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​Hong Kong - 32 flu outbreaks in schools and kindergartens over the past week

Pathfinder

Editor, Senior Moderator
Translation Google

January 29, 2015

32 school one week burst flu


...influenza virus yesterday winning five lives, the new five deaths aged sixty-four to ninety-year-old, while a history of chronic disease itself year-old girl and pneumonia shock, the situation is serious.

Over the past week in Hong Kong schools and kindergartens thirty-two flu outbreak. There are requirements for all students from elementary school to school should try to stay in the classroom, to reduce the risk of transmission, there are more people infected with other classes, but also to the whole class to class to wear a mask.

Some schools require the class to wear masks

Has announced Hennessy Road Government Primary School (PM) CHP flu outbreak, twenty students infected. Chen, vice president of the school, said yesterday, the number of students in sick yesterday, less than a few days ago, the school implemented a series of measures, in addition to reducing the opportunities for students to gather and classes do not require some of the class wearing a mask, the classrooms are equipped with hand sanitizer, require teachers Health regularly clean your hands, and body temperature requires parents to students. School has reminded parents to school should be forty-eight hours after the fever children, teachers will monitor students' situation.

CHP latest information released yesterday show that in the past week have thirty-two school outbreaks, accounting for institutional outbreaks Liu Cheng; the cumulative total of one hundred seventy-three month institutional influenza outbreaks, primary and residential care homes respectively accounting for 34 percent and two to nine.

Serious cases of influenza yesterday accumulated to one hundred twenty-two, among sixty four deaths.

CHP refers to deaths in Fifty-six people, or 87.5% of the elderly aged 65 or above, the proposed injection as soon as the elderly. Children with severe cases are accumulated nine cases. Last new case involved a year-old girl, Zhou appear together with fever, cough, runny nose, and convulsions, the day before yesterday was admitted to Queen Elizabeth Hospital, children go to the intensive care unit for treatment.

Infection and Communicable Disease Control Centre of the University of Hong Kong director Hebo Liang said that although only 20% of the influenza vaccine protection force, but the high 𥧌 still two months before the end of the period, it is recommended that high risk groups such as the elderly or chronically ill should be vaccinated, as parents worry that their child infected, so that they can also be considered an injection.

The first year, the mainland now H5N1

In addition, the mainland did not alleviate signs of bird flu, in addition to Guangdong Province yesterday two more infected with H7N9, the Suzhou, a 37-year-old woman more infected with the H5N1 bird flu in critical condition. According to WHO data not H5N1 reported cases worldwide this year, China is believed to be the first case of this case.
■ reporter Chen Kai Ying


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