Effective neuraminidase inhibitor drugs on swine influenza virus
Posted on April 30, 2009
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State Council Information Office held a press conference today, please Ministry of Health, AQSIQ and the Ministry of Agriculture, the person in charge of China’s strengthening of human infection with swine influenza prevention and control work and answering a reporter’s question.
Xinhua News Agency:
Will Chen minister, if passed, our country found a case of human infection with swine influenza, the health sector will be the specific measures taken to control the outbreak? In addition, I ask my reserves of Tamiflu and other antiviral drugs, how the public could use some preventive medication, and if so, what form of medicine?
Chen Zhu:
First, the health sector, the receipt of the WHO regard to Mexico, the United States, people infected with swine flu outbreak communications first time started the deployment of prevention and control, emergency notification into the state health departments at all levels, calling on medical institutions to strengthen influenza kind of cases and monitoring of cases of pneumonia of unknown causes, especially for countries who had been an outbreak is detected early detection of cases of work.
I have also mentioned in the entry and exit control points, we have already admitted to the hospital deployed fixed, while the Ministry of Health has developed and issued a person infected with swine influenza treatment, prevention and control and other related technology solutions, we at this time, through the network medical institutions across the country to conduct training for prevention and control of all parts of providing guidance and support if it is found cases of human infection with swine influenza, we will be in accordance with relevant laws, regulations and plans, timely reporting and isolation and treatment.
The second question, based on current expert understanding of the situation, this new type of swine influenza viruses to the neuraminidase inhibitor class of drugs is a sensitive and effective clinical treatment. A few years ago in response to cases of human infection with avian influenza, we have to do an effective antiviral drugs like Tamiflu material reserves of such drugs, according to recent new outbreaks of the State Council departments concerned have taken measures to expand the effective antiviral drugs The quantity of stock, we have a sufficient capacity to do this one.
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