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更新: July 13, 2009 18:06
疫情或持續1至3年
泰3000萬人料受感染
（泰國?曼谷13日綜合電）泰國衛生部警告，在未來一段時間內，泰國感染A（H1N1）型流感病例可能達到3000萬人，占泰國6500萬人口的近一半，死亡病例則可高達1200例，疫情可能持續1至3年。當局下令所有網吧從週一起暫時關閉，全國2300多所私立及語言學校也于同日起關閉，防止疫情擴散。受A型流感和金融海嘯雙重影響，赴泰外國遊客已比去年同期下跌一半。
阿披實：下月或增至10萬人
另一方面，泰國首相阿披實週日在電視廣播中警告，泰國下月感染A型流感人數，有可能猛增至10萬人。
阿披實在電視和廣播講話中，促那些感染A型流感病患者的人，盡可能“停止社交活動”，以避免病毒進一步擴散蔓延。
他同時勸告人們，也不要因此而過度驚慌，儘管有報告指8月感染A型流感人數將增至10萬。
他說，專家普遍認為，這種疾病至少需要2至3年才能消除，這是一個大問題。
阿披實當天前往曼谷以南的佛統府藝術大學藥劑學系，主持生產A型流感疫苗樣版工廠啟用儀式，該工廠有望于10月分正式開工投產A型流感疫苗。泰國衛生部長威塔亞預料首200萬份疫苗，最遲將在明年1月備妥。
泰國目前確診A型流病例為3883例，死亡人數增至21人。
最新3名證實死于A型流感死者分別是一名來自大城府中部45歲男子、一名來自甲米府南部的19歲男子、及一名來自曼谷的24歲婦女，該婦女超重，並患有腎病、高血壓、肺部感染及細螺旋體病。
H1N1 pandemic now 'unstoppable'By: AFPPublished: 14/07/2009 at 12:41 AMThe swine flu pandemic has grown "unstoppable''and all nations will need access to vaccines, a WHO official saidMonday, as seven new deaths were reported and a study raised freshconcerns.
Britain, Thailand and the Philippines all reported deaths on Monday,while Saudi Arabia shut an international school after 20 students werediagnosed with the A(H1N1) virus.
As the death toll increased, the World Health Organisation officialsaid a swine flu vaccine should be available as early as September andall countries would need to be able to protect themselves.
A group of vaccination experts concluded after a recent meeting that"the H1N1 pandemic is unstoppable and therefore all countries wouldneed to have access to vaccines,'' said Marie-Paul Kieny, WHO directoron vaccine research.
Health workers should be at the top of the list for vaccinationsince they will be in high demand as people continue to fall sick, sheadded.
Countries would be free to decide on their national priorities, butother groups should include pregnant women and anyone over six monthsold who has chronic health problems, the WHO official said.
Particular attention would have to be paid to children since theyare considered "amplifiers'' of the spread of the virus, especiallywhen gathered in schools, Kieny added.
More than 90,000 swine flu cases have been reported worldwide,including 429 deaths, the most recent WHO numbers from last week show.
While most cases have been considered mild, a study released onMonday said the virus causes more lung damage than ordinary seasonalflu strains but still responds to antiviral drugs.
Virologists tested samples of the virus taken from patients in theUnited States as well as several seasonal flu viruses on mice, ferrets,macaque monkeys and specially-bred miniature pigs.
They found that A(H1N1) caused more severe lung lesions among mice, ferrets and macaques than the seasonal flu viruses.
But it did not cause any symptoms among the mini-pigs, which couldexplain why there has been no evidence that pigs in Mexico fell sickwith the disease before the outbreak began among humans.
The team also found that the virus was highly sensitive to twoapproved and two experimental antiviral drugs, including Tamiflu, nowbeing hurriedly stockpiled around the world.
This confirms the drugs' role as a "first line of defence'' against the flu pandemic, they said.
The worry about the present strain of A(H1N1) is that it could pickup genes from other flu strains that would enable it to be both highlyvirulent and contagious, and these warnings are spelt out in the newstudy.
"Sustained person-to-person transmission might result in theemergence of more pathogenic variants, as observed in the 1918 pandemicvirus,'' it says.
Another concern is that the virus could acquire mutations enabling it to be resistant to Tamiflu.
"Collectively,our findings are a reminder that (strains of swine flu) have not yetgarnered a place in history, but may still do so.''
Most of the deaths reported on Monday were in Asia, with Thailand reporting three fatalities and the Philippines two.
Thailand's death toll has now reached 21, while the Philippines has three deaths.
Health officials in Britain announced the deaths from swine flu of asix-year-old girl and a doctor, bringing the number of fatalities therelinked to the virus to 17.
Nearly 10,000 Britons have been confirmed with swine flu but hundreds of thousands more are thought to have it.
The school closure in Riyadh came with officials there especiallyconcerned over swine flu with upwards of two million people expected toarrive over the next five months on pilgrimages to the Muslim holycities of Mecca and Medina.
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