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TAIPEI--The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported yesterday four new fatalities from complications of type B influenza and said it expects the current flu outbreak to reach its peak during the Chinese New Year holiday.
CDC Deputy Director-General Chou Jih-haw said the four who succumbed lived in Taipei and New Taipei City and that none of them had been vaccinated.
The deaths included a 2-year-old girl, an 81-year-old woman and a 64-year-old man in New Taipei, and a 48-year-old man in Taipei. All three adults had chronic high blood pressure, while the toddler had underlying cerebral disease.
All four were infected by type B influenza and died because of cardiopulmonary failure, sepsis and pneumonia.
Chou said that among the confirmed 587 cases of flu complications from last July until now, 28 had died, 20 of them from type B influenza.
The prevalence rate of flu complications is 25 out of every 1 million, with 1.2 deaths out of every 1 million.
With the coming Chinese New Year holiday period that begins Jan. 21, Chou urged those in high-risk groups such as children, the elderly and chronic disease patients, to take particular care.
CDC Deputy Director-General Chou Jih-haw said the four who succumbed lived in Taipei and New Taipei City and that none of them had been vaccinated.
The deaths included a 2-year-old girl, an 81-year-old woman and a 64-year-old man in New Taipei, and a 48-year-old man in Taipei. All three adults had chronic high blood pressure, while the toddler had underlying cerebral disease.
All four were infected by type B influenza and died because of cardiopulmonary failure, sepsis and pneumonia.
Chou said that among the confirmed 587 cases of flu complications from last July until now, 28 had died, 20 of them from type B influenza.
The prevalence rate of flu complications is 25 out of every 1 million, with 1.2 deaths out of every 1 million.
With the coming Chinese New Year holiday period that begins Jan. 21, Chou urged those in high-risk groups such as children, the elderly and chronic disease patients, to take particular care.
