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Russia - Incidence of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome breaks 10 year record in Udmurtia region

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In Izhevsk, the incidence of hemorrhagic fever for the year increased by 11 times
08.06.2012, 15:15 "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" - www.rg.ru
Text: Albina Makarova ( Izhevsk )
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In Udmurtia, the incidence of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) has broken all records. The region recorded the highest rates in the last 10 years. This was announced today that Chief Expert, Department of Epidemiological Surveillance Rospotrebnadzor of Udmurtia Naila Bogdanov.

- For the first five months of this year, 75 residents of Izhevsk, was diagnosed with hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome - Naila said Bogdanov. - For comparison, in January-May 2011 were recorded in only seven cases. This year, the in Izhevsk, the only recorded case of death from this condition in the country for 2011 in the country have died from the disease 10 people, seven of whom were residents of Izhevsk. The epidemiological forecast for 2012 remains unfavorable. By the fall is expected to further increase the number of forest rodents, which will boost the number of patients with hemorrhagic fever in Udmurtia.

Epidemiologists have identified areas where the situation more tense. This Syumsinsky, Yak-Bodyinsky, Zavyalovsky and Igra areas of the country.

- Feature of hemorrhagic fever, this season is that many patients in the first five or six days, edema of the lungs - explained the head of diagnostic department of Republican Clinical Hospital for Infectious Diseases Maryna Petrenko. - The majority of patients under treatment in hospital with fever contracted while working in the forest, vegetable stores, or on a construction site. Infected with hemorrhagic fever can be anywhere living rodents. And this year due to warm winter population of mice has increased greatly.

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