16:55, 08 May 2009 | GMT +5
U.S. sends swine flu samples to Russia
MOSCOW. May 8. KAZINFORM Samples of the A/H1N1 swine flu virus have been delivered from the United States to Russia where scientists will conduct tests and develop a vaccine, Kazinform refers to RIA Novosti.

"Yes, the strain sample was sent yesterday from Atlanta...The plane must have arrived," a source in a medical institute involved in the research said.
A spokesman for the Epidemiology Central Research Institute said on Thursday that Russian scientists had developed tests to detect the A/H1N1 virus, Kazinform cites RIA Novosti.
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