China Urumqi confirmed cases of influenza

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URUMQI, September 5 (Xinhua PAN Ying, HUANG Yan)

5 On the evening, Wang Xiaoyan, deputy director of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Health Department, announced by the Ministry of Health confirmed that a new urban area of Urumqi report a case of Influenza A H1N1 confirmed cases of influenza, which is in Xinjiang the first case of Influenza A H1N1 confirmed cases of influenza. Currently, patients have been treated in isolation regional infectious diseases hospital, condition stable.

In the close contacts of patients with fever and suspected patients be isolated for observation, post-test, autonomous regions and Urumqi City Center for Disease Control and Prevention Influenza Surveillance Network Lab 2 night overtime testing, they confirmed 42 cases of confirmed cases of Influenza A H1N1 influenza .

According to reports, the first case the patient is a new urban Urumqi, who started secondary school students, the morning of September 3 due to fever and other flu-like symptoms of fever out-patient clinic to medical institutions. Upon receipt of the report of the medical institutions, the new urban area and the autonomous region, Urumqi, disease control departments have been detected. According to test results, autonomous regions and Expert Group Meeting on diagnosis of suspected cases of Influenza A H1N1 influenza. The same day, the patient throat swab specimen was sent to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention for review. At 18:00 on the 5th, the cases have been confirmed as the Ministry of Health, Xinjiang's first confirmed cases of Influenza A H1N1 influenza.

Since the 3, afternoon, Urumqi City, disease control departments in this patient, where schools in close contact tracing and suspicious of active search for fever patients. As at 3 o'clock on the 5th, a total of 99 close contacts of patients with fever and suspected implemented a hospital or home medical isolation and observation, and collecting throat swab specimens for DNA testing. The Autonomous Region and Urumqi Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention Influenza Surveillance Network Lab 2 night overtime inspection, a total of 42 cases of confirmed influenza H1N1 confirmed cases of influenza. At present, all patients were diagnosed arrange designated hospitals for treatment under isolation does not appear in severe cases.

WANG Xiao-yan said the regional group of experts will judge the outbreak of a new urban district of Urumqi secondary influenza H1N1 flu outbreaks occur.

Epidemic occurred, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Party Committee, People's Government attached great importance to leaders in charge of prevention and control work to go on-site supervision and inspection. Set up by the mayor of Urumqi City, the chief commander of the prevention and control of Influenza A H1N1 influenza headquarters, immediately activates the influenza A H1N1 influenza contingency plans. At full capacity at all levels, in close contact with CDC's follow-up observation and suspicious of active search for fever patients, designated medical institutions active in rescue work, morning, afternoon, students in schools implementing the screening and follow-up investigation due to sickness absence measures, the Comprehensive Anti - control measures are being fully implemented.

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Re: China Urumqi confirmed cases of influenza

Schools in Urumqi remain closed amid A(H1N1) scare(Xinhua)

Updated: 2009-09-07 19:44

URUMQI: Primary and secondary schools in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, remained closed Monday in the wake of recent outbreak of 43 A(H1N1) influenza cases.

At an emergency meeting on Sunday, the city's education department ordered all schools to remain closed Monday and Tuesday, said Urumqi's education chief Hu Junhai.

On Saturday Xinjiang confirmed its first A(H1N1) flu case, a student at the No. 70 Middle School. By Saturday night, health authorities confirmed 42 more cases, saying all had been in close contact with the student.

The health department refused to give details of the patients. A Xinhua reporter visiting the regional hospital for epidemic diseases on Sunday saw two were teachers from the No. 70 Middle School and most others were teenager.

Another 123 people who had been in contact with the patients were feverish and sought medication, the regional health department said Monday.

It said 38 of them were hospitalized for treatment or observation.

The health department has sent 42 work teams to oversee disease prevention work at Urumqi's schools.

A(H1N1) flu cases have been on the rise since China's schools began the fall semester last Tuesday.

A total of 40 students have been confirmed as having contracted the virus at Xi'an University of Arts and Science, with 11 new cases reported on Monday.

The patients were in stable condition and none of the cases was life-threatening, a spokesman with the provincial health department said.

Students who had been in close contact with the patients have been put in seven-day quarantine on campus. Classes were suspended at the university on Friday and will resume only if no new case is confirmed for seven consecutive days.

On Sunday, 27 cases were confirmed at three schools in the southwestern Chongqing Municipality, 67 at four universities in the development zone of Langfang city near Beijing, 10 at a middle school in Sichuan Province, and 35 at three schools in Shandong Province.

A(H1N1) 'flu outbreaks have also been reported at schools in other regions, including the provinces of Henan, Hunan, Jiangsu, Anhui and Hainan, as well as the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

By last Friday night, 4,415 cases of A(H1N1) flu had been reported on the Chinese mainland, of which 3,577 have recovered.

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