Ukrainian infectious disease specialist reported 13 cases of metapneumovirus disease
Thirteen cases of human metapneumovirus have been recorded in Ukraine. This was reported on January 6 by the President of the All-Ukrainian Association of infectious disease specialists, Professor Olga Golubovskaya.
"Since the beginning of the season in Ukraine registered 13 officially confirmed cases", - she wrote on the page in the social network Facebook (belongs to the organization Meta, recognized in Russia as extremist).
According to the expert, the real number of cases may be much higher.
The day before, China's Department of Disease Control and Prevention, referring to the results of respiratory samples analyzed from December 23 to 29, 2024, reported an outbreak of human metapneumovirus in the country. It noted that it is actively spreading throughout the territory of China and mainly children under 14 years of age are exposed to the disease. People living in the northern provinces of the country are most often infected.
Later, Rospotrebnadzor reported that specialists are monitoring the epidemiological situation related to the increase in the number of metapneumovirus diseases in the PRC.
On the same day, Georgy Vikulov, candidate of medical sciences, director of the Research Center for Prevention and Treatment of Viral Infections, head of the herpes center of the Moscow State University, immunologist-allergologist, infectious disease specialist, told Izvestia who is most exposed to the risk of infection with metapneumovirus and what is its incubation period.
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