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  • Taiwan - Experts called on increased reserves of antiviral

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    Public Health - Experts called on reserves increased antiviral

    China Times Lisheng Wen / Taipei At 04:10 on December 5th, 2013

    Wriggling H7N9 outbreak in China, the Ministry of Health and Welfare Department of Disease Control estimate, people in close contact with the H7N9 outbreak in Guangdong as good as imagined threat is low, coupled with the prevalence of influenza in December comes, professor of pediatrics at National Taiwan University College of Medicine and director of Children's Infectious Diseases Hospital, National Taiwan University Li-Min Huang reminded antiviral drugs for influenza H7N9 and influenza treatment is still the first-line drugs, domestic reserves of anti-influenza virus drugs must be complete, and should be considered epidemic additional reserves.

    Japanese avant-fu Department of the Agency report illness, also came and went to Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangdong stained H7N9 cases,

    Deputy Director Zhou Zhihao believes that the spread of the epidemic in China from the Yangtze River to expand, and that the virus prevalent in the community, Shenzhen, Dongguan successively pass epidemic, the display is not as imagined threat Guangdong low. Under the H7N9 and seasonal influenza epidemic prevalence of the attack, the public must pay special attention.

    Currently reserves Taiwan anti-influenza virus drugs for 12-15% of the whole population, Li-Min Huang believes to now look on the surface of H7N9 epidemic seems to be enough, four cases but the mainland since the autumn outgoing , there are two cases are screened by the community with mild influenza-like cases out, said H7N9 cases prevalent in the community than we imagined but also serious.

    If H7N9 has been maintained as they are now less likely to human transmission of the state, the amount of reserves Taiwan anti-influenza virus drugs considered enough, but as more and more adapted to the human virus H7N9S, when converted into effective human to human transmission is difficult to estimate, once it becomes effective person to person, the amount of anti-influenza virus drugs reserves inadequate.

    Li-Min Huang reminded that the current anti-viral drugs against H7N9 flu and seasonal flu first-line drugs, with the prevalence of seasonal flu season, coupled with the continent H7N9 epidemic warming, the government's anti-influenza virus drugs expired must be fast filled, but also depending on the amount of future outbreaks increase reserves.

    H7N9 will not become effective person to person? Li-Min Huang said main control unit for Disease Control in the hands of the mainland, the mainland still live bird markets currently open only to control the H7N9 outbreak complete closure of live poultry markets, he believes the continent is not left unattended, so people do not have to worry too much epidemic outbreak will be.

    zhttp://www.chinatimes.com/newspapers/20131205000813-260113
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