The manager of the “Victor Babeş” Infectious Diseases Hospital in the capital, Dr. Simin Aysel Florescu, explained to News.ro that we risk a new measles epidemic due to unvaccinated children, according to G4Media.ro. More and more sick children present themselves at the medical unit, gradually reaching the situation before the pandemic, with a very large number of cases. Measles is a disease that can cause severe, even fatal complications. There are parents with anti-vaccination beliefs, or who simply neglect this topic, or they don’t have a family doctor and they don’t want to register with one, the doctor added.
“Unfortunately, the situation before the pandemic is slowly returning. As I think the world remembers, before 2019, an epidemic wave of measles developed throughout Europe, in which it is obvious that Romania was also caught, even with a very large number of cases. It is a disease for which there has been a vaccine for a very long time, and now, after during the pandemic things have practically returned to 0 due to restrictions and not vaccination, now measles cases are reappearing.
In July, we had around 25 cases of children with measles, coming from the same outbreak, unvaccinated children, even from unvaccinated mothers, so things will probably accelerate from this point of view.
What protects us is the vaccine, the measles vaccine is administered from the first year of life, according to the National Immunization Program, there is a vaccine, there is availability, it remains to convince the parents to join this vaccination program”, explained the doctor.
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2023-08-14 08:38:51
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