The flash of typhus is registered in Jalal-Abad
province of Kyrgyzstan. Deputy governor Aryn Akparaliyev
informed that about thirty residents of Burgandy and Mombekovo
villages of Nooken rayon bordering Uzbekistan had been hospitalized.
As local authorities assert, the affliction should be imputed
to the pollution of the local Mailoo-Soo river by the wreck
discharge of waters on the part of the refining station.
Specialists affirm the discharge not to be deliberate, it
occurred because cubic contents were overpoured with abundant
rains. The vice-governor told that all the patterns are
members of farmers' families who had used the river water
during cotton and rice harvest. The employee of the local
state administration Lyudmila Blokhina reports the half
of the patients being children. The brigades of medical
workers are doing perambulation over rural yards, carry
out prophylactic treatment of people who were in contacts
with the patients. They organized drinking water delivery
to villages. The local population complains of water running
fountains no to operate in many villages. Quoting medical
nurse Ashirbu Dermankulova, the situation should be put
down to frequent wreck and electricity disconnection. The
transfrontier Mailoo-Soo river, a tribute of the Syr-Darya,
washing the area of notorious uranium tail repositories
lurks one more danger too. In case of elemental disasters
there is a threat of radioactive contamination, which may
embrace a vast territory of Central Asian republics. As
for the neighboring areas of Uzbekistan situated on the
banks of the river no data had entered in reference to typhus
cases, as they reported in rural boards. Several years ago
the overflow disposal of wastes into the canal caused typhus
epidemic in Osh province - over 600 people were hospitalized.
Over the last years flashes of typhus spring up regularly
in hot seasons in Batken province. 30 cases are registered
in October of the current year. With the help of the Asian
Bank for Development and other donors Kyrgyzstan carries
into effect large-scale projects on supplying rural population
with pure drinking water. Hereby specialists point to old
water purifying and sewage circuits to have been extremely
worn out, that's why frequent wrecks entail environmental
pollution.
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