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China - Pneumonia is the biggest killer of children - PRC

sharon sanders

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Pneumonia, diarrhea has been replaced as the biggest killer of children

http://www.sina.com.cn 2010年06月18日14:56 北京晚报
http://www.sina.com.cn 2010年06月18日14:56 Beijing Evening News
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PRC has, in the "China Soong Ching Ling Foundation - Children Pneumococcal disease control fund" with the full support from the Chinese Preventive Medical Association's "one minute of attention - knowledge of school children, pneumococcal disease, say the National Tour Group" has established, the tour group will speak from the field of prevention and treatment of domestic experts on the "one minute of attention to" public education program publicity envoys, the famous actor TAO join hand in hand.




Moment Sciences Branch of Chinese Medical Science Group consultant respiratory Professor Lu Quan told reporters: "Pneumococcal widely in healthy adults and children nasopharyngeal cavity, the survey shows China is about 1 / 4 of healthy children carry pneumococcus. Streptococcus pneumoniae mainly through droplets. through coughing, sneezing, talking spread of bacteria is easily spread. China Disease Prevention and Control Center of Epidemiology Professor Zeng Guang, chief scientist, said, Pneumococcus is the normal human upper respiratory tract bacterial colonization, Once sneaked into the human body, which will show a diversity of diseases caused by induced mucosal disease, bacteremia, sepsis, meningitis, bacteremia, pneumonia and empyema, endocarditis, pericarditis, peritonitis, bone and joint go far the so-called invasive pneumococcal disease.




Edinburgh University and Peking University School of Medicine research team in the 1990 to 2008 China's five causes of death in children under the age of a systematic analysis of survey found that diarrhea and pneumonia long since been replaced as the most horrible death traps.



1 to 11 months of the infants, 46.8% of deaths due to pneumonia.





Turning to pneumococcal disease, Professor Lu Quan said: "The current pneumococcal disease, the most important treatment is the use of antibiotics, but pneumococcal cross resistance and multiple drug resistance is becoming increasingly clear that this could lead to routine clinical dose of empirical antibiotic therapy failure, serious consequences, even death, the cure often can also cause many complications later. However, pneumococcal disease is preventable and controllable, vaccination is a good way.


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