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Three new cases of swine flu have been registered in Lithuania. A total of 15 people have been diagnosed with A(H1N1) flu type in Lithuania so far, reports ELTA/LETA.

Daiva Razmuviene, deputy director of the Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control Center (ULPKC), told ELTA that all diagnoses were confirmed on Tuesday evening. One of the diseased is Vilnius resident. He contracted swine flu in Lithuania from a sick person. Another one is not from the capital and he brought the disease from abroad.

"That person contracted the new type of flu in one of the countries in Europe. There is no need to specify the country, because cases of swine flu have been registered in all European countries, therefore it is possible to contract this infection anywhere," Razmuviene said.

Experts monitoring information about cases of infectious diseases in the country are still specifying information about the third person who contracted swine flu.

According to the data of the Healthcare Ministry, swine flu morbidity in Lithuania remains one of the lowest in Europe. This rate, calculating the index of morbidity per 100,000 people, is lower only in Poland and Bulgaria.