Queensland District Baotou City January 2009-August 2009 outbreak of HFMD Situation.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 6 Queensland District Baotou City January 2009-August 2009 outbreak of HFMD Situation Of: Ren Zhong and Houwen Jie Wang Chunmei [Abstract] Objective: To understand the Queensland District status of HFMD cases occur for effective prevention and control measures taken to provide a scientific basis. Methods: from January 2009 to August 2009 within the jurisdiction of the medical institutions reported 1 263 cases (remove heavy truck later) HFMD cases with statistical analysis. Results: The incidence rate was 183.043/10 million, 6 July peak of incidence occurs, the total number of cases 72.37%, with a clear seasonal; concentrated in the 0 age 6 years old, accounting for 88.44% of male high incidence in women, incidence of child-oriented to social. Conclusion: HFMD prevention and control should focus on children and urban-rural social housing groups. [Keywords:] hand, foot and mouth disease; epidemic; prevention and control measures Hand, Foot and mouth disease rash called stomatitis, is a common intestinal disease caused by a virus, one of the hand, foot and mouth ulcer herpes skin as the main clinical features of infant morbidity in the main. Most patients with mild symptoms , a small number of patients may be complicated by aseptic meningitis, encephalitis, acute flaccid paralysis, myocarditis and other respiratory tract infections and of individual children with severe rapid progression, high incidence of death [1]. This year, the Queensland District, the epidemic situation is very HFMD difficult to enter since April, the number of hand, foot and mouth disease a linear upward trend, particularly the end of 5, 6 clusters of cases occur in early. In order to understand the spread of the disease in our region and the prevalence of our area from 1 August of cases reported in the medical institutions of the epidemic. 1 Materials and Methods 1.1 Source Data from the Queensland District, all medical institutions through the Nati