Scarlet fever in Guangdong has illness coming on and counts far exceeding in the same period of in the past

Scarlet fever in Guangdong has illness coming on and counts far exceeding in the same period of in the past
It is more than of sixfold the same period last year to have illness coming on and count in the past 5 months this year
Recent Hong Kong scarlet fever had illness coming on and counted going up, the case died to the scarlet fever of second appears even more yesterday, initiate citizens to pay close attention to. Notify that reveals according to the department of public health of Guangdong Province, reporting it was equivalent to 1.98 times of last year that the case was counted of scarlet fever in the whole province of the first five months this year, far higher than the same period last year. Disease in the province accuses of expert's pointing out yesterday, Guangdong has not presented the death case and gathered the venereal disease example in the past three years, not presenting the serious disease patient yet this year, citizens do not need worry.
483 cases of scarlet fever take place altogether in Guangdong
Have illness coming on notification, the first five months of this year according to the intersection of Guangdong Province and the intersection of department of public health and infectious disease, Guangdong take place 483 of scarlet fever altogether, the same period last year more than sixfold of 76, go beyond the whole province to report case 243 nearly first last year.
It is 72 that the example is counted that scarlet fever in Guangdong has illness coming on in March of this year, increase sharply to 175 in April, it is 155 in May.
"The scarlet fever epidemic situation in Hong Kong and Macao of Guangdong obviously rises compared with former years this year, it takes three years before the number of case report of Guangdong exceeds. " Province disease accuse of centre epidemic disease the intersection of research institute and chief JianFeng He say scarlet fever list our country in class-B infectious disease yesterday, it is a common infectious disease of the children that monitor especially. However, compare with brothers' mouth disease, the morbidity of crowd of this disease is relatively low, the therapeutic effect is better. Monitor the result to reveal, in the past three years, Guangdong has not found serious disease, death case and gathering proportion yet, the case reported this year belong to more infants living scattered at home.
Scarlet fever is the acute respiratory tract infectious disease caused by dissolving the courageous and upright streptococcus and infecting, regard over 39 high fever, scarlet rash of amygdaline inflammation, enlargement of lymph nodes, whole body as the characteristic, the onset is initial red swelling of papilla of infant's lip of the tongue is loose, known as " strawberry tongue " .
Should let children pay attention to the personal hygiene
He JianFeng says, scarlet fever mainly attacks the children under the age of 5. In the case of the report of Guangdong, the children under the age of four account for 50%, the students of middle and primary schools account for twenty percent this year, adults have few patients. At present, scarlet fever does not have vaccine that can be prevented, but antibiotic is obvious to its curative effect.
He JianFeng proposes, parents should let child pay attention to personal hygiene, find child have have a fever, have a sore throat and tongue turn red producing rashing, the intersection of skin and symptom such as being coarse by four limbs and shank obviously, should seek medical advice in time.
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