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  • China - Emergency room flu and ILI visits up significantly over same period in 2015 and 2016 in Hunan province - July 26, 2017

    Summer flu small peak or continued until August


    2017-07-27 11:25:02 Source: Changsha Evening News Network Author: Tang Jiang Peng editor: Ma Lihong Red Net official microblogging



      Laboratory analysis showed that H3N2 is the main epidemic strain of influenza this year; experts advise, for a long time in a closed air-conditioned environment, should pay attention to ventilation
      Changsha Evening News reporter Tang Jiang Peng intern Wu Min
      Instructor:
      DENG Zhihong Chief Physician, Department of Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control, Hunan Center for Disease Control and Prevention
      Liu Jing, deputy director of the Hunan Provincial Children's Hospital of Infectious Diseases, Medical Director of the division
      Since the summer since the inflow, the weather continued hot and humid, each day into the small peak of the flu stage.
      Reporters learned yesterday from the Hunan Provincial Center for Disease Control, from the province's 23 influenza surveillance sentinel hospital monitoring results show that since the end of June this year, Hunan Province has also entered the summer flu peak, influenza-like cases of hospital emergency The proportion of the total number of cases increased, significantly higher than 2015, the same period in 2016 level. Experts predict that the small peak of influenza in Hunan Province in summer may show a downward trend in late August.
      status quo:
      Influenza-like children showed an upward trend
      "At first, just a little fever, that the child is just a small cold, at home to feed some medicine, did not think there is no control." Children in Hunan Province Hospital, Ms. Lee told reporters that her daughter Feier (children in the text Are a pseudonym) was 5 months old, sustained fever has been a week, the body temperature up to 38.8 ℃, served the antipyretics temperature can be reduced to normal, but will be repeated, and occasionally sneeze, shortness of breath and other symptoms. After examination, Feier A, influenza B virus antigen were positive, and later learned that the family adults in the Feier fever before the cold, and later confirmed as H1N1 influenza.
      In the First Affiliated Hospital of Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 3-year-old Xiaogang was also detected influenza virus positive, began to appear low fever, body temperature fluctuation between 37.5 ~ 38.5 ℃, followed by high fever, the maximum temperature of 40.8 ℃, fear Cold, rash and other performance.
      Yesterday, the reporter learned from the provincial capital of a number of hospitals, the recent pediatric influenza pediatric treatment rate was significantly increased, through the detection found that many children are infected with a flow, mostly distributed cases. However, some parents do not want to do the test, but quite a part of the child's symptoms are high fever, and accompanied by headache, muscle soreness, etc., these are typical symptoms of a flow.
      Monitoring: H3N2 and H1N1 are the main popular types
      According to the provincial disease prevention and control center infectious disease prevention and control department chief physician Deng Zhihong introduced from the province of 23 influenza surveillance sentinel hospital monitoring results show that since 2017 20 weeks (June 19 to 25), influenza-like cases Accounting for the proportion of the total number of outpatient cases began to rise significantly in recent weeks, influenza-like cases accounted for more than 7%, suggesting that our province has entered the summer peak season of influenza.
      Monitoring shows that this year's 29th week (July 17 to 23), our province sentinel hospital flu-like cases accounted for 7.82% of the total number of emergency department cases, slightly lower than the previous week (7.91%) level, significantly higher than 2015, The same period in 2016 (5.34%, 5.52%).
      "In recent years, influenza activity in Hunan Province has remained at a high level, but there have been no reports of extensive outbreaks of influenza outbreaks, and no new influenza virus variants have been identified." Deng Zhihong said laboratory pharmacopoeological monitoring showed that H3N2 was the latest flu The main popular type, followed by H1N1. Previous influenza surveillance results show that the province's summer peak small peak for 5 to 8 weeks, the province is expected to summer small peak of influenza will continue for some time, in mid to late August or there will be a downward trend.

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