The patient infected with the A/H1N1 six hospital staff
Six employees of the branch of internal medicine in the District Hospital Swietoclowice be infected the A/H1N1 virus from a sick patient. Division of limited acceptance, from Tuesday infected do not come to work.
He informed świętochłowickiego hospital director, Gregory Smith, for the virus tested eight workers who had contact with sick patients transferred to the department no longer infectious. A/H1N1 was observed in four doctors and two nurses with more than twenty persons staff that branch.
Three workers who experienced the first symptoms of colds, went on sick leave, three selected holidays. Doctors as far as possible write to the homes of patients hospitalized in the internal branch whose state of health allows it. Composition of the branch are sequentially disinfected.
Director Smith reported that on Tuesday returned to their homes seven patients, ten on Wednesday. On Monday is to be disinfected the whole unit. Probably the day - if not become unforeseeable circumstances - the branch will return to perform scheduled procedures.
Smith scores on Tuesday quoted the Chief Sanitary Inspectorate, that the new virus has become the dominant seasonal virus, according to different evaluations and is responsible for 30-50% of all cases of influenza. We already know that flu is not caused by A/H1N1 deviates from the average seasonal influenza, and indeed it can be assumed that it is lighter.
The data published on Tuesday, the National Institute of Public Health National Institute of Health indicates that during the fourth week of November were registered in Poland, almost 134 thousand. cases and suspected cases of influenza.
Current balance of laboratory tests confirmed cases of influenza type A/H1N1 is 1158 people infected and 24 dead. However, according to GIS, 80% of cases of influenza runs so smoothly that patients often do not report to your doctor. The Inspectorate is estimated that this type of flu had already unwittingly several hundred thousand people
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