Medicine response of swine influenza
Posted on May 1, 2009
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15 o’clock yesterday, the Ministry of Health, AQSIQ and the Ministry of Agriculture responsible person held a press conference to introduce China to strengthen human infection with swine influenza prevention and control work and answering a reporter’s question. Health Minister Chen Zhu at the press conference when answering a reporter’s question, said that once our country found a case of human infection with swine influenza, China is also an effective drug in clinical response.
Chen Zhu said that under the 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.
Once infected with swine flu, the following two types of medicine available for clinical use:
1. Antiviral therapy: should be an early application of antiviral drugs, oseltamivir can be a trial (oseltamivir Tamiflu). Tamiflu is a neuraminidase inhibitor, for swine influenza virus may be inhibited, dose 75mg / d, course of five days, children used with caution.
In addition, from the United States swine influenza virus has recently infected with the virus isolated from oseltamivir and zanamivir (zanamivir) is sensitive, resistant to the amantadine and rimantadine.
2. Antibiotics: In case of bacterial infection could be the use of antibiotics.
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