Wednesday, December 17, 2008

疾管局:H5N2禽流感病毒不會傳給人 CDC: H5N2 bird flu virus will not be passed on to people

2008.12.17 01:27 pm

Department of Health deputy director of the Center for Disease Control Lin top this morning said that no domestic H5N1 human cases of bird flu, although the current H5N2 outbreak in poultry, there is no evidence that this would give rise to human disease.

Legislative Yuan Wei, Central and Labor Committee hearing this morning to review the draft Shifa, the legislators have asked the domestic chickens infected with H5N2 low pathogenic avian flu epidemic, whether or not a threat to the national bird flu epidemic? Lin do more than answer the top.

After the meeting, he further explained that the low pathogenic H5N2 avian influenza virus of low-power, the impact of small birds, H5N2 high pathogenic mutation may cause disease, Taiwan, Japan and other places of animal epidemic prevention staff sick birds culled After only a few people who appear weak response to the antigen, no infection, indicating that H5N2 infection does not give.

He also pointed out that, H5N2 and H5N1 are two different avian influenza virus, H5N1 bird flu virus mutation itself is still, the emergence of strains of Vietnam and Indonesia strain at this stage is limited to limited human to human has not yet resulted in large-scale human to human The disease, H5N2 avian-human transmission distance farther the distance.

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