World Health Organization officials to answer questions about a current issue of
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World Health Organization officials to answer questions about a current issue of
With the winter gradually entering the northern hemisphere, influenza A H1N1 influenza spread faster and faster. Even more disquieting is that a virus has emerged flow variation.
November 20, World Health Organization (WHO) issued a statement that, WHO has received the Norwegian Ministry of Health reports, the country has undergone three cases of a stream of cases the virus mutates and said mutation is a severe strain of the virus patients and two patients found dead. The announcement also noted that Brazil, Japan, Mexico, Ukraine, the United States also found sporadic cases of the virus mutation. Then, 22, Anglo-American individual influenza patients on the "Tamiflu" appears resistant characteristics. United Kingdom a "resistance" A flow in patients with the virus have been infected with the other hospital patients, which is the UK's first case of human-human transmission occurs against "Tamiflu" influenza viruses.
A current virus mutates to this sudden phenomenon has attracted extensive attention. Variation of influenza after the lives give us what kind of impact? To this end, this newspaper reporter an exclusive interview in Switzerland, WHO, the relevant officials, was asked eight questions.
1. A Norwegian appeared with the United States and Britain stream virus is mutating and there any difference between drug-resistant mutations and linkages?
Norway appears A stream of spontaneous variation of the virus incident was an accidental case, has not yet been found to be infected the virus variant A flow of any link between a small number of patients. Norway and the United States belong to a streams emerging variant virus strains; Norway, it also occurs in patients with variant drug-resistant virus, WHO has not yet received the exact notification.
2. If the new virus appears interpersonal communication, the situation is more serious?
A flow due to variation in the actual cases of the virus has just been detected, there is not sufficient clinical evidence to show that mutation of the virus signature picture.
