Nanchang on the 20th emergency suspects under strict surveillance to prevent human infection of bird flu

[They held a drill in November. From the article:

The exercise is by far the largest of China's major animal disease emergency drill, emergency teams across the country to improve the ability to protect the safety of aquaculture production, protection of public health safety, to maintain normal social order is of great significance.

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January 27, 2009

Recently, some regions of China occurred in people infected with bird flu, in order to advance the work of epidemic prevention and control, January 20, Nanchang City Health Bureau issued a circular calling for the city's municipal medical and health-related departments and units to further strengthen anti-human avian influenza control work.

The circular called for, Nanchang counties (districts), the relevant units to improve the emergency response teams, strengthen personnel training, do a good job in human, material preparations. Strengthen cooperation with agriculture, forestry, industry and commerce, education and other departments cooperate in the timely flow of information, and effectively establish a sound mechanism for joint prevention and control. To strengthen the human avian influenza prevention and control training, focusing on the training of human avian influenza prevention, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, treatment, Chinese medicine dialectical treatment, protection, prevention of nosocomial infection control and disease reporting, disease treatment with the knowledge and relevant laws and regulations, improve the level of prevention and control, diagnosis and treatment.

Various types of medical institutions should play a role in the epidemic monitoring outpost to seriously implement the pre-triage patients with fever epidemic monitoring system and work system, and strengthen awareness of the epidemic of medical personnel, of suspicious cases to the attention of the patient asked whether a history of exposure to dead poultry, wild animals history and occupational exposure history, to "early discovery, early reporting, early quarantine and early treatment."

According to the "decentralized reception, suspected observation, sentinel hospital, critical focus on" the principle of human avian influenza to prepare medical establishments, the first patient is responsible for implementing the system of suspicious fever cough and fever pneumonia cases to remain highly vigilant, according to a major acute respiratory Clinical guidelines for treatment of infectious diseases require active treatment. At the same time, strengthen epidemic monitoring and reporting. City ninth hospitals, county District People's Hospital of Infectious Diseases to advance the relevant hospital ward patients, technology, materials, equipment ready.

In addition, the disease prevention and control institutions to take the initiative to search people suspected cases of bird flu, timely information on the epidemic dynamic and contact the health status of poultry populations.

Health supervision institutions should further step up checks to prevent inflow of dead livestock and poultry meat in Nanchang, in particular to prevent the inflow of nurseries in schools and canteens. At the same time catering units and strengthen the supervision of public places, strengthening of medical institutions to implement the monitoring of communicable diseases prevention and control measures.