Terrible death drama in Berlin around a ten -year -old boy who could have been prevented by a single bees: the student was sick with diphtheria -after four months he succumbed to serious illness.
According to earlier information from the Brandenburg Ministery of Health, the child from Brandenburg was not vaccinated. The then ten -year -old school child came to the clinic for pediatric and adolescent medicine in Potsdam for acute inflammation of throat tonsils. Diphtheria was later diagnosed.
Gevucked child had a small course of illness
Due to the state of health, the child was moved to a Berlin clinic and was invasive there. The boy went to a Waldorf school in Berlin. By following the contact of the health office, Diphtherie was found in another person from the child’s family. Due to a vaccination protection, the person only had a slight disease disease, the district of Havelland said at the time.
Doctors warn about the following lack of vaccination
“Many think that doctors can treat these diseases nowadays. But in many cases it is not that, “said the head of the emergency medicine of the child of the Westbrandenburg clinic, Bernhard Kosak, the” Märkische Allgemeine “in the fall. “This does not apply to meningococci, not to pneumococci, not for measles, mumps, rubella, not for diphtheria and tetanus. I cannot treat it or only to a limited extent – there is a high risk of consistent damage.
Sick people can have wounds on the skin in the case of skin diphtheria or, in the case of a raging difling, an inflamed nasal throat. According to Robert Koch-Institut (RKI), symptoms of a rache diphtheria sore throat, fever, whistling sounds in breathing in, swelling of the neck nodes. Tonsillitis can occur later.
Hardly any infections in Germany and Austria for a long time
According to RKI, diphtheria sterars are very rare in Germany. In 2023, the RKI was killed as a result of skin diphtheria in an adult person. In 2024 it was so far a death as a result of respiratory difling in an adult.
After 20 years of diphtheria, individual cases of mucous memorial difling or skin diphtheria have been reported in Austria since 2014. 62 diphtheria cases were confirmed in 2022. A diphtheria case was fatal. In 2023 a total of four cases of diphtheria were reported.
Vaccinations quickly lowered the number of cases
On the other hand, the diphtheria was once known as the “choke angel of the children”. In 1892 the infection in Germany collapsed to more than 50,000 mainly young people. Vaccination was introduced in 1913, which considerably dropped the number of infections. According to the RKI there were 51 confirmed diseases in Germany in 2024, and so far two.
Vaccination in Austria is included in the free vaccination program and is vaccinated as part of the six-time vaccination according to the two-plus one schedule in the third, fifth and eleventh to twelfth month of life. According to the recommendation of the National Vaccination Committee (NIG), the first refreshment vaccination must take place in the sixth year of life. In order to quickly contain the current infection with regard to whooping cough (pertussis), a second refresher vaccination is now recommended after five years or at the last minute in the 14th year of life. According to NIG, all people must be vaccinated against diphtheria, in combination with tetanus, pertussis and polio.
Source: Krone
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