Chronic/Non-Infectious Disease -- Russia
As many as 150 child cancer patients have been infected with hepatitis C in Russia's Far East in an outbreak that parents and officials say is the result of unhygienic medical practices, BBC Russia has reported. Officials in the Amur region said parents had been ringing the alarm about a hepatitis С outbreak in the Blagoveshchensk children's cancer hospital since 2012. Local officials suspected that the reuse of gloves and catheters has infected dozens of children as young as 6 months old in
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