Re: Jordan - Cluster of approximately 19 people with acute pneumonia type illness (11 confirmed) - approximately 4 fatalities (1 confirmed)
Re: Jordan - Cluster of approximately 19 people with acute pneumonia type illness (11 confirmed) - approximately 4 fatalities (1 confirmed)
Here's an article suspecting what I'm pretty sure is Legionella, but it isn't clear what the evidence is:
http://www.alrai.com/article/508198.html
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7:07 p.m. Date: Mon, April 23, 2012 Is air conditioning is responsible for the dissemination of HIV disease, "Alloginala"?
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Amman - (Petra) - Can you believe the premise you see in the air conditioners are not able to filter the air must also be a cause of "recycling" viruses cause a disease called "
Alloginala" which may be responsible for the death of nurse emotions Balawi and wounding 11 people, staff hospital blue state in addition to brother of the deceased? .
Medical sources did not rule out the role of air-conditioners in the transfer and revive the atmosphere contribute to the re-spreading viruses and bacteria, especially if it can not be efficient system of filtration and sterilization where, while the other believes that it may be too early to judge the relationship with air conditioners, what happened to the patient Balawi, especially as 3 people living with what was said that "lung disease" are nursing staff in Emergency and Internal Medicine Departments in the "blue state" where there is no conditioning in the two sections.
"It could be air-conditioners fact responsible for the redeployment of the polluted air after the withdrawal of the atmosphere and re-injected to the same atmosphere without filtering healthy and sterilization, as it guarantees the transfer of microbes, regardless of the location of the adjuster, and what happened in the" blue state ", both showing a relationship conditioners by or not is not the first of its kind, but there are similar cases in other hospitals were controlled and did not reach thanks to God and intensive medical care in the Kingdom to the stage of the epidemic, "This is what's (Petra)-Director of Communicable Diseases in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Mohammed Al Abdallat.
He said that In the course of diagnosis in-depth about what happened to the nurse and with the others, a group of experts and specialists did not exclude from their accounts and their assumptions likely responsible for any kind of germs that intersect with the same symptoms, including Germ "Alloginala" that cause a sharp rise in temperature, loss of appetite and severe coughing and, consequently, pulmonary inflammation.
However, he ruled out the hypothesis injury nurse scourge of the disease specifically at the moment, to show that the results of extensive and comprehensive tests during the next 48 hours, and conducted by the Ministry of Health in full swing.
In the context of relevant added Abdallat: It is obvious that air conditioning is absolutely not talking here about those found only in a hospital in the blue government and if the filtration system poorly efficient or it is disabled already, it is natural that helps spread the bacteria that cause respiratory diseases, which is pushing should be subject to regular servicing air conditioners, filtration systems, because the transformation to a large extent the spread of microbes.
And positive about it as explained by Dr. Abdallat that controlling the disease, "Alloginala" as possible, and cured downright if detected early, is that what happened to the nurse Balawi, in addition to the nature of injury her brother and 10 of the cadre of "blue state" Wuxi presence of viral infection, while not excluding reason bacterial, in principle, pointing out that the ministry has implemented all measures to adjust to breaking the cycle of infection spreading among cadres.
And amid questions mixed with awe the fear of a pandemic is declared in, confirms Abdallat that the ministry can not be condoned in accordance with the origins of the profession and the WHO guidelines for the reporting of a health problem, reassuring people that things are under control, nor of the justification for the terror of the disease unknown or mysterious, stressing At the same time that there is no mysterious disease in 2012, and that the citizens will be in the scene first, health first, and in accordance with any developments as the security of health is one of the first priorities and objectives of the ministry.
And to return to the hypothesis of a relationship conditioners what happened in "blue state" of the deaths and injuries, says hospital director, Dr. Marwan Habashneh "can not be generalized this hypothesis," as the geographic distribution of air conditioners refuted to some extent, as the injuries included staff working in two intensive care and central , where the presence of conditioners and cadres working in the sections of emergency and underground where there is no air conditioners, however, that in response to the logic that these cadres are not fixed in place and that it may be transmitted between the units and sections contain conditioners, Dr. Habashneh they may be exposed to the air conditioning if one time. He wondered, if we assume a relationship of air conditioners, why did not hurt, but nursing staff with patients who did not hurt lying on the family of recovery in the units that have air conditioners, and why now, exactly? He emphasized that the reports referred to the moment to the injury of people 11 and nurse Balawi the so-called "lung disease or Bamunya" which is contagious and is caused by a virus, bacteria, occurs for the first time in the "blue state", in what was happened in many private hospitals and was brought under control, according to he said.
And reassure Dr. Habashneh citizens by saying: The cure of this disease definite if detected early, adding: However that may cause the deaths of more than those resulting from injury patients of bird flu and swine if the delay is detected, confirming that a team of experts Jordanian skilled and more than a governmental entity especially so as not to say that the novel will be an official who is now on study, analysis and diagnosis of what happened in the "blue state" where will announce the results of their research with full transparency to the media without an increase or decrease.
And Dr Habashneh that there is no hospital and the ministry want to withhold information from the press, and they involved more than at any point of truth, information medical, and it can not be there, as some claim "epidemic" undeclared, and therefore no need never as follow up for any feeling of anxiety and the proof is that All patients discharged from hospital and still there is a single patient is expected out tomorrow from the Prince Hamzah Hospital.
On the death of nurse scourge and heal her brother said, global studies many indicated that the proportion of deaths in those cases and the like have "any respiratory illness" is more than among females, also plays a factor of the immune system and strength or weakness important role in the patient's ability to overcome his illness, which shows the individual differences between the individual and another for the same condition. And return to confirm that what was not likely what he described as "amplification media" ... And "on the eve of a summer season, and in a time when far and wide the reputation of the Kingdom in the therapeutic range," adding that what we need now is to correct the behavior of hygiene and infection control procedures for the promotion as an essential part of the behavior of hospital staff.
He says that the ministry has spared no effort to take advantage of the expertise of specialists in communicable diseases and scrutiny of health in addition to specialists infection control which turned the ministry into a permanent workshop until access to the reality of the illness, whether "to Ugenila" or other, they - that the ministry - will not deliberately never hide the truth from the public interest and the end.
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Hijjawi said that what happened in a hospital in the blue government gets in any hospital in the world, which is not curious about it, believing that the injury disappear after hitting the microbe is located where the sterilization of hospital with the latest ways to beat that causes the disease. :tiphat: