Rats bloom in Sarajevo when increasing diseases cause crisis

Sarajevo has a rat again.

Reports on the social media of the residents of Bosnia and the capital of Herzegovina showed an abundance of rodents floating in the Mildjak River through the city center.

Sarajuanians have long been accustomed to bad public services, also posted photos of overflowing dumplings and illegal dismissal – together with complaints that the authorities failed to clear dead animals from public areas, including children’s playgrounds.

All this creates a wonderful environment for rats. For humans, however, the picture is quite less pink.

Health experts accuse the inability to control the Sarajevo population of alarming the number of cases of rats.

In just one 24 hours this week, the largest hospital in the country reported a dozen cases of leptophyd. This follows from the constant flow of other infections at the beginning of the month.

One of the nicknames of the disease, the rats, reflects its key vector of infection. Usually it spreads to a person through water or soil, contaminated with urine or faeces.

Symptoms may vary from headaches and muscle pain to the bleeding on the lungs. The acute form of the disease, the disease of the wail, can cause jaundice and even renal failure.

Local authorities in Sarajevo have announced an epidemic that allowed the introduction of emergency measures, including a long -term cleaning.

Additional municipal workers, armed with disinfectants, were deployed for a city “spring clean” in public across the city, while additional garbage collections are located. Schools were aimed at cleaning playgrounds, mow any herbaceous areas and check their basements on rats.

The current approach to all actions is a sharp contrast with the situation with the Lasses over the last two years, during which there were no pest control measures in Sarajevo. Officials blame the final and sanitary work in the delicate process that allowed the city to move to rats – and, on this matter, because the homeless packages are also a common spectacle around the capital.

Health Minister Sarajevo Cantona Anis Hasanovich called the situation “not a health crisis, but a municipal crisis”, thanks to the local authorities who will not fulfill the necessary requirements for municipal hygiene.

But the former director of the University Clinical Center Sarajev Sebia Izetbegovich believes that the health situation may deteriorate. Now the member of the Assembly of Canton Sarajevo, she notes that “well -fed rats” is now so numerous in the city that “we can also expect Gantavirus.”

At least in one plan, Sarajevo was lucky. A deadline that has not been treated can be fatal, more than 50% mortality for people suffering from severe lung bleeding.

But so far, none of the cases reported in the modern epidemic was serious.