The Ministry of Health held a human avian influenza prevention and control of video and telephone conference

(January 20, 2009)

The Ministry of Health Press Office

January 20, 2009, the Ministry of Health held a human avian influenza prevention and control of video and telephone conference, Health Minister Chen Zhu presided over the meeting and made an important speech.

Chen Zhu at the meeting stressed that the human avian influenza at a time when the high season, human avian influenza prevention and control work is extremely critical.

Health departments throughout the country should attach great importance to human avian influenza prevention and control work, to increase prevention and control efforts, according to the relevant plans and programs to effectively implement various prevention and control measures. First, we must fully understand the risk of avian influenza hazards, from the source control of human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza risk.

Recently, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Agriculture, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce will jointly issued "on the live poultry operators to increase market supervision and do a good job in the prevention and control of human avian influenza," which effectively control the risk factors.

Second is to strengthen the clinical diagnosis and treatment of avian influenza work. All over the medical institutions at all levels in accordance with the Ministry of Health, "human bird flu treatment programs (2008 version)," further enhance the level of human bird flu clinics, and make sure that cases of early discovery, early reporting, early quarantine, early treatment.

Third, the health sector at all levels to strengthen epidemic monitoring and environmental monitoring, found that the epidemic should be a timely report, to take prompt measures to effectively prevent and control the epidemic.

The fourth is to further strengthen cooperation with agricultural, industrial and commercial sectors such as information communication and measures linked.

Fifth, we should step up publicity and education and risk communication, timely to the public the progress of the disease and its prevention and control work, publicity can be anti-human avian influenza, controllable, can be cured.

Six is to strengthen scientific research work, and constantly improve the human avian influenza prevention and control capacity and the level of science and rational response.

The meeting listened to Shanxi, Shandong, Hunan, Guizhou 4 Provincial Health Department on the human avian influenza prevention and control work of reporting, as well as the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention experts were on the current bird flu situation analysis.