30 July 2006 | 13:38 | FOCUS News Agency
Sofia. By 8 a.m. today the number of the people in the Bulgarian town of Svoge infected with Hepatitis A soared to 159 as 46 of them work at company Kraft Foods-Svoge. This is what the press center of the Bulgarian Health Ministry told FOCUS News Agency.
According to the Ministry tomorrow the interdepartmental commission, set up with relation to the Hepatitis A epidemic in the town of Svoge, will discuss the report of the World Health Organization (WHO) drinking water expert, who investigated the situation in the town on Friday.
The commission will also look into all other research made in relation to the epidemic. Only after that will the interdepartmental commission experts come out with a final statement about the reasons for the Hepatitis A epidemic in Svoge.
Tsvetomira GEORGIEVA