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China - Upper respiratory emergency room patients doubled year-over-year: tests rule out influenza - Guangzhou, Guangdong province

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Guangdong A/H1N1 flu cases has not yet appeared in March is the peak season for influenza
2013-01-07 08:45:17 Source: Nanfang Daily

Yesterday, continued cooling of the major hospitals in Guangzhou emergency infusion patients surge obvious increase in influenza patients. Zeng Qiang photo
2009 global pandemic of influenza A H1N1 virus, this winter has once again become the most active of the flu virus in Beijing, has recently resulted in two deaths. The news caused widespread concern, some people worry about whether a stream "comeback". Guangdong Provincial Disease Prevention and Control Center, said yesterday that the peak period of influenza in Guangdong lag a few months than in the north, generally before entering the high season in March, currently the province sentinel surveillance sites have not yet found a flow of cases, but it is recommended that the frail members of the public to pay close attention to the flu vaccine .
Beijing two deaths have underlying diseases
Beijing CDC, due to the cold weather this winter influenza incidence for the highest level since 2008, and the incidence of the H1N1 influenza virus is on the rise.
According to statistics, from December 27, 2012 to 2013, Beijing reported a total of two cases of deaths in a stream, are women. However, experts said that the deceased had had underlying disease, a 22-year-old history of anemia; a 65-year-old patients with neoplastic diseases. The public not to panic too much of a stream.
Guangdong influenza patients did not significantly increase
Guangdong Provincial Disease Prevention and Control Center chief expert Jianfeng said yesterday that, due to the geographical and climatic differences, the northern general in October to enter the peak period of influenza in Guangdong from March to July is the peak season for influenza. According to the province to monitor the situation to see the current influenza outbreak in Guangdong in a very low state, has not yet found a flow of cases.
Reporter yesterday from the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, the Second People's Hospital of Guangdong Province, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical College, Guangzhou Medical College Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou, the major top three hospitals learned that the recent cold weather surge in hospital outpatient and emergency patients, but influenza patients did not increase significantly.
Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital emergency department main Renhuang Zi Tong, last week, to the emergency room doctor patient per day to more than 550 people, a year-on-year last month, an increase of nearly double. "In the past 30-bed emergency room often left now inhabited, there are patients waiting for beds." In these emergency patients, children accounted for more than half of patients, many acute upper respiratory tract infections, cough, fever and other symptoms, but the tests were not influenza.

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