Russian regions with the highest morbidity associated with infectious diseases

The most widespread infectious diseases among adult population were respiratory infections (common cold, flu, community-acquired pneumonia). In January 2017 morbidity was 10 cases per 1000 adults on average.

From the regional perspective, the most unfavorable region was Chelyabinsk region: morbidity rate reached 25.77 cases per 1000 adults. In Kaluga , Archangelsk, Tyumen, Sverdlovsk, Perm regions, Saint Petersburg, Komi Republic morbidity rate is also considerably higher than the average.

In Ingushetia, Chechnya, Dagestan, Krasnodar region, on the contrary, morbidity was within 0.5-2 cases per 1000 adults.

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The second widespread diseases were GIT infections (enteroviral, toxicological infections, shigellosis and others). The average morbidity was 0.15 cases per 1000 adults. Nenets autonomous region has the highest morbidity with 0.57 cases per 1 thousand grownups. Saint Petersburg, Yamalo-Nenets autonomous region, Murmansk, Krasnoyarsk and Primorsky regions are also marked by a high morbidity rate.

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Hepatitis (acute and chronic) was the third most widespread disease among adult population. In January 2017 the average morbidity was 0.1 cases per one thousand people. The regions with the highest rate are Saint Petersburg (0.24 cases), Sakha, Yamalo-Nenets autonomous region, Khanty-Mansi autonomous region, Sakhalin region.

Source: National Industrial Information Agency