In Odessa daily hospitalitynet 11 patients with measles, medical
Over the past month, the disease took the lives of three people
In Odessa daily hospitalitynet 11 patients with measles, most of them children. This was announced by the chief physician of Odessa city clinical infectious diseases hospital Svetlana Lavrikova, reports Radio Liberty.
According to her, in the last month, died of measles, three people – a 17-year-old and two adults, all residents of Odessa.
Only since April this year, when Odessa began to increase in measles prevalence from the disease and its complications died five people. The first fatal cases occurred in the spring.
Now for measles in Odessa infectious hospital redeveloped into another truck.
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The situation in Odessa, the chief pediatrician city health Department Anna Luneva characterizes as “flash” and not as an epidemic. In the spring, according to her, the disease was cured more than a thousand people.
The doctors are also reminded that the specific prevention of measles is vaccination. Three-component PDA-vaccine European production of children in Ukraine are free, and adults are buying themselves through the pharmacy network.
UNICEF claim that measles outbreaks are cyclical and occur every 5-6 years, the main cause of outbreaks, low immunization coverage. The Ministry of health reported that in the past 3-5 years have been significant interruptions in supply of vaccines, but now in Ukraine.
Among the complications caused by the measles damage to the nervous system (encephalitis), pneumonia, otitis media, vision loss. Measles is easily transmitted from person to person. First, the patient is experiencing symptoms of the common cold: runny nose, temperature, cough, in about a week a rash (first on head, then on the upper and lower parts of the body).
According to the world health organization, the world each year 24-30 million people suffer from measles, more than 800 thousand die from the infection and its complications (314 deaths a day, 13 deaths every hour).