Gennady Onishchenko
Photo: Ivan MAKEEV
Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, former Chief State Sanitary Physician of the Russian Federation – with KP.RU political observer Alexander Gamov
… – Gennady Grigorievich, such disturbing information came at 4:54 in the morning.
– What happened?
– A resident of the Amur region fell ill with dengue. The man returned from a vacation in Thailand. This Rospotrebnadzor said. For the first time in three years, this disease has entered Russia, a disaster.
– Well, I wouldn’t dramatize the situation. Although for a particular citizen of ours, a serious test.
This speaks once again of what we always warn.
Dear friends, when you go on vacation to foreign countries, please pay close attention to the local situation.
And – pay attention to our messages, and when we suggest you refrain from traveling, you better listen to us.
– That is, is it necessary to refrain from vacations abroad?
– Well, yes – that’s from Thailand.
Now the season will start: they will go to Türkiye, the Emirates …
Well, in the Emirates there is still a part of the desert, and in the desert, as a rule, this kind of infectious disease that we are talking about does not occur, everything is calmer.
And as for dengue, this disease also has the name of bone-breaking fever.
– Breaks bones?
– Yes, broken bones, seizures, joint fever, giraffe fever, etc. Here it is also called date disease.
– Horror!
– The fever virus is an arbovirus, it is the same virus as tick-borne encephalitis.
– Gennady Grigoryevich, these are, so to speak, terrible details, but here is the most important thing … They write that an acute disease is transmitted to humans through the bites of mosquitoes infected with the virus. And the symptoms of fever…
– This person’s illness is his personal tragedy. There will be no broadcast, of course. If they do not violate, but do not meet the elementary requirements that are needed in this case.
Today there are no prerequisites for the transmission of infection.
– Gennady Grigoryevich, I’m not talking about that. Do you need to take some anti-mosquito ointment with you on vacation? Or something else? The same Thailand…
– You don’t have to bring anything. Because you don’t have to go there.
– And if you left?
– Well, listen, first of all, before you go, go to the Rospotrebnadzor website in the region and read it. There, as a rule, such things are posted.
– There are no vaccines?
– No.
– Understood.
– You put people at ease, there is no need to cheat. We wish this compatriot the best. But doctors can handle it. Now we have the opportunity to consult with any medical center that has already encountered these types of diseases.
I hope the recovery comes. On the other hand, there may be complications. Is there no age for this person?
– Eat. 26 years. Inhabitant of Blagoveshchensk.
– So this is the Amur region. It is a zone with a markedly continental climate, so they are still far from mosquitoes.
Also, this is not Thailand. Understood. Thank you so much.
– All the best.
