Mice flourish in Sarajevo because the increasing diseases cause a crisis

In Sarajevo is, again, the year of mice.

Social media publications from the residents of Bosnia and the capital of Heskovina showed an abundance of rodents swimming in the Miljaka River, which flows across the city center.

Sarajevans also accustomed to poor public services also used pictures of illegal garbage containers – as well as complaints that the authorities failed to remove dead animals from public areas, including children’s fields.

Everything makes a great environment for mice to flourish. For humans, however, the image is less pink.

Health experts blame the residents of rodents in Sarajevo for a disturbing increase in the number of mice diseases transmitted by mice.

In only one period 24 hours this week, the country’s largest hospital has reported dozens of cases of premature disease. It follows a fixed stream of other infections earlier in the month.

One of the nicknames of the disease, mice fever, reflects the main infection. It generally spreads to humans through water or soil contaminated with rodents or stools.

Symptoms can range from headaches and muscle pain to bleeding on the lungs. The acute shape of the disease, woe disease, can cause jaundice and even kidney failure.

The local authorities in Sarajevo announced an epidemic, allowing emergency measures, including the long -awaited cleaning.

The additional municipal workers armed with disinfectants were deployed to implement urban “spring hygiene” in public areas throughout the city, while additional garbage groups are arranged. Schools are directed to clean their stadiums, mounted any grass areas and check the lower floors of the rats.

The approach of all the current work is a flagrant contradiction with the empty situation in the past two years, as there have been no measures to combat pests in Sarajevo at all. Officials blame the failed giving process to exterminate work and sanitation, which allowed the city to go to mice – and for this reason, dogs, because packages of corridors are also a common scene around the capital.

Sarajevo Enis Hasanovic described the situation as “not a health, but a community crisis”, due to the failure of the local authorities to fulfill the basic municipal hygiene requirements.

But the former director of the Clinical Center of the University of Sarajevo, Sibia Ezettegovic, believes that the health situation can deteriorate more. She is now a member of the Sarajevo Canton Association, noting that “the mice that nourish it well” are so currently in the city that we can also expect the Hantavirus virus. “

At least in one side, Sarajevo was lucky. Unconscious brue disease can be more than 50 % death rate for people with severe bleeding in the lungs.

But so far, none of the cases reported in the current epidemic were serious.