One more person died of measles in Ukraine

17 January 2018, 16:31 | Incidents
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This is stated in the message of the press service of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine in Facebook.

Doctors explain such a disease by low coverage of preventive vaccinations of children and the cyclicity of this disease. It is known that the incubation period of measles without symptoms is 6-21 days.

Then begins the period of the disease with such symptoms:

high temperature, headache, runny nose, dry cough, swollen lymph nodes, inflammation of the mucous membrane of the eyes (lacrimation, photophobia, purulent discharge), diarrhea and vomiting.

Measles can lead to serious complications: pneumonia, ear infection, brain inflammation - encephalitis, as well as disability and death.

Recall, as previously reported, "URA-Inform, an acute situation with diseases can be traced in large cities - Kiev, Kharkov, Odessa.




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