Over 90 pneumonia cases have been reported in the middle Ural region of Sverdlovsk since Wednesday and three of them have died in hospital, Russian news agencies reported Saturday.
Ninety-one people with pneumonia symptoms are in hospital at present, the Interfax news agency said.
The people who have fallen ill in the city of Verkhnyaya Pyshma are aged from 27 to 80, the federal sanitary inspection service was quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency as saying.
About 30 pneumonia cases are usually reported there during a summer period, specialists say. The rate exceeds the average level, but it is not an epidemic, the regional health ministry's press secretary Konstantin Shestakov said Friday.
The disease outbreak is linked with cold. The cold weather came to the Middle Ural region right after hot days, Shestakov said.
Laboratory tests are being conducted, but test results have already shown that it is not SARS or bird flu.
The pneumonia outbreak in Verkhnyaya Pyshma was reported on Wednesday, July 25. Fifty-four people were hospitalized that day and the pneumonia diagnosis was confirmed for 32 of the cases.
A team of physicians from the first regional clinic is working in the hospital.
Source: Xinhua
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