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Russia - Epidemic threshold reached for seasonal flu in 20 regions, dozens of schools closed: 90k flu & ARI cases in Moscow, mostly H3N2 - December 15, 2016

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  • Russia - Epidemic threshold reached for seasonal flu in 20 regions, dozens of schools closed: 90k flu & ARI cases in Moscow, mostly H3N2 - December 15, 2016

    December 15, 2016 20:54 Jaroslav Krasienko
    Muscovites attacked Hong Kong flu





    From Moscow to Kaliningrad flu captures the major cities of the country.incidence threshold has already been exceeded in 20 regions. Suffer the children, and generally not vaccinated. The quarantine closed dozens of schools and kindergartens. More than 90 thousand cases of influenza and acute respiratory viral infections - only in the capital. This year, Muscovites attacked the Hong Kong virus.
    In this Moscow family get sick and junior and senior. Strictly on a schedule - a simultaneous reception of tablets.
    "Seriously ill, sick kids at all difficult, but this time it was a nightmare Here is this young man called an ambulance 39.7 repeatedly we could not knock down at all..", - Said Oksana Kushpita.
    Sick flu already across the country: to coordinate the work needed opportunities MOE crisis center. Officials and doctors check if all the regions are ready to fight the infection. The majority of cases - children of school age.Almost all - not grafted.
    "Epidemic situation is growing and will grow mainly in 90 percent or more -. It is the flu virus AH3N2, what is called Hong Kong flu virus," - said Anna Popova, chief state sanitary doctor of Russia, the head of Rospotrebnadzor.
    Microbiological laboratory, where the first suspected that the flu strain that appeared in Russia, it is not normal - it is a small room in the center of Moscow. There is a refrigerator for storage of reagents, apparatus for determining the causative agent of the virus and the main workspace, called "CRC-box."
    "When conducting our routine research specialist virologist found that the delivered material is AH3N2 flu virus after which he was sent to the reference center for further examination.", - Explained Maria Yampol'skaya, Head of the Department of Virology, Microbiology Laboratory of Hygiene and Epidemiology Center.
    In the middle of the last century, the Hong Kong flu claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands. First symptoms of it, as in most conventional - high fever, body aches. But then - well-being deteriorates.
    On the day the staff in children's clinics in Komsomolsk-on-Amur to take hundreds of calls. The classes and entire schools closed for quarantine in kindergartens allowed only after a medical examination.
    In Smolensk, stopped classes in the three schools. Now it is carried out disinfection.
    "Literally, on Monday began to get sick first, second, third, and up to eleventh grade", - says Galina Abdulmalikova Acting director of high school № 39 Smolensk.
    In Moscow, the epidemic threshold for thirty-two percent. Urban clinics six days a week. In the first place in the capital disinfect subway cars - powerful quartz lamps.
    "If you were frozen, come home - a warming drink tea, tea with honey, tea with raspberries, soak in the bath with herbs, here you will spend prophylaxis" - advises Elena Avdeeva, Head of therapy department clinic number 64 in Moscow.
    Even doctors are advised to use the masks, wash hands frequently, and at the slightest symptoms of the disease to stay at home. In those Russian regions where the epidemic situation is normal, there is still time to get vaccinated.

    zhttps://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=2833462&cid=7




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