There may be intense concern concerning the outbreak of whooping cough, with specialists sounding the alarm, whereas the EODY additionally made related bulletins on the difficulty.
“Certainly, there’s a downside and the EODY made the bulletins appropriately, as a result of final yr at precisely the identical time, within the first 5 months, we had 9 instances and this yr now we have 320”, explains to Mega the president of EINAP, Matina Pagonis.
“All this time we have gotten away with vaccinations, we have put them apart, that is the fact. What we concern within the historical past of whooping cough, other than the fever and that excruciating cough, particularly for younger youngsters, are its issues: pneumonia, encephalitis and the convulsions that infants do. That is why the 2 vaccines exist, they should do them”, added Matina Pagoni.
In keeping with the info, the instances quantity to:
- 57.8% youngsters – youngsters
- 25.2% infants
- 14.8% infants underneath two months
“The scientific image of a affected person with whooping cough is tragic. He cannot breathe, he cannot stand. Coughing causes vomiting in small infants and a scenario the place you’ll be able to’t preserve them at dwelling,” mentioned the president of EINAP.
Whereas he concluded that “it might probably final 4 weeks and extra. Whooping cough is troublesome. For babies it’s the worst.”
How it’s unfold – Who must be vaccinated?
The professor of Hygiene and Epidemiology at EKPA, Gikas Majorkinis, additionally spoke concerning the outbreak of whooping cough on Friday morning.
He, for his half, needed to elucidate what it’s. “Whooping cough is a micro organism, not a virus. This bacterium, in truth, doesn’t survive exterior the physique. It’s transmitted by droplets when somebody is contaminated particularly in probably the most contagious interval when they’re within the sineache. Whooping cough causes a loud cough that feels like somebody is screaming. Can somebody vomit from this paroxysmal cough,” he famous.
“Whooping cough is prevented by vaccination ranging from the second month. Nonetheless, infants usually are not adequately protected till the Third-4th vaccination and subsequently it is strongly recommended that pregnant ladies have the primary vaccination between 26 and 36 weeks,” he mentioned.
Gikas Majorkinis additionally needed to tell the residents concerning the signs “it begins with a fever and a gentle fever. The analysis may be made with a molecular PCR methodology if there’s a suspicion and it will be good to do that as early as potential if this suspicion exists as a result of then the therapy is simpler”, he defined.
Infants and youngsters are extra susceptible, because the protection of the primary vaccines has dropped in adolescence, because the booster dose is normally not given, added the EKPA professor.
“Signs can final 2 to three weeks. Crucial factor is for pregnant ladies to get the vaccine on this interval of the outbreak, as a result of the deaths primarily concern infants and the one option to stop it’s this” concluded Gikas Majorkinis.
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