China bird flu deaths increase spate warning

2009 January 31

Kobayashi Satoru [= Canton] China bird flu (H5N1 type) are spreading the infection to humans. The infection has been published this year, five people were killed, have already surpassed last year's death toll. China has "no signs of infection," he said, the Chinese Lunar New Year (Lunar New Year) of those who had started back home the U-turn, the tip of the iceberg.

The death of the first year in Beijing. Women cooked the duck got into the market late last year (19) causes a fever and breathing difficulties, died in the first five days of hospitalization. Since then 17 women in Jinan, Shandong (27) ▽ 20 men of Guizhou in the bosom of the hospital on Sunday Hunan (16) ▽ 23 women in Urumchi, Xinjiang (31) ▽ 26 Sunday Guangxi province of men (18) climate and the dead, more than three weeks in a year than the year 4.

The Chinese government increased the death toll will increase at a fast pace ever alert. State-run Xinhua news agency said, "The current infection is sporadic," "evidence of infection that causes a large explosion," Introduction to the opinion of the experts said. To emphasize that it is not spread from human to human, and spread to domestic and international concerns打CHI消SOU.

China Central TV, which reported in detail the information every time out the dead.各地で緊急対応措置が発動され、専門家チームが感染者と接触した人を特定し、発熱などの症状が出ていないか７日間様子を見ていることなどが伝えられている。

The government is preparing to return to the city many people the day before Lunar New Year, called for a thorough medical report if the patient had pneumonia of unknown cause, to strengthen measures.

But many farmers in China to keep ducks and chickens can be a source of infection, source of the high risk of infection. Spring infected about 8 percent from the winter (November-March) and concentrated to increase the look inevitable. Health Minister Chen竺"Now is the time to have a high incidence of human infection, infection control is difficult," acknowledged that sporadic infection continues.

If the infection in humans, may appear to be infected with the human type and the virus evolved over time. Should the virus be広MARE in the heavily populated urban areas, high risk of sudden epidemic.

Epidemic (pandemic) to prevent, is essential for containment and isolation of infected patients with early onset. But if the woman died in Beijing, family members and medical personnel in hospitals and the remaining 116 in the corresponding anxiety of the authorities and exposed to the risk of secondary infection.

According to local paper, local women's clinic in the "cold" and "pneumonia" repeatedly changing hospital and being diagnosed, he was suspected of being infected by bird flu is developing a family of 11 was killed last Sunday after Sunday. Health officials in China "to be seen and not too worried about the symptoms the patient medical costs, more expensive tests that were reluctant to delay the confirmation of infection is possible," admits .