSCOW, April 16 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese embassy in Russia is actively handling the sudden death of a female citizen on a train, Li Huilai, .
This Reuters report appears to be the most up-to-date. Of course, we still don’t know the cause of the woman’s death (see The Russian Train Mystery), and probably won’t for several days.
This from Reuters.
WHO says 53 quarantined after death on Russian train
16 Apr 2009 16:51:34 GMT
Source: Reuters
GENEVA, April 16 (Reuters) - Russian health authorities have quarantined 53 people after a woman died of an unknown illness on board a train headed to Moscow, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday.
The woman, from mainland China, had been on a train heading from the Far Eastern city of Blagoveshchensk on Wednesday when she died suddenly, causing alarm.
Earlier on Thursday, Radio Television Hong Kong reported that the woman may have died from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome or SARS, a contagious disease that spread worldwide and killed at least 774 people in 2002 and 2003.
WHO spokeswoman Sari Setiogi said the U.N. health agency had not received any information to support the report, nor have Russian authorities identified SARS as the cause of the death.
"At the moment there are 53 contacts of the woman in quarantine in hospital," Setiogi told reporters.
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