On August 9, the woman applied to the City Clinical Hospital No. 14. Hirschmana.
She complained of a seizure and swelling of the upper eyelid of the left eye. About this 057 reported in the Kharkov laboratory center.
The doctors removed the parasite and sent the samples for study to the bacteriological laboratory "Kharkov Regional Laboratory Center of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine". According to the laboratory, this female Dirofilaria repens is 12 cm long. Diagnosis of a woman - dirofilariasis.
Epidemiologists conducted a survey of the housing of a sick person in order to find the causes of the disease and eliminate them.
For the year 2018 in the Kharkov region the third case of dirofilariasis. The disease is most often transmitted through the bites of mosquitoes, ticks and other bloodsucking.