Over 500 Cases of Jaundice: the Highest Number in Prague Since 2008 - Seznam Zprávy

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At the press conference, Válek emphasized personal prevention, paying attention to thorough hygiene, especially washing hands with soap under running water. Doctors in Prague detected 505 cases of hepatitis A from the beginning of this year to the end of August, the most since 2008. "It's certainly not good, but you have to consider what kind of community it is, it's localized to a certain area, it's not like you'll catch hepatitis on Wenceslas …

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Hepatitis A has occurred in more than five hundred people in Prague this year. The number is the highest in the last seventeen years. The situation in the capital is the worst in the republic. A further increase in the disease is expected with the start of the new school year.