The outbreak of hepatitis A has been eliminated in Vinnytsia region, said Ihor Kuzin, Deputy Minister of Health of Ukraine, Chief State Sanitary Doctor.
“The active phase of the outbreak of viral hepatitis A in Vinnytsia region is over,” he wrote on Facebook on Friday.
At the same time, Kuzin noted, “isolated cases will be recorded for the next few months, given that hepatitis A is a disease with a rather long incubation period.”
According to him, 333 cases were laboratory confirmed between October 16 and December 7: 30 patients are currently undergoing treatment, 267 have been discharged.
“Currently, doctors are detecting ‘secondary’ cases of infection among relatives and friends of patients who did not want to get vaccinated for free,” Kuzin said.
Among the reasons for the outbreak, experts identify asymptomatic course of the disease among market and food production workers, as well as insufficient disinfection of water supply networks.
