HK/China :Cross-border mission seeks answers to avian flu puzzle

[Diane Morin]

Cross-border mission seeks answers to avian flu puzzle

<!-- A Hong Kong delegation is inspecting chicken farms in Shenzhen and Guangdong after the discovery of 33 poultry carcasses, with 12 testing positive for the H5N1 virus. More test results are pending.

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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

A Hong Kong delegation is inspecting chicken farms in Shenzhen and Guangdong after the discovery of 33 poultry carcasses, with 12 testing positive for the H5N1 virus. More test results are pending.


Speaking at a Legislative Council panel, Undersecretary for Food and Health Gabriel Leung said the Agricultural, Fisheries and Conservation Department recently sent officials to inspect chicken farms across the border and confirmed the mainland has been doing inspections of its own.
"The mainland authorities have inspected nine million chickens, and no bird flu was found," Leung told the panel.

He said the Hong Kong group yesterday started inspecting chicken farms in Guangdong and the Pearl River Delta region. Officials from the Food and Health Bureau and the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department have been dispatched to liaise with Ministry of Commerce, Agriculture and Quarantine Inspection officials in Beijing to get a better understanding of the avian flu situation, Leung said.

When asked by panel chairman Fred Li Wah-ming why it took them so long to dispatch the officials, given that the first carcasses were discovered at the end of January, Leung replied the holidays in the mainland caused scheduling complications.
Meanwhile, 20 illegal birds have been found in the New Territories since inspections on backyard poultry commenced following the discovery of poultry carcasses on Lantau, all of which tested negative for bird flu, Leung said.

Mai Po Nature Reserve was closed earlier this month for 21 days after a dead gray heron with H5N1 was found nearby.

A large-billed crow found dead in Ancient Kiln Park on Lantau was also confirmed to have H5N1 yesterday.

The Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department said the latest cases have taken to 12 the total number of birds found to have the virus since January 29.

The department confirmed last night that the highly decomposed carcass of the large- billed crow was found on Lantau on February 5. The other 11 infected birds included chicken, ducks and the heron.

There have been eight cases of human infection of avian flu in the mainland since December, five of them fatal.

Reports reached Hong Kong last night that 500 chickens have died from avian flu in Hotan prefecture in Xinjiang, leading mainland officials to cull 13,000 poultry to keep infection under control.

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</CENTER> 【New Tang Dynasty February 10, 2009讯】 Hong Kong's Legislative Council on Tuesday, a committee met to discuss a series of local bodies of birds found with H5N1 avian influenza virus. Government officials said the unusual circumstances, must be highly vigilant.

Hong Kong Food and Health Bureau said Gabriel Leung, Deputy Secretary, from the January 29 date, in the New Territories and Yuen Long West coast of the Gulf area, has led to the seizure of 33 dead bodies of birds, of which nine pairs of H5N1-positive, 2 suspected of carrying the virus, the remaining 22 are still testing them, the situation is very unusual, showing the bird flu virus active.

Hong Kong Food and Health Bureau deputy director of Gabriel Leung: The Government received a report that such a large quantity, in such a short period of time inside, in the past is not over, so we have a very serious concern and treatment.

Gabriel Leung said, it is estimated that the body should come from the birds and the Shenzhen area of the Pearl River estuary. Council's understanding of the Mainland authorities have reportedly found no unusual circumstances farms.

Members have said that the Mainland in 2009 occurred within one month of eight people infected with H5N1 avian influenza, of which 5 people died, the mortality rate六成, and the situation is somewhat unusual.

Hong Kong Legislative Council (Democrat) Fred: There is no past, our understanding of large-scale chicken, listlessness runny nose, followed by gradually resumed death, do not have these symptoms, so in the end whether it will be more dangerous? Why not turn a hair in the end people will be infected?

Hong Kong Legislative Council (Agriculture and Fisheries) Yung-kan: seems to deal with Beijing that the deceased had the body of duck, duck in the end that is stripped of Health, or frozen, they all do not know.

Gabriel Leung acknowledged that the mainland H5N1 avian influenza virus, some strange.

Hong Kong Food and Health Bureau deputy director of Gabriel Leung: is changed, we now can not see a reason why this way, to do the gene sequencing, but also did not see a very significant change.

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"Safe" negative INFURU bird occurred in Guangdong, refute the theory of infectious

Hong Kong 2009 Wednesday, February 11
"Safe" negative INFURU bird occurred in Guangdong, refute the theory of infectious [social]

The problems have been found in both the western coast of Lantau Island and the New Territories of dead birds infected with bird flu, the government of Guangdong Province 9, 2007, "there is no drift from the mainland of China" released a statement, theory and denied the source of infection to the ministry. Emergency and large-scale investigation, saying that there are no confirmed outbreak of bird in the coastal region INFURU ministry.

Agriculture Office of Guangdong Province, Shenzhen, Hong Kong on the coast have been found dead 17 km, 30 km from Zhuhai, Dongguan, based 60 miles away that the "drift down from the mainland, to be launched at the beach and more It's impossible. "

Detection of infected carcasses by a wave, and argue that there are concerns that it had occurred at an undisclosed INFURU bird ministry. The large-scale survey on "mass death of poultry, not happening INFURU the infected birds," he said.

According to the agency, the survey is close to Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Zhongshan and Zhuhai for implementation. 927 poultry farms locations, examined 875 poultry feathers. As a result, the abnormal symptoms of the infection is found, he said that could be enough vaccination antibody testing in serum samples.

In addition, the ministry stressed that the process to ensure innocent dead poultry. The veterinary authorities have around 24 to respond to emergency preparedness as well as working hours, report the occurrence of bird INFURU are not included.

In Hong Kong since the end of last month, on the coast of chickens, ducks, and found several dead birds, 10 dates in 12 highly toxic to birds has been detected in H5N1 virus. Government is the problem of birds from the mainland [1] [2]流RE着ITA were raised illegally in the area - is investigating the possibility of both.

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