China found the first suspected cases of influenza H1N1 influenza

At 22:35 on May 10, 2009 Source: China News Net

By May 10 Beijing Xinhua informed the Ministry of Health on the 10th night, the mainland of China found the first suspected cases of influenza H1N1 influenza.

The first suspected cases of influenza type H1N1 in Chengdu after the plane directly to the Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital for treatment.

Patients have been transferred to hospitals in Chengdu isolation and treatment of infectious diseases, the treatment of close contacts have been isolated for observation.

The afternoon of May 10, the Ministry of Health received a report of Health Department of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Province People's Hospital found a case of fever, according to clinical manifestations and laboratory test results, the initial diagnosis of suspected cases of influenza type H1N1.

Patients with a certain package, M, the three-year-old, the current study of a university in the United States.

May 7 patients in the United States by St. Paul to St. Louis, Tokyo, Japan, May 8 flight from Tokyo by NW029 in at 1:30 on May 9, arrived in Beijing Capital International Airport, and on the same day 10:50 to take off from Beijing, by Sichuan Airlines 3U8882 flight arrived at 13:17 Chengdu.

The circular pointed out that the Ministry of Health, May 9 patients in the flight from Beijing to Chengdu, consciously fever, accompanied by pharyngodynia, cough, stuffy nose and a very small number of symptoms such as runny nose, in Chengdu after the self-inductance of the plane does not, then go directly to the Sichuan People's Hospital for treatment.

The morning of May 10, Sichuan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention detected twice the review, the results of Type A H1N1 influenza virus are weakly positive.

Sichuan Province Health Organization expert group for consultation, in accordance with the "Type A H1N1 influenza treatment program (the pilot version of the first edition in 2009)", for initial diagnosis in patients with suspected cases of influenza type H1N1.

The Ministry of Health has sent a group of experts arrived in Chengdu on the 10th to guide treatment and prevention and control work.

Sichuan Province, the Ministry of Health asked health departments to enhance their clinical treatment, epidemiological investigations, and do a good job related to close contact tracing, were immediately sent to patients in China Center for Disease Control and Prevention testing laboratory for review.

Ministry of Health has notified the relevant provinces and cities in search of the emergency patients in close contact with visitors and called for by the passengers of these flights and in the know as soon as possible to contact local health authorities.

Ministry of Health has informed WHO of the situation, the countries and regions.