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Published Date: 2011-10-27 17:31:56
Subject: Outbreak of unknown infection (12 cases, preliminary diagnosis of hepatitis) - Kazakhstan (Almaty region)
Archive Number: 20111027.136313
Outbreak of an unknown infection (12 cases, a preliminary diagnosis hepatitis) - Kazakhstan (Almaty region)
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Date: October 27, 2011
From: ProMED-mail Maud HP
Source: Meta.kz, October 27, 2011 [edited]
In Almaty region outbreak of unknown disease
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In Almaty region outbreak of unknown disease. For the past week in the village school Suranshi warrior locked in quarantine.
Locals say here first fell ill two children, then six. Now hospitalized for 12 students.
According to villagers, the local doctors do not recognize and treat patients with jaundice guys from enterovirus infection, according to
KTK TV channel.
The outbreak of infection in the village Suranshi warrior Almaty region began a month ago. Then the temperature fell ill two
schoolboy. A few days later they came to school six more children. And then the number of cases students
increased to 12. Parents of pupils say that their children had all the signs of Botkin's disease. Doctors strongly
agree with.
Lyazzat Seliyubaeva, paramedic with. Suranshi warrior:
- Really sick children gastro-intestinal disorders. It enterovirus infection. All. This is a family
just sick. There's many children as they are 3-4 and neighbors. They bought a watermelon, we were selling watermelons on the streets.
Three days ago, the village fell ill with another school uchenik.V assure that pick up the infection in a class of children could not - say, here
carefully monitored for purity. But just in case the school was closed for quarantine.
Gulzhan Taldybaeva, director of the school to them. Amangeldy with. Suranshi warrior:
- Oh, we always clean, no one complains, have arrived - we checked, watched, and said that we have not to this, from
School does not depend on it.
Meanwhile, parents of affected children claim that doctors do not put students no diagnosis, and about
enterovirus they first hear it. Native confident that students are sick from dirty water.
Turymhan Zhambyrbaeva, who lives with. Suranshi warrior:
- I think is to blame our drinking water. From the top, where there is, there is very dirty. All the summer there was so much
the mud. That's all it has resulted in these infections.
Lyazzat Seliyubaeva, paramedic with. Suranshi warrior:
- We have all the water, check all - clean, even the doctors came to the area infectious disease specialists, pediatricians are tested for
bilorubin, the bile pigment - in the negative. Hepatitis B is not confirmed. We only catarrhal, acute respiratory infections, acute respiratory infections goes. That's it!
and the superintendent of the local water tower is sure - nothing to do with water. Although, if only because otherwise ill
would be greater. But parents still believe that the village is walking jaundice and almost do not let their children on the street. However, the school is going to be removed from quarantine.
The new quarter for the students of this school will begin precisely at a time when the rest of the Kazakh students will relax
on vacation. Fifth in November at their desks and sit those who have already recovered.
Natalia Kunin
[Comment Mod NR. We refer to the suspicions of parents, claiming that it was hepatitis. What is confusing is that the message
approved the sale of watermelons, which in this time of year already on the market disappears.]
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