Eve before the Beijing health

December 2009, youan hospital, one will discharge, the armor door in the ward flow patients with the sunshine. (material picture) our correspondent ZhouMin perturbation

 bureau announced digital display, since this year, the city were reported a confirmed case H1N1 flu killed 195 example, 4 cases. Have people then questioned say: according to this speculation, this city armour flow data already near death rate 2%. Beijing CDC yesterday now mean, armour flow have been incorporated into this city b class infectious diseases, no longer management as influenza pandemic influenza during each name patients were etiology monitoring, so much more than 195 actual patients, and should not be regarded as a flow the fatality rate of 2%.

Case fatality ratio of 2% armour flow misreading

Municipal bureau of 8 says, since this year, Beijing cumulative H1N1 influenza report a confirmed case 195 example, death 4 cases, one died during the Spring Festival.

Part of this data panic, reader in "200 patients has 4 death, rate of 2%. Is equivalent to a new round of armour flow popular started again?"

To this, Beijing, deputy director of the center for disease control and prevention, says Mr Spark can't use this kind of method to calculate the armour flow mortality. Because a flow has become a seasonal influenza, this city b class infectious diseases included into the monitoring and management of the network. At present, besides the national requirements for routine monitoring outside, and no longer for each cases had flu-like symptoms of patients undergoing etiology detection.

"And many people have a cold doesn't go to a hospital for medical treatment, therefore report 195 example armour flow confirmed cases just a small part of all the flu". Ponti spark said, and not be able to exact statistics armour flow, but the mortality of the prevalence far lower than last year.

Armour flow mass outbreak is unlikely

"But now armour flow really accounted for more than half of all influenza virus," ponti spark said that this year in this municipality H1N1 and H3N2 flu virus to give priority to. At present, the city's influenza-like cases monitoring statistics show that influenza virus samples in positive patients, a flow of proportion of has by the middle of January 23.08% jumped to more than 50 percent. This means that the patients diagnosed with influenza, half crowd infection is armour flow virus.