{"id":5658,"date":"2025-04-09T10:53:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T10:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/5658\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T10:53:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T10:53:16","slug":"czech-republic-panic-as-health-officials-warn-of-virus-outbreak-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/5658\/","title":{"rendered":"Czech Republic panic as health officials warn of virus outbreak | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Czech Republic<\/a> has seen an increase in hepatitis A cases as the infectious disease spreads. In the first three months of the year alone, there were 320 cases registered by health officials<\/a> – a whopping half of all the 636 cases last year, two of which resulted in death. Renata Ciupek from the South Moravian Regional Public Health Authority said: “Last year’s rapidly increasing trend has not stopped. With the upcoming travel season, especially for holidays, infection hotspots will present a higher risk of further spread.”<\/p>\n

It particularly affects children,<\/a> people living in hostels or homeless shelters, and marginalised communities. The hardest hit areas have been Prague, Olomuc, Moravia-Silesia, and Usti nad Labem. Kate\u0159ina Fabi\u00e1nov\u00e1 from the Czech National Institute of Public Health said: “The declining incidence, combined with the absence of routine vaccination, has resulted in a growing number of people without protective antibodies who are highly susceptible to infection. This mainly concerns children and young adults.”<\/p>\n

The country’s State Health Institute has urged everyone to adopt strict hygeine standards and get vaccinated.<\/p>\n

Barbora Mackov\u00e1, chief public health officer, added: “The best preventive measure is vaccination<\/a>, ideally in childhood, as full vaccination offers long-term protection.<\/p>\n

“[Immunisation] is particularly recommended for people at higher risk of hepatitis A due to their occupation, travellers to high-risk areas, people with chronic liver conditions, close contacts of infected individuals, and people engaging in high-risk behaviours that facilitate virus transmission.”<\/p>\n

Despite this, the Czech Republic has seen an overall decrease in cases of hepatitis A over the last decade as sanitation infrastructure has improved.<\/p>\n

Hepatitis A typically spreads through poor hygeine and contimated food or water<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The vaccine currently costs up to 2,000 CZK (\u00a368), but some health insurance providers will partially cover the cost.<\/p>\n

Symptoms include: a high temperature, flu-like symptoms, upper stomach main, diarrhoea or constipation, itchy or yellow skin.<\/p>\n

However, most children and some adults may have no symptoms at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Czech Republic has seen an increase in hepatitis A cases as the infectious disease spreads. In the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3032,3036,105,3037,3038,3033,3039,3035,16,15,3034],"class_list":{"0":"post-5658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-czech-republic","9":"tag-czech-republic-hepatitis-a","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-hepatitis-a","12":"tag-hepatitis-a-cases","13":"tag-hepatitis-a-outbreak","14":"tag-hepatitis-a-vaccine","15":"tag-public-health-measures","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-vaccination"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114307635793169837","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}