Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Xinjiang found no cases of human avian influenza

January 21, 2009
Enditem (Reporter Li Kui Ho reported) January 20, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Department of Health Emergency Office, said Yang Bo, Xinjiang has not found all over the occurrence of avian influenza among poultry, no cases of human avian influenza.
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Medical experts reminded the public in the prevention at the same time, shall have a number of human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus in clinical symptoms. Early manifestations of infection similar to ordinary influenza, such as the performance of fever, runny nose, stuffy nose, cough, pharyngodynia, headache, general malaise and so on, mainly for fever, body temperature above 39 ℃ most, will continue to 1 ~ 7 days generally 3 to 4 days, some patients will have nausea, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other gastrointestinal symptoms.

If members of the public contact with chickens, ducks and other poultry, and such symptoms as soon as possible to the medical institutions to be checked.

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