Re: China: 2009 HFMD cases and deaths still rising
Re: China: 2009 HFMD cases and deaths still rising
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http://www.caijing.com.cn/2009-07-15/110197913_1.html
Google translation:
Hand, foot and mouth disease this year, more than 200 people have died
This article from the "Financial Network" at 4:04 p.m. on July 15, 2009
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June China reported 178,680 cases of hand, foot and mouth disease, accounting for 25.6% of Notifiable Diseases, 45 cases of death; 435 people died of AIDS, the head of infectious diseases for all
【 "Financial Network" Beijing专稿/ reporter Liu Jing Jing】 high-profile Chinese government to "contain" Type A H1N1 influenza at the same time, as a Class C infectious diseases, hand, foot and mouth disease, in the past three months has resulted in 200 deaths.
July 15, 2009, the Ministry of Health on its Web site announced in June the National Notifiable Communicable Diseases. Among them, the hand, foot and mouth disease reports 178,680 cases, accounting for 25.6% of Notifiable Diseases; 45 cases of death, accounting for 3.78 percent of all infectious diseases.
Prior to the March to May, the report of hand, foot and mouth disease cases to 54,713 cases respectively, 212,435 cases and 169,073 cases, the number of deaths compared with 31 cases, 65 cases and 59 cases. This means that, in March to four months in June that, hand, foot and mouth disease a total of more than 60 million, of which 200 people died. If January and February the number of deaths, hand, foot and mouth disease in the first half of the number of dead more than 200 people. The year 2008, hand, foot and mouth disease in the number of reported incidence of less than 490,000 people, 126 people died.
Hand, foot and mouth disease is caused by a variety of intestinal virus infections occur in children under five years of age. Peking University First Hospital, director of infectious disease doctor told XU Xiao-yuan, "Financial" journalists, hand, foot and mouth in patients, there will be a small portion of the heart, brain, lung complications, may be dead serious, so early diagnosis, early treatment is important .
Hand, foot and mouth disease from the beginning of May 2008 included in the management of Class C infectious diseases. In 2009 for hand, foot and mouth disease outbreak, the Ministry of Health has long been a matter of fact reminded. March 3, the Ministry of Health has issued "on further strengthening the work of hand, foot and mouth disease," which called for pro-active to do a good job around the hand, foot and mouth disease prevention and control work. But in the end of 3 months, the Citizens County, Henan Province, Shandong Province, Heze City, the media is still a local government concealed, omitted the challenge of hand-foot-mouth disease, the number of county officials in civil rights work has been ineffective action.
According to the first quarter of 2009 outbreak, the Ministry of Health believes that China hand, foot and mouth disease prevention and control of the situation is fairly severe, the epidemic mainly prevalent in rural areas, widely distributed, multi-spot, the epidemic is expected in May to July reached a peak between.
However, with the H1N1 Type A influenza epidemic came to China, the Chinese government began to adopt the strategy of containment to deal with influenza H1N1 influenza.
One of the experts do not want to be named, said the objective of health resources has led to the Type A H1N1 influenza tilt, hand, foot and mouth disease prevention and control and also weaken the attention. Beijing Ditan Hospital is currently involved in the treatment of influenza in patients with H1N1 influenza陈志海physician, will be responsible for the previous hand, foot and mouth disease. In addition, China together with the more vulnerable the original grass-roots public health system, but also makes hand-foot-mouth disease come back. At the same time, Type A H1N1 influenza in China has not yet been directly caused death.
However, some experts believe that hand, foot and mouth disease in mid-2008 has just been incorporated into the management of Class C infectious diseases, the statistical data in 2008 may not be fully compatible with the number of cases in 2009 are not comparable. But even so, more than 200 the number of deaths is enough to cause alert.
Although hand, foot and mouth disease in 2009 summit with the passage of time and the past, but as陈志海said, there is no hand-foot-mouth disease vaccines, changes in condition, "比甲complicated influenza type H1N1," it will be a "continuing threat to . " How to make better use of public health resources, the protection of public health, it is worth weighing the scientific departments.
According to the Ministry of Health informed in June 2009, the country has reported a total of 696,966 cases of legal infectious diseases, the death of 1189 people. Among them, A plague of infectious diseases in non-disease deaths in the report; report a case of cholera, without death. Category B infectious diseases in addition to infectious atypical pneumonia, polio, human infection with highly pathogenic avian influenza and diphtheria no disease, death reports, the remaining 22 a total of 380,872 cases of reported incidence of death 1139; and report the incidence of the top five of the diseases were tuberculosis, hepatitis, dysentery, syphilis and gonorrhea, B infectious diseases accounted for the total number of reported incidence of 93.64%. The number of AIDS and only 1551, but the highest mortality of all infectious diseases of the first, up to 435 people.
C were reported in the national incidence of 316,093 cases of infectious diseases, the death of 50 people. The number of reported incidence of the disease the first three followed by hand-foot-mouth disease, other infectious diarrheal diseases and mumps, or C of the total number of reported incidence of infectious diseases 92.91 percent. ■