The Ministry of Health issued an urgent notice to strengthen norovirus prevention and control of infectious diarrhea

2014-01-07 15:04:03

BEIJING, Jan. 16 electrical Chinese Ministry of Health recently issued an emergency notice and issuance of " diarrhea norovirus infection control program ( Trial)", called for the strengthening of norovirus prevention and control of infectious diarrhea , effectively prevent the introduction of the epidemic and proliferation.

According to a national surveillance network to monitor viral diarrhea for 11 provinces in children under 5 years old with diarrhea , China norovirus positive rate monitoring results are similar to previous years ( detection rate of about 15% ) . Experts predict the risk of the spread of the epidemic and the incoming greater focus on educating the masses to try to eat or undercooked food products, sea food , before eating marine products should be thoroughly cooked.

Ministry of Health , and further strengthen medical institutions Infectious Diseases ( or intestinal clinic ) work . Various medical institutions to carry out a diarrhea patient registration and screening , found abnormal increase in cases of diarrhea cases to promptly report ; really good job norovirus cases of infectious diarrhea standard treatment and patient isolation and excrement , vomit , medical waste disinfection ; strictly controlled discharge standards to prevent spread of the epidemic .

Local health administrative departments should establish liaison mechanisms with the local epidemic CIQ between promptly inform each other of norovirus outbreaks of infectious diarrhea , effectively prevent the occurrence of the input epidemic . Health administrative departments at all levels should strengthen surveillance , attention epidemic dynamics , with particular emphasis on the food service employees , schools , public places , mobile population centers , construction sites and other key areas and populations epidemic monitoring and management.

Disease prevention and control institutions around once found norovirus cases of infectious diarrhea , should immediately conduct epidemiological investigations and implement effective control measures ; strengthen the outbreak foci tracing close contacts management, really good job epidemic , epidemic health treatment workspace. At the same time , but also increase food hygiene law enforcement.

Norovirus is a group of calicivirus is a virus, the prototype strain Norwalk virus was isolated in 1968 found in the United States Norwalk City . Because this group of viruses easily mutation, then they have discovered and named a number of similar viruses in other regions , collectively known as the norovirus . Norovirus is mainly survive in contaminated water , likely to cause human infectious diarrhea . Recently, the global continuous norovirus outbreaks caused , after Europe, Australia and North America , Japan recently broke out 25 years of the most severe outbreaks of infectious diarrhea caused by the norovirus .

" Norovirus infection diarrhea control programs ( Trial)" also includes the diagnosis and treatment , some outbreaks have been reported , outbreak investigation , treatment and other prevention and control measures.