Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Guangzhou bird markets kill a chicken halfway



Two-year-old boy infected with avian influenza last Saturday, less brain edema surgery yesterday in serious condition, but the source of the virus Rengshi Mi!
Guangdong Province Center for Disease Control announced yesterday, 7 40 environmental samples taken in the markets visited by the boy and the neighborhood, six were positive for avian flu virus. Reporters yesterday to Guangzhou, Interrupted, noted that the local health quarantine departments to the market culling of chickens was chicken traders to protest, but nothing, the Hong Kong Centre for Food Safety reiterated that it will only strengthen the monitoring. Infectious disease experts have warned that poultry vaccines and viruses do not match, the limited power of the chickens protection, coupled with the crowded market environment, the virus more easily transmitted from chickens, ducks between opportunistic raid human.
 
Guangdong CDC boy to market their homes near the market, including the extraction cages, chopping boards, etc. 40 7 environmental samples tested, were positive for avian flu virus detected in six samples, five case of H5, a case of H9 type, but the poultry practitioners throat swab sample was negative for influenza virus, and no person has been infected.
Center director Jianfeng that the poultry market by the bird flu virus contamination but it is difficult to determine the source of the outbreak of the virus in the community and popular possibility is very low.
Our reporter yesterday to the suspected source of infection is near the Guangzhou Haizhu District, Jiangnan East markets, chicken vendors in the health and quarantine departments in Guangdong Province on Monday morning to the market to the culling of chickens and epidemic prevention, but killing thirty chickens, poultry traders protest without compensation, without notice after the halfway cut.
 Chicken stalls in the market yesterday to continue the business, but business is deserted, fell five percent higher than usual. The stall owners, Market Health is the ideal, the virus passed in from the periphery of unlicensed chicken stalls.

Ho Pak-leung: A vaccine with the virus

For boys the source of infection in Guangzhou Market for Food and Health Secretary York Chow yesterday refers to the great cause of the boy disease before the onset of the 2nd, had told the mother to the markets of Guangzhou near their homes to buy ducks from the ducks about one meter, and stay for a long period of time. He believes that no other contacts of the infected, which is a single case, no successor risk.
The University of Hong Kong infection by the Director of the Centre for Infectious Diseases, Ho Pak-leung, refers the detection of avian influenza virus in the market environment, to further laboratory virus is a new species 2.3.2.1, in order to determine whether the markets are affected by the invasion of new varieties.
He believes that avian influenza viruses do not fit with the existing chickens in the vaccine, even if the vaccination is to protect the force is also limited, sporadic chickens infected, the Mainland market is overcrowded, health is not ideal to make the virus more chickens, ducks between the spread of virus penetration, waiting for an opportunity to raid human. If the vaccine has not replaced, the new virus may continue to spread in chickens from the Mainland, do not rule out local farms and markets also were caught.

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