The infected person was diagnosed last week
A CASE OF WHOPUS WAS ESTABLISHED IN VELIKO TARNOVO REGION. The disease was detected in the period from April 15 to 21, reported the RZI Veliko Tarnovo. The department explained that the sick person was a student. The case was laboratory-confirmed with a PCR test at the NRL “Molecular Microbiology” at the National Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases. The contact persons in the class have been placed under medical supervision and anti-epidemic measures have been ordered – cleaning, disinfection of surfaces in the premises and ventilation
According to “Borba” information, it is about a 17-year-old girl who has been admitted for hospital treatment.
The RZI reminds that the main means of prevention and combating whooping cough is the administration of a vaccine. Immunizations against the disease are included in Bulgaria’s immunization calendar and are administered already in the first year after birth – three doses of the vaccine on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th months after birth and three re-immunizations – at 16 months, during the year, in which they turn 6 and in the year in which they turn 12.
Unvaccinated children who are not in contact with a pertussis patient can have a missed immunization immediately. In the current year, children born in 2018 who turn 6 years old and children born in 2012 who turn 12 years old are subject to reimmunization against pertussis in preschool and school age. Immunizations are carried out within the calendar year, regardless of the date of the child’s birth.
The disease is an airborne infection caused by a highly contagious bacterium. Infants who have either not started or not completed the vaccination course are most often infected. Vaccinated children, often adults, also get sick. The disease is most risky in the unvaccinated. Patients are contagious for about a week before they show symptoms until about 5 days after starting antibiotic treatment. Some vaccinated people, especially adults, can be contagious without showing any symptoms at all.
From the beginning of the year until now, there has been an increase in the incidence of whooping cough in the country, with a total of 205 registered cases. The last detected case of whooping cough in the Veliko Tarnovo region was in 2016.
Meanwhile, last week, 2 people with chicken pox, 4 with scarlet fever, five with enterocolitis, two with tuberculosis, one with rotavirus gastroenteritis and a patient with viral hepatitis were also found in the region.
There are no recorded cases of COVID-19.
Galina GEORGIEVA
