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Urgent.. China reveals the truth about the emergence of new viral diseases

Chinese health authorities denied on Sunday the emergence of any new virus or infectious disease in the country, indicating that the currently widespread infectious respiratory diseases were the result of known pathogens. The Chinese National Health Commission stated in a press conference that the current time is the peak season for infectious respiratory diseases, explaining that influenza is the main cause of the increase in patients arriving at hospitals in China.

 

The agency quoted New China News “Xinhua” Wang Liping, a researcher at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that the influenza strain currently prevailing in China is the “H1N1” strain. From the subtype «any». Wang stressed the need to take the vaccine because vaccination is effective, as is drug treatment, because this strain matches well with the influenza vaccine and is sensitive to antiviral drugs. She added that the level of influenza activity and severity is expected to gradually decrease in the middle and late of this January, especially with the slowing upward trend in the influenza positivity rate in addition to the closure of schools for the holidays. For his part, Deputy Director of the Consumer Goods Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Wang Xiaoyang, said that the Ministry has organized companies to systematically carry out the production, supply and sorting of antipyretic, analgesic and antibiotic medicines to ensure that people’s needs for medicines are met.

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