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  • H7N9 epidemics: should be live poultry market permanently closed ?

    According to media reports, due to climate anomalies and other factors, after the Spring Festival, Anhui, Jiangsu, Beijing and other places have been infected with H7N9 cases of avian influenza. In the face of the emerging epidemic situation, a number of industry professionals associated with the poultry industry told the China Economic Net reporter that the only way to close the live poultry market, reduce human exposure to live birds or reduce the risk of the epidemic.
    According to media reports, the sale of broiler breeds in the market are divided into white feather broiler and yellow feather broiler two categories. In the north, white feather chickens are basically sold to slaughterhouses, and in some areas of the South, live poultry market, most of the sale of green feather chickens, hair chicken in the live poultry market directly sold to the people. After the outbreak of avian flu, many areas of the live poultry market have been closed, a large number of yellow feathers and therefore broken sales.
    From 2013 in Shanghai, Anhui and other places appear H7N9 virus, to the recent comeback, in the white feathers Union President Li Jinghui view, it is destined to have unharmed. He told the China Economic Net reporter said that individual consumers in the pursuit of live poultry, farmers market site slaughter continued popular, which also gave the H7N9 outbreak of the epidemic provides an excellent opportunity. He pointed out that confirmed patients infected with H7N9 virus patients, have live bird exposure history, which in addition to participate in live poultry slaughter mainly. In the face of an increasingly serious epidemic, he called for "old traditions to change."

    Li Jinghui said that the global number of slaughtered broilers per year is about 50 billion, of which 55% of the species is white feather broiler. In China, the annual consumption of white feather chicken 5 billion, Western-style fast food, Chinese chain restaurant to provide the vast majority of chicken dishes are white feather broiler products. For the frequent occurrence of H7N9 epidemic, Li Jinghui believes that this "pot" should not be white feathers to the back. He said that the Ministry of Agriculture asked the poultry industry to do the "scale feeding, concentrated slaughter, cold chain transport, chilled listing", and white feather broiler industry has been doing, white feather chicken has maintained the number of China's first export, but also the world The sign of modern animal husbandry.
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    Liang Houzhe told reporters on the China Economic Net, summed up the experience of other countries to prevent and control H7N9, in addition to pre-detection, incident hunting, etc., the permanent closure of the live poultry market is the primary option. But he also stressed that the closure of the live poultry market must be national, rather than Zhejiang off, Anhui did not close, this will make the virus continue to spread. He said that China's broiler industry, especially the yellow feather chicken farming, is still the main retail sales of farmers. Only in the complete closure of the poultry market on the basis of continuous improvement of China's poultry processing industry and the supply chain of modern level, in order to completely eliminate the H7N9 virus from the source again hit.

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