Monday, January 5, 2009

Guangdong to strengthen bird flu prevention and control expert group held a forum

2009-01-05 18:37:23
Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON hearing for the analysis of the current highly pathogenic avian influenza situation in our province, and strengthen our province in winter and spring of highly pathogenic avian influenza prevention and control work, today (5), provincial agricultural department, such as the invitation of South China Agricultural University 5 units 14 major animal disease prevention and control of the province of experts and stakeholders convened a forum on bird flu prevention and control experts. The experts agreed that strengthening immunization and disinfection work is the highly pathogenic avian influenza prevention and control of effective measures.

Experts pointed out that although the current avian flu in our province immune density and immune quality significantly improved, the immune effect of good, in order to prevent the occurrence of the epidemic has played a very important role, but some areas of animal husbandry management backward, Polyculture is still here ; virus cross-infection and spread of the possible; into the winter and spring seasons, livestock and poultry and their products frequent long-distance cross-regional transport, transport links, live poultry market, farmers market supervision is very difficult, there is the risk of occurrence of the epidemic. Especially the recent Hong Kong outbreak of avian flu in Jiangsu Province and the avian influenza strain variation, greatly increasing the pressure on the prevention and control work in our province.

In view of the current weak link in the prevention and control work and the urgent need to solve the problem, the experts made a positive response measures and recommendations.

First, the application of science immunization procedures, targeted guidance to carry out immunization. Science immune disease prevention staff training methods, change the immune status of unscientific, overcoming an immunization will not be able to ensure there is an outbreak of the erroneous ideas and improve the quality and the immune level of immunity.

Second is to strengthen the circulation of the supervision and management, strengthen disinfection to eliminate the source. Trading market for live birds hidden dangers that may exist, strict enforcement of poultry farms, poultry trading market, farmers market regular cleansing and disinfection system, strict regular farmers market closed system, a really good job in the sound of dead poultry processing to prevent the spread of disease and proliferation.

The third is to strengthen the monitoring, do a good job in forecasting the outbreak early warning, particularly to strengthen our province variant of avian flu virus monitoring, timely decision-making for the government to provide reference for Vaccines and Immunization.

The fourth is to strengthen and accelerate the development of new vaccines and the use of and improve the immune effect of poultry.

The fifth is to strengthen bird flu prevention and control knowledge of publicity, so that the majority of farmers a better understanding of the dangers of highly pathogenic avian influenza, take the initiative to do a good job in prevention work.

Experts have called the broad masses of aquaculture producers to take prevention-oriented, comprehensive prevention and control measures and take the initiative to do a good job of highly pathogenic avian influenza immunization and disinfection to prevent the occurrence and spread of the epidemic

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