07/ 10/ 2005
NIZHNY NOVGOROD, October 7 (RIA Novosti, Andrei Rukavishnikov) – Within the last 24 hours, 40 people have been hospitalized in Nizhny Novgorod, a large city on the Volga east of Moscow, with suspected hepatitis A, a spokesman for the regional governor’s office said Friday.
In the same period, 55 in-patients have been discharged. Since the outbreak of the virus in the city in early September, 65,600 people have been vaccinated and more than 9,000 city residents have been treated with immunoglobulin, the spokesman said.

At least 990 people, including 198 children, have contracted the disease in the city.
The spokesman said that the situation was now stable, and measures were being implemented to prevent the continued spread of the virus.
Health and Social Development Minister Mikhail Zurabov had previously said that poor communal services and a disruption to the water supply in late August could have been the source of the outbreak.