health care workers in Hong Kong to fight Wuhan pneumonia nearly a year when the failure, a super transmission of elderly women admitted to the hospital could not be detected has been infected, and then due to the condition of the disease and ward conditions and three transfers, resulting in at least 11 patients and seven health care workers infected with the disease, one of them in critical condition, the largest outbreak of nosocomial transmission under the epidemic. Experts estimate that the situation is still under control, but because one of the infected is a phlebotomist, need to go to different wards to draw blood, do not rule out more people will be infected.
Hong Kong’s fourth wave of martial pneumonia has not slowed down, yesterday (26) days will be added to 53 local and 6 imported cases, so that the total number of people infected with martial pneumonia accumulated to 8540, resulting in 136 deaths. But what is more worrying is the outbreak of hospital infection clusters.
The outbreak at the United Christian Hospital in Kowloon East was caused by an 84-year-old woman who had been ill four days before she was admitted to the hospital and was confused when she was admitted to the intensive care unit on the 15th due to diabetic ketoacidosis via the emergency department. As a result, patients in the ward where she had been staying were infected, resulting in 18 patients and health care workers between the ages of 20 and 92, including a nurse who washed her mouth and fed her without goggles, and another infected patient who was tested in the community after being discharged. The diagnosis was confirmed.
Government expert adviser, the University of Hong Kong Department of Microbiology Chair Professor Yuen Kwok-yung said after visiting the United Hospital, the 84-year-old super transmission of the virus is very high, the virus has a high chance of airborne transmission to others, because the patient was initially admitted to the ward although 6 air changes per hour, but four of them are only air circulation, if the Wulong virus is easy to spread, but now still can not rule out contact or droplet transmission and other possibilities.
He believes that the situation is now under control, there is no need to test all patients in the hospital, but suggested that the hospital in the ward to increase the set of air fresheners; patients try not to transfer the bed; as for patients with lung lesions, no improvement in the situation after admission must be tested for a second virus.
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