A flu epidemic feared in Bulgaria as of January

A pandemic wave of influenza has not been detected anywhere in Europe, yet, health inspectors reported. Most likely, the seasonal flu will start to develop on the Old Continent at the end of December, while, at the end of January, it is expected to reach Bulgaria as well. The State is ready to deal with the virus, which is expected to affect the elderly and those with chronic diseases, experts said.

However, the flu will not be as big a problem as global climate change, since this could foster new diseases which have, so far, been just single cases in our country. Typical tropical diseases start spreading even further to the North. It is typical for all of these that they are transmitted by organisms - rodents, mosquitoes or ticks. The average temperature of the earth's surface has risen by 0.74°C over the last hundred years and Arctic ice has decreased by almost 3% for the first decade of the century, scientists reminded.

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