In Odessa, a measles outbreak was recorded, 101 patients were already taken to the infectious disease hospital.
This was reported by the head physician Svetlana Lavryukova, reports "Duma".
The majority of cases are children under three years old, but there are also adults. Hospitalize those whose condition is assessed as severe, pregnant and patients from closed groups (orphanages, dormitories and t.
"If we talk only about those hospitalized with measles in the infectious diseases hospital, then in March these were isolated cases, and since mid-April the number of cases has gradually increased. Currently, there are 37 patients in the hospital. And, including those who have already been discharged, this is 101 patients, "she said..
According to statistics, in the past such a number of cases were in the whole country, and not in the same city. At risk are children aged 4-9 years and adults 30-50 years. The chief expert of the department of state supervision for compliance with the sanitary legislation of the State Consumer Protection Administration Olga Balanovskaya says that in Europe now - 14 countries are endemic for measles. For example, from the middle of 2016 in Romania there are 5 thousand sick, there are lethal cases.
"The increase in the incidence of measles is cyclical in nature. In Ukraine in 2006, 43 thousand people became ill. In 2012 there was another cyclical upswing, 15 thousand. There comes 2017, a certain number of unvaccinated children is accumulating, and we are getting a new recovery ... The only remedy for measles is the vaccine. Unfortunately, vaccination rates in Odessa do not differ much from Romania, "the expert noted..
The chief freelance pediatrician of the health department of the Odessa City Council, Anna Lunyova, reported that there are now 14,000 doses of measles vaccine in urban polyclinics.
"We call on the parents of all healthy children over 12 months old who did not get measles and were not vaccinated, go now to the clinic, regardless of the schedule of vaccinations," she said..
The chief freelance pediatrician of the city health department, Anna Luneva, noted that when a disease is needed, it is necessary not to lead a child to a polyclinic, but to call a doctor or ambulance,.
"If the parents know that the child was in contact with measles, then it is necessary to warn doctors about this," she added..
As reported by the "Observer", earlier the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) reported that the measles virus kills 132,000 children every year.
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