The flu kills: two children and one adult died in the Orenburg region
2019 flu virus claimed the lives of two children and one adult in the Orenburg region. Doctors consider the cause of death to be too lightning for the disease and a late request for medical help. In all three cases, people were not vaccinated, and self-treatment was also practiced, experts of the region’s Ministry of Health said.
This year, the peak of the epidemic of influenza is considered to be passed, and gradually in all regions the incidence begins to gradually decline. But until the end of the epidemic is still far away, experts predict that this will happen only in late March-early April.
All district doctors, ambulance doctors have been transferred to an enhanced mode of operation, and additional infectious beds are being deployed in hospitals. In each region, formed a two-week stocks of drugs for treatment.
Earlier, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that influenza A and B viruses are rampant this season. Singapore and Colorado strains came to replace Hong Kong and Brisbane strains.
A hotline on the prevention and treatment of influenza continues to operate at Rospotrebnadzor.
Experts remind that The first signs of flu are fever, muscle aches, photophobia and respiratory symptoms.. At risk - children and the elderly. Self-medication is dangerous because the 2019 virus type is indeed tends to flow rapidly. Immediately you should call the child's doctor, without practicing any self-treatment.
In children who received flu vaccination on time, the course of the disease is easier, complications are rare, and there have been no deaths.
