China's capital Beijing detects bird flu in wild swans at tourist site

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China's capital Beijing detects bird flu in wild swans at tourist site

By Reuters Staff

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(Reuters) - Beijing has recorded an outbreak of H5N8 bird flu in wild swans at a popular tourist site in the Chinese capital, China’s agriculture ministry said on Monday.

The outbreak took place in t..https://www.reuters.com/article/us-h...A12RD?rpc=401&

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Beijing reports H5N8 bird flu in swans at Old Summer Palace, disinfectant work underway
By Global Times
Published: Feb 01, 2021 10:19 PM

Beijing reported an outbreak of H5N8 bird flu on Monday, which was detected in the Old Summer Palace in the city’s Haidian district, and has caused the deaths of three wild birds and three others have contracted the virus, according to the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture.

This was the third place to report this highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu in wild swans in China over the last three m...https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202102/1214651.shtml

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Reappearance of a new epidemic in Beijing, H5N8 highly pathogenic avian influenza

2021-02-02 01:07
The recent outbreak of the H5N8 subtype highly pathogenic avian influenza in Beijing’s Old Summer Palace has aroused public concern.


[See China February 2, 2021 News] China's Wuhan pneumonia epidemic burn constantly, a few days ago and then heard Beijing Yuanmingyuan outbreak of H5N8 subtype highly pathogenic bird flu epidemic , the collapse of civil society, "said the world how the?"

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China announced on February 1 that the "China Animal Disease Prevention and Control Center" pointed out that there are 15 wild birds living in the Yuanmingyuan Relics Park in Beijing’s Haidian District. Three of them have been found dead recently and three are ill. The inspection by China's "National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory" confirmed that the H5N8 highly pathogenic avian influenza has been diagnosed in a local wild swan, which has caused an outbreak.
Earlier on January 19, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China also announced that 35 wild swans died suddenly in the Yellow River Delta Nature Reserve in Dongying City, Shandong Province, and they were confirmed to be highly pathogenic with the H5N8 subtype after testing by the National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory. Avian Influenza.
It is understood that the H5N8 avian influenza virus is a highly contagious virus between poultry, which is mainly transmitted between birds. Although the probability of human infection is very low, it should not be taken lightly, especially by livestock operators and animal-related workers. The subtypes of influenza A viruses currently appearing in humans are H1N1, H1N2, H2N2, H3N2, H5N1, H7N7.
After the news came out, the mainland left a lot of messages saying, "I hope there will be no transmission from people to people , and I don't want to experience any more epidemics ." "How did they get infected?" "Isn't it spread to people?" "There is really no impossible virus, only viruses that you can't think of!" "What's wrong with this world?" "I wonder if the remaining wild swans are also infected, bless them to survive this disaster."https://www.secretchina.com/news/b5/...02/961082.html