Nistru's water infected with microbes: Bender epidemiologists

Bender epidemiologists warn the Nistru's water is infected with microbes that can cause infectious diseases, Info-Prim Neo's correspondent in the area reports, quoting the press agency “Novy Region-2”. “After the floods, the river's water has become a good environment for the multiplication of germs of many infectious diseases,” says the chief epidemiologist from Bender, Dmitry Kirsta. Every sample of Nistru water has cholera vibrions and pathogenic bacteria that can cause dysentery, salmonellosis, A hepatitis, typhoid, viral meningitis. Kirsta says the water flooded households, garbage dumps, toilets and the waste from those reached the river. In addition, many plantations were flooded, as their owners want to sell the harvest. The buyers should be cautious, Kirsta warns. “In order to prevent the infections and intestine disorders, one should avoid contacting the Nistru water, one should not bathe, fish in that water, as it is full of pathogens,” the doctor says. Kirsta adds the epidemiologists check up the Nistru water and the quality of the drinking water on a daily basis. These days, 10 cases of children younger than 12 catching viral meningitis have been recorded in Rabnita town, because of the floods.