Hong Kong - H7N9 infected birds will migrate to Pearl River Delta, says microbiologist

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H7N9 infected birds will migrate to Pearl River Delta, says microbiologist


Friday, 12 April, 2013 [Updated: 20:46]


Lai Ying-kit yingkit.lai@scmp.com

Hong Kong has to be vigilant against the new H7N9 strain of avian flu later this year when migratory birds head south from northern parts of China for the winter, says a Hong Kong microbiologist.

University of Hong Kong microbiologist Professor Yuen Kwok-yung said on Friday he believed a large number of wild birds had already contracted the virus in eastern China, where all the cases of human H7N9 had occurred.

Some of them were migratory birds, which were now heading to northern parts of the mainland for summer but would return south to the Pearl River Delta for winter, he said.

?This is when Hong Kong?s wild birds and poultry may get infected,? he said at a press conference on Friday afternoon.
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China is increasing testing in the known migration routes in anticipation of the spring migration.

Excerpt from: xhttp://news.sina.com.cn/c/2013-04-12/001326800342.shtml

"Yesterday, the CDC convened journalists from Hebei Province

...Two migratory routes to strengthen monitoring efforts, as temperatures rise, and every spring migratory period (mid-April). It is reported that China's main three migratory routes, and two after the province. Hengshui Lake, Baiyangdian, Qinhuangdao, along migratory routes through the focus on deployment, increase monitoring efforts, the timely detection and timely control and take measures...".




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Machine translation:

"Migratory birds back north via Beijing is only 100 km (China)
2013-04-12 (13:42)
The Mainland of human infection with the H7N9 avian flu cases to 38, 10 people were killed. Hebei Province, the CDC said, the advent of the migratory birds return to the north season, in order to prevent the northward movement of the H7N9 avian flu, the center will strengthen surveillance in Qinhuangdao three migratory birds return to the north via land, these locations from Beijing recently only 100 km .

Relevant units of Hebei Province, will be in the 3 to focus on deployment, increase monitoring efforts, timely detection and timely control, to take measures. "

xhttp://www.singtao.com/breakingnews/20130412e134158.asp