H9N2 fears the large-scale eruption

01/01/2009, on Thursday in the morning 08:10

The port hears the abstract

Caption: In the Tuen Mun Hospital, the female infant moves in the isolation ward wrong side of the door has the security officer to guard.

And shuttled back and forth seek medical help once contacted the over hundred people


[Daily Sun special news]
Infects the H9N2 bird flu's two month big female infant is taken bad the period, successively arrives at the Hong Kong Tuen Mun Hospital and the Shenzhen three hospitals treats, least 129 person and the female infant contacts, the virus possibly widely spreads in Shenzhen. Although had not discovered that other people receive infect, but health protection center inspector general Zeng Haohui does not remove H9N2 to have the large-scale eruption risk, will strengthen with inland prevention department cooperation.
Once with the female infant 15 sick children who had a sexual intercourse in the Tuen Mun Hospital Ordinary Department of pediatrics hospital ward, still five people stayed in hospital, the hospital has arranged them to accept the treatment and the medical inspection in the independent room, other contacts have not examined the virus, also did not have symptom.
Zeng Haohui believed that cannot underestimate H9N2 the dissemination risk, will also not remove the virus to erupt greatly, pays attention to this virus between the person and person's dissemination strength whether to enhance, as well as dissemination pattern whether or not change. He indicated that will strengthen two place cooperations, if will have is unusual erupts, may send the expert to Guangdong Province understanding virus dissemination situation.

Worries the virus to teach other people the frequency to increase

The Hong Kong University infection and infectious disease center inspector general He Bailiang believed that the female infant family member does not have symptom, the medical care personnel and the contact is infected the opportunity to be very low, must penetrate the viral gene arrangement first, whether discovers the viral variety, if were still the birds type, the large-scale eruption's opportunity is not high.
But he indicated that the human exposure H9 virus case from 99 years to 7 years, presents one time every three years; But 7 year two year appearance, worried continuously the virus teaches other people the frequency to increase, suggested the authority by the fast test substitution virus cultivation, diagnoses the patient early whether to receive infects.