Tuesday, January 20, 2009

From north to south of avian flu virus, experts say

2009 on 21 day 01 years

On the 6th of this month, China's one after another report of four cases of human avian influenza cases, and 3 people have died. From the time and geographical point of view, it seems that with the distribution of the epidemic was cold southward trend in the future as a result of Guangdong will continue to cool down, the concerns about the bird flu occurred in Guangdong. Experts said that the current status of cases distributed between the Agency, as temperatures fell in winter and spring, as well as migratory birds carry the virus across the border and other reasons, the epidemic is a normal phenomenon southward.

4 confirmed cases were the North-South distribution

Since January 6 Beijing confirmed case of human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza after 17, 18, 19, respectively, in Shanxi, Shandong, Hunan Province have been confirmed infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza, confirmed from the map view time and place of obvious trend was moving gradually from north to south. From the time and location of the incidence of view, is the first in Beijing after it was infected, and then someone appears in Hunan, Guizhou infection (infection of unknown origin Shandong cases).

Since the avian influenza virus cold span, according to weather forecasts, the Guangdong region from the outset, gradually cooling down today, 23 the temperature will be decreased, so some people are worried that human infection with bird flu will be cold with immediate Guangdong?

There is no incidence of poultry people get infected

Statistics show that China's human bird flu cases more than 70% of the time focused on the incidence of winter and spring (November to March), in the region to the southern provinces of mainly rural than urban. National Influenza舒跃龙director of the Center on the 19th when interviewed by reporters said that at present the virus isolates showed that human infection with the virus still comes from birds and pollution of the environment in the cycle of avian influenza virus. Has now occurred four cases, prior to the onset of three cases are directly or indirectly come into contact with dead birds, or go off in the incidence of live birds markets, only the source of infection in Shandong of dubious origin.

Reporter yesterday from the Agriculture Department of Guangdong Province was informed that there is no monitoring of the bird flu outbreak in Guangdong, but also did not receive the Ministry of Agriculture on the other parts of the bird flu outbreak briefing, Jiangsu only found in the eggs of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus . But So far, four cases of human infection with bird flu, and 3 people have died, the situation has attracted the attention of the parties.

Normal incidence from north to south

Against bird flu this year, the new situation in an interview with reporters yesterday, the provincial agricultural department of the party group members of the total animal husbandry and veterinary Tsai Shu Gan. Tsai Shu Gan said that people infected with highly pathogenic bird flu epidemic situation in the distribution from north to south is normal. He explained that based on the characteristics of highly pathogenic avian influenza, with temperatures dropping in winter and spring, the weather was relatively cold, the bird flu virus will be more active, which is from north to south movement of migratory birds, the virus is likely, therefore with the migratory birds was taken to the South. Together with the birds in cold weather resistance to the relative decline in the season, so the chance of infection is also increasing, these three reasons for making the bird flu tend to show the development trend from north to south.

But this time several cases of bird flu are infected, and is not found in birds before the outbreak of the epidemic, but also showed the North-South distribution. In this regard, the National Influenza舒跃龙on the 19th director of the Center for an interview with reporters, said several of China's recent cases of human bird flu is highly distributed, and cases there was no link between this and previous incidence of basically the same. Were sporadic cases of avian flu in our country there may occur, but there were no signs of large-scale outbreak.

Agriculture Department will strengthen the poultry immunity

It is understood that in recent years during the annual winter and spring have a bird flu outbreak in Guangdong so throughout the year to closely monitor the situation of bird flu. Agriculture Department last year after the beginning of winter, especially bird flu was discovered in Hong Kong, the Agriculture Department immediately issued an emergency notice to prevent and control bird flu and has organized the flight inspection, and urge the implementation of prevention and control measures. Yesterday, the provincial agricultural department of the party group members of the total animal husbandry and veterinary Tsai Shu Gan, currently the province's 43 provincial-level bird flu monitoring points and at all levels of supervision of animal epidemic prevention agencies have so far not yet found bird flu. The province's poultry immunity density of bird flu 113 percent, some poultry have been conducted many times immunization, the forefront of the nation.

Tsai Shu Gan said that with the gradual lowering of temperature in future, the Guangdong Provincial Agriculture Department will continue to strengthen the monitoring of wild birds and poultry immunization, for some period of validity expired poultry vaccines, timely fill epidemic.

Nearly a year chicken prices slight

Although human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza occurred in several cases, but the reporter learned yesterday from the poultry wholesale market, the current price of live chickens Canton not affected by avian influenza. Although patients diagnosed nearly in Hunan, but Hunan shipped over the price of live chickens has been an upward trend. Baiyun District Jiang high wholesale market town of three birds, a Hunan wholesalers told reporters that since the winter solstice, as a result of market demand in Guangdong, Hunan catchment very scarce, so Hunan chicken overall upward trend in prices, has risen from 12 yuan a catty to 14 per catty.

16-year-old boys died of bird flu infected

Shanxi, Shandong and Hunan Beijing report a case of all cases have aroused considerable public concern

According to Xinhua News Agency, Xinhua learned from the Hunan Provincial Department of Health, Hunan Huaihua City recently confirmed case of human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza cases had been patients at 8:10 on the 20th about the death of the Ministry of Health and Hunan province after more than clinical experts and prevalence of patients with sexually transmitted diseases, experts conduct joint rescue.

According to the Hunan Provincial Health Department briefing, 16-year-old male with Wu, who lives in Qiandongnan Prefecture of Guizhou Province, January 8 this year in Guizhou morbidity due to illness on January 16 into Huaihua City, Hunan Province hospitalization. January 17, the Hunan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention laboratory specimens of patient testing, the results for the H5N1 avian influenza virus nucleic acid positive; January 19, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention review of patient specimens for testing, the results for the bird flu virus nucleic acid H5N1 positive. Epidemiological survey found that patients had come into contact with dead poultry.

On the 20th morning, an emergency meeting of Hunan Province in winter and spring high incidence of infectious disease prevention and control meeting, asking that the relevant departments and throughout the province strictly implement the responsibility system. Epidemic occurred, the local government attaches great importance to Huaihua, in accordance with the "human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza contingency plans" to take the corresponding control measures. Close contacts of all the implementation of strict medical observation, and timely to conduct a comprehensive epidemiological investigation.

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