Hong Kong -Peregrine falcon and black-headed gulls #BIRDFLU

Peregrine falcon and the body of the Hong Kong bird flu black-headed gulls tested positive
2012-02-01 20:38:56
Xinhua Hong Kong, February 1 (reporter Wu Zheng) Hong Kong SAR Government Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) said spokesman 1st, in the New Territories and Tung Chung, Yuen Long, seized the body of the peregrine falcon and the black-headed gulls H5 avian influenza virus initially tested positive, the Government is continuing to further confirmatory tests.

The peregrine falcon and the black-headed gulls body on January 30 at Seaview Crescent in Tung Chung Man Tung Road Park and the Chun Yin Square Playground in Yuen Long was discovered seized. In Hong Kong, peregrine falcon is a rare winter visitor, Black-headed Gull is a common winter visitor.
The spokesman said the body found in peregrine falcon sites within 3 km there is no farm, black-headed gulls body within 3 km where there are four chicken farms. AFCD has been sent to inspect the farms and found no abnormal mortality or chicken showed symptoms of avian influenza. AFCD will step up monitoring of the farms.
http://news.163.com/12/0201/20/7P735VUF00014JB5.html

Avian influenza - situation in China - update #H5N1 #BIRDFLU

24 January 2012 -The Ministry of Health of China has notified WHO of a human case of avian influenza A (H5N1) virus infection.‬‪

The case is a 39 year-old male from Guiyan City, Guizhou Province. He developed symptoms on 6 January 2012 and was admitted to hospital but was in critical condition and died on 22 January 2012.‬‪
The case was laboratory diagnosed by Guizhou CDC and confirmed by China CDC on 22 January 2012. Investigation into the source of infection is ongoing. Close contacts of the case are being monitored and to date all remain well.  http://www.who.int/csr/don/2012_01_24/en/index.html‬‪

mainland's first 2012 bird flu outbreak 71 contacts no abnormal #H5N1 #BIRDFLU

 2012-01-23 21:43:23

  Reporters from Guizhou Province Health Department Emergency Response Office was informed that, January 22, Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, a man treat bird flu patients died, 71 were in close contact, were not unusual, closing at 14:00 on the 23rd, there are 12 observation of close contacts to lift the remaining 59 people in the medical observation.

Mainland China news agency reported, the reporter from Guizhou Province Health Department Emergency Response Office learned that the patient Liao Xu, male, 39, is a car rental company owner Guiyang, January 6 after the onset of the Fourth People's Hospital of Guiyang occupancy, 19 day into the Guiyang Medical College Hospital, after a preliminary judge by the Guizhou Provincial Center for Disease Control as a suspected bird flu. On the 21st of Guizhou Province Center for Disease Control virus samples sent to CDC review of the mainland, the Ministry of Health confirmed bird flu.

On the same day, Guizhou Provincial Health Office for the Coordination Ministry of Health, three experts, to carry the avian virus serum to Guiyang inductance for treatment of patients, at 12:35 on the 22nd, sicker patients, blood pressure, sudden ventricular fibrillation, died.
According to the Guizhou Provincial Health Department Emergency Management Office Director Chen mainland China, currently the world who has not yet appeared avian influenza virus infection of human cases, so 71 were close contacts with the patient in isolation, living a normal life, only for medical observation. Currently no one fever and respiratory symptoms, 12 of whom had been lifted observation, and the remaining 59 people still continue to observe them. At present, the source of virus infection in patients is still under investigation.

Guizhou provincial government has started on the 22nd of public health emergencies Ⅱ-class emergency response plan, the health sector at all levels to implement epidemic "on report" and "zero reporting" system. It is understood that this bird flu cases for the 2012 first mainland China, Guizhou Province is the third cases, the remaining two cases were in 2009, one cure, one treatment died.
http://www.cdnews.com.tw/cdnews_site/docDetail.jsp?coluid=109&docid=101799467

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China-Experts say the virus is very active #H5N1 #BIRDFLU

..Experts say the virus is very active
。 Director of Hong Kong Centre for infection and disease analysis Ho Pak-leung, a time when the high incidence of avian influenza, sporadic outbreaks are expected within three weeks of the Mainland in the death of another, shows that the virus is active, the virus or affected by the new branch "2.3 .2.1 "effect. He believes that there is a need for avian influenza virus genetic test to determine whether patients infected with "2.3.2.1", and closely monitor the virus spread among birds in the branches of the speed...    http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Forientaldaily.on.cc%2F

China reports bird flu death #H5N1 #BIRDFLU

China reports bird flu death

          Jan. 22, 2012 at 8:52 AM




BEIJING, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- A hospitalized man in southwestern China died of avian flu, health officials in Beijing reported Sunday.The unidentified 39-year-old man came down with a fever and other symptoms of the highly contagious H5N1 virus Jan. 6, but didn't respond to intensive care treatment in the city of Guiyang, the state-run Xinhua news agency said.
Regional health officials tracked down 71 people with whom the man had been in contact prior to his diagnosis, but none of them tested positive for the flu, the report said.
The deadly virus originated in poultry and wild birds, but is also spread among humans.
On Dec. 31, a man in the southern city of Shenzen, bordering Hong Kong, died of avian flu. There also were reports of individual H5N1 deaths in Cambodia, Indonesia and Vietnam in January, the World Health Organization said.Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-Ne...#ixzz1kCLmsezK

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Hong Kong's Lowers Bird Flu Warnings Status #H5N1 #BIRDFLU

Hong Kong's Bird Flu Warnings Lower Status

Thursday, 12 January 2012 01:56

KBR68H - Government of Hong Kong lowers bird flu pandemic alert status, the level of serious or else down to the level of alert. The new status came into force this Thursday. With this status, it is no longer ban on importing and trading of live poultry from outside Hong Kong, especially from the Chinese mainland. Previous trade of live poultry was suspended for three weeks, after the discovery of cases of dead birds infected with H5N1 virus. Description of the Hong Kong health authorities said, the researchers did not find any mutation of the H5N1 virus ever discovered three years ago. The decline of this bird flu alert status to be good news for the citizens of Hong Kong in particular will welcome Chinese New Year Feast on 23 January. (AFP) 

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Lifting the 21-Day Ban of Import/Sale of Live Poultry in China

Live chicken may be bound for local dinner plates again as early as tomorrow.

That is the hope after food and health chief York Chow Yat-ngok said he will consult with bird flu experts today before announcing whether to lift the 21-day ban on the import and sale of live chickens, imposed on December 21.

Chow said he expects demand for fresh chicken to increase once the ban is lifted, especially with Lunar New Year festivities around the corner.

He sees daily sales rising from 7,000 before the ban to about 10,000.

The ban, whose planned period expires tomorrow, was imposed after a dead chicken at the Cheung Sha Wan poultry market was found to be infected with the H5N1 virus.

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