Tolon Isakov Director of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance Department under the Kyrgyz Health Care Ministry informed the news agency “24.kg” that Kyrgyzstan had no grounds for panic over transmission of swine flu from Mexico and the U.S.

There were no registered cases of swine flu in the republic at the time. “As far as I know, it concerns possible mutation of several influenza types. The new virus is transmitted from human to human,” he said.

“Nevertheless, we take undertake measures. The Kyrgyz Health Care Ministry has already voiced his instructions in case of the disease transmission in Kyrgyzstan,” Isakov added.