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China - H7N9 outbreak causing huge losses in poultry industry as people reject chicken

tetano

Editor, Senior Moderator
H7N9 livelihoods affected poultry farming industry millions

intern reporter snow Wei

when first H7N9 case was confirmed in Beijing, located in Miyun County of Beijing Jing-breeder hatcheries, 800 kinds of chickens hatch out of the box. Customer suddenly notice a chicken farm manager was supposed to pick up lantianjie, the chickens do not. Since then, more and more customers asking for the reduction or cancellation of the order.
eggs hatched chicken litter sold 2.8, now only 6 cents a cheap 'handle'. '' One way is to take it as a feed, 'feed your chickens to Eagles, feed the Tiger'. In another corner of fate, when 'processing' when you can't, these fluffy, dark staring little eyes chicken being strangled to death, were thrown away or burned.
is in nurturing life cannot be 'dishonored.' Hatchery-Jing-breeder 'lay eggs or a place', not to mention April 16 boxes of 2,400 chickens, incubator with 160,000 chickens ... ... Lantianjie got a call a few days in fear and fear that is dishonored by customer.
'talking bird' wind blowing through, stir the interests of tens of millions of people in the poultry industry.

China Youth daily reporter found that many consumers of poultry products 'don't eat won't eat', canceled many restaurant dishes, dealers feel the chill of the cold, local poultry farmers also suffered heavy losses.
Ma Chuang, Deputy Secretary General of China animal husbandry and veterinary medicine society told Xinhua that H7N9 outbreak suddenly in the poultry industry into public health, let workers be caught off guard. In his view, although the death before the outbreak, but the Government should be on a more balanced point of view, taking into account the public health policy, also considered an industry of tens of millions of people, avoid more problems in the future.
consumers talk about poultry discoloration

on April 8, who pointed out in the question and answer session on human infection H7N9 avian influenza knowledge, normal processing and cooking of meat is safe to eat, influenza virus in inactivated with hot enough, food and overall hit 70 degrees will kill the virus. Who advise, eat raw and uncooked dishes with blood as raw material is high risk behavior, not to eat raw eggs or soft-boiled egg.
However, poultry food is still hard to accept.

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Wen's Group, the companies listed in the three provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui Branch Day broiler about 600,000. Following the H7N9 event, sales severely hampered, feed raw material prices unchanged broiler prices from $ 6 before the incident / kg straight line down to 1 yuan / kg. In addition to a serious loss of East China branch, the the Group daily direct economic losses of over 30 million yuan. If the event is sustainable development, expected future losses at least in the 1-1.5 billion yuan. (Edit to add: this is about $235.9 million USD)

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Said Ma Chuang, Chinese poultry consumption accounts for about 23% of the total meat consumption, equivalent to doing an average annual per capita consumption of poultry meat about 15 kg, far below the international level. Compared to the poultry industry and pigs, cattle, sheep farming, higher efficiency and lower emissions, the future development of mainstream industry occupies an important strategic position on the issue of food security in China, "The government should stand higher angle response to the current situation. "
 
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Re: H7N9: 60 hundred million lost becouse consumers don' t dare to eat the chicken

Re: H7N9: 60 hundred million lost becouse consumers don' t dare to eat the chicken

so consumers saved 60 hundred million (=6 billion ? renminbi yuans ?)
which else they would have spent on buying chickens.

Not to mention the time that it needs to prepare them
 
Re: H7N9: 60 hundred million lost becouse consumers don' t dare to eat the chicken

Re: H7N9: 60 hundred million lost becouse consumers don' t dare to eat the chicken

so consumers saved 60 hundred million (=6 billion ? renminbi yuans ?)
which else they would have spent on buying chickens.

Not to mention the time that it needs to prepare them

Is there any confirmation that chickens are carrying disease, though?
 
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Re: H7N9: 60 hundred million lost becouse consumers don' t dare to eat the chicken

A/Chicken/Shanghai/S1053/2013(H7N9)



The ministry said last night [Apr.6] that 10 chicken samples from two markets
in the Minhang district of Shanghai and at the Huhuai Farm Products Market
in the adjacent Songjiang district had tested positive for H7N9. The virus was
also found in two pigeon samples and seven environmental samples collected
from these markets, out of a total 738 samples tested."
 
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Re: H7N9: 60 hundred million lost becouse consumers don' t dare to eat the chicken

A/Chicken/Shanghai/S1053/2013(H7N9)

Thanks, gsgs! Now do they have PB2 E627K? Are they the source of the H7N9 afflicting humans, or just another human flu victim, as swine were back in 2009?
 
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Re: H7N9: 60 hundred million lost becouse consumers don' t dare to eat the chicken

no, they don't have E627K
yes, they are probably the source, since the human sequences
are almost identical

btw. I read elsewhere about $1.5B losses for the Chinese poultry industry
(Industrie de la volaille de la Chine a perdu 10 milliards de yuans (1,6 milliard de dollars)
dans la semaine après que le virus H7N9 de la grippe aviaire a commencé à infecter les
êtres humains, les médias d'Etat ont déclaré lundi alors qu'ils tentaient de dissuader la panique.)

at this point we must assume that very few humans have it
(they test people with symptoms and contacts)

but lots of chickens (they picked a random sample of ~700)

another evidence are the subsequent reassortments with H9N2 after the
big H7N9wild+H9N2poultry-->H7N9poultry reassortment ~1year ago.
You won't expect H9N2 reassortments in humans, when both H7N9 and H9N2
are very rare in humans but widespread in poultry.
We have a history of H9N2 reassortments (requires double infection) in poultry since many years.
 
Re: H7N9: 60 hundred million lost becouse consumers don' t dare to eat the chicken

Re: H7N9: 60 hundred million lost becouse consumers don' t dare to eat the chicken

so consumers saved 60 hundred million (=6 billion ? renminbi yuans ?)
which else they would have spent on buying chickens.

Not to mention the time that it needs to prepare them

Probably not. They would have to sped more on an alternate protein sources, unless they simply could not afford to do so. Chicken is the lowest cost protein source.
 
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