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Kui Heng News Center (Source: China-Canton News Network) August 21, 2009
Friday 01:18:01
Disaster areas in central and southern flood receded, but a large number of dead animals, the disease caused the problem is worrisome. Physician at National Taiwan University, said dead fish, dead pigs and other corruption, the body is not an appropriate environment for the growth of pathogenic bacteria, but rather a lack of clean water disaster worrying, and urged the public to avoid drinking mountain spring water and other contaminated water, or likely to cause gastrointestinal inflammation and other diseases. (Chen Ying Zhu coverage)
The first step in disaster recovery first re-cleaning disinfection, organized by the University of Taiwan, "Morak after the disaster, epidemic control and disaster victims re-establish" public forum, the follow-up for disaster prevention, public health director of NTU's Chen Jian said that after the flood , water is contaminated, the basic principle is that the people exposed skin and avoid direct contact with the water.
National Taiwan University Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine Dr. Frank Shih pointed out that the people in the disaster areas must be prevented skin diseases, gastrointestinal diseases, and flood back, the local vector mosquitoes breed. As for the victims were gathered in the same place, intensive contact, Fuh-Yuan Shih said, "Some of respiratory disease may be transmitted at this time, as H1N1 infection, which is more behind the consideration."
Director of the Center National Taiwan University Hospital Infection Control Yi-Chun Chen said that the next victims organize their living environment, we must first put on gloves, clothing and shoes, to avoid contact with sewage, wear masks when necessary, particularly in immunocompromised patients with diabetes; in water sanitation on, must be boiled, if necessary, you can drink packaged water.
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Kui Heng News Center (Source: China-Canton News Network) August 21, 2009
Friday 01:18:01
Disaster areas in central and southern flood receded, but a large number of dead animals, the disease caused the problem is worrisome. Physician at National Taiwan University, said dead fish, dead pigs and other corruption, the body is not an appropriate environment for the growth of pathogenic bacteria, but rather a lack of clean water disaster worrying, and urged the public to avoid drinking mountain spring water and other contaminated water, or likely to cause gastrointestinal inflammation and other diseases. (Chen Ying Zhu coverage)
The first step in disaster recovery first re-cleaning disinfection, organized by the University of Taiwan, "Morak after the disaster, epidemic control and disaster victims re-establish" public forum, the follow-up for disaster prevention, public health director of NTU's Chen Jian said that after the flood , water is contaminated, the basic principle is that the people exposed skin and avoid direct contact with the water.
National Taiwan University Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine Dr. Frank Shih pointed out that the people in the disaster areas must be prevented skin diseases, gastrointestinal diseases, and flood back, the local vector mosquitoes breed. As for the victims were gathered in the same place, intensive contact, Fuh-Yuan Shih said, "Some of respiratory disease may be transmitted at this time, as H1N1 infection, which is more behind the consideration."
Director of the Center National Taiwan University Hospital Infection Control Yi-Chun Chen said that the next victims organize their living environment, we must first put on gloves, clothing and shoes, to avoid contact with sewage, wear masks when necessary, particularly in immunocompromised patients with diabetes; in water sanitation on, must be boiled, if necessary, you can drink packaged water.
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