China - Poultry Workers Considered a High Risk Occupation due to Bird Flu - Told to Monitor for Pneumonia Symptoms in Hebei Province

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Hebei: Human bird flu into the butcher into a season of high-risk occupation

2010-10-22 08:03 来源：长城在线 作者：吕晓红​

2010-10-22 08:03 Source: line of the Great Wall: Lv Xiaohong
Key words: pneumonia; who poultry; influenza; respiratory tract; fever

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City Network October 21 long-News (trainee journalist Lv Xiaohong) recently, human infection with highly pathogenic avian influenza (hereinafter referred to as "bird flu") has entered the high season.

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To do a good job of bird flu prevention and control, timely and effective control of the occurrence and spread of the epidemic, the Health Department of Hebei Province various medical institutions at all levels to strengthen disease surveillance and found that groups of patients with respiratory infections should be immediately reported fever, conscientiously implement the first diagnosis responsibility system, strengthen the case of pre-screening and screening triage.

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Guard against high fever with respiratory symptoms

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Focus on prevention and control of bird flu is the sudden onset of acute infectious diseases. Provincial Health Department asked all kinds of medical institutions in strict accordance with "human infection with highly pathogenic avian influenza in Hebei Province contingency plans" and "bird flu clinic program (2005 edition)" provides that found in the pre-screening high fever with respiratory symptoms and poultry from infected areas or have a history of close contact with patients, epidemiological history of serious inquiry cases, in particular, history of contact with dead poultry, practitioners history, history of exposure to other similar cases, timely diagnosis and treatment go to fever clinics, and report in accordance with relevant provisions, and effectively "early discovery, early diagnosis, early reporting, early isolation."

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Slaughtering of poultry keeping key personnel monitored

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Township hospitals, community health service centers (stations) and village doctors to prevent security officers on a regular basis in key areas within the jurisdiction of the high-risk occupational exposure to workers (raising, selling, slaughtering, processing and poultry as well as contact with poultry or other wild animal or exposed to excretion of these animals and pollution of the environment and other staff) to search for symptoms of pneumonia, the symptoms reported immediately suspected.

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County-level disease prevention and control institutions to strengthen the area nurseries, schools, nursing homes, nursing homes, large construction sites and other crowded places outbreaks of infectious diseases surveillance and active search, find groups of patients with respiratory infections should be immediately reported fever, and conduct epidemiological investigations and emergency response field work.


At the same time, to collect specimens of patients with acute respiratory timely Center for Disease Control and Prevention sent to the municipal laboratory monitoring.





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