Saturday, August 8, 2009

New cases of hemorrhagic fever in an area not Tursunzadevskom, A. Mirzoev

Dushanbe. 8 August

Asia-Plus» - new cases of death and disease in hemorrhagic fever Tursunzadevskom area there, said the «AP» Deputy Minister of Health, Chief Sanitary Doctor of the country Azamdzhon Mirzoev, thereby denying the information circulated by several media that the victims of the disease were seven people .

Among them - the head of infection of the central regional hospital 47-year-old Askar Umarov, as well as brothers Holmanovy - 50 and 47 years. Hearth infection was in the village Zieratut Jamoat Navobod Tursunzadevskogo area.

«The state of the two people who have the diagnosis confirmed, a stable, - he said. All contact with patients of 24 persons are under the supervision of health workers, and we hope that tomorrow or Monday, they will be discharged from the hospital ».

Information: Haemorrhagic fever - viral disease localized natural rights, which the agent is transmitted mites and their vectors - rodents. Transmission occurs when the causative agent of tick bite, and when ingested the blood of patients on the conjunctiva, oropharynx, nasopharynx, and damaged skin of people exposed to sick people. Sick people are mostly engaged in agricultural, caring for livestock, harvesting hay. Although the virus is known already for half a century, a vaccine to prevent it does not exist yet. . Incitant fever was first isolated in 1956 in the Congo from the blood of the sick child.

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