Thursday, January 19, 2012

Warning meningococcal disease outbreak Tet

Warning meningococcal disease outbreak Tet
* Patient died of A/H5N1 flu in Kien Giang
(TNO) Số ca mắc bệnh não mô cầu tăng nhanh, xuất hiện nhiều nơi. (TNO) Number of cases of meningococcal disease increased rapidly, appearing several places.  According to the Center for Preventive Medicine HCM disease has spread to the community and at all ages.
Bệnh tấn công trẻ em The disease attacks children
 At Children's Hospital 2 (HCMC), doctors actively treating patients with sepsis a viral meningococcal disease, since moving to the Pacific.
. Patients was only 29 months old (An Binh commune, Di An District, Binh Duong), fever 12.1 consecutive days. The patient's home, said her mother for fever medication but not reduced. . Then, on the more popular baby rash black spots, of different sizes.  Seeing this, her family took the hospital 2 Children's Hospital on 13/01.
Meningococcal patients treated at the Tropical Disease Hospital - Picture: Raw Mi
. Meanwhile, Dr. Nguyen Van Vinh Chau, Director of Tropical Disease Hospital (HCM), also confirmed a case of child emergency treatment in hospital due to meningococcal infection.
 More remarkable, the test results of all three, her mother and grandmother were detected meningococcal virus.
 "Meningococcal disease can have two: meningitis and septicemia.  Meningitis virus normally remains available in the throat of the person, not the disease. Disease when the body is weak resistance and favorable environmental conditions, "Dr. Zhou explained.
 Facing the disease, Dr. Trinh Huu Tung, Head of Planning - General, Children's Hospital 2, recommends parents: When your child has high fever, without taking fever, sore throat, on celebrity's death (red-purple spots), the parent must quickly take the child to the medical facility to examine and treat.

The notes from the patients with meningococcal infection - Photo: Raw Mi

  Meanwhile, Zhou warned doctors to diagnose meningococcal disease depends not only on clinical signs that need inspection and close examination by the signs of death in patients sometimes atypical (without capitalism, especially in children).  So if the patient has a sore throat, they must to visit health facilities for diagnosis and appropriate treatments.
Spread community
 Meningococcal disease onset from late May 12.2011, at the Company Fukukawa (Tan Thuan Export Processing Zone, District 7, HCMC).
. As of today (01/18), Ho Chi Minh City and Binh Duong have been five cases of patients testing positive for the virus that causes meningococcal disease, is being treated.
At the Central Hospital of Tropical Diseases (Hanoi) has recently treated a patient with meningococcal infection.
  Center for Preventive Medicine, said City meningococcal outbreaks have occurred in many areas such as District 7, 9, Binh Chanh District (City) and Di An District (Binh Duong).
 The cases are from the zone of residence. BệPediatric patients being treated at Children's Hospital 2 (City) has three parents are employees of the Song Than Industrial Zone (Di An, Binh Duong) patients in the Tropical Disease Hospital is the pair husband and wife are both employees at Le Minh Xuan Industrial Park (Binh Chanh district, Ho Chi Minh City).

The boarding house damp, crowded concentration becomes very easy to spread resources - Photo: Raw Mi
 "Initially, the disease outbreak in young workers but so far the disease has spread to many places and attack children. Can confirm meningococcal disease has spread in the community and at any age, "Dr. Nguyen Dac Tho, deputy director of the Preventive Medicine Center City and evaluation.
 Tho doctor said, more than 70% of workers (out of 51 workers) with sore throat by the Center for Preventive Medicine HCMC sample findings are virus-infected brain tissue bridge.
PhD - Dr. Hoang Le San, Vice Director of HCMC Pasteur Institute, as the recommended rate is very high and irregular. Dr. San concerned "the carriers are willing to infect others in the community is very high."
 In particular, according to Dr. San, winter-spring, cold weather is favorable for viral respiratory tract development.  On the other hand, the psychology of people or intolerance to the hospital, a doctor in a few days at the festival will largely take the drug itself, not be known until the new hospital.This causes severe, prolonged and difficult to treat complications and can easily lead to death.
 Especially, he said at the time of Tet concentration of people in many areas, travel a lot so contagious pathogens. Sau After the festival, people from the provinces of the eastern city should work very very hard to control the epidemic.

 So the City Health Department requires health facilities to coordinate with other companies, factories, industrial control, disinfection treatment outbreaks; make a list of all persons living in the Accommodation is a list of patients and workers / employees and industrial parks, the inn is the person to conduct surveillance of prophylaxis before and after Tet, and guide landlord disinfect the area with accommodation patients with Chloramin B. Meanwhile, prepare enough manpower, medicines, medical supplies for prevention and control.  http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=vi&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fvn.news.yahoo.com%2Fvne%2F

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