ITpro conference: pandemic measures "intended to protect the lives of relatives ..." --- The vice president's new anti-flu drug Yuki Hiroshi

Goh Shibata MD, vice president of medicine at Yuki Hiroshi
2009/01/28

ITpro conference: pandemic measures "intended to protect the lives of relatives ..." --- The vice president's new anti-flu drug Yuki Hiroshi

2009 January 28 ITpro ITpro conference organized by the "measures for business pandemic", he said, in Dr. Shibata's Executive Vice President Yuki Hiroshi drugs, "the concept of infection control to protect the employee's three-layer approach to defense, "a lecture titled. And status of avian flu, the infection mechanism, said the anticipated threats, pandemic (explosion infection) and the crisis, said he thought the defense techniques.

Three categories of influenza

Mr. Shibata is with the way the avian flu, and the position and the country "have a temperature difference," he said, the flu that can infect people, by the following three categories. (1) seasonal flu-infected people (2) a new influenza infection, (3) --- bird flu.

(1) of the seasonal flu, pandemic flu are common every year. Often "minor" They have to be treated with the vaccine change every year little by little. (2) of the avian flu, people have little immunity, but that is why pandemic. "If you say for example (the flu) FURUMODERUCHENJI. Celsior or the car if the Crown" (Mr. Shibata). And (3) avian influenza, (2) shall be responsible for. "Would you know what's coming next and how a new influenza, rapid testing of avian influenza" (He).

Will talk about the recent "H5N1" is the mutant type gene (3) changing the type of flu in people, "poison-strong" most likely. Avian flu virus in the past in attenuated form, the more places are limited to respiratory viruses. The "high virulent type" virus in the "increase in the body" (He). This is supposed to indicate a high fatality rate of severe patients.

Young people below 40 years is in danger, then all infected

Mr. Shibata has been moved to the characteristics of the subjects infected with influenza. Mr. Shibata is emphasized here 39 years old young patient, who died trying. "The age distribution and prognosis of human cases of H5N1 infection," young people aged 39 and 40 present the data differ in the number of patients in a number of times over. He said the cause of this difference, and the excessive immune response to severe in young people, the difference between the chance go out of fashion 40 years ago pointed out the possibility that H2N2 and subtype and cross-immunity.

In addition, H5N1 avian flu virus changes into a form, if a pandemic occurs, "people living on Earth is infected by all" (He) has said. Humans, infection and lighter, while repeatedly to gain immunity, "the elderly and young people will become very ill from low immunity." Pandemic of avian flu for a consequence management, "the biggest risk factors involved in the lives of employees and their families," he said.