Doctors advised Russians to get vaccinated against meningococcus

Severe forms of meningococcal infection "give an extremely high mortality rate," if an outbreak of meningococcus occurs in groups, then a person is more likely to become infected. Andrey Pozdnyakov, Candidate of Medical Sciences, infectious diseases specialist at Invitro, and expert at the Infowork educational marketplace, told Izvestia about this. He strongly recommended getting vaccinated against meningococcus.

"As an infectious disease specialist, I would recommend that both adults and children get vaccinated against meningococcal infection. Unfortunately, this vaccine is still included in the additional list, which is vaccinated according to epidemiological indications. Meningococcal infection is not as contagious as viral infections. But severe forms of meningococcus give an extremely high mortality rate. In addition, this infection is transmitted by airborne droplets," the doctor explained.

According to him, people who work in rooms with poor ventilation in small areas where many employees work are at risk.

The doctor also advises to get a chickenpox vaccine if you did not get sick in childhood: in adulthood, people get more sick, complications occur more often, herpes zoster (shingles) may appear. Pozdnyakov recommends that the elderly, smokers and those with chronic lung pathology be vaccinated against pneumococcal infection, and those who often travel to southern countries against hepatitis A.

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