H1N1 & mask usage
Posted on November 20, 2009
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“Global Fund to Fight Influenza A H1N1 Influenza is the first time in human history, a declaration of war against an influenza pandemic.” In the Chinese Medical Association recently held the First National Conference on Public Health, the Chinese director of public health, credit, member of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, chief scientist Professor Zeng Guang made the above remarks.
For the current epidemic, has light that changes with the seasons, the general trend of the global flow of A is: the Southern Hemisphere to flatten the peak epidemic, the epidemic in the northern hemisphere began to rise rapidly. China in line with the trend of the northern hemisphere, the recent September 1, especially since many schools in different regions of China over the same period epidemic outbreaks, indicating a flow in our country has entered a period of rapid spread. Zeng light on the characteristics of a stream are summarized in his view, a stream with the history of previous outbreak of an influenza pandemic similar to the general population susceptible, but the clinical manifestations are relatively mild, the deaths were less than the previous influenza pandemic.
Have been emphasized, according to our health workers on-site epidemiological investigations, in a transmission stream area, confirmed the possibility of droplets, while the aerosol transmission has not been proven. In other words, only the face to face communication, when a flow of patients through talking, sneezing or coughing of infected droplets close to the opposite side, while the next person, even if we were all in a car, cabin, houses, no one has found evidence of being infected. Therefore, health experts said droplet transmission must focus on prevention, the most effective preventive method is to enable patients to wear a mask, the average masks OK; another should be routinely wash their hands of the good habit of air disinfection needs to be emphasized.
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