VLADIVOSTOK, May 26 (RIA Novosti) - A U.S. plane flew
home from Russia's Far East region of Chukotka on Tuesday after
local sanitary officials ordered a medical check-up of the
pilot over suspected swine flu.
The Bombardier Challenger business jet was carrying two
flight crew and five passengers.
"One of the two crewmembers was diagnosed with a
relatively high temperature during a sanitary check at the
Anadyr airport," a regional official said. "The pilot, who is
suspected to have contracted swine flu, was offered a medical
examination at a Chukotka hospital."
A medical examination was also offered to the other
crewmember and all passengers, but the Americans decided to fly
back to the United States, the official said.
They left "after four and a half hours at Anadyr airport.
None of them stepped out of the plane," the source said.
Russian sanitary officials have warned that Chukotka,
close to Alaska, faces a significant threat of the А/H1N1 virus
spreading, due to the large number of flights coming from the
U.S.
Russia's Health Ministry said the first case of human
swine flu had been diagnosed in Moscow on Friday. The man had
recently returned from a trip to the U.S. The second confirmed
swine flu patent was a man from the Kaluga Region who
contracted the virus while on holiday in the Dominican Republic.
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