To prevent H1N1,when fever, treatment should be as soon as possible
Posted on October 19, 2009
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Major media have reported that the mainland’s first case is a stream. Before the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Zhong Nanshan, respiratory disease experts said in an interview, “Influenza is not an ordinary flu fatality rate is similar to the exact data is ordinary influenza case-fatality rate is zero per cent a few, while the alpha – Influenza is a 1% point more than the fatality rate is higher than ordinary flu. “Zhong Nanshan said that the H1N1 influenza deaths that gave rise to Mexico ranks first in the world, not because of race, but with the patient’s treatment and the diagnosis time of close. If the patient has flu-like symptoms of fever, without too much panic, pay attention to early treatment.
The higher mortality in the later treatment
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Mexico is the influenza epidemic of deaths and the number of confirmed cases than any other country, many people asked: Is it related with the geographic and ethnic origin?
In this regard, Zhong Nanshan said: “This has nothing to do with the race, the main diagnosis and patient treatment time and the time-related illness.” He pointed out that if the patient within three days of the onset of treatment, mortality rate would be low, but if a week after the onset receive diagnosis and treatment, mortality is greatly increased. United States and other developed countries, a case occurs immediately, so I recovered more than patient.
A stream of patients is whether the incubation period of the disease is contagious? Zhongyuan Shi talked about, from the epidemiological point of view to observe the present situation, does not support the influenza A contagious during the incubation period of the claim, but one thing is, the incidence infectious period. Thus, for fever, flu-like symptoms still have to pay attention to timely treatment.
Toxicity is not strong but anti-virus mutation
However, Zhong Nanshan pointed out that “this H1N1 influenza and infectious toxicity was not particularly strong.” He said strong if its toxicity and infectious, then the global incidence of the number of exponential increase in the number should be, but this time the epidemic reporting relatively stable, and to prove that is not contagious strong, “and the 1918 Spanish H1N1 influenza pandemic compared to non-infectious gene fragments with a strong. ”
Zhong Nanshan, mentioned that the current view of influenza case fatality rate, its mortality rate is not high, but this is only the early performance of the virus, with the gene mutation of the virus, once in the crowd most popular, and its mortality rate it is difficult to say.
New research can be found in suspected cases with fever before
Hong Kong’s first case of diagnosed patients in aircraft landing and immigration officers will each receive a temperature detection, when there is no problem. But by the Hong Kong and then, after a day and a half started a fever. Can be seen, H1N1 influenza A does have a period of latency, but there are some inflammation occurs as early as body temperature, can not be found in a fever before the symptoms of H1N1 infection?
Said Zhong Nanshan, a faster discovery of the virus infected a new detection method is under investigation. Zhong Nanshan said that now all ports are using the body temperature test method to find suspected cases under study in this new detection method is the use of infrared detection of a number of upper respiratory tract inflammation of the instrument, which will exceed the current only by measuring body temperature to troubleshoot the situation, before the infected person can be suspicious fever cases.
Zhong Nanshan said: “If we encounter the epidemic, not just measuring body temperature, for some specific areas to visitors, but also test whether the upper respiratory tract inflammation, because there are a number of inflammatory conditions occur earlier than the increase of temperature.”
A stream of people is not a pig to pass
The intermediate host by a virus, you can see the source of the virus. With SARS as an example, among the host is represented by civet cats, and this host of H1N1 influenza has not yet a final conclusion. Zhong Nanshan, that can now be sure that, H1N1 is a place in the human body mutation and not by the pigs to humans.
The influenza A genotype 5 fragment was swine flu, a fragment of human influenza, a fragment of avian influenza, is a new type of influenza. At present, the medical profession worry that the disease gene mutation, if the virus mutates with human flu after an outbreak, it is especially to be alert.
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