OREANDA-NEWS In the UK, there has been a surge in the incidence of scabies amid a shortage of medicines. This is reported by The Guardian newspaper.

"Dermatologists who spoke to the Guardian said that the situation has become an 'absolute nightmare': outbreaks are being recorded in nursing homes, hospitals and student dormitories," the report says.

It is noted that in the north of Britain in November, twice as many cases of scabies were registered as usual. The spread of infection is exacerbated by the fact that there is a shortage of medicines in the country due to supply chain problems due to the conflict in Ukraine.

Earlier it became known that cases of Hong Kong flu were detected in Russia. "The incidence of acute respiratory viral infections is caused by respiratory viruses: adenovirus, seasonal coronavirus, rhinovirus, parainfluenza virus, MS virus, metapneumovirus, bokavirus, new coronavirus COVID—19, influenza A2(H3N2), influenza B," the press service of Rospotrebnadzor in the Yaroslavl region said.