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  • China - Pediatric hospital reports "bursting" with 1/3 patients suspected flu, all doctors working overtime, Guangzhou, Guangdong province, July 18, 2017

    Guangdong is still the peak of influenza experts: In addition to injections to take medicine also rely on it

    2017-07-18 07:25 Source: Southern Metropolis Daily Yang Guangxia
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      Southern news this month, the hospital pediatric bursting, the peak of 1/3 to see the child was suspected of having influenza, pediatrician "in the move." Reporters yesterday from the Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention learned that Guangdong is still in the peak season of seasonal influenza, the recent monitoring data show that the overall incidence of the beginning of a downward trend is expected by the end of July will gradually fall to the baseline incidence level.
      Pediatrician also "in the move"
      "At the beginning of this month, to see the child, 1/3 susppected of the flu, we have a few doctors in the move, sick to adhere to work." Sun Yat-sen University Affiliated Hospital Six neonatal director, pediatric deputy director Hao Hu said At the beginning of the month is the high incidence of influenza, hospital pediatric "burst", all pediatricians are working overtime. Detection found that many children infected with a flow, "some parents do not want to do testing, but many children are symptoms of high fever, there will be headache, muscle sore situation, which is a typical flow of the symptoms.
      Haohu said that the high incidence of influenza in previous years earlier, such as 3 to 4 months, and this year at the end of June, early July. Beginning this week, flu cases have declined slightly.
      Type A H3N2 accounts for 75%
      Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention Deputy Director Song Tie introduction, the overall feeling of the hospital with the monitoring of the same. The sentinel surveillance data for influenza outbreaks show that the peak level of influenza-like illness cases this year appears in late June, the proportion of outpatient visits to influenza-like cases is 6.63%, that is, influenza-like cases accounted for nearly 7% of outpatient visits.
      Guangdong Province Health and Health Committee announced in June 2017 the province's statutory report infectious disease epidemic shows that in June the province reported a total of 90189 cases of C infectious diseases, 4 cases of death. The top three diseases reported were hand, foot and mouth disease, influenza and other infectious diarrheal diseases, accounting for 96.11% of the total reported incidence of C infectious diseases. Among them, the flu ranked second.
      Song Tie said that the flu is divided into A, B, C three types, of which A is a flow, is caused by high prevalence of the main types of popular, "B influenza high hair, the general strength is not high, but a stream once, It is prone to a small peak.
      In general, every year from May to July is the season of seasonal flu in Guangdong Province. Song Tie said that because the epidemic strains are different, so the peak may be moving forward or lag. This year the dominant strain of influenza in Guangdong Province is influenza A 3 H 2 influenza virus, accounting for 75% of the outbreak of influenza, "there are other influenza A H1N1 influenza, influenza B, may be staggered, but the type of H 3N The highest peak of the epidemic is also higher than last year.
      Song Tie said that since January this year, the province's influenza-like cases outpatient clinic ratio of 4.19%, 4.65% over the same period last year dropped by 10%, "with little difference in previous years, there is no more violent than in previous years. "

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