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China - Flu outbreak began to fall (National Health and Family Planning Commission, February 2, 2018)

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National Health News flu outbreak began to fall

Posted: 2018-02-02

2 Yue 2 from the National Health and Family Planning Commission Disease Prevention and Control Bureau, National Health and Family Planning Commission attaches great importance 2017--2018 influenza prevention and control of winter fashion season, to cooperate actively with a number of multi-sector carry out work, prevention and control achieved remarkable success, the current national flu epidemic Has been down.

According to Mao Qunan, director of the Disease Prevention and Control Bureau of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, the National Health and Family Planning Commission attaches great importance to influenza prevention and control and held many prevention and control work meetings. It has also issued the Notification on Doing a Good Job in Influenza Prevention and Control and closely followed the global and domestic epidemic developments , Carried out special project evaluation in time, revised and issued the "Influenza Treatment and Treatment Plan ( 2018 Edition)" to guide the medical treatment of influenza throughout the country, released the flu epidemic information in various forms and carried out prevention and control knowledge publicity. The departments of education, transportation, quality control, food and drug administration, tourism, railway and civil aviation also took prompt actions and carried out work on the prevention and control of influenza associated with their work responsibilities. For example, all ports pay close attention to the health status of people from the endemic areas of influenza, strengthen the body temperature monitoring, medical inspections and health declaration work; relevant schools implement child enrollment morning check, absentee absence registration report, to strengthen daily disinfection; Ventilation system to increase health education efforts; Food and drug control to strengthen coordination to ensure the supply of influenza prevention and control drugs; Travel departments to strengthen the guidance of travel agencies, requiring travel agencies to strengthen prevention and control of influenza. Thanks to timely prevention and control work, the current national influenza epidemic has come down.

China Influenza Surveillance Network data show that since January 2018, influenza-like illness monitoring, the northern province of epidemic following the 2018 first week of downward inflection continued to decline ( 2018 Week 1 - 4 weeks, flu-like illness reported proportion (5.7%, 5.5%, 5.2% and 4.9% respectively). The epidemic situation in southern provinces also showed a downward trend after the downward turning point in the third week of 2018 (the first week of 2018 - the fourth week, the proportion of flu-like cases reported 6.0%, 6.0%, 6.7% and 5.9% ). In the outbreak of influenza-like illness, the number of national outbreak reports continued to plunge from 177 in the first week of 2018 to 49 in the fourth week, mainly in the southern provinces. Etiology aspects, China's mainland A influenza continued to increase the proportion of type, it has more than B -type influenza, presenting B ( Yamagata ) and the Department of Influenza A H1N1 influenza as the dominant strain of the common characteristics . No changes affecting the transmission of influenza virus, disease severity and drug resistance were found. The next one or two weeks, the seasonal peak will be significantly reduced.

Mao Qun'an said China, as the world's top five center of reference for influenza research and cooperation , has a sound monitoring network and advanced detection technology. At present, China's influenza surveillance network has covered all prefectures and cities in 31 provinces in mainland China and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. It consists of 408 network laboratories and 554 sentinel hospitals. The network has played an important role in the timely diagnosis of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu in 2004, the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus and the H7N9 human bird flu in humans in 2013. Next, the National Health and Family Planning Commission will further promote the national influenza surveillance work, raise the quality and level of influenza surveillance in an all-round way, ensure real-time monitoring of influenza activity and epidemic trends, track influenza virus variation in real time and discover new influenza viruses in a timely manner, Flu and other respiratory disease prevention and control to provide support.

According to the World Health Organization, the influenza activity in the temperate zone of the northern hemisphere continued to rise, while the influenza activity in the temperate zone of the southern hemisphere was at a low level during the non-epidemic season. Influenza A is the major cause of influenza A in the world , but the proportion of Influenza B continues to increase. The United States and Canada A -type influenza majority, but B -type influenza proportion increased steadily. European Type A and Type B influenza viruses co-prevalent, B (Yamagata) is the dominant strain, the proportion of influenza A H1N1 influenza has exceeded A (H3N2) subtype.

http://www.nhfpc.gov.cn/zhuz/mtbd/201802/be73216ff8de4fc5b1cf7d81b9133ec3.shtml
 
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