KULOB, April 10, Asia-Plus  -- Over the first three months of this year, 12 residents of the city of Kulob people have been diagnosed with typhoid, which is 32 cases fewer than in the same period of last year, Asia-Plus has learned at the Kulob Center for Sanitary-Epidemiologic Supervision.    

According to specialists, these cases have apparently caused by a very poor state of the city’s ageing water supply system that was constructed some fifty years ago and cosmetic repairs to it have not raised sanitary standards.  

The source at Kulob Center for Sanitary-Epidemiologic Supervision noted that rising cases of hepatitis A in the region evoke serious concern.  From 2005 to 2007, the number of cases of hepatitis A in the region increased from 109 to 245, according to him.  Over the first three months of this year, 28 people in 8 of 10 districts of the Kulob region have been diagnosed with hepatitis A.