In the Rivn region, a 52-year-old resident of the Sarnensky district from the upper eyelid of the right eye, ophthalmologists removed 11 cm helminth.
This was reported today, July 10, according to the Facebook page of the regional center for control and prevention of diseases of Rivn.
It is noted that at the end of June a woman went to a medical institution, since over the past two weeks she felt general weakness, headache, pain and swelling that migrated in the right cheek, forehead and under the eyeball.
After examination and hospitalization, the patient operated and found that the cause of the disease was a parasitic under the skin of the skin of the Dirofilaria worm. Currently, a comprehensive epidemiological and epizootic investigation has begun in the center of the disease, ”the medical institution says.
It is noted that in the region this is the fourth place since the beginning of the year, the case of subcutaneous dirophiliat in people and the 54th place in its first registration in 2005.
The source of the disease is dogs, cats and wild carnivorous animals, from which invasion is not transmitted directly, but only through specific carriers, mainly mosquitoes that supply blood. In addition, according to recent scientific research, carriers, gedzi and ticks can be carriers.
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