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  • Taiwan: Flu most severe in five years; death rate lowest: CDC

    Source: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiw.../13/2003730907

    Virus Outbreak: Flu most severe in five years; death rate lowest: CDC
    By Lin Hui-chin and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer

    This year’s flu season has seen 914 severe cases, but only 75 deaths — the highest number of cases with severe symptoms and the lowest mortality rate of the past five years, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said yesterday.

    Emergency rooms last week reported treating 82,856 patients, down 19.5 percent from a week earlier, CDC doctor Lin Yung-ching (林詠青) said.

    Despite declining figures, hospitals still reported 56 new admissions of patients aged 2 to 91 with severe influenza symptoms and the deaths of 14 patients aged 23 to 90, Lin said.

    A 23-year-old man in Taichung is the youngest casualty this flu season, Lin said.

    The man, who had a congenital immune deficiency and chronic lung inflammation, sought treatment in the middle of last month for a fever, cough and wheezing, Lin said...
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