Title: Investigation of an outbreak of encephalitis B in Yunfu City.
Abstract:Obiective To analyze the prevalent status of an outbreak of encephalitis B in Yunfu City in 2002 and discuss the control measures. Methods Descriptive epidemiology and emergent inoculation of encephal...Obiective To analyze the prevalent status of an outbreak of encephalitis B in Yunfu City in 2002 and discuss the control measures. Methods Descriptive epidemiology and emergent inoculation of encephalitis B vaccine were used in this investigation. Results There 54 encephalitis B cases occurred in Yunfu City wit h 3 deaths. Most of the cases were distributed in Luoding City ( 74.07%) and the ratio of males to females was 1.7:1. The age of the youngest case was 11 months old and the eldest one was 13 years old, most of them in the age rang of 2-7 years , accounted for 70.37%. The vaccination history of 48 case was either unclear or blank, accounted for 88.89%. Conclusion The prevalent season for encephalitis B in Yunfu City was from Mayto June and emergent inoculation of live encephalitis B vaccine is effective for control this disease.Read More
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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