Boy with suspected rabies hospitalized in Osh region

16:09, 07 сентября 2022, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , Maria ORLOVA

A boy with suspected rabies was admitted to the hospital in Osh region. The information was confirmed by the Ministry of Health of Kyrgyzstan.

According to him, the boy, 8, was admitted to Aravan General Medical Practice Centre on September 5. «The child was hospitalized in the infectious diseases department with suspected hydrophobia (rabies),» the ministry said.

The boy’s condition is assessed as moderate. The child receives the necessary treatment. Specialists of the Center for Quarantine and Especially Dangerous Infections consult doctors.

Earlier, according to preliminary data, a man died of rabies in Bazar-Korgon district.