China: national animal H7N9 avian influenza monitoring work completed

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China is not isolated from poultry farms to H7N9 avian influenza virus
2013-05-23 13:19:39


Original title: national animal H7N9 avian influenza monitoring work completed is not from poultry farms separation to H7N9 avian influenza virus website Beijing May 23 electric (reporter Zhuang Hongtao) reporter from agricultural sector was informed that, people infection H7N9 avian influenza cases occurred yilai, national levels veterinary sector according to Ministry of agriculture animal H7N9 avian influenza emergency monitoring and epidemic learn investigation programme requirements, active carried out monitoring work, currently monitoring sampling and laboratory detection work has basic completed. As of May 22, the national veterinary laboratory were testing at all levels completed 899,758 samples, where the 702,369 serum samples, pathogenic samples 197,389. Sample covering 31 provinces and the Xinjiang production and construction Corps 42,250 monitoring sampling sites. H7N9 avian influenza virus from poultry farms around separation, and no pigs were found infected with the virus. in the monitoring of this, a total of 53 H7N9 avian influenza virus positive. Which 51 are from Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Henan, Shandong, Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Jiangxi, 9 provinces (cities) of 18 operating live poultry farms poultry and environmental samples; the other two positive samples, 1 from samples of birds in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, 1 from Jiangsu haian homing pigeon breeders and the remaining samples were negative. national avian influenza reference laboratory, experimental results show that separated from poultry to pathogenicity strains of chickens, ducks show no. Compared with the H5N1 avian influenza virus, H7N9 limited capacity of horizontal transmission of avian influenza viruses in domestic poultry. Expert analysis, from the perspective of current monitoring results from over more than 30,000 poultry farms nationwide sample test result negative

for 53 51 in positive samples from live poultry business sites, at 96%. Experts believe that live poultry market is the main source of risk of virus infection in humans and poultry, current prevention and control remained focused on protecting poultry farm to prevent contamination by viruses.


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Re: China: national animal H7N9 avian influenza monitoring work completed

Experts mull aftermath of H7N9 outbreak in China



China's agriculture ministry has said it has "basically" finished collecting and testing 899,758 samples from across the country, Xinhua, China's state news agency, reported. Of that number 53 were positive for the H7N9 virus, all but two of them from 18 different live-poultry markets in the city of Shanghai and eight provinces: Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Henan, Shandong, Guangdong, Jiangxi, and Fujian.

The remaining positive samples were both from pigeons. One was a wild pigeon from Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu province, and the other was a domestic one from another city in the same province. None of the positive samples were from farms or pigs.

The agriculture ministry statement said poultry market exposure poses the most danger to humans and that farms should boost efforts to guard against the virus, according to the Xinhua report.

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