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Monday, April 29, 2013

Shandong H7N9 patients with sub-infection, experts say


2013 04 30, 04:27 

....After 20 days of treatment, we are still in the sputum of patients with lower respiratory tract fluid, positive detection of the H7N9 virus. Upper respiratory tract but he was soon no longer be detected viruses.
  - Chinese Academy of Engineering Li Lanjuan
  A latest research shows that H7N9 virus more susceptible to attack the lower respiratory tract, nose, throat and upper respiratory tract there is a time and a lower detection rate of
  Beijing News News According to the website of the Health Department of Shandong Bulletin, the date of Shandong Province new case of human infection of H7N9 avian influenza confirmed cases: children Zhang, male, 4 years old, live in Zaozhuang City Central, whose father was the Shandong The province's first case of human infection with the H7N9 avian influenza confirmed cases. Up to now, Shandong Province reported a total of human infection with the H7N9 avian influenza confirmed cases of two cases. As of yesterday, 17, has been diagnosed 126 people, 24 people were killed, 14 were cured.
  "At present, only from the point of view of clinical symptoms, father and son performance difference is obvious on avian flu 'person to person' there is no clear evidence to support." The provincial medical treatment team leader, Shandong Chest Hospital Dean high Professor Okawa, 29, said.
  Children with the disease is still stable
  According to the briefing, the 27 children with fever symptoms, 28 provincial-level expert group according to the results of laboratory tests and clinical manifestations and epidemiological investigation, the overall judgment that the human infection in children with confirmed cases of the H7N9 avian influenza. Currently, children with the disease is still stable, Zaozhuang City, a hospital for treatment. According to the initial findings and conclusion of the study at home and abroad, has not yet found evidence of infection.
  Tall Chuan said, "The children are infected pediatric emergency room for treatment, children with the disease in stable condition, eating and sleeping is relatively normal, showing the local symptoms of pneumonia, but her condition is not severe but not critically ill, according to the incidence of and six hours after the beginning of the comparative diagnosis, the development of the children's condition and did not show the rapid deterioration trend. "
  But the development of children with father's condition is unstable, on admission, no obvious pathological symptoms, but the hospital after 4 hours, the rapid development of the disease, the rate of deterioration soon. "Tall Chuan said the children's father after 7 days after emergency treatment, although not completely out of danger, but relatively stable vital signs.
  Does not have the performance of human-to-human transmission
  Tall Chuan, because the presence of a history of close contact, not directly related to exclude possible, but only from the point of view of symptoms, the gap between the two is obvious. The same time, on a time basis, the degree of association of the symptoms of the father and son do not have the "human-to-human transmission performance.
  H7N9 avian influenza longest incubation period of seven days, the children in father hospitalized for 8 days, was found to have a fever, children diagnosed with the H7N9 avian influenza patients time the past 10 days. This case, the emergence of the cases of familial aggregation, does not mean that the virus H7N9 has mutated into a human influenza virus continued to spread from person to person. Currently, the state health department epidemiological investigation and laboratory tracking of all cases, it is still the main mode of transmission of infection from birds to people.... http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2013-04-30/042726989742.shtml