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Friday, January 25, 2013

Incidence of acute respiratory viral infections are rising in Sakhalin

SARS viruses circulating in Sakhalin


Incidence of acute respiratory viral infections are rising among the population of the area
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, January 25, SakhalinMedia. 
According to experts of the Federal Service Rospotrebnadzor, now in Russia as a whole registered non-epidemic incidence of SARS and influenza, RIA Sakhalinmedia in the Ministry of Health. At the same time, on Sakhalin Island each week growing incidence of viral respiratory infections in the population field.
On Sakhalin Island weekly epidemic threshold in two administrative units (Korsakov MO Okha MO) at a threshold incidence in Kholmsk municipality, while the incidence of non-epidemic in the territories. According to the results of laboratory monitoring in the administrative territories of circulating viruses complex ARI (1.3 type parainfluenza, adenovirus, and RS-virus), influenza cases were not registered. At the end of the third week of the year (from 14 to 18 January 2013), the incidence of SARS among the region's population is 10.4% below the epidemic threshold, but 33.2% higher than the same week last year and significantly - by 88.1% higher incidence of last week, indicating the activation of the epidemic process.
According to the forecasts of specialists of the Ministry of Health of Sakhalin, a seasonal rise in the incidence of SARS and influenza in the territory of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands is expected in February...