At the time of the severe coronavirus epidemic, experts noted that they did not have enough data from collaborating GPs to examine samples from patients due to covid-19 flu testing.
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“The growing trend in the detection of influenza A / H3 virus persists and is slowly becoming a slightly dominant respiratory virus in addition to SARS-CoV-3, variant BA.2 and its subvariants. So far, we only register the H3 subtype in the Czech Republic, “said the SZÚ.
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This type is also dominant elsewhere in Europe, with 13 out of 38 countries reporting low flu intensity, medium intensity in Belgium, Estonia, France, Georgia and Romania, high Bulgaria and Denmark and very high Luxembourg.
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The head of the Department of Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases of the SZÚ, Jan Kynčl, predicted in mid-March a question from the Czech News Agency that, together with the migration wave from Ukraine, there may be an increased spread of influenza.
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“Due to the current situation, when a large number of people are being transferred and they are accumulating in detention centers, respiratory infections may also be spreading,” Kynčl said at the time.
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So far, doctors have most often reported common illnesses in refugees related to their escape from home. Respiratory infections and colds or intestinal infections often occur. However, hospitals are also starting to take care of the seriously ill, for example, the Motol University Hospital has taken care of over two dozen children with cancer, and the Královské Vinohrady University Hospital is treating an 18-month-old girl from the war zone with burns on 60 percent of the body.
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