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Children Suffer Brain Damage From Seasonal Flu in China's Guangdong
2019-01-10
Health authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong are battling a wave of seasonal influenza cases that are resulting in brain damage in previously healthy child patients, local media reported.
While the overall number of confirmed cases of influenza has fallen compared with last year, there has been an increase in the number of notifications of necrotizing encephalitis, a complication from viral fever sometimes found in children, reports said.
The Women and Children's Medical Center in Guangdong's provincial capital Guangzhou was overwhelmed with children suffering from the seasonal flu, with at least five confirmed cases of necrotizing encephalitis reported in the facility, Guangzhou's Southern Metropolis Daily newspaper reported.
One three-year-old is in a long-term coma after developing damage to their central nervous system after a two-week hospitalization for H1N1 flu, the paper said...
Children Suffer Brain Damage From Seasonal Flu in China's Guangdong
2019-01-10
Health authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong are battling a wave of seasonal influenza cases that are resulting in brain damage in previously healthy child patients, local media reported.
While the overall number of confirmed cases of influenza has fallen compared with last year, there has been an increase in the number of notifications of necrotizing encephalitis, a complication from viral fever sometimes found in children, reports said.
The Women and Children's Medical Center in Guangdong's provincial capital Guangzhou was overwhelmed with children suffering from the seasonal flu, with at least five confirmed cases of necrotizing encephalitis reported in the facility, Guangzhou's Southern Metropolis Daily newspaper reported.
One three-year-old is in a long-term coma after developing damage to their central nervous system after a two-week hospitalization for H1N1 flu, the paper said...
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