Moscow has sharply increased the incidence of acute viral hepatitis. An increasing number of cases of hepatitis A and acute intestinal infections.
According to doctors, in the first three months of the year were more than 930 cases. This is two times higher than in the period from January to March of last year. Incidence acute intestinal infections It increased by almost 50 percent.
As stated in the regional Rospotrebnadzor, the main source of infection - the tap water and its poor quality. This reason is also called, and the World Health Organization as the most frequent during infection hepatitis and intestinal infections.
According to Gennady Onishchenko, the transmission of infection by water is related to the poor state of public utilities and a violation of the rules of treatment of water before feeding it to the public. First of all, this situation was in the Khabarovsk Territory, the Republic of Dagestan, the Ryazan region. Now flash Hepatitis A observed in Moscow.
Hepatitis A - It is a viral liver disease that can cause mild or severe. The virus is resistant to a changing environment, as well as resistant to heat or disinfectants. Previously it was called Botkin's disease, infectious or epidemic hepatitis, infectious jaundice, epidemic jaundice, catarrhal jaundice, hepatitis by MS-1.
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