Expert: Zhejiang has no reporting of cholera cases this year without reporting cholera

Zhejiang News Client reporter Zheng Wen correspondent Jiang Yan

Holdings, this familiar and unfamiliar name appears, causing widespread social attention. What will happen to the cholera? How to prevent it? What is the condition of cholera in Zhejiang in recent years? The reporter interviewed Lin Junfen, the director of the Public Health Monitoring and Business Guidance Institute of the Zhejiang Provincial Disease Control and Prevention Center.

Lin Junfen said that in the past 10 years, the average annual report of cholera in our province has been high, and it is highly distributed, and the clinic is light. Since this year, there have been no choice cases in our province. Under existing conditions, there will be no choice in our province.

1. What is cholera? What are the symptoms after infection?

Lin Junfen: Proton is acute infectious diarrhea caused by cholera. It belongs to international quarantine infectious diseases. In my country, cholera belongs to Class A infectious disease. Typical clinical manifestations are acute onset, severe diarrhea, vomiting, and dehydration, muscle spasm caused by it, and severe cases lead to shock and acute renal failure. However, most cases in my country are mainly mild, only manifested as general symptoms of diarrhea. Recently, the choice reported by Wuhan's report is also light, and it does not have a toxic force gene, which will not cause large -scale outbreaks and popularity. The cases that have occurred in the province in recent years are basically the same. In accordance with the requirements of the national choice manual, such cases can be treated according to general infectious diarrhea.

2. When is the cholera season? Which groups are susceptible?

Lin Junfen: In our country, the popular season of cholera is summer and autumn, and most of them are in July to October. The crowd is generally susceptible to cholera, and there is no difference in gender and age.

3. Can cholera treat? Is the mortality high?

Lin Junfen: Since the since this century, most cholera cases in my country have been light. For individual severe cases, as long as they have timely, enough, and correctly supplementing liquid and electrolytes, they are supplemented by antibacterial and symptomatic treatment. The prognosis is also good. In the past 20 years of the province's non -choice of death cases.

4. How does cholera spread?

Lin Junfen: cholera is intestinal infectious disease. Its transmission pathway is mainly through polluted food and water, followed by daily contact with the spread of flies and flies, that is, through digestive tract transmission.

5. How to prevent it? What if the symptoms of intestinal infectious disease occur?

Lin Junfen: The key to prevent intestinal infectious diseases such as cholera is to control the mouth and prevent "the disease from entering the mouth". Develop good hygiene habits, do not drink raw water, do not eat cold and unclean foods; insist on washing your hands before meals, and cooked in the family cooked and separated; usually do not mess up garbage and maintain environmental hygiene. If the symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea have a timely medical treatment, the hospital has set up an intestinal clinic, which will be tested in time.

6. What is the condition of cholera cases in Zhejiang in recent years? Will large -scale popularity occur?

Lin Junfen: In the past 10 years, the average annual report of cholera in our province has been high, which is highly distributed, and the clinical clinic is light. It is mainly concentrated in July-September, and there are no death cases; the bacteria type is O139 group and O1 group Xiaosawa type. Since this year, there have been no reports.

Choib is a kind of intense infectious disease. Since the 1960s, several large -scale popularity has occurred in our province. Due to poor sanitary conditions at that time, there were open dung pits everywhere, and people generally drinked uninterrupted pond water, self -running water, well water. Under such historical conditions, polluted water and food have caused rapid transmission and popularity in cholera, and the number of cases reports more than 10,000 cases in some years. However, with the development of socio -economic development, the improvement of people's living standards, the popularity of health awareness and health knowledge, the cholera epidemic has been better controlled, and the cholera epidemic in this century has decreased significantly. It has always performed highly. Under existing conditions, there will be no possibility of large -scale popularity in our province. Only in areas with poor sanitary conditions, unavailable drinking water, and poor food hygiene areas will cholera breakdown and popularity occur.

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