Tuesday, December 20, 2011

No live chickens infected poultry shocking winter solstice #h5n1 #bird flu

No live chickens infected poultry shocking winter solstice
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After a lapse of three years, there once again attack the chickens from avian flu. Cheung Sha Wan Wholesale Poultry Market yesterday in the daily monitoring, we found a dead chicken infected highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus, is tracing the source is local or imported chickens. The Cheung Sha Wan Wholesale Poultry Market last night announced as "epidemic," half past eight this morning began the destruction of the venue seventeen thousand chickens, and the closure 21 to 12 January next year. Imported live chickens from the Mainland to suspend, prohibit shipments of 21 local farms, the people again through the winter without fresh chickens in Hong Kong into the "no chicken" day twenty days.

Secretary for Food and Health York Chow announced last night, raise our level of avian influenza from "alert" to "serious." Temporary source of unknown bird dead chickens, the authorities have stepped up inspection and monitoring, a preliminary inspection in Hong Kong yesterday after thirty farms, no problem, our input will be suspended all live poultry, including chicks, informed the Mainland authorities have also been strengthen supervision to ensure the safety of chilled chickens.

Mai Po prevent attacksThe department will require that all live poultry retail outlets cleaning and disinfection, today from the 21, there is no point poultry retail supply of live chickens. And so far, yet there are chicken farmers and poultry workers developed symptoms, the authorities will continue to work with wholesalers and health practitioners who follow the industry. He added that the Hospital Authority and all public and private clinics, medical staff once the discovery of bird flu symptoms, should be notified as soon as possible. The Administration has also asked the Tin Shui Wai Wetland Park and Mai Po Nature Reserve to strengthen prevention.

Dr Chow said: "This unfortunate bird flu before the winter solstice, the need to suspend supply of live chickens, to understand the inconvenience, loss of business, industry, protection of the public based on the premise that we must take decisive and effective measures to prevent bird flu spread. "AFCD explained, wholesale and Mainland live chickens from local farms, dead chickens, bird flu is in the collection of carcasses found in the trash, it is difficult to trace the source. The Department stressed that preliminary laboratory results yesterday afternoon, immediately banned wholesale shipments.

University of Hong Kong, Professor Yuen Kwok-yung said the Department of Microbiology, if the local farms chickens confirmed the accident, the authorities need to review in two ways, one is farm biosecurity measures are taken, to prevent wild birds sowing poison; the other to pay attention to farm whether all chickens vaccinated and the vaccine is still effective.

Or failure of the original vaccine
He explained that the chickens H5N1 avian flu virus a "antigenic drift", that the original vaccine antigen changes that have emerged H5N1 virus is invalid, the Netherlands, Hong Kong H5N2 vaccine in use for many years, there is a need to review the results. He stressed that as long as the industry to take preventive measures, including farms, wholesale markets and market stalls, people without fear of bird flu was very hot.
The impact of avian flu in Hong Kong has experienced many times, has been established to prevent the system, the question is whether the implementation.
Yuen Kwok-yung explain the recent black-headed gulls and migratory birds, Magpie Robin left the H5 virus infection, the virus has been reflected in the existence, if not done farm biosecurity measures, local chickens may be infected.

Warning infectious disease specialist Lo Wing-lok, increase in risk of avian influenza outbreak in Hong Kong. Chickens contained avian flu virus than the number of wild birds as much, with Cheung Sha Wan wholesale market gather thousands of chickens, the virus spread very fast, difficult to estimate the number of infected chickens, humans constitute a very large threat, the authorities should immediately trace the source of dead chickens.http://the-sun.on.cc/cnt/news/20111221/00405_001.html

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