Monday, April 8, 2013

China's bird influenza episode not really cause of tension [WHO]

Overuse associated with chicken influenza which has been present in people initially within far eastern Impact not really a cause of tension, the entire world Wellness Business stated upon Mon, since the number of individuals contaminated increased in order to twenty one, along with 6 fatalities.

The WHO praised China for mobilising resources nationwide to combat the H7N9 flu strain by culling tens of thousands of birds and monitoring hundreds of people close to those infected.

"So far, we really only have sporadic cases of a rare disease, and perhaps it will remain that way. So this is not a time for over-reaction or panic," said the WHO's representative to China, Michael O'Leary.

The head of China's National Health and Family Planning Commission Li Bin said on Sunday she was confident authorities could contain the virus.

"These are a relatively small number of serious cases with personal health, medical implications, but not at this stage known public health implications," O'Leary told reporters at a joint press briefing with the Chinese government.

But he warned that information on the virus was still incomplete.

"We really can't rely on information from other viruses. H7N9 is a new virus in humans and the pattern that it follows cannot be predicted by the patterns that we have from other influenza viruses," O'Leary said.

No cases have yet been reported outside of China, he said.

In total, 621 close contacts of the 21 people known to have been infected are being closely monitored and have yet to show symptoms of infection, the director of China's H7N9 prevention and control office, Liang Wannian, said.

"In recent years, there have been huge changes in our national epidemic system, especially our health emergency response ability," Liang said.

The bird flu outbreak has caused global concern and some Chinese internet users and newspapers have questioned why it took so long for the government to announce the new cases, especially as two of the victims fell ill in February.

Airline shares have fallen in Europe and in Hong Kong over fears that the new virus could be lead to an epidemic like Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which emerged in China in 2002 and killed about 10 percent of the 8,000 people it infected worldwide.

Chinese authorities initially tried to cover up the outbreak of SARS.

Within the H7N9 situation, they have stated this required time for you to properly determine the herpes virus, along with instances distribute among Shanghai in china as well as far eastern Zhejiang, Jiangsu, as well as Anhui pays.
Some other pressures associated with chicken influenza, for example H5N1, happen to be distributing for several years and is transported through chicken in order to chicken, as well as chicken in order to human being, however, not usually through human being in order to human being.

 

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