Xinhua Beijing May 30 (Reporter Dan Wang Jianhua) Henan Province Health Department Emergency Management Office 30, 2007 Xinhua News Agency reporters Cha Xun and Biao Shi, Zhoukou City, Henan Province, was the 28th terminated the influenza pandemic emergency response. So far, China all infections H7N9 bird flu have terminated the influenza pandemic emergency response related to prevention and control work into normal management.
March 31, the State Planning Commission, according to the Shanghai Wei active monitoring of the health sector, experts confirmed and shall publish Shanghai in China and worldwide, was first discovered by people infected with H7N9 avian influenza. Past two months, a total of 10 Chinese mainland provinces, 39 cities found that people infected with H7N9 avian influenza confirmed cases.
According to Chinese official statistics, as of May 27, the Chinese mainland reported a total of people infected with H7N9 bird flu case in 130 cases, including 37 cases of death(http://www.best-news.us/).
Analysts say Chinese people infected with H7N9 bird flu influenza pandemic terminate all emergency response, indicating that the deadly new subtype of influenza virus infection is preventable and controllable state of the epidemic, the existing evidence is insufficient to prove that human-to-human transmission.
China found that people infected with H7N9 avian influenza confirmed cases peaked in April. Entering May, the Chinese mainland new confirmed cases decreased significantly.
First discovered the first confirmed case in Shanghai on May 10 announced the termination of human infection with the H7N9 avian influenza epidemic emergency response, and then, Zhejiang, Shandong, Jiangsu, Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian, Anhui, Beijing, Henan terminated after another influenza pandemic contingency response, into the normalization Prevention and Surveillance.
Studies show, H7N9 avian influenza virus and other avian influenza viruses have similar seasonal characteristics: Winter of the virus in poultry activity increased after the advent of the summer will be weakened.
Chinese Center for Disease Control Health Emergency Center Director Feng Zijian that people infected with H7N9 avian influenza to reduce and stop adding new cases, except with the seasons, higher temperatures on the Chinese government to take timely scientific and effective prevention and control measures are also key factors.
Response to the SARS epidemic 10 years ago, the Chinese government response to H7N9 avian flu epidemic the performance of mature, open and transparent, in the shortest time voluntarily disclosed the territory of human infection with H7N9 avian influenza information and update the epidemic, scientific resource mobilization , simultaneously a close international cooperation.
State Planning Commission to the local health departments issued epidemic prevention and control programs, various medical institutions at all levels in the discovery of human infection with H7N9 avian influenza confirmed cases within 2 hours after the network direct reporting, and timely diagnosis of patients had contact with the a large range of people tracing, surveillance and testing(News News http://www.best-news.us/).
Because people infected with H7N9 avian influenza virus has been speculated about in contact with poultry, Chinese Ministry of Agriculture for the first time the development of emergency monitoring program to carry out a comprehensive investigation and virus outbreaks in poultry monitoring.
Ministry of Agriculture has sent several working groups to the affected areas to help guide the local veterinary authorities to carry out surveillance investigation work requirements have found cases of human infection with H7N9 province, location of the patient and the surrounding area live poultry market, farmers carry out focus on monitoring, and related sample collection and testing.
All provinces detection of outbreaks suspended trading of live poultry, to strengthen the poultry farms and other large-scale immunization management after closing the live poultry market, the number of confirmed cases of infected areas add substantially reduced.
British authoritative scientific journal journal Nature published an editorial by the end of April, said China's visit to H7N9 avian influenza rapid response and appropriate measures 'to change the negative image of the past response to the epidemic.'
Feng Zijian said, H7N9 avian influenza into the routine monitoring by the state of emergency does not mean that H7N9 avian influenza can relax, health and disease control departments should remain on high alert, pay close attention to changes in the epidemic.
Chinese official report released this month, although the existing evidence is insufficient to prove that spread from person to person, but the H7N9 avian influenza virus can become spread among people likely to be higher than any other known avian influenza virus.
China is stepping up its study and improve human infection with H7N9 avian influenza prevention and control technology. Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology was launched in early April emergency prevention and control research projects that focus on promoting the development of clinical diagnostic reagents, vaccine development, etc., where people infected with H7N9 bird flu preventive vaccine is expected to be completed in seven months.
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