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  • Taiwan - Summer flu: pay attention to indoor air ventilation

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    Summer air-conditioned rooms with flu do not stay too long

    China Times Chengbing Zhang / Tainan Coverage At 05:40 on July 11, 2013

    Most people think that influenza is autumn and winter diseases, in fact, are common throughout the year in summer flu, pay attention to indoor air ventilation, but easily infect each other, caused severe encephalitis, but also produce delusions, families often mistaken to see unclean things .

    One-year-old boy with fever, runny nose, shortness of breath after five days, go to the National Cheng Kung University Hospital was already pale, constantly sleeping, physicians emergency intubation, found that boys infected with influenza A, and there is fluid in the lungs, the physician actually draw a large pot of green pus, medical personnel rescue, the boy was discharged three weeks treatment.

    National Cheng Kung University Hospital emergency department pediatrician He Zongxian said that like boys such cases are not uncommon in Taiwan last year, there are a thousand people suffer from flu complications, and third require intensive care, where 66 people died to people over seventy-five mortality is highest.

    He Zongxian said that influenza is apt to cause lung, heart, brain diseases, including children, more often suffer from encephalitis, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, five years have a dozen cases of encephalitis let hearing, vision changes, delusions. Into health encephalitis patients had children crying, which means that there are insects crawling inside the body, in the intensive care ward or rain to hear the sound of a huge sound, let the families is extremely worried that encounter unclean things.

    Winter cold is easy to assume that people disease, in fact, because everyone because of the cold winter season, often together easily infect each other, the air flow is not the main cause flu epidemic, and now we used to stay in the air-conditioned room in summer do not go out, gradually became Flu a hotbed of infection.

    "Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear."
    -Nelson Mandela
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