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China - Highest flu levels in 5 years in Beijing - 38% are children under 4

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Beijing influenza incidence highest in five years, nearly four children under 4 years of age
Local news京报网 - Beijing Evening NewsGu Xiaohong J146 2013-01-08 15:12I want to share 0

This morning, the patients to hospital outpatient and emergency visits due to influenza increased. Cheng Ningshe
Go to the hospital with a small stool waiting to the pharmacy to get the medicine found myrrh ... In recent days, major hospitals, significant increase in flu patients. News from the disease control department, the current level of the city the incidence of influenza in the past five years, the highest record for the period 2009 Influenza A (H1N1) have absolute main strains became dominant.
  Patients with too many outpatient did drugs
  Yesterday afternoon, the reporter went to the Beijing University Hospital emergency room. 15:00, should have been a relatively quiet emergency is still busy. Little space, mixed with the sound of the patient's cough. The triage nurse saw the reporter did not wear masks, immediately issued a. "Now come here to see the common cold patients have suggested that he wear a mask, if you see the escort family members did not wear masks, free hair masks."
  Renxiong Hui, deputy director of the emergency department of the Peking University First Hospital, patients of emergency department visits in the recent past than usual increase of 10%, the marked increase in flu patients accounted accounted for about one-third; rather than peak when cold, flu patients only five one half. The reporters found that many patients came to the clinic to sit down, and before doctors openings on their first reading about them, "We are one people are cold."
  Xiong said, the majority of patients with this cold symptoms are a sore throat, dry cough, sore throat. Cold treatment or antiviral, the vast majority of patients do not need to take antibiotics, lower respiratory tract infections, that is, people often say pneumonia, will consider the use of antibiotics. "
  Reporters learned that these days, a lot of major hospital admissions of flu patients. Doctor of the first child of the Sun Jiping New Year's day on the two days of classes. During the watch, she saw a parent holding a child sitting in a small chair comes waiting, "really can not afford to hurt you!" To complete this two-day class, Sun Dafu cold. The full public Ms. with 2-year-old son to 309 hospital to catch up with the outpatient pharmacy myrrh, she took the children to the inpatient department to get the drugs.
  Nearly forty percent of children under 4 years old
  The flu strikes, strokes in children especially. The data provided by the disease control department, nearly forty percent of flu patients are 0-4 years old children, accounting for 37.7%. Some of the children a little fever, the parents took the child to the hospital run. Whether the child a fever should go to the hospital? Beijing Children's Hospital, experts say, parents if the initial diagnosis of children with fever caused by colds, children eat can play mental reaction symptoms are not heavy, you can temporarily go to the hospital. If the fever is accompanied by severe vomiting, diarrhea, not eating, poor mental reactions to children under 2 years of age with fever high fever persisted more than a day, early childhood and school-age children fever over 38.5 ? C, the parents give their children oral antipyretics to children go to the hospital.

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Re: China - Highest flu levels in 5 years in Beijing - 38% are children under 4

They are reporting that 86.4% of the flu/ILI cases are under the age of 59.

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The highest incidence of influenza level five years into the peak of the epidemic to the same period
January 7, 2013 09:24:55
Source: Beijing Evening News

Influenza A H1N1 "comeback"

Influenza epidemic period of 5 years, two died due to "a flow"

Office colleagues 'caught' collective influenza, turns on sick leave. "The various hospitals flu patients recently increased significantly. More than 6,000 people, the first child of the working day outpatient Beijing Children's Hospital outpatient already exceeded a million. The reporter learned from the disease control department, the level of the incidence of flu in the city has entered a peak period. City CDC main Rendeng Ying, from 24 December to 30 December 2012, the cumulative medical institutions in the city for more than two monitoring the number of cases of influenza-like 28,567 people. This is the highest level for the same period since 2008.

The data analysis shows that the flu-like illness visits to the 0-4 age group, the 5-14 age group and the 25-59 age group mainly accounted for 37.7% of the the visits total number of influenza-like illness, 23.7% and 25%. The last two weeks, the city has reported two cases of influenza A (H1N1) deaths. The first deaths of a 22-year-old female migrant workers, high fever, breathing difficulties and other symptoms Chaoyang hospital in late December last year, has anemia, weak resistance, the treating died; 4th of this month day, died after a cancer late 65-year-old female with a cold laboratory testing infected with influenza A H1N1 virus.

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