Important reminder: These 4 diseases are most prevalent in March!

March

The earth warms up and everything recovers

It is a good time to go out and enjoy the spring

Guangdong CDC reminds citizens

Don't be careless about disease prevention

Be careful to prevent the following 4 diseases:

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Coronavirus disease

Experts advise

1. The number of new daily cases has declined recently but is still high. The Omicron variant is highly transmissible, and the risk of overseas importation is at a high level.

2. The local epidemic in my country is still characterized by multi-point sporadic outbreaks and point outbreaks, and the risk of imported cases from outside the province remains high.

3. The local epidemic in Hong Kong has recently shown a trend of community outbreak, and the risk of importing the epidemic and triggering a subsequent epidemic in Guangdong Province is extremely high.

Disease Prevention Guide

1. Vaccination: It is recommended that eligible people get vaccinated with the new coronavirus vaccine as soon as possible if there are no contraindications to vaccination. People who have completed the full course of vaccination should get a booster shot as soon as possible at intervals of 6 months.

2. Take protection: Please try to avoid going to medium- and high-risk areas or areas where cases have been reported. On a daily basis, you should adhere to the "four-piece set" of epidemic prevention, including frequent hand washing, wearing masks, frequent ventilation, and one-meter distance.

3. Early screening: Conduct self-health monitoring every day. If you have fever, dry cough, fatigue, sore throat, decreased sense of smell (taste), diarrhea and other discomfort symptoms, go to the fever clinic of a nearby hospital as soon as possible, and inform the doctor of your travel history. Do not take medicine on your own; wear a mask throughout the journey to the hospital and avoid taking public transportation.

Norovirus infection

Experts advise

1. Norovirus outbreaks have obvious seasonal characteristics, with cases mainly concentrated from September to March of the following year.

2. In February, the number of Norovirus outbreaks in Guangdong Province increased significantly, with the main locations being schools, childcare facilities, enterprises and institutions. In March, Norovirus outbreaks will continue to be high.

Disease Prevention Guide

1. Key points for disease prevention on campus

● Student health management: do a good job in students’ personal health management, strictly implement morning (noon) physical examinations, investigate causes of absences due to illness, open windows for ventilation, and clean and disinfect the environment.

● Health management of kitchen workers: Strengthen the health management of kitchen workers. They must wear masks and maintain good hand hygiene during food preparation and meal distribution. Those with gastrointestinal symptoms must be temporarily transferred from their posts.

● Drinking water management: Manage drinking water well, regularly clean and disinfect filters and secondary water supply facilities, maintain drinking water pipelines, and boil drinking water for teachers and students.

● Environmental cleaning and disinfection: Open windows for ventilation and clean and disinfect high-frequency contact areas of the environment (door handles, handrails, elevator buttons, toilet buttons, etc.).

● Case management: Once a patient has symptoms of vomiting or diarrhea, he or she must seek medical treatment immediately and be isolated, and the vomitus must be properly handled and cleaned and disinfected. If the number of cases continues to increase, it should be reported immediately to the competent authorities and local disease control agencies.

2. Key points for family disease prevention

Parents and children should pay attention to personal hygiene, and develop healthy living habits such as washing hands frequently, not drinking raw water, keeping raw and cooked food separate to avoid cross contamination, and cooking food thoroughly.

Brucellosis

Experts advise

In recent years, cluster outbreaks of brucellosis have occurred in some areas (such as eastern and northern Guangdong) due to drinking unsterilized raw goat milk. The peak period of the disease begins in March, and citizens should be vigilant.

Disease Prevention Guide

1. Do not drink raw milk: Try to buy qualified milk and its products produced by regular manufacturers. If you do buy raw cow or goat milk from private farms or individuals, you must boil it three times for about 3-5 minutes (because cow or goat milk is relatively viscous and has a low boiling point, when heating, wait until the bubbles appear and leave the fire, wait until the bubbles subside and then heat again, repeat this three times) before drinking. Steaming it in water will not work!

2. Cook thoroughly: Eat meat after it is cooked through, especially do not eat beef or mutton that is not cooked through in order to achieve freshness and tenderness.

3. Wear gloves: Wear gloves when handling raw meat and internal organs when the skin is damaged.

4. Personal protection: If you are working in the animal husbandry industry, in addition to taking the above measures, you must also pay attention to personal protection.

Food poisoning

Experts advise

1. Guangdong

The incidence of tetrodotoxin poisoning in Guangdong Province has shown a clear increasing trend in recent years. Spring is the period when puffer fish's ovaries develop and the toxicity is strongest. We need to be vigilant about the risk of illness and death from eating puffer fish.

2. Since February, Guangdong Province has seen a number of poisoning incidents caused by self-picking of Amanita phalloides. In March, as the temperature continues to rise and rainfall increases, the risk of poisoning from eating wild mushrooms also increases.

Disease Prevention Guide

1. Don't risk your life to eat pufferfish: Remember not to buy, catch or eat wild pufferfish on your own, and don't buy or eat whole pufferfish processed by companies that are not approved by the state.

2. Do not pick and eat wild mushrooms casually: Never pick and eat wild mushrooms casually or "based on experience".

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