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12.11.2003ANALITICS - SECURITY

WHERE IS A SOURCE OF TYPHUS?

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.

By Aybek Hamidov
 
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