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Tens of thousands of fans of Ukraine's Dynamo Kiev soccer team poured to the Kiev's stadium on Wednesday night to watch the game with Inter Milan. The news of the fast spreading epidemics of various strains of flu, including so-called swine flu or A H1N1, didn't stop the fans.Football is a sport, and sport means health. I am not afraid. The most important are emotions and the emotions here are positive. I wish Dynamo Kiev to win, said Vladimir Denisenko, Dynamo Kiev fan from Russia.The former Soviet republic closed schools, banned public meetings and restricted travel last Friday for three weeks.Outside the stadium volunteers have been spraying disinfectant on the hands of fans. And at the stadium workers have been distributing masks.But some fans didn't bother to wear them, preferring to shout loud to support their team.A flu epidemic in Ukraine is spreading fast across the country. National health authorities have reported on Wednesday that more than 400,000 cases has been registered and 86 deaths from acute respiratory illness reported so far.
