Volgograd doctors report decline in WNE cases

The Volgograd Region, which had registered most of the cases of the West Nile Encephalitis (WNE), sees a decline in morbidity. However, this year was especially complicated. According to the latest data, the total number of WNE patients in Russia has reached 480.

Let us remind you that in Russia in 2010 the WNE took away six human lives: five persons died in Volgograd and one - in the Rostov Region.

As compared with the previous week, 50 more WNE cases were diagnosed in Russia, and 8 cases within the last 24 hours, said Gennady Onischenko, head of the "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) and chief state sanitary inspector.

According to his story, most of current year's cases were registered in the Volgograd Region - 393 persons; 53 cases were fixed in the Rostov Region, 25 - in Voronezh, 6 - in Astrakhan, and one case in Kalmykia, Krasnodar and Chelyabinsk each.

The RIA "Novosti" reports with reference to the "Rospotrebnadzor" boss that the run of the disease is mostly of mid-heavy gravity.

In the Volgograd Region, the WNE morbidity is on gradual decline, as reported at the committee on public health of the regional administration. The result was achieved through a broad-scale prophylaxis work conducted in the territory of the region.

Experts relate the WNE outbreak with the abnormally hot summer: the peak of the disease was in July - a month earlier than usual, the electronic media "Volgograd in the Net" writes".