China: Wuhan City, Hubei Province culled up to 50,000 birds

[Catbird]

This actually occurred on April 6th but is just now being reported. There have been no confirmed cases reported in Wuhan or Hubei Province. However, it's interesting to note that the 85 year old retired professor, Peter Wong Shiu Qi, was hospitalized with pneumonia on April 1, and died on April 8th.

(See FT April 10th thread: http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=203333)


Machine translation:

"Increased to 38 cases of confirmed H7N9 duck also virus
2013-04-11

...In addition, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, in the absence of any notification, on Saturday the sudden closure of the largest local Tan poultry wholesale market overnight culling of nearly 50,000 birds. The reporters Thursday by calling a the Golden Tan poultry wholesale market traders phone, but no one answered.

Wuhan activist Shi Tai Yong Min refers to the reporter, the action has caused the local population extremely panic, Internet users were questioned the Wuhan local may conceal H7N9 epidemic, promoting authorities really accountable to the truth. He said: "Shanghai and Hangzhou due to the epidemic and massive culling of live poultry, there is no confirmed cases in Hubei province, but the authorities have culled a large number of poultry, the number is even more than that of Shanghai, authorities have always denied that the epidemic, but often it may subsequently become a fact, so far as online throughout more than a dozen people accused of making a false report outbreaks detainees, people demanded accountable. ""



xhttp://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/bird-flu-04112013101003.html?encoding=simplified

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: China: Wuhan City, Hubei Province culled up to 50,000 birds

machine translated from Wuhan govt website;

The city has not yet found the H7N9 avian flu Wouters gate the poultry market recently resumed trading
Article Source: Changjiang Daily Updated :2013 -04-08 Font: large small】
Reporters yesterday from the city was informed that, as of now, the city has not yet occurred H7N9 avian flu prevention and control of major animal diseases headquarters emergency meeting of the members of the unit.


Scale farms, farming district closed management


Since March 31, China's first case of human infection of H7N9 avian influenza, the municipal government attaches great importance to the current H7N9 avian flu prevention and control, strengthen supervision and management of the introduction of non-food animals, guard against outside epidemic incoming city. Districts to increase Breeder field, key areas of the market, and habitat for migratory birds and other poultry monitoring the number and frequency, timely analysis of the monitoring data, forecasts popular trend, the timely release of forecasting, early warning information; city's scale farms, farming community should strictly closed management The, non Xianzarenyuan and vehicles entering the non-foreign personnel entering the hall, to prevent the epidemic incoming. To strengthen emergency management district to adhere to the 24 hours emergency duty system and leadership with the class system, once a suspected major animal epidemic, in strict accordance with the plans require side handle edge of the newspaper.


Phone 82285629 open major animal epidemic Report


City headquarters held an emergency meeting and issued a "Notice on Further Improving the major animal disease prevention and control of avian influenza and other documents, a 24-hour emergency duty, open a major animal epidemic report telephone 027-82285629, strengthen the H7N9 prevention and control of avian influenza, to ensure the smooth flow of information.


According to the City headquarters Bulletin, since the end of March, the city animal set immune carried out urgently leak filled the city has been immune highly pathogenic avian influenza 25,669,500 Yu, Newcastle 24,366,600 Yu, livestock foot-and-mouth disease 1670300 (only) highly pathogenic PRRS 1,261,100 swine fever 1481000, sheep pox 32900. Emergency issued various types of disinfectant 1020, 10.2 tons of the city's nearly 260-scale farms, farming community and large-scale poultry wholesale market, strengthen disinfection. Also strengthen the harmless disposal of the of quarantine regulatory and dead animals, breeding, slaughtering, operating, processing, transportation and storage of animal and animal products, strict quarantine and slaughter and quarantine, currently has nearly 1.2 million livestock quarantine; discovered 3 from dead animals to do the "five are not allowed processing", that is not allowed by App acquisition, are not allowed to slaughter, are not allowed to transport, are not allowed to process, are not allowed to eat, timely harmless treatment.


The Wouters gates and other live poultry market recovery recently trading


Diershitiao placed on live animal markets of live poultry, slaughter and sale of phase separation periodically closed, disinfection, waste harmless disposal of the relevant provisions of the city gates, and so Wouters live according to the Hubei Province Animal Epidemic Prevention Ordinance poultry market in succession on the 6th, 7th, closed for disinfection, will resume live bird trading recently.


Live animal markets in the city from the closed system in October 2011, the specific requirements for live animal markets are closed for three days straight month disinfect off source, the purpose of the spread of avian flu prevention and control of major animal diseases.
http://www.wuhan.gov.cn/publish/wuhan/2013-04/08/1201304080802360011.html

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: China: Wuhan City, Hubei Province culled up to 50,000 birds

I found this caption to a Reuters photograph located at the Baltimore Sun website; http://darkroom.baltimoresun.com/20...-at-a-poultry-market-in-wuhan-hubei-province/


"A vendor defeathers chickens after slaughter at a poultry market in Wuhan, Hubei province, April 6, 2013. The market has closed live poultry trading on Saturday and slaughtered about 50,000 chickens and ducks so far to prevent the spreading of the H7N9 virus. Two more people have contracted bird flu in Shanghai, China?s health ministry said on Saturday, as authorities closed live poultry markets and culled birds to combat a new virus strain that has killed six people. (Stringer/Reuters)"

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: China: Wuhan City, Hubei Province culled up to 50,000 birds

and another photo caption, this time from The Wall Street Journal; http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100....html?mod=WSJIndia_hpp_PhotosModule_6#slide/3

"More than 50,000 poultry were butchered at the Jintan poultry wholesale market in Wuhan, Hubei province, which has been asked to close as a precaution against avian flu Saturday."

 

[AlaskaDenise]

Re: China: Wuhan City, Hubei Province culled up to 50,000 birds

Perhaps they're repeating what worked for Hong Kong in 1997 - slaughter everything to eliminate ANY possibilities. Also, decreased demand would mean they have products requiring maintenance with no income potential - so.... eliminate the unnecessary expense by dumping the products.

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