In Russia, mass vaccination is required to prevent measles in order to prevent the occurrence of the disease. This is the opinion of the “Public News Service”. expression It is named after Gamalei Alexander Gintsburg, Director of the Epidemiology and Microbiology Research Center. Earlier it was reported that several faculties of Moscow State University decided to switch to distance education due to the discovery of a case of measles.
“To successfully carry out vaccination, mass detections of protective antibodies in the population are required. Perhaps not the entire population of the Russian Federation, but the part from which an epidemic spread, working in large and close teams, with twenty lines of contagiousness of a pathogen. So the probability of one person infecting twenty people a day is very high,” said Gintsburg.
According to him, it is necessary to vaccinate people with low levels of antibodies. This level will be determined by analysis. The expert also noted that measles is very severe in the adult population. Its most terrible consequence is immunodeficiency, which lasts for six months.
“The immune system is disabled, the person becomes completely vulnerable. Therefore, the probability of any complications in this post-measles period is very high. If a person with measles is still prone to some type of chronic disease, they are guaranteed to flare up,” he said.
It was previously reported that Russian regions. in the open the number of people with measles. Rospotrebnadzor in Dagestan reported that 188 laboratory-confirmed measles cases were recorded in the republic, 118 in the Samara region and more than 100 in the Kursk region.