The meningococcal outbreak at the Ozone depot in Yekaterinburg could be a major outbreak for Russia and the first in a long hiatus since 1995. This was told socialbites.ca by a doctor of medical sciences, a professor, a leading employee of the Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology. NF Gamalei Natalya Kostyukova.
“Ten cases is a huge epidemic and it could have huge consequences because there has been no meningococcal outbreak in Russia since 1995. Prior to that, there was a massive entry of infections into the USSR in 1968. He brought Vietnamese people with meningococcus to China, there were hundreds of cases. Then, until 1996, we couldn’t get rid of this drift,” he said. NF Gamaleya Natalya Kostyukova, who has been working on meningococcus for decades.
According to Kostyukova, getting this infection requires close contact, kissing is the easiest way to get meningococcus.
“When shaking hands, transmission is unlikely unless the person has blown their nose on their hands before. It is not possible for meningococci to be transmitted through parcels,” he explained.
Currently, it is reported that 10 people in Yekaterinburg have been infected with meningococcus, two of whom have died from meningococcal meningitis.
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