In depth investigation of human cases of avian influenza in Guangxi by the Ministry of health

Introduction: Xing Shaowen, a reporter of our newspaper, was informed by the Ministry of health of Guangzhou on December 6, 2005 that there was a case of human infection with avian influenza in baiyangpingtun, Yanzhu village, Liangshui Township, resource county, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region This is the fourth case of human infection with avian influenza in China, and the third case of human infection in non epidemic areas after Zongyang County and Xiuning County in Anhui Province Tang was a fourth grade student in primary school He developed fever on November 23 and transferred to the local infectious disease hospital for isolation treatment on the afternoon of November 28 According to the clinical symptoms, laboratory examination results and epidemiological investigation of the patient, the case was preliminarily identified as a medical observation case of human avian influenza Since then, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and prevention has tested the samples of the patients, and the results show that the DNA of H5N1 avian influenza virus is positive The expert group of the Ministry of health has determined that the patient is a human case of highly pathogenic avian influenza According to reports, a who spokesman said the girl had been exposed to infected birds in the weeks before her symptoms The reporter learned yesterday from the people's Hospital of resource county that the patient has been transferred to the third people's Hospital of Guilin city for medical treatment, which is Guilin infectious disease hospital and tuberculosis prevention and Control Institute It is reported that the local government and the health department organized health and epidemic prevention personnel to repeatedly disinfect the living environment and articles of the patients, registered more than 100 people in close contact with the patients one by one and carried out strict medical observation No abnormality was found, and the medical observation has been cancelled At the same time, the epidemiological investigation conducted by the animal epidemic prevention supervision and inspection institution of the autonomous region and the diagnosis center of the Ministry of agriculture shows that there is no H5N1 avian influenza epidemic in the local area at present, and there is no abnormality in the poultry around during the clinical monitoring; the pathogen detection result of the laboratory of avian influenza inspection and detection in Harbin, China is negative At present, the focus of this case of human infection with H5N1 avian influenza is not clear, and the health department is organizing forces to conduct in-depth investigation on the focus of this case of human infection with H5N1 avian influenza The resource county is located in the north of Guangxi, adjacent to Hunan Province, which has already suffered from the bird flu.