The two newly admitted have been in contact with a third Russian as Tuesday was hospitalized at Drammen hospital with meningitis, NRK reported.
It is not confirmed infection with the two new now hospitalized.
– We have chosen to put them in to be on the safe side, said local medical officer Einar Braaten in Upper and Lower Spokes.
Anyone who has been in contact with the sick school leavers, receive preventive antibiotic treatment. The two have been in contact with a third Russian as Tuesday was admitted to hospital Drammen with meningitis, NRK reported.
It is not confirmed infection with the two new now hospitalized.
– We have chosen to put them in to be on the safe side, said local medical officer Einar Braaten in Upper and Lower Spokes.
Tuesday it became known that a Russian in Drammen is hospitalized with meningitis . This is the first case of the disease that can be linked to the Russians for several years.
Drinking, smoking and lack of sleep
An estimate of Public Health has made for Aftenposten shows that about half of school leavers have vaccinated against meningitis. The number is rising and may have contributed to cases have become rarer. Health authorities encourage, however, that more should be vaccinated.
– We recommend that adolescents aged 17 to 19 years considering taking vaccine against meningococcal disease. These two groups often have close interaction with others of the same age, excessive alcohol consumption, smoking and lack of sleep, for example in connection with the graduation celebration, says Sigrun Kongsrud, Technical Manager at the National Immunisation Register at the NIPH.
Kongsrud points out that these are factors that make young people more susceptible to meningococcal bacteria and the development of disease.
First of four years
In 2010, there were nine 2011 four cases of meningitis that could be linked to the Russian celebration. In autumn 2011 recommended Folkehelseinstituttet that Russians should consider themselves vaccinated. The last three years it has claimed Folkehelseinstituttet been no cases relating thereto graduation celebration. Thus is the case in Drammen the first in four years.
The 1996 cohort counts 66,930 people. Of these, 15,878 registered vaccinated – 24 percent. Because about half of the litter is Russian, and almost only Russians who take the vaccine, estimates Folkehelseinstituttet that approximately half of this year the Russian has taken the vaccine against meningitis.
– We see a positive trend in vaccination coverage. It is also important to remember that the recommendation still is fairly recent. Public Health follows closely the developments, saying Kongsrud.
This is the symptoms
The disease is very dangerous, at worst deadly. Symptoms may include high fever, included general condition, groggy consciousness, headaches, neck and back stiffness, nausea, vomiting, photophobia and seizures. The treatment takes place with antibiotics and painkillers.
The general manager of the Academy Norway AS, Kjetil Eide, confirmed to Drammen Tidende that the student who is infected, is a student at the Academy in Drammen.
– The I can say now is that we are very concerned about the pupil, says Eide.
The vaccine against meningococcal not offered as part of the childhood immunization program. Youngsters must pay a deductible of 550 dollars when they meet up with such a public health nurse to take the vaccine.
Aftenposten wrote recently about parents’ for school leavers.
Underreporting
Vaccination Registry think it’s underreported vaccines beyond childhood immunization today.
– This is something we try to follow up with the different vaccinators, including through focusing on the importance and benefits of having an updated national immunization registry, says Kongsrud who think this may be because the required consent for registration.
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