2024-06-12 14:17:03
Printed 12. June 2024, 4:17 pm
Luxembourg: Pertussis instances exceed 700 by 2024
Luxembourg – Division of Well being returns necessary On the administration of the wave of pertussis instances beginning in late 2023.
Benchmark
Nicholas Martin
If a number of European nations have confronted a resurgence in whooping cough in current weeks, this isn’t the case in Luxembourg. “Epidemiological traits in current months point out that the variety of instances reached a peak in March,” the Ministry of Well being famous.
Within the week of Could 27 to June 2, the variety of instances fell by 37% (31 instances). Nevertheless, earlier than June 2, a minimum of 718 instances had been recorded this yr. “In comparison with earlier years, we now have seen a big enhance in whooping cough instances,” primarily amongst school-age youngsters, the well being ministry famous. There was progress “because the finish of 2023 and particularly because the starting of 2024.”
“Vaccination stays the simplest technique”
Confronted with this phenomenon, the Ministry of Well being “has, because the starting of this yr, elevated consciousness of the illness and the opportunity of vaccination via a number of interventions in faculties and by reminding docs of the significance of vaccination”.
The federal government famous that as a result of the illness can have an effect on folks of all ages, it is very important preserve excessive vaccination protection throughout the complete inhabitants. For youngsters, the speed is nearer to 95%. “Vaccination stays the simplest strategy to forestall epidemics and extreme whooping cough,” the authorities famous. Excessive vaccination protection is especially necessary to guard susceptible teams, equivalent to immunocompromised folks and infants who haven’t been absolutely vaccinated.
The ministry famous that in Luxembourg “we should not have to remorse the demise of any younger youngster. Just one hospitalization of an toddler within the intensive care unit was recorded, with a reasonably severe an infection however progressing nicely.”
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