H1N1 is preventable and curable
Posted on October 19, 2009
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Currently, the reporters are very concerned about the Influenza A H1N1 influenza outbreak. What is the Influenza A H1N1 influenza? How is it spread? How to prevent it? Daily life, should pay attention to what? Daily examine morning newly, afternoon and check what is the role? Reporter for a small range of issues, we invited Taiyuan Center for Disease Control and Prevention City, assistant director of communicable diseases, director of Merlin as a small press to answer.
Editor: What is the Influenza A H1N1 influenza?
Merlin: It is caused by the influenza A H1N1 influenza virus of influenza. The influenza virus is from the swine flu, avian flu and human influenza three kinds of recombinant influenza virus composition of a new virus. Because it is a new virus, people have no immunity to it, so basically everyone is exposed to this virus, are affected by disease, but after suffering from this flu symptoms are usually mild, the incidence the number and recessive (light) the ratio of the number of cases is about 1 in 10, the resistance of the virus is relatively weak, the general heating and disinfectants can easily kill it.
Editor: Influenza A H1N1 Influenza is how to spread it?
Merlin: the spread of infectious diseases must be a source of infection, transmission and susceptible populations. Infected with the virus are the main source of infection, latent infection is also infectious, they are the source of infection. When the patients and carriers of the virus in the sneezing, coughing, the virus with the droplets into the air, the patient’s respiratory secretions and contaminated the environment or pollution of a hand, when the healthy people (susceptible) to the polluted environment, inhaling droplets containing the virus, with virus-contaminated hands or shake hands with the virus contaminated hands rubbed the nose, eyes and mouth sometimes infected, but the main route of transmission is droplet transmission.
Editor: What are won Influenza A H1N1 flu symptoms?
Merlin: People infected with influenza A H1N1 influenza virus is very similar to common flu symptoms, mainly fever (temperature greater than 37.5 ℃, some patients may from time to fever), cough, sore throat, headache, body aches, chills, and fatigue. Some people also have diarrhea and vomiting symptoms. Serious complications can occur in patients with pneumonia, respiratory failure and even death.
Editor: Influenza A H1N1 influenza incubation period and infectious period how long?
Merlin: Incubation period: usually 1-7 days or so, more than 1 to 4 days. Infectious period: 1 day prior to the onset to 7 days after onset. If the case is still 7 days after fever onset that still has the infectious, children, especially the young, the infectious period may be longer than 7 days.
Editor: If flu-like symptoms, how to do this?
Merlin: When the fever, sore throat, runny nose, stuffy nose and cough and other flu-like symptoms, they should wear face masks to all levels of the nearest hospital out-patient treatment of fever.
Editor: home quarantine period is a few days?
Merlin: The patient needs at home after onset of isolation and observation for at least 7 days, or until the flu-like symptoms disappear after 24 hours to between the two, whichever is longer; children are likely to exceed 7 days.
Editor: daily examine morning newly, afternoon and seized what role?
Merlin: In order to timely detection of a suspicious flu-like symptoms of patients, to prevent schools from collective units such as the outbreak of epidemic outbreak.
Editor: to prevent a flow of daily life should pay attention to what?
Merlin: Avoid going to crowded places, especially in poorly ventilated, crowded places; to develop good health habits, washing hands is also an effective means of prevention of respiratory infectious diseases, do not use dirty hands Mobi Zi, eyes and mouth, access to public goods or facilities for washing hands after going to the time for washing hands, use the flow of water, wash with soap several times over; to avoid contact with patients with flu-like symptoms; coughing, sneezing, cover your nose and mouth when you use paper towels; appear flu-like symptoms, the wear masks the nearest to the fever clinic attendance; strengthening exercises to enhance physical fitness, increase or decrease in a timely manner with the warm and cold weather clothing.
Editor: What shall injection of Influenza H1N1 influenza vaccine?
Merlin: the spirit of voluntary, informed consent, the principle of free pairs of the above-mentioned groups of patients prone to severe, influenza A H1N1 influenza vaccine inoculation.
Editor: Our current health care, how kind of treatment capacity?
Meilin: Currently, there are nine city specifically designated hospitals admitted patients with influenza A H1N1 influenza; CDC at all levels, the flow adjustment, disinfection emergency response teams are trained; a variety of materials to prepare complete, can go all out at any time to cope with various outbreaks may occur.
We need to have confidence in a stream is preventable, controllable, can be cured.
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