Azeri woman suspected of having bird flu dies

Zeynalova was hospitalized on February 2. Though she was diagnosed acute pneumonia, the suspicion of H5N1 virus still remains.

Head physician of Scientific Research Lungs Diseases Khayyam Mammadov told the APA that the patient has not been proved to have died of bird flu but acute pneumonia.

The head physician said that Zeynalova was in critical condition when she was hospitalized and the treatment turned out ineffective.

The experts of State Veterinary Service on February 3 monitored bird flu in the village where Zamina Zeynalova lived. No mass death of poultries and fowls were detected. Despite the fact, samples of poultries in the village have been sent to Republic Veterinary Laboratory. The results of the test will be made public soon. APA