The local headquarters for disease control reported that of those diagnosed with hepatitis A, 142 were children.
Cases of hepatitis A have also been reported in Smolensk and Moscow oblasts.
Sales of the brewery' products have been suspended.
The outbreak was being blamed on a beer brewing plant in the Tver Oblast city of Rzhev.
Hepatitis A is an illness that is often epidemic but usually benign caused by a virus that attacks the liver.
(ITAR-TASS/AFP)
Cases of hepatitis A have also been reported in Smolensk and Moscow oblasts.
Sales of the brewery' products have been suspended.
The outbreak was being blamed on a beer brewing plant in the Tver Oblast city of Rzhev.
Hepatitis A is an illness that is often epidemic but usually benign caused by a virus that attacks the liver.
(ITAR-TASS/AFP)