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  • Taiwan: 3 flu deaths this month; 2 from H3N2, 1 from H1N1

    Machine translation from original article:

    "Temperature changes last week, three cases of new flu deaths

    Taipei】 2013.03.20

    ... The latest epidemic newspaper of the Department of Health show that the 5.8% increase in the number of emergency room visits last week influenza single week there are 12,871 people because of cough, fever, runny nose to the emergency room. Outpatients influenza-single-week high as more than 67,000 people. CDC is reminding people, the recent temperature changes, should strengthen the prevention of influenza invasion.

    Disease Control, Department of Health announced that the latest monitoring data, last week, a total of 18 cases of new influenza complications confirmed cases, of which seven people infected with the H3N2 virus, 11 were infected with the H1N1 virus. Additional three cases of deaths, respectively, for the two cases of H3N2 and one cases of H1N1.

    3 died as 69-year-old man in southern, eastern part of a 68-year-old male and a 95-year-old man in southern Jiewei influenza vaccination. 3 people have a history of high blood pressure, kidney disease, diabetes and other chronic diseases, including 68-year-old male had a kidney transplant, March 3 incidence, although hospitalized the next day, still was pronounced dead on the 7th, the onset of symptoms to death is only a short 5 days.

    ...influenza-like illness to the proportion of the number of emergency department visits increased rather than decreased by rose to 11.24% from 10.62%, an increase of 5.8%. Single week alone, 12,871 people to the emergency room because of influenza-like illness, a daily average of more than 1,800 visits.

    As for the proportion of the number of influenza-like illness last week outpatient, also rose by 1.24% to 1.31%, an increase of 5.6%. According to the Bureau of National Health Insurance, the single week there are 67,000 people die from influenza-like to the clinic for treatment.

    Zhuangren Xiang said that this year's flu season has a total of 418 cases of influenza complications confirmed cases, resulting in the death of 35 people, about half of each community pandemic strains H1N1 and H3N2...".



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