Public health: Twenty-nine cases of hepatitis A recorded in Mila

Public Health services in Mila have recorded twenty-nine cases of hepatitis A in recent weeks. These cases have been reported in the school population in particular. A responsible source indicated that the health services have identified 29 cases of hepatitis A, explaining that the patients are aged between 5 and 21 years and are, in the majority, schoolchildren, college students or high school students. Epidemiological investigations have established that the pathogen comes from table water purchased from retailers. Indeed, our source affirms that investigations carried out at the level of families and subjects affected by this hepatitis have proven that the table water consumed is polluted and that this water comes from the tanks of the dealers who crisscross the neighborhoods of the region. “The water consumed by patients is not hygienic. The samples analyzed in the lab showed that it was polluted and that it was the one that carried the disease in all the cases recorded. » Also, our source calls on citizens to respect hygiene measures to avoid the spread of the disease, explaining that it is transmitted by touch, saying: “The piece of soap used by a sick person when leaving the hospital toilet could well be a vector for transmission of the pathology. We must avoid using the same piece of soap that a sick individual used,” we explain. This source indicates, on the other hand, that tap water, coming from the Beni Haroun dam, is much better and advises citizens to prefer it to that sold in tanks by truckers. The same source advises against the use of self-medication, calling on sick subjects not to consume honey for therapeutic purposes, fried foods or red meat for their richness in fatty acids.

Kamel B.