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A doctor inspects a girl in the children’s hospital at Chernorechenskaya village outside Grozny / Photo: AFP
A doctor inspects a girl in the children’s hospital at Chernorechenskaya village outside Grozny / Photo: AFP Chechen Authorities Impose Restrictions on Covering Mysterious Disease by Media
Chechen authorities are going to impose restrictions on media coverage of a mysterious disease affecting dozens of people after doctors said it was a reaction to media reports, RIA Novosti reported.
“A replication of this theme in mass media has been gives rise to a number of the sick, and so we decided to restrict its media coverage,” Akhmed Dzheirkhanov, deputy head of the local branch of the Emergencies Ministry, said.
Several versions of the disease origin have been already adduced by different doctors. Muminat Khadzhayeva, a doctor in the neighboring region of Dagestan, blamed ethyl glycol — a chemical that prevents water freezing and is a major cause of poisoning in people and animals. A commission of doctors from the Moscow Serbsky Institute of Forensic Medicine said the cause of disease’s spreading was an effect of psychological infection. Experts had also suggested the disease could be caused by stress brought on by Chechnya’s 11-year war.
Children have been ill all week in Chechnya with symptoms including hysteria, panic, shortness of breath, vomiting and diarrhea.
A schoolgirl was taken to a local hospital early on Saturday, as well as a female school worker. 90 people have shown similar symptoms in the district over the past several days. But 12 people have been discharged from hospitals after their health status improved, Akhmed Dzheirkhanov said.
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