Basic precautions, including wearing a mask, will help protect against pneumonia, whooping cough and other airborne diseases. In an interview with RT on this subject reported general practitioner Lyudmila Lapa.
“The main breeding ground now is the metro. We need a culture of human behavior: wearing a mask so as not to infect others, and if we are sure that we are sick, we immediately go to the clinic,” the doctor advised.
When it comes to childhood diseases, classrooms should be quarantined if necessary to avoid additional contact, he added.
Rospotrebnadzor in early December reported About the emergence of cases of mycoplasma infection in Russia. At the same time, the department noted that serious forms of the disease have not yet been observed.
Later, information appeared on social networks about cases of flu and latent pneumonia, allegedly widespread among schoolchildren. At the Moscow Ministry of Health named These messages are invalid.
Doctors assured that a normal variant of the development of the epidemiological situation characteristic of the autumn-winter period currently exists in Moscow. According to them, the incidence does not exceed seasonal indicators.
Former infectious disease specialist in the name Quarantine was implemented in Moscow due to flu.