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China - 66% of hospital visits for ILI & Flu are children under 15 - ILI 7.12% in Guangzhou, Guangdong province

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Guangzhou flu more than cordon influenza population concentrated in the age of 15
March 10, 2012 Day 09:02:06
Source: Xinhua
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Guangzhou, Xinhua, March 9 (Tianjian Chuan, Fan Chao) "The recent cold medicines are selling particularly well, the cold particles in children got left a box of North Road in Guangzhou City, a pharmacy salesperson. The latest monitoring data according to the Guangzhou CDC, influenza-like illness last week, accounting for 7.12% of the medical pediatric outpatients, beyond the 5% level of the warning level. 66% of the influenza population concentrated in the young people and infants under the age of 15.

CDC deputy director of Guangzhou City the Yang Zhicong cordon only to alert the number of influenza cases, to remind the Government to guard against the people themselves have to pay more attention to the general public need not be too nervous.

"The recent cases of fever, cold, two days before the to Yuexiu hospital district has more than 900 a day, Panyu Branch here four to five hundred." Said researcher Ethnographic Mapping of the Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Guangdong Province.

According to the CDC, Guangzhou City, the monitoring results, the recent flu outbreak is on the rise, the proportion of the previous week's 5.11 percent. Same period last year, the influenza epidemic also increased signs of the same period in 2011, the level of 5.84% level of 4.32 percent over the same period in 2010.

Yangzhi Cong said the recent flu outbreak in the case of type B influenza, morbidity and the prevalence ranged between Type A and Type C, also found several cases of the H3N2 virus, but they are mild cases, has not been found in severe cases. "March-April each year will basically more than the warning line, and Guangzhou, the peak season from March to July, basically every month over year after year."

According to Yang Zhicong the case of twelve weeks, with the schools open and the weather in Guangzhou, on the one hand, hot and cold repeatedly, on the other hand back to the south "particularly severe, the humidity is relatively large, the people used to shut the windows and doors moisture dehumidification. In addition, the centralized school students, and students play relatively close to the recent influenza crowd mainly in infants and young children and adolescents under the age of 15, accounting for 66%.

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