State secretary with the Health Ministry Adrian Streinu-Cercel, director of the Matei Bals Institute of Infectious Diseases of Bucharest, on Wednesday urged people stricken by virosis to isolate themselves at home.
‘People with high fever in the 37.5-38 degrees Celsius, alerted state and nasal discharge should isolate themselves at home and contact their family physicians,’ Streinu-Cercel told a news conference.He said the people stricken by virosis have to isolate themselves at home and get in touch with their family physicians to see what is to be done.
The call by the state secretary with the Health Ministry is aimed at containing the circulation of the A/H1N1 flu virus as specialists have detected two flu carriers in the cities of Iasi and Bucharest and also severe forms of the new flu.Two people, a local case in Bucharest and an imported one in Cluj, are hospitalised in intensive care because of severe forms of A/H1N1 virus infections, said Starinu-Cercel, and they are in a critical state that requires artificial administration of oxygen and mechanical ventilation because the air filling their lungs is insufficient and their bodies suffocate.Streinu-Cercel warned that in very many instances the A1/H1N1 virus is associated with sub-clinical forms, in which cases the infected ones have no external signs of the illness but they are all the more dangerous because they transmit the virus unknowingly.
A vaccination campaign is scheduled to start in Romania on December 1.There are 441 confirmed A/H1N1 flu cases in Romania.The Health Ministry official also said the new flu could strike at most 30 percent of Romania’s active population and the mortality rate could reach 2.5 percent.