The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department
of Health (DH) is closely monitoring developments
concerning reports of deaths due to unknown cause in
Sichuan.
A CHP spokesman said today (July 23) that the CHP had been
informed by the Ministry of Health in the Mainland about
such reports.
The spokesman said that the CHP was maintaining close
communication with the Ministry of Health and would
continue monitoring the situation closely.
The public are advised to observe the following as
precautionary measures during travel especially to rural
areas:
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病気の潜伏期間はとても短く、何人かは感染後10時間以内に、1人は病気の豚を屠殺2時間後に死亡したほどです。
(中国衛生省特派専門家チーム隊長Chen Zhihai氏談)
The latent period of the disease is so short that some patients died within 10 hours after infection,
he said in an interview with Xinhua Thursday. "In one case, a man died two hours after slaughering a sick pig."