Infectious disease doctor Igor Inozemtsev warned Penza residents about cases of infection with a dangerous disease in the region.
Meningococcal infection is transmitted from person to person by airborne droplets and enters the body through the mucous membranes of the nose, mouth and pharynx. Close contacts through which infection occurs include kissing, sneezing, and coughing.
Symptoms of infection are not immediately felt. Using nutrients found in the blood, meningococci that enter a person can quickly multiply, causing blood poisoning (sepsis), and spread through the blood into the membranes of the brain or other internal organs (for example, lungs, joints, heart, subcutaneous fat ).
The reproduction and death of meningococci leads to the release of endotoxin, a toxic product of bacterial breakdown, which destroys the walls of blood vessels, causing hemorrhages. Initially they look like a rash. The rash may appear on the mucous membranes of the mouth, nasopharynx, and sometimes the eyes, and then take on a hemorrhagic appearance (from dark red to black). In some cases, it appears as dots, and sometimes as extensive necrosis (death) of areas of the skin.
Young children (aged 0 to 5 years) are at greatest risk. The disease can be detected only after laboratory testing. Representatives of the public relations department of the State Budgetary Healthcare Institution “POCC SVMP” ask Penza residents to go to the hospital at the first symptoms of infection, because the disease is deadly.
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2024-01-22 12:39:49
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