Five types of H1N1 high-risk groups
Posted on November 15, 2009
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Influenza A H1N1 Influenza is a preventable and controllable and curable disease, so long as to develop good personal hygiene habits, will be able to effectively prevent influenza. City, CDC experts, a total of five categories of persons who are susceptible to influenza high-risk populations, should pay more attention to their daily lives.
The performance of Influenza A H1N1 influenza and the common flu symptoms or less the same, there could be fever, cough, fatigue, generalized muscle pain symptoms. As this is a new virus, people are generally susceptible to the disease, and now comes a period of students in school, coupled with the fall and winter is the season of influenza pandemic, people’s resistance to decrease, so the city gathered there Influenza A H1N1 influenza of cases.
High-risk groups include the following categories: 5 years of age and under children, especially infants under 2 years of age; 65 years of age and older; pregnant women; chronic respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease (except hypertension), blood, nerve, nerve muscular system or kidney, liver, metabolic, endocrine disorders, immune suppression persons (including the application of immunosuppressive agents or HIV infection, the immune dysfunction induced by person), 19 persons under the age of long-term use of aspirin; group living in nursing homes or other chronic care facilities personnel.
The current from the national situation, the mainland does not appear Influenza A H1N1 influenza deaths, there are no medications on the healing of individual cases, without whom too much panic. The city of light were all confirmed cases, clinical symptoms of light, the current patient in stable condition with influenza A H1N1 influenza as long as the treatment, cure probability is very high. From the protection perspective, the most important thing is to develop good personal hygiene habits, such as washing hands frequently, before meals, after contact with pollutants in tap water wash should be timely and can be used disinfectant; to maintain the indoor ventilation.
For the prevention of influenza A H1N1 influenza, the city developed specifically for the prevention and control measures in communities and schools. If the public felt flu-like symptoms, the situation is less allow it to rest at home, for home medical observation at the same time should try to avoid contact with their families to prevent transmission to others; if there is fever, it is timely to the hospital for fever outpatients. Now is also the season of seasonal influenza pandemic, people can be vaccinated for seasonal influenza vaccine approach to the prevention of influenza from occurring.
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