Prevalence of Water and Food-borne Diseases in Kosova

Infectious diseases in general, represent a major health, social, economic and biological problem in Kosova. Aim of the work is to define prevalence of infectious water and food-borne diseases in Kosova. Methods are based on the use and analysis of epidemiological data. For data testing we have used the proportional t-test with reliability level p<0.01. The data were collected in NIPHK (National Institute of Public health of Kosova) and annual reports on the evidence of infectious diseases in Kosova. During the period 2000-2008, the trend of infectious diseases was variable with a tendency to decrease, with the exclusion of acute diarrhea cases that marks an increasing trend. Acute diarrhea is the most common with almost 90% of all water and food born diseases. The largest number of cases with acute Jaundice A (4.4%) was recorded in 2000, since then we have smaller number of new cases through years. There were smaller number of cases with meningeal syndrome and diarrheic syndrome with blood during those years compared with acute diarrhea and acute jaundice A. While there is a lack of a serious approach to these diseases, and we donʹt have an increased awareness on health we can conclude that in the future, the trend of water and food born diseases will consistently get higher, and with the possibility of registering new epidemics.