Mass deworming campaign to cover over 6.5 million children in Uzbekistan
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On April 19, Uzbekistan launched a mass campaign to prevent intestinal helminthiasis among children.
The campaign will cover children from 2 to 10 years of age (over 6 million 115 thousand), as well as schoolchildren under 15 years old (445 thousand in total) studying in high-risk zones (Bukhara, Kashkadarya, Surkhandarya, Syrdarya, Tashkent and Fergana regions and Karakalpakstan), the Health Ministry said.
The first stage of the campaign will take place on April 19-24 this year.
The Ministry of Health noted that helminthiasis occurs as a result of the ingress of parasitic worms into the human body. To date, about 250 species of such parasites have been identified, of which 9 species were found in children.