Sunday, November 16, 2008

China: Changsha into the high rate of influenza experts: warm attention to the vaccination

"Recently, Changsha temperature difference between day and night around 10 ℃, grandchildren and I both 'caught'!" Yesterday (November 13), 65-year-old grandmother and grandson Lee are suffering from influenza, in a city hospital to fight Diaozhen .

To see the hospital transfusion room overcrowding, most of them patients with influenza. Disease control experts warned that weak for the elderly and children through vaccination against influenza is the most effective way.

"Every year in November next year in March, Changsha is the peak influenza." CDC immunization City Planning Bureau, said Zhang, director of disease prevention and control departments have adopted the city pay close attention to the incidence of epidemic monitoring network data communications in a timely manner at all levels of health Departments should be prepared to take precautions. In addition, members of the public to do a good job during the high incidence of influenza itself for Disease Control and Prevention is especially important. Larger changes in temperature, the heat should be noted that, as far as possible not to the high population concentration areas, and strengthening exercises.

Every year, global influenza pandemic, the study showed, in the vaccination group, the incidence rate of influenza 2.13 percent, the group is not against the incidence rate of 15.6 percent, the rate of vaccine for the protection of 86.3 percent. Vaccination is the world's most recognized and effective in the prevention of influenza.

"For young and middle-aged patients, and died of influenza may be more. But for the frail elderly, influenza may lead to a variety of chronic diseases such as asthma, pulmonary heart disease, chronic bronchitis, and so on." Zhang said: "The 60-year-old and above The elderly, low immunity and ill health, early childhood and primary school students, and so on, the best vaccine to prevent influenza. "

Disease control department reminded that although the injection of influenza vaccine can effectively prevent a cold, but not all are suitable for such a vaccine inoculation. Not suitable for influenza vaccine injection of several kinds of people: pregnant women; are fever, a cold crowd; is in a chronic attack of the crowd; of the vaccine in eggs and other ingredients allergic people.

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