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Taipei, April 9 (CNA Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said Tuesday that it has ruled out H7N9 avian flu infection in 27 suspected cases reported since April 3.
The CDC said that among those cases, it has ruled out the virus in three travelers who developed fever symptoms after returning from Shanghai.
Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport and Taipei Songshan Airport have reported five cases in total, while the others were reported from local hospitals, said Luo Yi-jun, a CDC doctor.
Although none of the 27 cases tested positive for the H7N9 virus, seven were found to have H1N1, while two others were diagnosed as H3N2, Luo said, adding that the other 18 were not infected with any form of influenza.
During a meeting of the Central Epidemic Command Center, the Coast Guard Administration and the Customs Administration under the Ministry of Finance, it was revealed that 109 birds smuggled into Hsinchu City in northern Taiwan from China had been seized and destroyed.
Test reports on samples from 81 parrots and 28 pigeons smuggled in from China's Fuzhou will be published April 11, they said.
Meanwhile, the Council of Agriculture said it had conducted over 280 checks on poultry farms and 20 checks on pig farms around the country as of April 7 but found no traces of the virus.
As of April 9, China had reported 24 cases of H7N9 avian flu in humans, with seven fatalities.
(By Chen Ching-fang and Maia Huang)
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The CDC said that among those cases, it has ruled out the virus in three travelers who developed fever symptoms after returning from Shanghai.
Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport and Taipei Songshan Airport have reported five cases in total, while the others were reported from local hospitals, said Luo Yi-jun, a CDC doctor.
Although none of the 27 cases tested positive for the H7N9 virus, seven were found to have H1N1, while two others were diagnosed as H3N2, Luo said, adding that the other 18 were not infected with any form of influenza.
During a meeting of the Central Epidemic Command Center, the Coast Guard Administration and the Customs Administration under the Ministry of Finance, it was revealed that 109 birds smuggled into Hsinchu City in northern Taiwan from China had been seized and destroyed.
Test reports on samples from 81 parrots and 28 pigeons smuggled in from China's Fuzhou will be published April 11, they said.
Meanwhile, the Council of Agriculture said it had conducted over 280 checks on poultry farms and 20 checks on pig farms around the country as of April 7 but found no traces of the virus.
As of April 9, China had reported 24 cases of H7N9 avian flu in humans, with seven fatalities.
(By Chen Ching-fang and Maia Huang)
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http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aall/201304090023.aspx