The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) yesterday reported the nation’s first death from an enterovirus infection this year, a 16-day old girl.
Born in Tainan on July 11, she developed a high fever and was taken back to a local hospital on July 15, the CDC said.
She was diagnosed with low platelet count and abnormal liver function, but developed multiple organ failure, and the hospital reported the case as an enteroviruses infection with severe complications on July 19.
She died on July 27.
Test results showed that the baby was infected with coxsackievirus B3, but the source of the infection is not known, the agency said.
An investigation by the local health bureau determined that the baby’s parents, siblings, staff at the siblings’ preschool, and medical staff who delivered the baby had no signs of enterovirus infection, CDC physician Lin Yung-ching (林詠青) said.
Out of the 33 cases of coxsackievirus B3 infection with severe complications reported since 2005, only five resulted in death, while nine of the total cases were infants less than one year old, Lin said.
A total lunar eclipse coinciding with the Lantern Festival on March 3 would be Taiwan’s most notable celestial event this year, the Taipei Astronomical Museum said, urging skywatchers not to miss it. There would be four eclipses worldwide this year — two solar eclipses and two lunar eclipses — the museum’s Web site says. Taiwan would be able to observe one of the lunar eclipses in its entirety on March 3. The eclipse would be visible as the moon rises at 5:50pm, already partly shaded by the Earth’s shadow, the museum said. It would peak at about 7:30pm, when the moon would
Taiwan’s Li Yu-hsiang performs in the men’s singles figure skating short program at the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, on Tuesday. Li finished 24th with a score of 72.41 to advance to Saturday’s free skate portion of the event. He is the first Taiwanese to qualify for the free skate of men’s singles figure skating at the Olympics since David Liu in 1992.
The Coast Guard Administration (CGA) yesterday held a ceremony marking the delivery of its 11th Anping-class offshore patrol vessel Lanyu (蘭嶼艦), saying it would boost Taiwan’s ability to respond to Beijing’s “gray zone” tactics. Ocean Affairs Council Deputy Minister Chang Chung-Lung (張忠龍) presided over the CGA event in the Port of Kaoshiung. Representatives of the National Security Council also attended the event. Designed for long-range and protracted patrol operations at sea, the Lanyu is a 65.4m-long and 14.8m-wide ship with a top speed of 44 knots (81.5kph) and a cruising range of 2,000 nautical miles (3704km). The vessel is equipped with a
Two siblings in their 70s were injured yesterday when they opened a parcel and it exploded, police in Yilan said, adding the brother and sister were both in stable condition. The two siblings, surnamed Hung (洪), had received the parcel two days earlier but did not open it until yesterday, the first day of the Lunar New Year holiday in Taiwan, police said. Chen Chin-cheng (陳金城), head of the Yilan County Government Police Bureau, said the package bore no postmark or names and was labeled only with the siblings’ address. Citing the findings of a
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