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China - A report that about 40% of known H7N9 cases had history of poultry contact: speculation that markets are source for elderly shoppers

sharon sanders

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The neighborhood poultry currently no H7N9 virus detected positive precedent

April 13, 2013 06:54 Hangzhou Network Comments
  In the week before the onset of the contact birds were infected with the virus high-risk groups, 43 patients, there are about a dozen of the clear history of poultry contact. Although birds unknown history of exposure to the remaining patients, but many patients are retirees, many people often go to farms.

  These days, the farmers market has been the focus of investigation object, Shanghai, Nanjing and other places have slaughtered suspicious pigeons, chickens, ducks, and close the live animal. A few days ago, residential pigeon suffered the most intense in the history of the complaint. From the start of the afternoon of the 8th, Hangzhou pause pigeon flying, will be closed or shed. (Letters April 9, reports)


  District where chicken duck, many people did not agree with inspectors door handle, and some of them are still some conflict. Rough statistics, but according to media reports, we found that the H7N9 patients, one week prior to the onset, a lot of the people or within the district had raised poultry:

  Shanghai, patients Lee (male, 4 years old, has recovered and been discharged), raising chickens and a duck in the home;

  Jiangsu Zhenjiang, the patients Qiumou (female, 25, unemployed), home corridor top pigeon cages;

  Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Shentu a (male, 79), the neighborhood where people raise chickens;

  Lee yesterday Hangzhou example of new H7N9 patients, male, 68 years old, raising 8 chickens on the roof of their own.

  Judging from these few cases, raising chickens, ducks, pigeons and other poultry in the district of, there may also be one of the H7N9 virus source, in patients with history of exposure to clear poultry proportion of about 40%.

  Although the source of the virus is uncertain, such as chickens and ducks in Shanghai Lee family, after sampling testing, was not detected in the H7N9 virus, raise chickens and ducks in the district where the body is also no detectable virus precedent, but at home or in the district where live poultry, we should still be vigilant.

  Currently infected males still 60 years old or more, including one of the reasons is that a lot of plot high proportion of elderly, they often buy food, some people like chicken.

  MD, medical director of the Shanghai Xinhua Hospital, said Zhang Qingli, the view from the living habits, the elderly usually like their own grocery shopping, going round in the farms, which lay hidden dangers to respiratory infections. Many indoor farms space is relatively small, poor air circulation, if someone infected with respiratory diseases, it is easy to spread by droplet, airborne. The immunity of the elderly is relatively low, it is easy to be infected. (According to the Shanghai Morning News ")

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