Reputed experts from all over the world present their research, these days, at the 43rd meeting of the European Society of Infectious Diseases-ESPID, drawing various alarm signals and proposing solutions.
Pediatrician Mihai Craiu
Among those present are Professor Adam Finn, one of the most charismatic experts who come to ESPID annually. The work presented by him at this year’s edition is called “Varicol immunization (wind -spilled). The necessity of universal vaccination for varicella in the UK ”.
“Some will say that it is a trivial disease and that we, the Dacian descendants, do not die of chickenpox.”
The expert presented the figures for the United Kingdom, but the situation in Romania seems to be even more worrying.
“Do you realize that in Romania (at a population 3.6 times smaller) it should be 3-4 times more varicella per year than we think, that more than 1000 children arrive in the hospital annually and (on average) one child dies every week?!? Of varicella !!!“, Posts of pediatric doctor Mihai Craiu, on Tuesday, May 27, on the Facebook page”The virtual hospital for children ” – an online educational space intended to increase the level of pediatric medical knowledge.
“Look at the images with the remaining scars, for all life, on the forehead of a lady who had chickenpox”
In posting with the title “The figures about which nobody speaks”, the famous doctor Mihai Craiu attracts the attention of the parents that he does not only hope that their children will remain healthy, especially in current Romania”.
“For girls’ parents – look at the images with the scars, for all life, on the forehead of a lady who had chickenpox in childhood, before saying again «my child needs no vaccine»look a little at the size of the risk – how common the disease and its consequences are. Then talk to your family doctor ”, recommended pediatrician Mihai Craiu.
