I. General Situation of the Epidemics
This week (from December 17, 2007 to December 23, 2007), 1,721 cases of 14 kinds of legal infectious diseases and 3 dead cases (hepatitis B 2 cases, tuberculosis 1 case) are reported in 18 districts and counties in the whole city. Among them, there are 1,035 cases of 9 kinds of class B infectious diseases, an increase of 5.50% compared with last week and 0.88% compared with the same period of last year. The top ten diseases according to the number of reported cases are: tuberculosis, diarrhea, hepatitis B, scarlatina, gonorrhea, hepatitis C, hepatitis (not classified), measles and hepatitis E etc.; 686 cases of 5 kinds of class C infectious diseases are reported, a decrease of 15.20% compared with last week and an increase of 21.20% compared with the same period of last year.

II. Analysis of the Major Epidemics
(1) Tuberculosis
302 cases are reported this week, an increase of 31.30% compared with last week and 48.04% compared with the same period of last year. The patients are mainly young men and the main professions or groups are housekeeping staffs, the unemployed, farmers, retired staffs, workers and students.

As of December 23, 2007, altogether 9,021 cases had been reported in the city, an increase of 6.46% compared with the total reported number of the same period of last year.

(2) Mumps
52 cases are reported this week, a decrease of 18 cases compared with last week and 8 cases compared with the same period of last year. The patients are mainly students (21 cases), children in the nursery and kindergarten (15 cases).
As of December 23, 2007, altogether 3,492 cases had been reported in the city, a decrease of 16.78% compared with the total reported number of the same period of last year.

(3) Chicken pox
Totally 487 cases are reported this week, an increase of 6.10% compared with last week and a decrease of 5.80% compared with the same period of last year. The main professions or groups are students, children in the nursery and kindergarten and scattered living children.

As of December 23, 2007, altogether 15,052 cases had been reported in the city.

III. Foreign Epidemics
Kenya: the cholera epidemics occurred
On December 18, the Kenya media reported that recently the cholera epidemics occurred in Suba district in the west of the country. As of now, 7 persons had been dead and 33 sufferers of cholera were receiving treatment in the hospitals. The local relevant departments judged preliminary that the possible reason was that drinking water was polluted by the human excrement.

Pakistan: 8 cases of suspected human bird flu were reported
Recently, the Ministry of Health of Pakistan reported to the WHO that 8 cases of suspected human infected with H5N1 bird flu occurred in Peshawar district of this country. Among them, 1 patient had been cured and additional 2 suspected sufferers died.

Burma: first human bird flu case was affirmed
Recently, the Ministry of Health of Burma affirmed first case of human infected with H5N1 bird flu of this country. The sufferer was a seven-year-old girl from Kyaing Tone.

On November 21, the sufferer began to have the symptoms of fever and headache. One week before she had the symptoms, there was the death of poultry in her domicile neighborhood. She was sent to hospital for treatment on November 27 and now had been cured. Currently, the health condition of all the contacts was in order.

Benin: first case of poultry infected with H5N1 bird flu was affirmed
Recently, in Benin, a West Africa country, the WHO affirmed that the country’s first case of poultry infected with H5N1 bird flu occurred in 2 farms. As of now, 100 poultries had been dead. To impede the spread of epidemics, 245 poultries had been captured and killed in this country.

General situation of global human bird flu epidemics
From December 23, 2003 to December 17, 2007, WHO reported that 340 human bird flu cases had been diagnosed by global labs, of which, 208 persons died. The fatality rate was 61.1% and the number of country reported the case of human bird flu was 12.

Ⅳ. Key points

Since the winter this year, as the non-occupational carbon monoxide poisoning accidents happened many times in our city, government of all levels have attached importance to the prevention work of the kind of accident. The health departments at each level should further strengthen the publicity on control and prevention of carbon monoxide poisoning accident arising from the heating in winter and inspect and report in accordance with the spirits and demand of relevant circulars.

This week, the proportion of flu sample cases reported by the 67 designated hospitals to be monitored accounting for the total number of out-patient and emergency services is slightly increased compared with the last week and the same period of last year. Thus, the health departments at each level should pay close attention to the dynamic changes of the flu sample cases, focus on the publicity of control and prevention of respiratory tract infectious diseases among collective units, intensify the epidemics report system in order to discover and control the epidemics of respiratory tract infectious diseases in the early time.