All records of avian influenza epidemic areas in China

Introduction: in the middle of October, China's avian influenza epidemic is becoming more and more acute, and news of new outbreaks can be heard almost every day As of the midnight of November 25, there were 20 outbreaks of avian influenza in 11 provinces This means that the outbreak of avian influenza is no longer a sporadic outbreak, but a relatively concentrated outbreak From the current situation, the possibility of new outbreaks is still very high in the next few months In this year and next year, avian influenza will become a long-term threat to China's economy, especially in the field of "agriculture, rural areas and farmers" and public health Since the 21st cover article "deadly bird flu" published on October 17, 2005, Caijing has published reports of Inner Mongolia Hohhot City, Anhui Tianchang City, Hunan Xiangtan County, Liaoning Heishan County and other epidemic areas Since then, journalists or special journalists have been sent to each newly announced epidemic area by the Ministry of agriculture for interviews In the interview and investigation, the reporter felt that the prevention and control of avian influenza is not only an isolated epidemic situation monitoring, information notification, culling and isolation, diagnosis and treatment, but also gradually exposed many problems of the whole social organism in reality: low public health in rural areas, different standards for determining the epidemic situation, misjudgment on the cause of the epidemic, omission of compulsory immunization, weak epidemic prevention system at the grass-roots level Loopholes in vaccine development, production and distribution, conflicts between local and personal interests and public interests, etc In a word, avian influenza is a consideration of the level of civilization of the whole society and a test of the administrative ability of the government Running in the streets and villages of the epidemic area, the reporter of Caijing has some ideas This issue features their interview notes for each epidemic area as a full record of the 2005 / 2006 avian influenza epidemic in China In this text, we hope that the outbreak of avian influenza will become an opportunity for the Chinese government and society to further mature Among the reporters who participated in this group's reporting were Tian Qilin, Chang Hongxiao and David, as well as Zhao gravel, Qi Yang, Qi Yan and Guo Changjiang Editor: Beijing mountain, Hubei epidemic area, November 11-20: in the afternoon of November 13, the virus encounter, the reporter of Finance and economics rushed to Tangyan village, a famous hot spring resort, leading to Xinshi Town, Jingshan County, Hubei Province On the village road, there is a warning sign with a book "poultry epidemic point blockade line"; only a few buses and "mopeds" stop at the village entrance to get off passengers and turn around Master Liu, the "moti" driver who sent the guests back home, looked at the warning signs and quarantine personnel, and asked in a puzzled way, "I pulled the guests to Tangyan two days ago Why didn't I let them go today?" At the moment, it's only the past two days since the Ministry of Agriculture announced the outbreak of avian influenza in Jingshan County, Hubei Province, on the evening of November 11 According to the on-site quarantine personnel, Tangyan village is adjacent to hanjiapo village, one of the two epidemic spots, so the village has also been "blocked" - in addition to professionals and local villagers, other outsiders are strictly restricted The head of the headquarters for the prevention and control of major animal diseases in Jingshan County told reporters that the initial outbreak of avian influenza in the local area was on November 2, the same day, some of the 1400 ducks in hanjiapo village of Shutai branch of the original seed farm in Jingshan County suffered from anorexia, and then died successively By November 5, only 300 ducks out of 1400 survived On November 7, another local township, Qibaoshan village, Qianchang Town, suffered another outbreak, resulting in the death of poultry As of November 11, 3025 domestic fowls were killed when the national avian influenza reference laboratory confirmed the H5N1 subtype of highly lethal avian influenza On November 8, after sampling and diagnosis, Hubei animal and medical department preliminarily judged the epidemic as "suspected highly lethal avian influenza" The government of Jingshan County immediately issued a county magistrate's order to close all nine live poultry markets within 10 kilometers from the epidemic point in the urban area of Jingshan County, and the other 17 live poultry markets within 10 kilometers from the epidemic point in the county are also under full supervision On November 9, experts from the Ministry of agriculture of the people's Republic of China went to Jingshan for sampling and diagnosis On that day, eight villages and villages within 3 kilometers around the epidemic area were designated as epidemic areas, which were sealed off, and the poultry in the epidemic area were treated that night More than 30000 poultry were killed, and all poultry within 3 to 5 kilometers outside the epidemic area were immunized By November 11, when the Ministry of agriculture was confirmed, the bird flu epidemic in Jingshan County had been controlled Xiaogan: "Dong Yong's hometown" was lost at 7:30 a.m on November 20 Caijing reporter came to Maochen Town, Xiaonan District, Xiaogan City, Hubei Province Earlier, at 8:00 p.m on the 17th, the Ministry of Agriculture announced that highly pathogenic avian influenza had occurred in Jinggang village and Tianjing village of the town Maochen town is located in the southeast of Xiaogan City, only 42 kilometers away from Wuhan city Tianjing village is close to the town government, and Jinggang village is less than two kilometers away from the town government Therefore, the Tianxian community, where the town government is located, is also designated as an epidemic area, the so-called "Tianxian community", which is named after Dong Yong's hometown On both sides of the street are pasted the "Quarantine order of the epidemic area" on November 13, but the streets are still full of people and bustling, and tricycles constantly attract customers Maochen town covers an area of 148 square kilometers, with 58300 people, 38 administrative villages and one office In 2004, the total industrial and agricultural output value of the town was 394 million yuan, the financial revenue was 12.875 million yuan, and the per capita net income of farmers was 3522 yuan In this outbreak, Tianjing village is relatively not serious, only one farmer in the village has killed dozens of poultry The main epidemic occurred in Jinggang village The reporter came to Shujiang Jiafan Bay, the epidemic spot of Jinggang village, and met Shu Zhicheng, the geese specialist who had the epidemic Shujia is located in the middle of the village Quicklime is sprinkled around the house and the surrounding roads Shu Zhicheng, 50, has four people, 1140 ducks and six or seven chickens According to Shu and his wife, the ducks in his family were purchased on August 8 this year, and two died on November 5, with an increase every day By November 7, more than 40 died Watching the ducks die, Shu Zhicheng can no longer sit On November 9, Shu packed three sick ducks in woven bags and rushed to Xiaogan Animal Husbandry Bureau by bus for diagnosis Liu Yaomin, a veterinarian of the Municipal Animal Husbandry Bureau, dissected the site and thought it was "not avian influenza" Liu Yaomin also sold Shu Zhicheng a bag of Chinese herbal medicine for the treatment of poultry diseases - "Wenhou Kangtai" At the same time, Shu Zhicheng also found Maochen veterinary station, and bought some Chinese herbal medicines to treat duck disease But the Chinese herbal medicine still hasn't stopped the death of poultry By November 10, more than 350 chickens had died, and three of the seven chickens died On November 10, Shu Zhicheng reported the epidemic situation to Maochen township government through village cadres The next night, more than ten people came from the provincial and urban animal husbandry departments, dissected ten ducks at the Shujia site, took blood samples and took them back for testing; on the night of November 12, the animal husbandry department of Xiaonan District slaughtered all the poultry of Shujia; on November 13, Hubei Provincial avian influenza prevention and control headquarters diagnosed as "suspected avian influenza" On November 16, the National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory finally confirmed that Shujia's ducks were highly treatable As for the cause of the outbreak, the official judgment was that it was caused by wild birds Zhang Taiping, the former head of Maochen veterinary station, said: Shujia's duck shed is built on the East River of the village, which leads to a lake There are many wild ducks and wild geese on the lake If these waterfowls carry the virus, they are likely to infect the poultry Although there is no worry about life, the Shu family has also suffered great losses A deputy minister of the Publicity Department of the district Party committee told Caijing that the compensation standard for the compulsory slaughter was 10 yuan for each chicken, 12 yuan for each duck and 15 yuan for each goose According to Shu, the cost of duck culture is at least 40 yuan per duck This means that the net loss of each duck is at least 28 yuan, and the total loss is more than 32000 yuan At noon on November 20, when the reporter finished his interview and left, Shu Zhicheng and his wife stood at the door, helpless, and dazed; their teenage daughter walked around the house and outside curiously according to her arm that had just drawn blood She didn't seem to understand what it meant to the family Shishou: at 5:30 p.m on November 22, vaccine concerns, shaanzi health center, Tianezhou Development Zone, Shishou City, Hubei Province A motorcycle stopped at the door Doctor Tang of the health center pointed to the thin and small middle-aged man who got off the bus and said to Caijing, "he is Hu Xuewen." The humble "little man" is the famous local "boss of goose" On the evening of November 20, the Ministry of Agriculture announced that 3500 geese in Swan Island Development Zone of Shishou City died of highly pathogenic avian influenza after being confirmed by the National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory The "peasant household" here is Hu Xuewen What also surprised reporters was that Hu Xuewen, who was in isolation, could ride a motorcycle everywhere "According to the regulations, he can only move within three kilometers," explained Peng, the head of the health management station in the development zone Tianezhou development zone is located in the north of Shishou City and across the Yangtze River from the county This development zone is basically surrounded by the old road of the Yangtze River, surrounded by water on three sides There are more than 20000 mu wetlands in the development zone In November 1991, Hubei Province established elk (commonly known as "four unlike") Nature Reserve here, which was upgraded to a national nature reserve Hu Xuewen's goose shed is built at the entrance of qianduizi village on the other side of the Development Zone, only one river away from the development zone The water and grass here are luxuriant, and they are natural pastures Hu Xuewen, who is nearly fifty years old, is a well-known local geese farmer He has been raising geese for nearly 20 years, raising tens of thousands of geese every year Last year, he asked more than ten people to help him release geese According to Hu, his geese were raised in late May this year Nearly 4000 of them were hatched by themselves, and more than 4000 of them were purchased from other people's geese As of the date of onset, there were 7262 Adult Geese in total The geese, who had been vaccinated against gosling plague at the time of sale, were in good health by November 2, and the death began with the injection of avian influenza vaccine On November 2, Hu Xuewen's geese were inoculated with "inactivated oil emulsion vaccine of goose paramyxovirus and goose flu" The vaccines were produced by the Institute of biological products, Yangzhou University At that time, 80 bottles of vaccine were shared, and each bottle could immunize 100 geese On the second day after inoculation, the geese began to get sick; on November 4, only two or three geese died; on the second day, there were more than ten geese; on the third day, there were twenty or thirty geese By November 7, there were a lot of deaths [NextPage] on November 10, Hu Xuewen's geese continued to die However, he reported the outbreak to the veterinary station of the development zone of Swan Island On the afternoon of the 10th, the local veterinary station came to check On November 11, Shishou Animal Husbandry Bureau sent people to the scene to collect disease samples The local government asked to burn all the dead geese, but Hu refused because he did not offer any compensation On November 15, the collected samples were sent to the animal husbandry department of Hubei Province for identification At this time, Hu Xuewen's goose is still dying By November 16, 3130 geese had died This figure is only different from the 3500 published by the Ministry of agriculture Asked about the reasons, Rong Quanzhong, a spokesman for the prevention and control of bird flu in Shishou City, said it was "unclear" As for the cause of the epidemic, Rong Quanzhong told Caijing that there are only two possibilities: first, there is a problem with the quality of the vaccine, Hubei Province has organized an investigation team to investigate, and the vaccine has been delivered