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Russia - Hemorrhagic Rat Fever with Renal Syndrome in Lopatinskii - Penza oblast - 4 cases

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In Lopatinsky area revealed four cases of hemorrhagic fever
13.11.2012, 09:34 Copy text | Print | E-mail
Penza, 13 November 2012. PenzaNews.
Four cases of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome registered in the district Lopatinskii Penza region last week.

The facts have been identified in Lopatin, and Danilovka Sulyaevke, where residents were infected by contact with hay, and the analysis of the old buildings in the forest, said the regional newspaper "Our Word".

Hemorrhagic (rat) fever with renal syndrome - an acute viral natural focal disease.

The reservoir of the pathogen are rodents. Thus, in the European part of Russia is the source of infection voles, representatives infection which can reach 57%.

In mice, the infection appears as a latent virus infection. The causative agent is excreted in the feces, urine. Disease transmission between rodents mainly through the respiratory tract. Infection of humans occurs by airborne dust, inhalation of dried feces of infected rodents. Transmission is also possible in contact with infected rodents or objects of the environment. The disease from person to person is not sent.

Most often, hemorrhagic fever infected men aged 16 to 50 years. Incidence is characterized by severe seasonal and peaks in June and October.

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