TOMSK (Siberia), July 18 (RIA Novosti) - The number of Russians who have contracted swine flu has risen to 10 after medics in southwestern Siberia diagnosed a 14-year-old girl with the A/H1N1 virus, local authorities said on Saturday.
"A 14-year-old resident of Seversk in the Tomsk Region has contracted the virus on a trip to Britain," a source in the regional administration said.
"The confirmation from the Vektor medical lab in Novosibirsk arrived on Saturday," he said.
Russia's top sanitary official, Gennady Onishchenko, said on Friday that all patients diagnosed with swine flu in Russia were people who had returned after vacations or business trips abroad.
He also said none of the patients were in a serious condition.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed 94,512 officially registered swine flu cases and 429 deaths in 135 countries and territories worldwide.
