Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Two mainland children - a five-year- old girl from Guangxi and a 39-day-old baby boy from Shenzhen - are being treated at Hong Kong hospitals for a severe form of enterovirus infection, the Centre for Health Protection said last night.
It is the third and fourth such case of the infection this year and comes days after Cambodia announced that Enterovirus71 was....
The clinical diagnosis was meningitis due to EV infection, with her cerebrospinal fluid specimen testing positive for the virus. Her condition is stable.
The girl's older twin brothers, aged seven, also had symptoms and sought medical help. Other family members did not have any symptoms.
The baby boy lives in Shenzhen and had fever on July 4. He was brought to Hong Kong for treatment the next day and admitted to Prince of Wales Hospital in Sha Tin.
He no longer has fever and was stable last night.
His cerebrospinal fluid specimen tested
positive for EV while his rectal swab tested positive for the Coxsackie
virus. Both viruses cause hand, foot and mouth disease, so called because of
characteristic rashes... The specific strain of EV for both children has not yet been typed, but most likely could be EV71, which experts and the CHP have said "is more likely associated with severe medical complications and even death." ...
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