2005-09-29
MOSCOW, Sept. 29 (Xinhuanet) — More than 1,000 people infected with Hepatitis A have been hospitalized in the Nizhny Novgorod region of Russia after an epidemic situation there deteriorated, the ITAR-TASS news agency reported on Thursday.
“The epidemiological situation connected with viral hepatitis has exacerbated from September 5 in the cities of Nizhny Novgorod,Dzerzhinsk and Balakhna,” the report quoted a spokesman of the Emergency Situations Ministry as saying on Thursday.
At present, 1,034 people diagnosed with Hepatitis A have been hospitalized, 956 of them in the third-largest city of Nizhny Novgorod, 32 in Dzerchionsk and 46 in Balakhna. A total of 211 children were also admitted to hospital.

Over the past 24 hours alone, 54 people diagnosed with hepatitis have been taken to hospital, while 75 have been discharged after treatment, the ministry said.
Anti-epidemic measures are being taken in the Nizhny Novgorod region, it said.
Preliminary reports on the epidemic point to damage in the region’s sewer system as the probable cause of the infection’s outbreak.
Last week, a local report said that more than 20,900 people living in Nizhny Novgorod have been inoculated against type A hepatitis. People living in parts of Dzerzhinisk and Balakhna willalso be inoculated.