“The patient is contagious for 7-8 days. Weakness, pain in the throat, with a typical current of measles-throat rashes, type reminiscent of semolina. The rash appears on the first day, second day in the trunk, on the third-on legs “. Signs of illness today, 16 February, in St. Petersburg during the press-conference “measles outbreak in Saint Petersburg: causes, effects, projections,” said doctor-epidemiologist of the St. Petersburg Clinical Hospital for infectious diseases. Oleg Botkin’s collection of parks, reporter BakuToday .
According to the experts, visit a sick measles the doctor must each day. The older the child, the heavier measles has been postponed. According to infections, disease cases registered this year in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Vologda Oblast and Stavropol Krai. To protect themselves from measles should be vaccinated.
“I hope that measles in Saint Petersburg and Leningrad oblast can handle for may holidays,” concluded Oleg parks.
As we have informed, in Saint Petersburg today 135 registered cases. Among the ill-91 child, teen and adult 41 3. In the Leningrad region registered 15 cases of measles (14 children and 1 adult). In 2011, in Leningrad oblast was recorded just one case of measles, and one imported-sick worker from Tajikistan.
