What caused the rise in the incidence of pneumonia in the beginning of the year.
Since the beginning of the year in five regions of Russia has sharply increased the incidence of pneumonia, just one and a half times. The leaders from January to February was Moscow, Sakhalin and Astrakhan oblast, Chechnya and Mordovia. It follows from the data of the CPS, which drew the attention of the journalists of RBC. It is known that the coronavirus leads to complications in the form of pneumonia. But the first case of HIV new infection in the capital was recorded only in March. Why increased number of cases? Understood Vladislav Victorov.
Traditionally, the increase in the incidence of pneumonia accounts for fall-winter season, and the peak falls on January-February. So according to Rospotrebnadzor, for the last two months in Russia, fell ill with pneumonia more than 170 thousand people. This is slightly less than in the same period last year. But certain regions have shown a rapid increase. For Example, Moscow.
although the seasonal factor plays a big role, at the same time, the Director St. Petersburg Institute Phthisiopulmonology, Dean of the medical faculty of St. Petersburg state University Peter Jablonski not sure that’s the only reason
“Different viruses are well-plowed clearing our mucous membranes of the respiratory tract. They become very vulnerable to any microbes. Now, of course, we all explored through the prism of the coronavirus cannot be ruled out in any case that some as the increase in the number of pneumonia associated with the appearance of coronavirus. This year, pneumonia was more above trend somewhere 20%. And another reason yet to come up with a fail”.
this is supported by another factor. To accurately diagnose pneumonia, doctors usually conduct research to identify the causative agent. In General, patients take the swab to the bacteria, and then using an x-ray or computer tomography are carried out the inspection. However, looking at the picture, the doctor can figure out what the causative agent was a virus and not a bacteria. But what kind of virus it is, as a rule, no one finds out, said the head of the Department of medicine development of the company BestDoctor Yulia Tkachenko:
“the CT bacterial pneumonia to distinguish from viral can. At the same time after doing a CT scan, take or sputum cultures, or is it a crop wash liquid from the bronchi. If pneumonia has the symptoms of viral pneumonia on CT, typically, a sample is taken and less.”
In the CPS say they will conduct mandatory tests for coronavirus since mid-February, and then January patients remained unaccounted for. And in General, as noted by the interlocutors “Kommersant FM”, the accuracy of the first test systems was�� at best 60%. At the same time, the virologist, doctor of medical Sciences, Professor Anatoly Altstein doubt that the coronavirus could be the cause of an outbreak of pneumonia — to this point he had not yet reached Russia. Although there are ways to verify this for certain.
“Coronavirus definitely started from China. It’s not like it was so widespread in January-February in Russia. Rather, it is a different nature of pneumonia. Will become clearer when you get the antibody tests, you can check out the population, it will be possible to compare the shoulders of antibodies with the pneumonia that was in January-February”, — said Anatoly Altstein.
And it is known that the coronavirus causes complications such as pneumonia in adults, not children. The layout of cases by age for February, the CPS reporters are not provided.
according to Rospotrebnadzor, over the past six years, the incidence of pneumonia in Russia has grown almost twice.
