The Federal Consumer Protection Service has confirmed the first case of polio death in Russia in years, RIA-Novosti reported Monday.
An Uzbek man died of polio in a Yekaterinburg hospital Friday, an agency spokeswoman said, without providing the name and age of the man.
An outbreak of polio was registered in Tajikistan in April, and two Tajik infants who arrived in Russia with their parents were diagnosed with the disease and hospitalized in Moscow and the town of Angarsk in the Irkutsk region, respectively.
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