Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Dushanbe, hemorrhagic fever found in selchanina had been selling watermelons in one of the capital markets

Author: Nargis Hamrabaeva

Dushanbe. August 12. «Asia-Plus» - Dushanbe registered a case of hemorrhagic fever - today Deputy Minister of Health, Chief Sanitary Doctor of the country Azamdzhon Mirzoev.

According to him, this viral disease, which in early August has claimed the lives of three people in Tursunzadevskom area was recorded in visiting a young man, a resident of the Khatlon region, which rented a room in one of the capital's dormitories and selling watermelons on the market.

«The boy suffered from tick bites when he went in for the next installment of watermelons - said Mirzoev. - Already being in Dushanbe, he felt ill, he started bleeding. Doctors Ambulance hospitalized him in the city isolation hospital, where he is now. Contacts with the 5 physicians and 8 residents of the hostel are under constant medical supervision ».

The first case of haemorrhagic fever this year was detected in late July in Tursunzadevskom area (60 km west of Dushanbe). A few days later from the disease have died, three people, including the head of infection of the central regional hospital Tursunzade 47-year-old Askar Umarov, as well as brothers Holmanovy - 50 and 47 years. Hearth infection was in the village Zieratut Jamoat Navobod Tursunzadevskogo area.

According to A. Mirzoyeva, the source of infection are up, and with the local population - raising prevention conversation ».

In the event that people start seeing the symptoms of the disease (fever up to 40 degrees, weakness, pain in muscles and joints ikronozhnyh) A. Mirzoev advised to immediately contact the hospital, because early treatment for medical care can prevent death. The disease runs in the harshest forms, from a lack of blood coagulability due to exposure to the virus, during the height of the disease on the body and limbs haemorrhagic rash appears, there are nasal, uterine, stomach and other bleeding.

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