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    The Ministry of health set up a four level early warning team to deal with the influenza pandemic

    • Last Update: 2008-11-03
    • Source: Internet
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    Introduction: the Ministry of health has four levels of early warning to deal with influenza pandemic "In case of influenza pandemic, the Ministry of health will set up a national influenza pandemic preparation leading group..." In order to do a good job in preparing for the influenza pandemic, yesterday, the Ministry of health released the "preparedness plan and emergency plan of the Ministry of health for the influenza pandemic (Trial)", which stipulates the organizational command system, preparation and emergency response for the influenza pandemic [plan · release] the Ministry of health set up a prevention group to "determine the stages of influenza pandemic, and propose to delimit the epidemic area." According to the plan, the Ministry of health establishes a national influenza pandemic preparedness leading group to lead and coordinate the national health administrative departments, disease prevention and control institutions and medical institutions to do a good job in influenza pandemic prevention and control and medical preparations Four levels of early warning in response to the pandemic According to the plan, the new subtype influenza virus epidemic situation is divided into general (level IV), large (level III), major (Level II) and particularly major (level I) according to the nature, harm degree and scope of spread of the new subtype influenza virus epidemic situation The blue, yellow, orange and red are used for early warning, and level IV, level III, level II and level I emergency response are implemented respectively Reaction The pandemic stage is red warning According to the emergency plan for the preparation and storage of influenza drugs, the Ministry of health is responsible for formulating the varieties and quantities of influenza drugs and submitting them to the relevant departments of the state for storage Drug storage and transfer shall be carried out in accordance with the provisions of the national emergency plan for drug storage issued by the national development and Reform Commission, which indicates that the drugs reserved for influenza pandemic have entered the scope of national drug storage New viruses need to be confirmed by multiple departments New subtypes of influenza viruses isolated from human cases in domestic reports need to be confirmed jointly by the National Influenza Center and at least one influenza sub center or one Influenza Laboratory of other departments When the influenza pandemic reaches the most serious red warning, the Ministry of health will issue the epidemic situation every day The incidence rate of the new subtypes of influenza is lower than that of the elderly Letter reporter Liu Yuanyuan [NextPage] [plan and analysis] why human beings are afraid of influenza and avian influenza In recent years, the whole world has kept a high vigilance to the influenza pandemic which has not happened for nearly 30 years, because with the influenza pandemic not happening for a long time, the resistance to influenza virus in the population has gradually declined; at the same time, the probability of new subtypes of influenza virus has gradually increased - it is impossible for human beings to have resistance to a influenza virus which has never been seen or has changed Once this new subtype of influenza virus appears, a worldwide influenza pandemic may appear The human avian influenza we are facing is a new generation of infectious avian influenza It is an acute respiratory infection caused by some strains of avian influenza A virus As early as 1981, there were reports of human conjunctivitis caused by avian influenza virus H7N7 in the United States In 1997, six people died of H5N1 human avian influenza in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, which caused widespread concern around the world In recent years, the evidence of H9N2, H7N2 and H7N3 subtype avian influenza virus infecting human has been obtained What the World Health Organization and the health departments of all countries fear most is a kind of accidental but most likely thing: if they are infected with influenza and avian influenza in humans at the same time, human beings may face a new devastating disaster If they mutate in human body and integrate into a new unknown virus, and this mutation develops in the direction of infecting people, human beings may face a global public health disaster with high prevalence and mortality According to Xinhua News Agency [plan · background] at the 2005 influenza vaccine seminar recently held in China, experts including Zhong Nanshan called that the vaccination rate of influenza vaccine in our country is less than 10% There have been four influenza pandemics in the 20th century In the 20th century, there have been four influenza pandemics in human beings, namely, "Spanish influenza" in 1918-1919, which killed 20 million people; the "Asian influenza" in 1957-1958, which killed more than one million people; the "Hong Kong influenza" in 1968-1969, which killed 46000 people; and the "Russian influenza" in 1977 China is a place where influenza occurs frequently, and the number of influenza cases each year is estimated to reach tens of millions of people In 1957, 1968 and 1977, the three pandemic strains were first detected in China According to Xinhua News Agency [Key words] influenza influenza is an acute respiratory infection caused by influenza virus, which is divided into three types: A, B and C There are 100000-1 million influenza viruses in each aerosol exhaled by influenza patients In the north of China, October to April is the season of high incidence of influenza The main symptoms of influenza are fever with chills, headache, muscle ache, joint pain, fatigue, cough and sore throat, etc the patients are extremely painful The duration of the disease was 7-14 days.
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