Influenza A/H1N1 virus causes disease acute encephalitis

[Out of Vietnam]
24/07/2009

U.S. and Japan have discovered some cases of children with acute brain inflammation, even the brain is bleeding, infection by influenza A/H1N1 virus.

On 23 / 7, the American health warning on the waiting encephalitis virus influenza A/H1N1, because 4 children in Texas affected by U.S. A/H1N1 virus since late last 5 months has instead of the nerve as vague, sleepy, disorder orientations and reacts slowly with questions. Two of these children were brain bleeding.

Cause is that the baby was brain inflammation due to influenza A/H1N1 virus. Fortunately, all 4 of my children have not been proven to do.

Experts University Health Center South West Texas and health officials said U.S. seasonal flu virus also causes complication of nervous, accounting for the rate of 5% of acute encephalitis in children, it should disease risk destruction can cause brain and death. In most of the first Bùng seasonal flu before, many children in different age-risk and high pollution.

A/H1N1 flu now also a strong impact to the Youth 7 to 17 years old in the U.S., most have a healthy history, but one case the brain was bleeding and high fever as a case have asthma.

Although not calculated probability of changes occurring in the brain of children infected with influenza A/H1N1, center control and prevent epidemics U.S. (CDC) has requested the doctors to test patients on respiratory products of children hospitalized with flu symptoms associated with changes in nerve, in order to timely treatment for the children.

The same day 23 / 7, Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan a 7 year old boy living in Kawasaki city has been infected brain by influenza A/H1N1 virus.

Ministry for the brain disease by influenza virus season had caused to appear across Japan in recent times. However, this is the first time Japan discovered influenza A/H1N1 virus causes brain disease.

A/H1N1 flu has spread almost the entire world with the speed and spread quickly in the community today, the World Health (WHO) has declared can not statistics of people infected each day and new data update is now only the number of deaths. According to WHO, since the play Bung 4 months ago, the flu A/H1N1 has robbed the network of more than 700 people in the world.

America is a national flu is rife AH1N1 heavily with more than 40,600 cases of influenza A/H1N1 infected and 200 fatalities.