By now physicians have detected 72 cases of unknown illness. What caused mass poisoning in the Republic? Experts may only guess. All the affected people are inhabitants of the republic`s Shelkovskoi district. They include 53 children, five boys among them, the rest are girls. All kindergartens and schools are closed until Monday. Then the Republic government commission should decide if they open. Moscow specialists have already taken necessary samples to conduct analysis in the capital. In the nearest one or two days the results must appear, reported the first deputy of Shelkovskoi district Head Muslim Takhayev. By now, specialists are only able to say for sure that the poisoning wasn?t caused by food or radiation. According to Chechnya`s prosecutor-general Valery Kuznetsov, among other possible causes the version of gaseous matter poisoning is considered. At the same time it is not possible to call it "poisoning", Gennady Onischenko, the chief sanitary inspector, said. Children are clinically healthy, no infection is detected in their organisms. The physicians and experts are working at the solution of the question what could cause those severe symptoms. The first outbreaks of poisoning in the republic`s Shelkovskoi district were reported on December 16. against Russian federal forces for a decade, with attacks taking place both inside the republic and elsewhere in southern Russia.
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