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  • Russia - 26 children sick in pneumonia outbreak from 1 school, some quarantined at hospital in stable condition in Khakassia

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    Pneumonia outbreak in a school in Khakassia: it's time to be vigilant (VIDEO)


    Khakassia, November 27, 2012, 10:55 - Rosprotrebnadzor and the Ministry of Health are investigating the cause of the mass of Khakassia morbidity in children with pneumonia in one of the Ust-Abakan schools. Over the past six weeks the diagnosis "pneumonia" set 26 school children. Unfavorable epidemiological situation has led to what is learned in school had to be canceled.

    Unplanned vacation in Ust-Abakan school number 2 started from the middle of last week. The first documented case of pneumonia in October. Then this unit higher value no one paid. When the students gradually began to hospitalize one by one, the school had to close for the identification and elimination of all possible reasons, according to "News. Khakassia "(STRC Khakassia).

    In the district hospital quarantined: unauthorized entry is prohibited in all offices. The disease is transmitted by airborne droplets. Because doctors do not rule out the possibility that he could get sick, one or two students, it is enough that the infection has spread to a large group.

    According to the chief physician of the district hospital, Vladimir need, all hospitalized state is normal, severe disease is not present.

    The first symptoms that should alert, doctors say, is a weakness, malaise, chills, fever, sweating, shortness of breath and headaches. Go to the pneumonia can usually SARS.

    The growing number of cases in the autumn is the seasonal factor. And every five - seven years, there are more massive outbreak. However, a similar case, when 26 students fell ill once one school in Ust-Abakan, has not been observed.

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