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    In Kazan identified cases of West Nile fever

    In the registered capital of Tatarstan, the first patients to the central belt of exotic disease - fever, West Nile virus (WNV). Carriers are water birds from the tropics and subtropics, and carriers - mosquitoes and ticks.

    According gorzdrava, tropical infection picked up in August, four residents of the Volga, and the New Soviet Savinovsky areas. The first case found in Kazan a year ago, but then found out that the patient was bitten by the tick of Lake Baikal. Now, as far as Kazan got infected birds.

    Doctors explain that the main danger is not poultry, and mosquitoes, which bred a lot of Kazan. In this regard, the chief epidemiologist warns gorzdrava Dmitry Lopushov by the newspaper "Evening Kazan" that WNV - not in mortal infection, but can lead to meningitis.

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