Outbreak of hepatitis A recorded in Odessa region

ODESSA-KIEV. June 5. UNN. In Belgorod-Dnestrovsky orphanage “Centre for psycho-social rehabilitation for children” recorded infectious disease — hepatitis A. 19 children hospitalized in Bilhorod-dnistrovs’kyy Central district hospital. Three of them laboratory confirmed hepatitis a, another 16 children remain under the supervision of doctors. About it the correspondent of UNN reported in the press service of the Odessa regional state administration.

The health Department of RSA said that the situation is not extraordinary, it is not an epidemic. Localized flash periodically occurs in institutions where organized collective power.

“To contain and eliminate the outbreak specialists conduct the complex of anti-epidemic measures. In particular, in the shelter of samples of drinking water taken hygienic swabs from environmental objects. For children in contact with patients, established medical surveillance. The main office of Gospodarevskaya in the Odessa region. studying the causes and conditions that led to the emergence and spread of infectious diseases “, – said the Director of the Department of health administration V. Polesny.

For today doctors estimate a condition of children admitted to the hospital as stable. Already allocated funds for the purchase of human immunoglobulin for vaccination and the vaccine against hepatitis A.

We will remind, on June 2 in Kirovograd began investigating outbreaks of botulism .