More on the "H5N2" outbreak in China

4 At first the country this year sentence for low-pathogenic /
 Jubei farm bird flu was detected in

Hsinchu County Government confirmed that there is a chicken farm territory, suspected due to seasonal changes, routine screening of chickens was found in the "low-pathogenic H5N2 strain of bird flu" virus strains, but no chickens died, on human health no threat, has control of disinfection.
 Jubei City, Hsinchu County, the fourth country this year since the outbreak of bird flu, now six thousand chicken farms all mobile control. Anti Inspection Bureau, said the preliminary conclusion from the clinical symptoms of low pathogenic, the virulence of the home health test report, released next week, the case of low pathogenic will be continuous monitoring for three months, the virus can not deregulation, without culling.

6,000 chickens mobile control "restricted movement"

Huang Guoqing, deputy director of anti-Inspection Bureau, said this farm last month, 19 samples, 24 isolated H5 antibodies, October 15, 1999 to further virus isolation from serum and detected H5N2.

Huang Guoqing said, the farm has four sheds, with an abandonment, three were three 二八 ○ 只 soil imitation chicken and 二七 二 ○ 只 soil imitation chicken. Will move the control to do all the chicken, raw chicken eggs using fumigation, hatched chicks have not detected the virus so far.

Livestock disease prevention and control of the Hsinchu County Government, said at the 15th notified the Council of Agriculture, the farm ten specimens, the "low-pathogenic H5N2 strain of bird flu" virus strains exist, a report immediately to the scene by moving the control to do , followed by the field and its radius of three kilometers of the other poultry farms, a comprehensive inventory, visit and disinfection. The results showed that the contacts are related to health, even the sick strains were found within the chicken farm also jump, good health too.

This represents, H5N2 is a low pathogenic influenza virus family, not people dreaded H5N1. Such viruses may spread through the air, it may be from birds, wild birds and other spread, initially suspected to be, and recent climate change and so on.