AMMAN — The
Ministry of Health has not
registered any
respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) cases in the duration of a
week, a ministry official said on Wednesday, according to Khaberni.
اضافة اعلان
The Kingdom has not witnessed any unexpected
increase in respiratory diseases, said the head of the ministry’s Communicable
Diseases Department, Mohamed Al-Hawarat. “If we compare the case numbers with
those recorded over the same period last year, we see very low numbers for this
year.”
The ministry is informed of all cases treated in
hospitals and health centers in Jordan, and it follows up on a list of 44
diseases through the monitoring division of the Communicable Diseases
Department, Hawarat explained.
Early spread of seasonal
virusesSeasonal respiratory viruses began to spread
through the Kingdom earlier than normal, in early November of last year.
Member of the National Committee for
Epidemiology, Najwa Khoury, had told Jordan News at the time
that the influenza and
RSV viruses spreading through the Kingdom are common
seasonal illnesses.
“What is new, however, is that they all spread
at the same time following an immunity gap, resulting from the precautionary
measures taken during the COVID-19 pandemic”, she pointed out.
An immunity gap develops when the
immune system gets a break from being exposed to a mix of common pathogens that typically
cause diseases.
Khoury insisted on the importance of the
continuous precautionary measures to prevent the spread of respiratory
diseases.
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