Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Hai'an Dongtai, Jiangsu and laying hens in the detection

2008 on 12 years on 16 18:57

Ben Wang inquiry, according to the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture, Dec. 15, the Ministry of Agriculture in Jiangsu Province received a report of the veterinary department in the implementation of routine monitoring of poultry, in Hai'an, Dongtai individual farmers of the layers reared in the monitoring Pathogenic avian influenza H5N1-positive samples. At present, these areas have not found bird flu.

Preliminary analysis by experts, detected the avian influenza virus with pandemic strain of China's southern region some differences. Poultry virus may be related to migratory birds spread the virus. According to concentrate on the fall of the immune inspection results show that Jiangsu's veterinary sector organizations on the implementation of the province's poultry avian influenza immunization, antibodies in the passing rate of 89% or more than 70% of the state.

Upon receiving the report, the immediate deployment of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Agriculture veterinary departments to implement prevention and control measures. One positive for monitoring flocks and the surrounding areas to carry out culling of poultry have been culled 377,000 poultry. The second is to monitor the implementation of isolation. Dongtai transport ban on all poultry and Hai'an and its products, restrictions on the flow. The third is to eliminate the source of disinfection. Poultry have been culled on the farm (000) and the surrounding environment to carry out thorough disinfection to prevent the spread of the virus.

The Ministry of Agriculture in accordance with the provisions of the monitoring program, in May each year, in November need to focus on two bird flu monitoring, from all over the day-to-day monitoring of the actual situation in accordance with the arrangements. January to October this year, all over the country have been monitoring the bird flu samples were 4,310,000, pathogenic avian influenza detected in 46 samples were positive, positive pathogenic bird groups were conducted in a timely manner disposal.

At present, the MSC County, Dongtai surrounding counties and cities did not find anything unusual. National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory has been requested by the Ministry of Agriculture, on the positive samples for further testing and analysis of whether the virus mutates. China Animal Health and Epidemiology Center also sent a group of experts have rushed to the above-mentioned areas of epidemiological investigation, analysis of the source of the virus.

The Ministry of Agriculture has been the situation to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) were informed.

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