Experts believe that in Shanxi Province are human-to-human bird flu cases / RFA

Boxun Beijing January 22, 2009

China's recent outbreak of human bird flu, experts refer to birds with the virus may show signs of north to south. As for avian influenza infection in Shanxi Province-year-old girl, her mother as early as the girl died of pneumonia antecedent disease, experts still refers to limited human-to-human cases. In addition, Shandong Province, has been reported that the bird flu death廿七-year-old woman, before his death in the streets, selling hot soup and frequent contact with duck blood and chicken.
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Tsai Shu Gan said that since Beijing on the 6th of this month confirmed case of human infection with avian flu, on the 17th, on the 18th and on the 19th, respectively, in Shanxi, Shandong, Hunan Province have been confirmed to have bird flu, confirmed from the map view time and place, obviously was gradually moving from north to south trend, which first was in Beijing after infection, and then someone appears in Hunan, Guizhou infection.

Hong Kong University microbiology professor Yuen Kwok-yung, Wednesday to receive this recognition visit Taiwan when the epidemic is southward trend. He was referring to this year, bird flu cases in January, slightly higher than last year, did not rule out the possibility that poultry with bird flu virus hidden, it is necessary to continue to observe whether or not to increase the epidemic, and study whether the bird flu vaccine failure.

Professor Yuen Kwok-yung said: This year the situation is worse than last year, particularly in poultry and birds of avian flu virus has a high level of activity, as to why the virus, the high level of activity, and this may be due to the large number of chickens, they might have bird flu decline in the effectiveness of the vaccine, because the effectiveness can not be completely ineffective, or else there will be a large number of chickens died, is now the subject of human recessive with livestock infected with the virus, there is no large number of poultry deaths.
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As for last week confirmed to have contracted bird flu in Shanxi-year-old girl, her mother as early as before the incidence of girls died due to severe pneumonia, she has been contacting both live birds. Yuen Kwok-yung believes that the mother and child is still limited human-to-human cases so far the community has not been unusual human transmission of bird flu. He said: transmitted by the family inside the family's case is only limited deliver people-to-human transmission, if the disease spread to others outside his family again, this situation has not yet taken place, or person to person in the case of expansion circumstances, in the past, Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia have family members will have seen cases of transmission of the virus family, the mother and daughter may be involved genes, because the existence of some people more vulnerable to HIV genes, may be at the same time their exposure to the virus infected chickens.
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