Everyone will be infected: residents warned about the risk of infection in the elevator with a highly contagious disease
If a sick person passes in the elevator, the cabin will be dangerous for another hour.
Residents of apartment buildings have been warned about the risk of contracting a highly contagious disease in the elevator. We are talking about measles, the incidence of which has recently been increasing in many regions of the country.
– People think that if everyone around is vaccinated, then I don’t need it. But it doesn’t work with measles because it’s extremely contagious. I will give such an example. In a nine-story building, a man with measles rode in an elevator. Then an hour in this elevator will be a contagious situation. And the people who are traveling, they will also be all infected in this entrance. And what’s more, everything is in apartments. That is, the minimum amount of virus that can infect. Severe course, with complications, with encephalitis, – said in an interview with “Moscow Speaks” Vladislav Zhemchugov, doctor of medical sciences, therapist-immunologist, specialist in especially dangerous infections.
Recall that earlier in a number of regions of the Russian Federation new cases of measles were detected. We are talking about the Novosibirsk, Samara, Moscow and Leningrad regions, the Altai and Krasnodar regions and a number of other subjects of the Russian Federation. Doctors attribute the increase in the incidence to the arrival of unvaccinated citizens from neighboring countries in the country. In the future, unvaccinated citizens of the Russian Federation are included in the epidemic process.
We add that measles is an infectious disease that can lead to a number of dangerous complications. To catch measles, it is not even necessary to contact a sick person, just touch the doorknob, handrail, elevator button, and then rub your eyes or nose.
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