Thursday, December 11, 2008

York Chow: Hong Kong to the mainland using H5N1 bird flu vaccine


A farm in Yuen Long has found that chickens infected with avian flu, the Hong Kong market on December 10 provisional supply of live chickens. China issued photo Tan Tat-ming

BEIJING, Dec. 11, according to Xinhua in Hong Kong "Ta Kung Pao" reported that the Hong Kong outbreak of avian flu crisis, the people of Hong Kong without live chicken to eat. Food and Health Secretary York Chow admitted that Hong Kong is now used in vaccines against H5N2 virus, more than 6 years, during which a virus or a slight change in general to Hong Kong and the Mainland study whether to adopt the mainland for the H5N1 vaccine.

It is learned that the Cheung Sha Wan and Yuen Long farm were destroyed 74,700 chickens.

10, York Chow admitted in the Legislative Council, the HKSAR Government has all along been used in the Netherlands is made against an H5N2 avian influenza vaccine, but because of the virus in the past 6 years, a slight change, so have asked the University of Hong Kong and the Mainland to conduct research, The need to switch to the mainland for the current H5N1 bird flu vaccine.

York Chow said, H5N2 vaccine in 2003, is considered to be the most effective vaccine and the current avian flu virus has not changed adult-human transmission, or worse. He disclosed that the mainland is to improve the work done on the vaccine, so the Hong Kong found that the avian influenza virus, will be handed over to China-related laboratory research, that if the H5N1 vaccine now in Hong Kong found that the virus effectively, as well as Hong Kong's chicken Only more protective, the SAR government will be chosen to try out some of the pilot.

Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department said that as at 17:00 on on the 10th only, the Yuen Long farm to be destroyed 65,000 chickens, and the Cheung Sha Wan Temporary Wholesale Poultry Market in 9700 chickens have been destroyed. 50 AFCD staff on the 10th in the morning to continue to Yuen Long chickens were found infected with bird flu death to kill a chicken farm, in charge of the staff are wearing protective clothing and wear face masks. The day before yesterday the department had destroyed an infected chicken farm in 3000, killing all 60,000 chickens will go to another nearby site, where the destruction of about 20,000 chickens, York Chow is expected to be up this week完成.

Another group of AFCD staff on the 10th to the Cheung Sha Wan Temporary Wholesale Poultry Market, the destruction of suspected bird flu infection in chickens, a group of about 30 people in cleaning chickens before and took away some samples of chicken blood as a test of chicken Only the bird flu vaccine have no antibodies have to check the adequacy of weight, etc., and then chicken into plastic drums, baked into the carbon monoxide death, and then put a black plastic bag, then by the crane to help transport Go.

When asked about Hong Kong, there are 600,000 farms have not been affected by the events of chickens, worried that they will grow up through 21, will re-emergence of bird flu, and whether it will consider compensation to chicken farmers, said York Chow , The data show that over the next three weeks for the sale of chickens is about 10,000 more than 10. He said that a few months ago Hong Kong's supply of chicks too much, not a lot of chickens. He also said that many chickens were ready to launch the Chinese New Year when the market for sale.

Hong Kong and Kowloon Poultry Dealers and Workers union on behalf of the retail Ma Ping-lung said that the Government does not want to stop the supply of live chickens as long as 21 days. He said that bird flu was found in Yuen Long where the farm rather than retail outlets. Ma Ping-lung of the view that markets and wholesale markets have been enough 3 days cleaning, to stop selling live chickens will be reduced by 70% in business this month.

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