BH threatening epidemic of hepatitis A, typhoid fever, diarrhea ...
In the municipality of Centar, Sarajevo Canton , there was an outpouring of different raw sewage , but it is not the only area where there has been a breakdown of the sewerage system . Across the flooded areas in Bosnia and Herzegovina appeared rodents and snakes , and water pollution carries and now it is certain , outbreaks of infectious diseases .
- There is no doubt that the more fear we have of acute intestinal infectious diseases ( enterocolitis , shigellosis , viral hepatitis A or infectious jaundice , paratyphoid and typhoid fever and - in the worst case ) than from snakes and rodents . These animals were " expelled " from its natural place of residence and therefore their presence is noticeable . Symptomatology of acute intestinal infectious diseases , which at the moment can expect is characterized by general infectious syndrome (fever , malaise and fatigue ) , and abdominal pain , bloating , proljevastim chairs , and sometimes ( depending on the cause ) and a rash on the body , disorders awareness ( typhoid fever ) , the appearance of dark urine and yellowing of the white sclera ( in infectious jaundice ) . In any case , the emergence and intensification of the above symptoms and signs inevitably requires paying for medical care and supervision , and in severe cases and hospital treatment - states in an interview with Al Jazeera , Pr . Dr. Zeljko Ler , director of the Federal Office of Public Health .
Otherwise , the Federal Office of Public Health issued a recommendation in relation to the protection of the population of flooded areas and are published on their website .
- Primarily recommendations relating to the provision of hygienic drinking water . The attitude is that the water supply facilities in areas affected by floods compromised in terms of penetration of surface water and the contents of the sewage network and water from such facilities is considered secondarily kontaminiranom.Osnovna threat to the hydro- epidemic of acute intestinal infectious diseases . For this reason, and emphasizes the necessity of supplying safe water hygiene , so as to submit to such affected areas ( bottled in tanks ) or to take water from the available water supply facilities disinfected ( by boiling for 5 minutes after boiling or chemical substances on the basis of chlorine and reliable proved Izosan G granules ) states Ler .
So far , no reports of epidemijskoj occurrence of acute infectious diseases .
- The epidemiological situation of uncertain value , with a tendency towards deterioration nepovoljnoj.Tek with the withdrawal of water from the flooded areas will increase the risk of water-related and of contact ( fecal- oral transmission by type ) outbreak of acute intestinal infectious bolesti.Najveća risk of infectious diseases following the dormant state BiH considering the devastated infrastructure , lack of potable water , lack of funds for routine maintenance of personal hygiene and more.
- 30 May, 2014
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