All regions of Russia in the coming days will cover the flu epidemic

Russian Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova said that Russians need to be prepared fully armed meet the flu epidemic. Today, the incidence of disease has more than 100% exceeded epidemiological thresholds in almost 25 regions, in the coming days, the flu will come in all the restare confident in the Ministry of Health.

According to experts, this year the flu viruses spread rapidly, in just a week the number of infected regions doubled. But the intensity of the epidemic is estimated as average.

Almost all those infected had laboratory influenza A virus detected, with a third of those infected becoming victims of the AH1N1 virus, and one-quarter of those infected found AH3N2. Registered isolated cases of detection of influenza virus B.

Virologists reported that PDM09 pandemic virus, very dangerous for children, capable of causing severe forms of complications has returned to our country. To reduce the risk of such complications will only help a flu vaccine, if it was done in a timely manner.

The virus most actively spreads through children's groups - schools and kindergartens. In different regions, preschool and school facilities are closed for quarantine. In Yekaterinburg, for example, all 100% of schools and kindergartens are closed.

According to an expert from the Ministry of Health, full epidemiological process should be completed only by mid-April. In the meantime, the epidemic is only beginning to gain momentum, says Veronika Skvortsova. And it is worth waiting for its peak in February.

Vaccination in the fall of 2018 was performed with three Russian vaccines. And if previously in our country used trivalent vaccines that protect against three types (strains) of a dangerous virus, then a new vaccine is being developed - tetravalent.

In a few months, its serial production will begin, and In the fall of 2019, adults and children will begin receiving vaccinations with a new type of vaccine.whose protective spectrum of action is extended.

Waiting for the arrival of an epidemic in your city, you should not waste time in vain, they say in the Ministry of Health. It is necessary to take simple preventive measures. Regardless of whether the vaccine was vaccinated or not, the child should not visit crowded places in the next few weeks, shopping centers, mass events, especially those that are held indoors under the roof. Reduce the risk of infection individual protective equipment - masks.