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China Times Qiu Liying / Taipei】 recent flu outbreak, the major surge of patients treated at the hospital, a doctors worried that "this miserable flu in Taiwan, is the practice thirty years the most serious epidemic year, almost every ten families, there are four families infected. to look at flu deaths, so far from the last eighty people dead and more than fifty people died during the SARS epidemic is more serious, the Department of Health should address the seriousness of the problem! "CDC director Zhou Zhihao explains that" different infectious influenza and SARS, can not be compared.
"But he also stressed that during the height of the cold this year, keep an influenza pandemic, along with cold, wet weather is warming to cause influenza and pandemic experience with the previous year, increased physician awareness of influenza, reporting and testing has been particularly active, is also reflected in the number of notified cases increase.
Menacing winter flu, according to the Department of Health Disease Control data show that the number of first flu death on Thursday has exceeded eighty, the number of more severe soared to fifteen hundred people; 2009 Great new influenza H1N1 popular forty-four cases of deaths, nine hundred Sajiu severe cases, the epidemic seems to be more serious this year. Chang Gung Children's Hospital will be poured into the New Year period, many severe cases of influenza. Yhu-Chering Huang, director of the infection, said the end of this year's flu epidemic was heating up, admitted during the Chinese New Year children under five years old, due to bacterial invasion of the lungs and cause severe pleural effusion, pulmonary blood vessels throughout the obstruction, necrosis, emergency surgery rescue, shelter into the ICU.
He refer to "previous years was not serious as this year!" Worried about a hospital physician, said this year's flu epidemic thirty years of his practice the most severe year, patients with severe fever, cough, a month-long course of disease, many patients have large sigh too much to look at the number of deaths, worse than the SARS epidemic period. National Taiwan University Hospital, Li-Min Huang, director of pediatric infections, the peak flu this year, slower decline than in previous years, mainly due to a relatively new strain of the virus H1N1, the virus through the whole of last year to adapt, slow familiar with the structure of human cells, viral and disease rates are stronger this year, a new influenza will gradually get angry.
If not vaccinated, or no antibody in vivo, it is easy to infection, lead to popularity.
Zhou Zhihao, deputy director of the CDC noted that last year a new influenza pandemic, people will be injected with a short one and a half nearly 5.7 million vaccine produced protective effect groups. Seasonal flu vaccine this year, only injections of 2.8 million, double the difference between full and can not get last year, the number of infections and deaths compared with this year. He stressed that from the current emergency and outpatient attendances for influenza surveillance, the epidemic is gradually cooling trend expected to significantly slow down the end of February and March back to normal.
China Times Qiu Liying / Taipei】 recent flu outbreak, the major surge of patients treated at the hospital, a doctors worried that "this miserable flu in Taiwan, is the practice thirty years the most serious epidemic year, almost every ten families, there are four families infected. to look at flu deaths, so far from the last eighty people dead and more than fifty people died during the SARS epidemic is more serious, the Department of Health should address the seriousness of the problem! "CDC director Zhou Zhihao explains that" different infectious influenza and SARS, can not be compared.
"But he also stressed that during the height of the cold this year, keep an influenza pandemic, along with cold, wet weather is warming to cause influenza and pandemic experience with the previous year, increased physician awareness of influenza, reporting and testing has been particularly active, is also reflected in the number of notified cases increase.
Menacing winter flu, according to the Department of Health Disease Control data show that the number of first flu death on Thursday has exceeded eighty, the number of more severe soared to fifteen hundred people; 2009 Great new influenza H1N1 popular forty-four cases of deaths, nine hundred Sajiu severe cases, the epidemic seems to be more serious this year. Chang Gung Children's Hospital will be poured into the New Year period, many severe cases of influenza. Yhu-Chering Huang, director of the infection, said the end of this year's flu epidemic was heating up, admitted during the Chinese New Year children under five years old, due to bacterial invasion of the lungs and cause severe pleural effusion, pulmonary blood vessels throughout the obstruction, necrosis, emergency surgery rescue, shelter into the ICU.
He refer to "previous years was not serious as this year!" Worried about a hospital physician, said this year's flu epidemic thirty years of his practice the most severe year, patients with severe fever, cough, a month-long course of disease, many patients have large sigh too much to look at the number of deaths, worse than the SARS epidemic period. National Taiwan University Hospital, Li-Min Huang, director of pediatric infections, the peak flu this year, slower decline than in previous years, mainly due to a relatively new strain of the virus H1N1, the virus through the whole of last year to adapt, slow familiar with the structure of human cells, viral and disease rates are stronger this year, a new influenza will gradually get angry.
If not vaccinated, or no antibody in vivo, it is easy to infection, lead to popularity.
Zhou Zhihao, deputy director of the CDC noted that last year a new influenza pandemic, people will be injected with a short one and a half nearly 5.7 million vaccine produced protective effect groups. Seasonal flu vaccine this year, only injections of 2.8 million, double the difference between full and can not get last year, the number of infections and deaths compared with this year. He stressed that from the current emergency and outpatient attendances for influenza surveillance, the epidemic is gradually cooling trend expected to significantly slow down the end of February and March back to normal.
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