The high incidence of influenza in Taiwan has passed, but the influenza epidemic is still serious. Taiwan officially announced that last week, Taiwan added 32 cases of influenza severe illnesses and five cases of death, including a boy of only over 10 years old.
According to the China Times News Network on Wednesday (May 1), regarding the overall trend of influenza, a spokesman for the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control, Zeng Shuhui, believes that the influenza epidemic in Taiwan has cooled down, and the number of emergency consultations is about 87,000.Many people decreased slightly compared to the previous week.
Lin Yongqing, an epidemic prevention doctor of the Disease Control, explained that the smallest case of the five deaths of the influenza is a 10 -year -old boy in the south. He has not been vaccinated with flu vaccines and has no potential diseases., Muscle pain, the doctor's judgment is that the flu has acute necrotic encephalopathy, and died on the second day of hospitalization.
In addition, the intestinal epidemic in Taiwan enters the epidemic period.Comprehensive Free Times and Lianhe Daily reported that the Taiwan CDC announced the latest monitoring figures. Last week, the outpatient diagnosis of Taiwan reached 13,929 people, an increase of 17.3%from the previous week, and the number of patients continued to reach the highest in the same period in the same period in 10 years.Enterovirus A71 and D68 virus types that are prone to severe symptoms have been detected in a small amount, but the infection cases are mild.
Li Jialin, deputy director of the Disease Control Department, said that the intestinal virus in Taiwan is in a period of popularity, and the laboratory monitoring shows that enterovirus is dominated by type A.
