Loboda A. M., Klymenko N. V., Smiian K. O., Melekhovets O. K., Vasylieva O. H., Chemych O. M., Khatynska Z. V.

COVID-19 AND OTHER ACUTE RESPIRATORY VIRAL INFECTIONS

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Loboda A. M., Klymenko N. V., Smiian K. O., Melekhovets O. K., Vasylieva O. H., Chemych O. M., Khatynska Z. V.

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HYGIENE, ECOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY

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To summarize global data, epidemiological monitoring data in Ukraine and Sumy region and to establish the etiological structure of acute respiratory viral infections (ARI) in 2019-2023 against the background of the COVID-19 pandemic, a retrospective analysis of the incidence of ARI and COVID-19 in Ukraine and Sumy region was conducted, and the incidence was compared using statistical reporting data from the Public Health Center, the Main Department of Statistics in Sumy region, the Sumy Regional Center for Disease Control and Prevention of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. A review of scientific publications covering the problem of acute respiratory viral infections and influenza was conducted. The data obtained indicate a decrease in the global incidence of SARS and influenza in 2020-2021 and an increase in 2022-2023. There was a decrease in the proportion of influenza A virus in 2019-2021, an increase in 2022-2023, and a return to pre-pandemic levels. At the same time, there was a change in the proportion of respiratory syncytial virus and rhinovirus, whose percentage fluctuated, decreasing and increasing during the pandemic, and eventually increased above the pre-pandemic level. Regardless of the period of the COVID-19 pandemic, A H1N1(2009) prevailed among influenza strains worldwide. In Ukraine and in Sumy region, the dynamics of SARS and influenza reflected similar changes, and the relative incidence rate, which was slightly higher than in the world at the beginning of the pandemic, decreased to a level similar to the world in 2023.

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Publication of the article:

«Bulletin of problems biology and medicine», 2024 Issue 3, 174, 108-117 pages, index UDC 616.98+578.82/.83:616.91-022.3

DOI:

10.29254/2077-4214-2024-3-174-108-117