China - Chen Hualan: Blocking bird flu, in hope of no human disease

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Chen Hualan: Blocking bird flu, in hope of no human disease

At 14:14 on October 30, 2018 Source: Central Broadcasting and TV Station CCTV news client to participate in interactive

There is such a female scientist who has played a key role in successfully blocking the bird flu epidemic such as H5N1 and H7N9 in China, and has saved huge economic losses for the country. She is the director of the National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory and the academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences - Chen Hualan.

At present, a large number of migratory birds have begun to move south, which is a high-risk period for the spread of avian influenza virus and outbreaks. At the Harbin Veterinary Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Academician Chen Hualan is leading the team to conduct an epidemiological investigation and research on bird flu in autumn and winter of 2018.

Highly pathogenic avian influenza is a devastating disease and a key research direction in the field of animal medicine in China. After returning to China, Academician Chen Hualan studied the avian flu and felt the inadequacy of the strategy of poultry culling. She proposed a new prevention and control plan.

Director of the National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Chen Hualan : How to eliminate it in the bud, the simplest and most direct is the development of vaccines.

Like vaccination against flu, it is possible to prevent poultry infections from causing an outbreak by vaccinating poultry. However, the mutation of the virus will make the vaccine lose its effect. Academician Chen Hualan led the research team and established a rapid development platform for avian influenza vaccine. Once the virus is found to be mutated, the vaccine is updated immediately.

National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory Director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Chen Hualan : When we launched the H5 and H7 bivalent seedlings in September 2017, when we used it in poultry, the entire cycle from October 2017 to now, only 3 people were infected. .

With her outstanding contribution to the biological research of avian influenza virus, Chen Hualan was named ?Top Ten Scientific Persons in the World? by the British magazine ?Nature? in 2013; and ?National Outstanding Science and Technology Talent Award? in 2016.

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China - Chen Hualan: Blocking bird flu, in hope of no human disease