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No mass intestinal infections in seven flood-hit districts
Belgrade,
25 April 2006
State Secretary of the Serbian Ministry of Health Nevena Karanovic stated today that in seven flood-stricken districts in Serbia health centres are working 24 hours a day but so far no mass intestinal infections have been recorded.
At a press conference held at the Serbian Health Care Institute Milan Jovanovic Batut, Karanovic said that towns in imminent danger of floods are Beocin, Sabac and Indjija in the Southern Banat, Macva and Srem districts respectively. The conference concerned the results of epidemiological and sanitary surveillance in endangered areas.
Head of the Institute's Disease Prevention and Control Centre Mila Vucic Jankovic warned the public about an increased epidemiological risk that can occur when the water starts receding because it will probably be mixed with waste water. This is why surveillance will take place for a further two weeks after the rivers are back to their regular levels, or even for another month in areas where there is danger of infectious hepatitis or typhoid, she explained.
Vucic Jankovic pointed out that all flooded objects and facilities must be thoroughly washed with chloride-based detergents and then exposed to sunlight.
According to Vucic Jankovic, there is obviously a paradoxical practice in citizens' behaviour in emergency situations because the recorded number of acute intestinal diseases is lower than in "normal" circumstances.
She recalled that the active epidemiological surveillance system was first employed during the 1999 NATO bombing and that it proved efficient both then and afterwards when the bird flu virus was recorded in Serbia.
Head of the Institute's Disease Prevention and Control Centre Mila Vucic Jankovic warned the public about an increased epidemiological risk that can occur when the water starts receding because it will probably be mixed with waste water. This is why surveillance will take place for a further two weeks after the rivers are back to their regular levels, or even for another month in areas where there is danger of infectious hepatitis or typhoid, she explained.
Vucic Jankovic pointed out that all flooded objects and facilities must be thoroughly washed with chloride-based detergents and then exposed to sunlight.
According to Vucic Jankovic, there is obviously a paradoxical practice in citizens' behaviour in emergency situations because the recorded number of acute intestinal diseases is lower than in "normal" circumstances.
She recalled that the active epidemiological surveillance system was first employed during the 1999 NATO bombing and that it proved efficient both then and afterwards when the bird flu virus was recorded in Serbia.
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