“China News” A flu peak hits, the National Influenza Center: the current positive rate continues to rise | Anue Juheng – Mainland Political Economy

news="">“Economic News Agency 6th Special News” The mainland has recently entered the peak season of seasonal influenza. According to the latest weekly influenza surveillance report released by the “National Influenza Center” of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the positive rate of influenza virus detection in southern and northern provinces continued to rise in the eighth week of 2023. , with A(H1N1)pdm09 as the main type and A(H3N2) subtype influenza viruses co-circulating; (February 20-February 26) a total of 390 outbreaks of influenza-like cases were reported.

news="">The current trend of influenza infection and when will the peak pass? Hu Yang, deputy chief physician of the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine at Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, said that it is difficult to predict and judge, because the overall epidemic pattern of influenza has been disrupted. In the past three years, we have been wearing masks because of the epidemic, which will make people’s body’s antibodies once morest influenza virus decline. Different people have different degrees of decline, so it is impossible to judge the current start time and end time according to the laws of past influenza epidemics.

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