Sunday, December 25, 2011

Hong Kong chickens were infected with "2.3.2.1" strain #h5n1 #birdflu

Variant of avian flu crisis is still no

  WASHINGTON - Cheung Sha Wan Temporary Wholesale Poultry Market earlier outbreak of bird flu, the AFCD said yesterday, has completed the dead chickens infected by the H5N1 avian influenza virus genetic analysis, found that the virus belongs to the branch as "2.3.2.1", Hong Kong this year found that with other wild birds infected with H5N1 avian influenza viruses belong to the body of a branch, that is, there is no variant of the virus. 

 However, infectious disease experts refer to the crisis is not over. Infectious disease specialist Lo Wing-lok that can not be dead chicken virus variants can rest assured no branches, branches and dead chickens died before the virus the same bird, that the virus has been endemic in southern China, the same virus has potential in Hong Kong and southern China, is a regional issues, can not be resolved unilaterally from Hong Kong: "Mainland chickens may be a problem for Hong Kong, Xian Hong Kong checking of local farms are useless." He urged the Guangdong Provincial Government invited the relevant departments as soon as possible joint action to ensure that the Mainland to Hong Kong chickens safe.
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