Since the beginning of the year, 573 people in the Irkutsk region have been diagnosed with chronic hepatitis C. This was reported by IrkutskMedia news agency. Another 26 people were diagnosed with acute hepatitis C virus, the agency cites data from infectious disease specialist at the Altai Territory Health Department Valery Shevchenko. Experts note that every year fewer and fewer cases of acute hepatitis C are detected, and more and more chronic cases.

The Russian government is not considering introducing legal liability for refusing to vaccinate children, Gazeta.ru writes , citing sources in the Cabinet of Ministers. As reported in the secretariat of Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets, the possibility of introducing punishment for parents who prohibited vaccinations for their children will not be discussed in the “near future” in the context of the development of legal acts.

A girl from a psychoneurological boarding school in the city of Cheremkhova died in hospital from an intestinal infection. RIA Novosti reports this. Previously, 23 children from this boarding school were hospitalized with suspected infection. The agency notes that the initial laboratory diagnosis did not reveal an acute intestinal infection. However, after a second check the infection was confirmed, quarantine was introduced in the boarding school.

Sergey and Galina Lelikov have been together for 15 years, but have never seen each other. They told “such matters” about the first date, walks in Moscow and love for cooking Help your interlocutor help Sergey: - Gali had poor vision since birth, she saw only the outlines of objects. When she finished school, she had an unsuccessful operation, after which she was completely blinded. Galina: - And Seryozha lost his vision when he was thirty -five: he fell asleep, and he woke up already blind.

In the United States, a girl was walked down the aisle at her wedding by a man who received her deceased father's heart. The New York Times reports this. In 2006, Janie Stepien's father Michael was returning home from work when he was robbed by a teenager. During the conflict, he shot the man in the head. Stepien was taken to hospital in serious condition. By that time, the man could no longer be saved.

American Katrina Frost went on a trip around the world with her daughter, who is losing her sight. The Daily Mail reports this. Six-year-old Kaylee suffers from a genetic disorder that causes gradual loss of vision. She has undergone five laser eye surgeries and has not yet lost her vision completely. At the age of three, the girl began to learn to walk with a cane, and then to use Braille. Kaylee's mother took her daughter on a trip to show her as much as possible.

The Samara prosecutor's office protested the ban on wearing trousers in a Samara school, Interfax news agency reports . According to KP-Samara, students of school No. 22 were forbidden to wear trousers even in winter. The school management explained this by saying that the students wore too revealing, tight pants, and in order to foster a culture of behavior and strengthen academic discipline, a complete ban on trousers, as well as miniskirts and short blouses, was introduced.

A Moscow metro police officer was fired for not providing timely assistance to a citizen, TASS reports citing the press service of the capital's Ministry of Internal Affairs. On July 13, at the Komsomolskaya metro station, a security officer found a person lying down and reported this to the policeman on duty at the station. Metro employees suggested that the intoxicated man call an ambulance, but he allegedly refused, accompanied by obscene language.

Vital drugs for people whose body cannot remove toxic copper was not in pharmacies from March to August. In some regions of Russia, there is still no Russia. Breaks in taking the drug lead patients to cirrhosis of the liver The central hall of the St. Petersburg General Post Office is flooded with soft morning light. The light pours through the glass ceiling and makes the hall similar to the aquarium. In the Aquarium, a few visitors are slowly swimming. No one is in a hurry, no queues.

The Kuznetsk city prosecutor's office demands that the non-profit organization Panacea, which deals with HIV prevention, be recognized as a foreign agent. Kommersant reports this. In 2013, Panacea purchased 100 thousand syringes and 10 thousand condoms and handed them over to a doctor at the AIDS clinic in one of the city’s hospitals. Within a year, he gave them to at-risk patients.