{"id":104159,"date":"2024-12-13T12:27:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T12:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/the-pandemic-meant-that-we-were-not-immune-now-the-disease-has-multiplied-news-nordland\/"},"modified":"2024-12-13T12:27:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T12:27:03","slug":"the-pandemic-meant-that-we-were-not-immune-now-the-disease-has-multiplied-news-nordland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/the-pandemic-meant-that-we-were-not-immune-now-the-disease-has-multiplied-news-nordland\/","title":{"rendered":"The pandemic meant that we were not immune – now the disease has multiplied – news Nordland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Have you felt surrounded by coughs this autumn? There is a reason for that. On a case-by-case basis, whooping cough and mycoplasma have increased in the last 3 months compared to last year. This is shown by figures from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Last autumn, just over 1,200 were diagnosed with mycoplasma, while this year the number has increased to almost 35,000. – This autumn we have had ongoing outbreaks of whooping cough and mycoplasma. This has meant that we have had a lot of infections with these respiratory bacteria, says senior physician at FHI, Trine Hessevik Paulsen. P4 news wrote about the story first. According to Paulsen, mycoplasma is a bacteria that appears every few years. – Four to six years apart, and it has been quite some time since we last had an outbreak of this bacterium in Norway. So this autumn, many people have a cough. There are also more people who have had whooping cough, compared to previous years, says the superior. – When we compare the two with each other, about ten times more mycoplasma than whooping cough has been detected. But both of the two diseases cause a long-lasting cough. So therefore there are many who have consulted a doctor and received a test. Corona is partly to blame. Most children and young people get these respiratory diseases. – Mycoplasma is the most common disease among schoolchildren and younger adults. And it’s actually the same for whooping cough. – Why are there so many more people who have been diagnosed with mycoplasma this year? – It is because we have had outbreaks with that bacteria. So we have had a high prevalence in society, whereas there was little in the past. And during the pandemic, almost no one was diagnosed with mycoplasma. Senior doctor at the Institute of Public Health, Trine Hessevik Paulsen, says the infection peak for whooping cough and mycoplasma has been reached. Photo: Kjartan R\u00f8rslett \/ news With the strict measures we had during the corona pandemic, almost all respiratory tract infections disappeared. She says we have been sicker with respiratory infections in recent years because we did not get immunity during the pandemic. But according to Paulsen, the immunity in the population is now in the process of normalizing. – Both whooping cough and mycoplasma tend to break out every few years. There has been extra little in the periods between outbreaks. So it may have led to some kind of immunity deficit. But that is probably not the whole explanation, because this is also natural for these respiratory bacteria, that they come every few years. Have you been sick this autumn? Yes! The cough hasn’t given up yet No, I’m as healthy as a fish No, just a little sniffy Show result Less in covid-19 Another reason why there are so many people who have been diagnosed with the disease this autumn is that there are many people who have tested themselves. This also applies to covid-19. But here the infection has decreased. – Fewer people have been diagnosed with covid-19 than last autumn. In the autumn of 2023, just over 14,000 were diagnosed with the disease, while this autumn the number is 13,353. It therefore appears that there has been no higher infection pressure with covid-19 this autumn than last year, says the superintendent. – It’s just that there are more people who have had it proven through a sample analyzed at a laboratory. Brighter times of illness But there is also a bright spot in the run-up to Christmas. It does not appear that Christmas will be marked by major outbreaks of influenza, corona or respiratory infections, shows the weekly report to the Institute of Public Health. The mycoplasma outbreak is also on the way down. – It looks like the outbreak is about to decrease in size, and we have reached the peak of infection. Whooping cough has also been on the decline recently, but that is not as clear a drop as there is for mycoplasma, says Paulsen. But even if the number of people infected with influenza and RS virus infections is very low now, infections can increase, warns FHI. The institute writes that the healthcare system should therefore be prepared for the possibility that infections may increase, and Paulsen says that people in risk groups should take the flu vaccine. Published 13.12.2024, at 11.19 Updated 13.12.2024, at 12.19
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Have you felt surrounded by coughs this autumn? There is a reason for that. On a case-by-case basis, whooping cough and mycoplasma have increased in the last 3 months compared to last year. This is shown by figures from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Last autumn, just over 1,200 were diagnosed with mycoplasma, while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2727,19011,9647,23149,16,279,754],"class_list":["post-104159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-disease","tag-immune","tag-meant","tag-multiplied","tag-news","tag-nordland","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}