Rospotrebnadzor reported an epidemic surge of influenza in the country

Russians are attacking viral infections. Rospotrebnadzor of the Russian Federation today reported that epidemic thresholds for the incidence of influenza and ARVI are exceeded in at least 23 regions of the country. Just a week ago, about 13 regions had the flu, which means that the disease spreads rapidly.

Some regions suffer more than the rest - the epidemiological threshold in the Sverdlovsk Region, in Yakutia, in the Jewish Autonomous Region, in Buryatia and Altai is almost 100% higher.

One out of every three patients with laboratory tests reveals the presence of the AH1N1 influenza virus, and AH3N2 is found in 27% of the cases. Influenza B viruses were detected in 1% of cases.

Earlier, employees of the Institute of Virology named after Ivanovsky RAMS reported that in Russia pandemic virus pdm09 returnedable to cause very serious complications, especially in children and the elderly. This information was confirmed, but who vaccinated against flu vaccine is nothing to fear - they have pandemic virus will not cause complications.

A significant increase in the incidence was recorded in other Russian regions - in the Ulyanovsk and Tambov regions, in Tatarstan, in the Penza and Samara regions, in Moscow and the Moscow region, in the Leningrad region, in the Stavropol region, in the Primorsky Krai.

According to medical statistics, children most often infected with the flu are from 3 to 6 years old, and also from 7 to 14 years old, that is, attending schools, kindergartens, sections and institutions of additional education.

Rospotrebnadzor experts reminded parents that now it is not necessary to take children to crowded places, to shopping centers, and without need to hospitals and clinics. It is imperative to ventilate the room where there are many children, in schools and kindergartens should conduct daily morning "filters" - all with suspicion of SARS or influenza should be sent home.