Beijing: proportion of influenza B last week, has risen to 57.08%,

Eighth Beijing International Forum of Public Health Opens in Beijing
2010-1-27

While the 2010 Beijing People's Congress held two sessions a warm occasion of the Eighth Beijing International Forum of Public Health, also opened in Beijing today.

Beijing and the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention Preventive Medicine will be invited to the World Health Organization, the United States, Canada, Australia and other countries and organizations, public health experts and professionals in Beijing and domestic provinces and cities, the global spread of influenza A H1N1 influenza outbreak the joint assessment of the development trend of the epidemic, prevention and control of the exchange of experience and research results, discuss future strategy to cope with the forum related to the theme of the epidemiological characteristics of influenza A H1N1 influenza prevention and control strategies, experiences and results in evaluation of vaccination, clinical medical medical treatment as well as health education and other aspects.
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However, the experts also stressed that the worldwide influenza epidemic H1N1 influenza situation is still not optimistic, the Chinese traditional Spring Festival is approaching, a large-scale population movements is bound to increase the risk of disease transmission, and now comes the season of seasonal influenza pandemic , according to Beijing's recent pathogenic influenza viruses, the monitoring results, since the influenza A H1N1 influenza accounted for the proportion of influenza-like cases from December 2009 from more than 80% down to 8.41% last week, and the aggregation of the disease no longer appears shows that Influenza A H1N1 flu is gradually dissipating.

At the same time, the proportion of influenza B last week, has risen to 57.08%, the positive rate of the sample has been much higher than the influenza A H1N1 influenza virus, indicating the current influenza B viruses become more active. While less variation of influenza B virus, its symptoms similar to flu-like symptoms, in previous years in the city there are many cases, the majority of adults have antibodies, does not cause outbreaks, but experts advise should continue to maintain a high level of influenza virus vigilant and continue to actively implement preventive and control measures, pay attention to personal protection is very important and timely vaccination for seasonal influenza vaccine can also play a protective effect.
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