I. General Situation of the Epidemics
During the 26th week of 2009 (from 0 a.m. on June 29 to 12 p.m. on July 5), 4543 cases of 16 legally defined infectious diseases with 10 cases of death (namely four cases of hepatitis B, three cases of tuberculosis, and one case of AIDS, rabies and hand-foot-mouth disease) are reported in 18 districts and counties in Beijing. Among them, there are 1542 cases of 10 types of class B infectious diseases, up by 14.99％ from last week and up by 3.91％ from the same period of last year. The top five categories of diseases with the highest incident rates are: dysentery, tuberculosis, hepatitis B, syphilis and A/H1N1 Influenza (60 cases if foreign personnel not included); 3,001 cases of 6 kinds of class C infectious diseases are reported, up by 6.65％ from the last week and up by 4.82％ from the same period of last year.

This week, 3001 cases out of the following 6 categories of Type C infectious diseases are reported: other infectious diarrheas, hand-foot-mouth disease, epidemic parotitis, rubella, acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis and epidemic influenza. The number accounts for 66.06% of the total and is 4.82% higher than the same period of last year. Among them, the diseases with increased report case are other infectious diarrhea, epidemic influenza and epidemic parotitis; the diseases with decreased report case are rubella, acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis, and hand-foot-mouth disease.

II. Focus on the Epidemic
(1) A H1N1 Influenza
This week, 84 confirmed cases are reported (including 24 foreign people), an increase of 40 cases over the previous week.
As of the 26th week, reported and confirmed cases total 209 in Beijing. Of these, 104 cases are foreign people, accounting for 49.76% of the total; the cases are widely distributed in all ages, in which, the number of patients aged from 6 to 24 reaches 153, accounting for 73.21% of the total; there is no death case.

(2) Dysentery
This week, 829 cases are reported throughout the city, up by 19.28% from last week and down by 11.81% from the same period of last year. Among them, the top five districts and counties with the most reported cases are: Chaoyang, Fengtai, Haidian, Changping and Shijingshan, accounting for 59.59% of the total. All age groups contain cases with higher incidence rate among infants and young and middle-aged people. Those infected are mainly scattered-living children, students, cadres and staff, houseworkers, unemployed people and retirees.
As of the week, an accumulative 9173 cases are reported throughout the city, down by 20.4％ over the same period of last year.

(3) Hand-foot-mouth Disease
This week, 936 cases are reported, down by 12.28% from last week and up by 12.61% from the same period of last year. The top 5 districts and counties with the most cases are Fengtai, Changping, Tongzhou, Chaoyang and Haidian, accounting for the 64.64% of the total. The reported cases are mainly composed of scattered-living children and preschool children, accounting for the 94.34% of the total. There is 1 death case and the patient is a 3-year-old child brought to Beijing from other provinces, living in a village of Tongzhou District and died on June 30.
As of the week, an accumulative 13786 cases (including 3 death cases) are reported throughout the city. From May 2 to July 5, 2009, the accumulative reported number decreases by 16.99％ over the same period of last year.

III. Precautions
This week, the infectious disease epidemics throughout the city keep stable in general, but respiratory infectious disease and intestinal infectious disease show an obvious upward trend over last week, in which, respiratory infectious disease saw a significant increase over the same period of last year.

This week, the case rise for respiratory infectious disease is mainly because A/H1N1 Influenza case continues to rise quickly throughout the city. In addition, the imported second generation of cases and a clustered incidence event occurred in this week. Therefore, this stage should continue to focus on reducing the second-generation cases and strengthening the prevention and control of schools, communities, etc. and intensify the implementation of prevention and control requirements raised by the Ministry of Health to avoid the outbreak of epidemics and improve related response measures.

At present, we are in the peak season of intestinal infectious diseases. As the temperature continues to rise, health institutions at all levels should do a good job in the prevention and control of A/H1N1 Influenza throughout the city, and should also continue to intensify the monitoring and control of dysentery, hand-foot-mouth disease and other intestinal infectious diseases so as to prevent the occurrence of severe diseases, death and clustered cases.