A hepatitis A outbreak has been recorded in the Karaganda region of central Kazakhstan. According to the chairman of the Public Health Protection Committee of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Zhandarbek Bekshin, 51 cases of hepatitis A have been registered, according to a NUR.KZ report (computer translated).
Thirty-four of the patients, or 70 percent are schoolchildren.
Bekshin called the cause of infection of children with hepatitis. According to him, the cause of the disease of students with hepatitis A in school number 58 was a home-made drink, which the children used on December 28.
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