Taiwan diagnoses 60 Hong Kong medical students with A (H1N1)

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Taiwan diagnoses 6 Hong Kong medical students with A (H1N1)
Taiwan News, Staff Writer
2009-07-29 07:27 PM

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) ? Six participants in an Asian medical student conference in Taipei, most of them from Hong Kong, were diagnosed with the A (H1N1) swine flu virus Wednesday.

The students had sought medical treatment after feeling ill on July 26, reports said. The Hong Kong students were part of 500 medical students from several Asian countries attending an eight-day conference.

The origin of the infection must have been in Hong Kong, turning the outbreak into an imported case, reports said.

In addition to the eight who were diagnosed with the light version of the virus, a further 14 Hong Kong students volunteered for quarantine inside Taipei?s Grand Hotel for four days, conference organizers said.

The authorities praised the Taiwanese chairman of the meeting for acting rapidly in isolating the potential flu sufferers as soon as he noticed them coughing during the opening ceremony.

Other students meanwhile, continued their activities with a train trip to Hualien and Taitung on Taiwan?s East Coast. Participants who showed symptoms of flu traveled together in the same train wagon, cable stations reported.

Reports said the students had shared plates and bowls during meals, while conference meetings took place in poorly ventilated underground rooms.

The Department of Health cautioned conference organizers not to underestimate the risk of community outbreaks during the summer.

In a separate incident, fears that the virus had erupted at a school in Tainan proved unfounded after test results announced Wednesday showed the students only suffered from the common flu.

On Monday, the Tucheng High School in Tainan City found 33 of its students showed flu symptoms, including high fevers and coughing, after a trip to museums, libraries and university buildings in Kaohsiung last week.

The school suspended classes for three days and alerted the city?s health authorities, which found the students did not contract the swine flu virus. The city nevertheless advised the students to stay at home and wear masks.

The latest scares came after Taiwan reported a total of five severe cases of A (H1N1) Tuesday, including a six-year-old boy, the youngest case so far. The other victims were men in their thirties, the Centers for Disease Control said.

All patients were staying at intensive care units inside hospitals. Taiwan has not recorded deaths from the virus yet, but an estimated 900 patients are registered each week. The CDC has voiced fears that the situation might worsen as temperatures fall toward the end of the year.

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Re: Taiwan diagnoses 60 Hong Kong medical students with A (H1N1)

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Medical students gathered H1N1 infection incidence increased nearly 60 people
更新日期:2009/07/30 12:40 Updated: 2009/07/30 12:40


7月26日到8月1日在台北舉辦的亞洲醫學生國際會議，出現新流感群聚感染疫情，人數持續爆增！ July 26 to August 1, held at the Taipei International Conference on Asian medical students, the emergence of new influenza epidemic clusters of infection, the continuing explosion in the number! 依據衛生署疾管局監測資料，繼昨天有28人出現症狀後，今天上午，疾管局證實，又有32名學生出現類流感症 狀，累計群聚感染人數已突破五十人！ Department of Health based on CDC surveillance data, there were 28 people yesterday after the onset of symptoms, this morning, the CDC confirmed that 32 students have influenza-like symptoms occur, the cumulative number of infections has exceeded gathered 50 people! 疾管局表示，未來新流感病患可能會滿街都是，「減少重症」是主要目標。 CDC said that the future may be a new influenza patients are the streets, "to reduce the severe" is the main objective. (徐韻翔報導) (Xu Yun Xiang reports)

在台北舉辦的亞洲醫學生國際會議，爆發H1N1新流感群聚感染事件，繼28名與會的國內、外籍學生出現類流 感症狀，發燒後，雖然已經被安排隔離在飯店休養，接受藥物治療，但疫情仍擋不住、持續擴散，又有30多名學 生發病。 Held at the Taipei International Conference on Asian medical students, a new outbreak of H1N1 influenza outbreak cluster, following the meeting of 28 domestic and foreign students emerging influenza type symptoms, fever, although arrangements have been isolated in the hotel to rest, receive medical treatment, but the disease still can not stop the continuing spread and incidence of more than 30 students.

衛生署疾管局副局長林頂表示，這批參與亞洲醫學生國際會議的學生，包括台籍與香港等國的外籍學生，全團共計 有四百多人，29日會議行程安排到花蓮時，共計有32名的學生出現類流感上呼吸道症狀，包括發燒、咳嗽與流 鼻水等，整群學生被送往花蓮慈濟醫院就醫，其中31人都被投以克流感藥物治療，有1名學生則是較早發病，曾 經投藥過，但症狀未緩解，所以再度就醫，疾管局會採檢幾個具代表性檢體檢驗，會議行程沒有被要求中斷；林頂 說，未來新流感輕症患者可能滿街都是，民眾應該要配合治療，避免併發重症。 Department of Health, CDC Deputy Director Lin Ding said that the medical students to participate in the International Conference on Asian students, including Taiwan and Hong Kong and other countries of foreign students, the whole regiment to a total of 400 people, meeting on the 29th trip to Hualien when a total of 32 categories of students emerged influenza upper respiratory tract symptoms, including fever, cough and runny nose, etc., the whole group of students were sent to the Hualien Tzu Chi General Hospital for medical treatment, 31 of whom have been voted to Tamiflu medication, there are students is an earlier onset, dosing once, but did not alleviate the symptoms, so again for medical treatment, the CDC will be sampling a representative number of samples tested, the meeting was asked to travel did not interrupt; Lin Ding said that the new mild flu patients are likely to the streets, people should be with the treatment, to avoid severe complications.

林頂表示，出現類流感症狀的醫學生，已經陸續投藥，並讓病患自主健康管理，他強調，秋冬起感染新流感的案例 會持續增加，防疫策略會以減少重症發生為主要目標。 Lin Ding said that the emergence of influenza-type symptoms of medical students have already voted in medicine, and patient self-health management, he stressed that the new flu infection in autumn and winter since the case will continue to increase and prevention strategy to reduce the occurrence of severe as a major objective.


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