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  • China - Fujian Province - Quanzhou: significant increase in hospital outpatient and emergency departments, mostly children with flu symptoms

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    Recently, the number of outpatient and emergency department hospitals with high incidence of influenza increased

    2018-01-16 07:31:18 source: Quanzhou network

    Quanzhou Health and Family Planning Department to actively respond to infectious disease prevention and control work supervision

    Since December last year, the city has entered the high season of respiratory infectious diseases such as seasonal flu. Recently, the reporter learned from a number of hospitals in Quanzhou City, the recent arrival of the hospital to see a significant increase in the number of cold than in the past, some kindergartens in primary and secondary schools have therefore suspended classes. Quanzhou CDC said the official said the flu can be preventable and curable, the public need not be alarmed, the daily need to strengthen health, maintain indoor ventilation, personal protection, the proposed elderly, children, women, chronic diseases and medical staff and other flu High-risk groups vaccinated against influenza. ■ Reporter Gong Cuiling Li Jing Zhuang Li Xiang Chen Yongjun correspondent text / map

    Infusion hall of the majority of patients are children

    ■ visit the scene

    Recent hospital outpatient emergency department increased

    Recently, the reporter visited several major hospitals in Quanzhou learned that at present the peak of the flu, the recent outpatient clinic, emergency room was significantly increased, especially in patients with fever.

    Reporter came to Quanzhou Children's Hospital, about 9:30 am, about half of the infusion hall sitting in the infusion of people, after asking most are cold cough, mostly children under 5 years of age. In Quanzhou First Hospital and Second Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Pediatrics and Respiratory Medicine outpatient before there are many people waiting, according to the staff, the recent visit to more people than ever before. Some community hospitals, clinics, etc. are busy.

    "Recently a large increase in out-patient, cold fever, diarrhea majority, emergency patients have eighty-nine percent of the symptoms of fever." Wuzhou Feng, deputy director of Children's Hospital of Quanzhou, MD, introduced the hospital night outpatient patients More obvious performance, a night emergency number reached two hundred or three hundred, the admissions are mostly cold and fall, these two kinds of children of all ages have, mainly for preschool children, kindergarten children, primary school students Wait.

    First Hospital of Quanzhou Respiratory Medicine, deputy chief physician He Joming introduced recently pediatric clinic is very busy, and to respiratory medicine patients also increased, of which the majority of patients with cold symptoms. "The flu is usually divided into flu and common cold. The flu is seasonal. It is usually high in winter and spring. Generally speaking, it gradually increases from November to January and peaks from January to March. This is a common situation all over the world."

    "In recent days, people with high incidence of influenza, the public must be good personal protection." He Joming said that half a month ago, who lives in the urban east of a family of five people, all infected with the flu virus. First, children infected, and then passed to parents, and finally even grandparents have also been infected. "Once someone in the family is infected, be sure to do good home isolation and pay attention to wearing masks and personal hygiene."

    There are individual classes closed due to flu

    It is understood that because of the flu, some kindergartens, primary classes appear suspended classes of individual classes.

    Public Ms. Chen's children in kindergarten, because of flu fever have three or four days did not go to kindergarten. According to Ms. Chen, there are several children in the children's classes who recently went home for a cold to take a cold. In order to avoid mutual contagion, the children were left at home for recuperation. At present, the flu has been improved and these days children are sent back to kindergarten for classes.

    "My child did not go to school for a week or so and the teacher informed him that they had to suspend classes for a week because of an increase in the number of flu people in the class." Mr. Wang's daughter, a first-year primary school student, has now resumed classes.

    Department response

    China CDC: No mutation was found in the influenza virus

    The website of China Center for Disease Control and Prevention recently published the Q & A of Recent Epidemic and Prevention of Seasonal Flu in China (hereinafter referred to as "Q & A"), and pointed out in the Q & A that in general, the intensity of influenza activity in this winter's popular season was higher than in previous years. Currently, the northern and southern provinces of our country are at the peak of the seasonal influenza epidemic. The overall level of influenza activity remains at a high level and the epidemic may still continue for some time. Most areas are still in the high season, but signs of a reduction in prevalence have emerged in some areas.

    The Q & A also pointed out that influenza is a common seasonal infectious disease, the vast majority of which are mild to severe and die less, and the seasonal fatality rate is about 0.01%. This year, the overall flu prevalence level in our country is obviously higher than in previous years. This is the most serious influenza epidemic in recent years. However, our country influenza virus test results show that this year's epidemic of influenza virus found no impact on influenza virus transmission, disease severity and resistance mutations.

    Municipal Health Planning Commission: Actively respond to the high incidence of influenza in winter and spring

    It is understood that, for the case of seasonal flu and other respiratory infectious diseases, the city give full play to the role of influenza surveillance sentinel hospitals and network laboratories to carry out disease surveillance and epidemic forecasting and early warning. Quanzhou CDC guided Quanzhou First Hospital and Quanzhou Children's Hospital two state-level influenza surveillance sentinel hospitals to do a good flu-like case monitoring and sampling, the central laboratory to carry out positive specimen testing, timely feedback results. In response to respiratory infections such as influenza, the department has stepped up efforts to monitor the etiology of external environments such as schools, nurseries, crowding sites and live poultry establishments.

    Medical institutions at all levels to further implement the pre-screening system, standardize the setting fever clinics, strengthen medical staff training, familiar with the treatment techniques and norms, early detection, early diagnosis, early report. Disease control agencies at all levels to carry out the epidemic assessment, good preparation for the outbreak of the epidemic, in the event of an outbreak, rushed to the scene to carry out the work of the epidemic, take timely and resolute measures to prevent spread of the epidemic because of work is not in place.

    Municipal Health and Planning Commission to strengthen communication and cooperation with relevant departments, joint municipal agriculture, commerce, forestry, industry and commerce, food and drug administration, health insurance and other departments held a joint prevention and control work conference, informed the situation analysis of the epidemic, research to discuss source control, epidemic monitoring, Joint supervision, information sharing, publicity and health education, prevention and control measures.

    At the same time, jointly with the municipal departments of agriculture, commerce, forestry, industry and commerce, food and drug administration and other departments, the State Health Planning Commission and other departments jointly promulgated the Circular on Further Strengthening the Management of Live Poultry Business Markets to strengthen the management and control of live poultry markets.

    In addition, the State Health Planning Commission also jointly issued a circular with the Education Department on "Further Strengthening the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases in Schools (Kindergartens) and Health Management Work", held a training session on prevention and control of infectious diseases in schools, and carried out prevention and control work Conduct inspections to further improve the implementation of the school health management system and working mechanism to effectively prevent the occurrence of flu and other infectious diseases.

    City CDC: flu can be prevented and controlled everyone without panic

    "Although the flu virus is contagious, it can be prevented and controlled, and most of the symptoms are mild, people do not need panic." Relevant person in charge of the emergency department of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Quanzhou City said that the high incidence of influenza is in the annual autumn and winter seasons. The situation is roughly the same everywhere, except for the differences in the peak and duration of the epidemic in all regions.

    The person in charge, the epidemic and spread of flu associated with many aspects, such as virus mutation, the level of population immunity and so on. To prevent the spread of influenza virus, we should start from the following aspects. Personal, personal daily protection is very important, we must pay attention to personal hygiene, wash your hands, more sun was; more rest, to ensure adequate sleep, strengthen physical activity and enhance resistance; children, the elderly, people with chronic diseases are susceptible to the crowd, When possible, avoid crowded public places as far as possible to avoid contact with patients with respiratory tract infection. In addition, they should be urged to strengthen personal hygiene, wash their hands frequently and keep indoor ventilation. Patients with cold in the home should pay attention to wearing masks and so on, so as to avoid mutual infection. Once the disease, go to the regular medical institutions. Kindergarten schools, to implement the morning afternoon, absence due to illness and tracking system and other prevention and control work; suggested that sick students home rest, timely treatment, to avoid contact with uninfected children within the class to reduce the spread of disease; to maintain the environment Sanitary and tidy, ventilated, well disinfection work.

    "Influenza vaccination is the most effective way to prevent influenza." According to the person in charge, it is suggested that people at high risk of influenza such as the elderly, children, women, people with chronic diseases and medical staff should be vaccinated at their own expense. "Although the flu has been prevalent for some time, to prevent a flu, vaccinations can still be vaccinated and vaccinated throughout the peak of the epidemic."

    [Editor: Lai Min Rong ]

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