The relaxation of barrier gestures benefit the seasonal viruses, which are hitting hard this fall. Specialists are surprised at their arrival from the first frost, when these diseases are generally scattered throughout the cold season, reports “Le Matin Dimanche”. This is the case with gastroenteritis which is already circulating and in greater numbers, whereas it usually does not occur until the end of the year. The Covid-19 therefore seems to have turned the schedule upside down.
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Family doctor in Saint-Légier (VD), Doctor Myriam Ingle regrets that many people have already lost the habit of disinfecting their hands before entering a public place. In the midst of the coronavirus crisis, the lack of contact with bronchiolitis, for example, may have resulted in some immune debt in young children. As a reminder, this respiratory disease can sometimes lead babies to the hospital. For colds, which we have lost the habit of having, “immunity is not annihilated in a year and a half”, however reassures Dr. Manuel Schibler, specialist in infectious diseases at the HUG.
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When it comes to the flu, however, doctors are concerned. As it was only scarce in the southern hemisphere during the southern winter, it is more difficult to predict which strain will circulate, because the sample is smaller. The risk is that the vaccine is not representative of the version that will be rampant in our country.
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