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Editor, Senior Moderator
Death cases, the case for the North 15-year-old junior high school students with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, non-inoculated H1N1 vaccine. 4 / 27 from cough, sore throat, abdominal pain and other symptoms but did not seek medical treatment, 5 / 3 due to symptoms of shortness of breath continued and the situation, to the nearby clinic for medical treatment after the rest home. 5 / 4 with persistent shortness of breath, accompanied by rapid heartbeat, vomiting, loss of consciousness to the northern part of the afternoon in a regional hospital emergency department, through give and cardiopulmonary resuscitation and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation treatment, transferred to intensive care. 5 / 5 with acute renal failure leading to critical illness discharged from hospital, pronounced dead, nearly three months of the first case of H1N1 deaths. The epidemic tune shows his students not currently living with family members and flu-related symptoms. According to speculation in the course of patients with diabetes due to insulin dependent diabetes, a new influenza H1N1 infection had not resulted in pneumonia, but induced diabetic ketoacidosis and death. Bureau of Statistics according to the latest outbreak of domestic self to (98) year in July the first case of H1N1 influenza hospitalization of new cases has so far accumulated 922 cases, of which 42 were fatal. Deaths in 34 cases (81%) were pregnant women, obese, with heart and lung disease, liver, kidney disease and diabetes, a history of potential high risk groups. H1N1 influenza death rate while not new, if expected, but for people with chronic diseases, unfortunately, there is still a large probability of infection with serious complications and even death. Vaccination is still widely recognized as the most effective, safe and to prevent influenza H1N1 new method. Recommendation has not been vaccinated people in high risk groups, such as being overweight, chronically ill, young children and pregnant women, should receive the vaccine to prevent new influenza H1N1 infection. There are currently 690 domestic medical institutions continue to provide new type of H1N1 flu vaccination service, contract information, please refer to the Institutes web page was new influenza H1N1 (http://h1n1.cdc.gov.tw), or call the public notification and consultation epidemic
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