– The condition of a child patient with diphtheria (…) is severe but stable – drugs notified on Monday. Bojena Głowska, management of the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care in the State’s Specialized Hospital Gromkowski of Wroclaw.
The child is in the intensive care unit. The 6-year-old recently returned from his vacation in Zanzibar, but he had not been vaccinated.
The Wroclaw Diffist. Adult patients await test results
Professor Kurtzishtov, head of the Infectious Diseases Department, reported that adult patients with suspected diplomas at hospitals are also hospitalized.
“He’s a patient who has come into contact with a sick child,” Simon said. Findings to confirm or exclude, diphtheria in adult patients is known on Tuesday or Wednesday.
Diffist is an infectious bacterial disease of the throat and larynx, and in Poland the population was eliminated thanks to vaccinations. Vaccinations should be renewed every 10 years.
– In the 1950s, there were tens of thousands of cases in Poland, with 1.5-3,000 deaths per year. patient. Vaccinations managed to master the situation – the professor said. Leszek Szenborn, Pediatric Clinical Director and Infectious Diseases at University Clinical Hospital in Wroclaw.
According to 2024 National Institutes of Public Health-PZH data, two diphtheria cases were recorded in Poland in 2023, one, not in 2022.
“Adults traveling to the country of Diphtheria should consider supplementing vaccinations before traveling abroad” – we read the websites of key hygiene inspectors.
GIS will begin investigation and notify the European Union
To prevent further illness, the sanitation inspector has launched an epidemiological investigation.
Authorities want to determine who was in contact with the sick child – they are looking for passengers on the plane from Zanzibar and people who have come into contact with patients upon arrival.
GIS will also notify EU institutions responsible for healthcare.
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