The president of the National Association of Public Health Physicians said this Friday that there is an “abnormal spread” of the influenza A virus in Portugal and called for the adoption of protective measures against covid-19.

Gustavo Tato Borges told the Lusa agency that at this time it is normal to have cases of complaint, but he stressed that “there are many cases of complaint A is not so frequent”.

“I think the problem is that it turns out to be relatively normal, but this year detecting more common in Portugal”,

The specialist reminded the complaints center One occurred in the Leiria area with a very large dimension, which reached more than 60 cases of health authorities in the region, in addition to the reports of infection by complaint. cross country.

With regard to protection against the risk vaccine groups that were most resented who were not against the association of a complaint, he observed that the largest resented the risk, and “referred to an association of children, young people and adults vaccinated”.

For A, well, Tato Borges, they breathe the flu, the frequent use of situations of larger clusters, the etiquette, does not work with symptoms, preventive hand washing on other hands, more preventive on other hands.

He recalled that the effect of these measures reflected last year when a complaint was almost non-existent.

Contacted by Lu about alleged outbreaks in schools of the Regional Health Administration of Lisbon and Vale do Tejo, she said that “the alleged cases were identified with an unidentified context in a community context, not associated”.

“It reinforces that flu activity maintains a similar level to the year, including several different viruses, including seasonal flu – subtype A”, he underlined in a written response to Lusa.

Also contacted by the Lusa agency, the president of the Portuguese Association of General and Family Medicine, Nuno Jacinto, said that the cases of complaint A “will not be something abnormal”.

“We are in winter and there are already few containment measures, so we have respiratory experiments. that monitoring is done by the National Institute of Health Dr. Ricardo Jorge (INSA).

According to INSA’s influenza surveillance, for the week from February 28 to March 6, a flu syndrome rate rose to 15.1 per 100 million inhabitants, in a trend of increasing flu activity.

In this period, 165 positive cases were registered for the influenza virus, all of the type A. In 20 of the cases the subtype A(H3N2) was identified and in one of the cases the subtype A(H1N1), refers to the INSA, noting that the values ​​The deficiency must be interpreted as containing “the organization of the attendance to what is necessary and the population under observation having in years observed in previous years in previous period”.

The values ​​of the clinical surveillance system through the complaint of general practitioners and family members of the mainland of general medicine and the autonomous regions.