“The incidence of influenza has decreased by 104 times over 25 years,” Popova said in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
According to her, the incidence of diphtheria and tick-borne viral encephalitis has also decreased, and cholera has been almost completely eliminated.
Earlier, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Gennady Onishchenko advised to be responsible in the issue of vaccination against COVID-19 and influenza.