Beijing to formulate an emergency plan for avian influenza and purchase poultry if necessary

Introduction: our news (reporter Tang Yang) recently, the highly pathogenic avian influenza emergency plan of Beijing formulated in 2004 was revised and released to the public The revised plan defines the four levels of early warning of highly pathogenic avian influenza, which are indicated by blue, yellow, orange and red from low to high This early warning made clear the possible impact of the epidemic situation in the surrounding provinces and regions on Beijing and the corresponding response mechanism For example, if there is an outbreak in Hebei and Tianjin and there is a trend of spread to Beijing, Beijing should stop the entry of poultry and its products from other ports, and if necessary, purchase poultry within 3 km of the border with the epidemic area In addition, according to the severity of avian influenza in Beijing, there are four levels and corresponding response procedures - detailed reading of the four colors of "early warning" to indicate the impact of the surrounding epidemic situation According to the plan, according to the risk degree, development situation and urgency and other factors that may be caused by the highly pathogenic avian influenza epidemic, it can be divided into four early warning levels from low to high: General (level IV), heavy (level III), serious (Level II), and particularly serious (level I), which are expressed in blue, yellow, orange and red Blue warning: outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza in neighboring countries or other provinces (except Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Hebei, Tianjin) Yellow warning: outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Shandong, Henan and Shanxi, with a trend of spreading to this city Orange warning: outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Hebei and Tianjin, and there is a trend of spread to this city Red warning: there is a suspected case of HPAI in this city, or a suspected case of human infection with HPAI After the "response" phased prevention of the spread of the epidemic to the local blue warning was issued, Beijing should strengthen the storage of epidemic prevention materials such as vaccines and disinfectants, and the observation and monitoring of transit migratory birds The response procedure of yellow early warning is to stop the entry of live poultry from other ports, suspend the trading activities of live poultry in the whole city, and carry out compulsory immunization of poultry within 5km from both sides of the administrative boundary of the city in combination with the surrounding provinces, regions and cities, in addition to the live poultry from the breeding bases outside Beijing designated by the city according to the relevant procedures After the orange warning is issued, birds and their products from other ports shall be stopped from entering Beijing If necessary, poultry within 3km of the boundary between the city and the epidemic area shall be purchased Strengthen joint defense and control with Hebei Province and Tianjin, and establish information notification mechanism Once the red warning is issued, the relevant departments shall close up and control the area with suspected cases, implement culling, compulsory immunization and other measures for poultry in the area and surrounding areas, and isolate the suspected highly pathogenic avian influenza infected people and their close contacts According to the provisions of the plan, the mayor is the commander-in-chief of the "emergency" major epidemic, and the local management is implemented for the emergency treatment of the epidemic, and the governments at all levels are responsible for putting out the highly pathogenic avian influenza epidemic in their respective administrative areas The Municipal Agriculture Bureau, the Municipal Health Bureau, the Municipal Finance Bureau, the Beijing Railway Bureau, the Civil Aviation Administration of North China and other departments should also perform their respective duties In case of a particularly serious highly pathogenic avian influenza epidemic, the mayor will act as the commander-in-chief and be responsible for the emergency command after the emergency plan is launched The financial departments of Beijing Municipal and district and county governments shall arrange the emergency funds for sudden major animal epidemics in the general expenditure budget After the outbreak, the expenditure budget of the departments shall be cut according to the actual situation, and the financial resources shall be concentrated to deal with the epidemic; the special emergency preparation funds shall be started with the approval of the government All the appropriations approved by the municipal government shall be completed within 1 working day According to the plan, those who died bravely in the emergency treatment of epidemic situation shall be considered as martyrs according to relevant regulations In case of dereliction of duty, dereliction of duty, dereliction of duty and other illegal and disciplinary acts, the responsibility shall be investigated in accordance with relevant laws and regulations For those who are ill, disabled or dead due to participating in emergency response work, corresponding subsidies and pensions will be given according to relevant provisions - according to the Department, the early warning should be evaluated before it is issued According to the staff of emergency response office of big and small cities, the outbreak in Liaoning and other places does not mean that Beijing will start the early warning report (reporter Tang Yang, Jiang Yanxin, Guo Xiaojun) According to the early warning procedure, if there is an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Liaoning Province and other places, Beijing may start the corresponding early warning Does Beijing now have an early warning? Yesterday, our reporter did not get a definite answer from the Propaganda Department of the Beijing Municipal Party committee According to a staff member of the Beijing emergency response office, it is necessary to assess the harm to Beijing before issuing the early warning The staff member, who was not willing to be named, said that the early warning of Beijing would be released only after the office of the municipal command for the prevention and control of major animal diseases analyzed the extent and trend of its harm to Beijing according to the epidemic situation, development rules and characteristics of other places, and then put forward corresponding pre-warning suggestions Instead of issuing early warnings as soon as there is an outbreak of bird flu in the provinces around Beijing As one of the emergency departments, Ding Changli, director of the disaster relief Department of Beijing Civil Affairs Bureau, said yesterday that if there is an epidemic situation, and the poultry farm personnel and poultry households belong to the families with minimum living allowance, they will adjust the absolute amount of the minimum living allowance based on the verification of family income according to the subsidy level of the city's minimum living allowance For families or personnel who have difficulties in living due to the disaster, they can apply for one-off temporary assistance by themselves, and the amount of assistance shall be determined by each district or county according to the economic situation - relevant news: Xinjiang and Hunan reappeared the new epidemic situation, which was confirmed by the National Laboratory The two places have started to kill this newspaper news (reporter Tangyang) The Ministry of Agriculture released news yesterday that there was a highly pathogenic avian influenza epidemic in Shanshan County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Lingling District, Yongzhou City, Hunan Province On November 22, 288 poultry were killed in Shanshan Town, Shanshan County, Xinjiang On November 25, it was preliminarily diagnosed as highly pathogenic avian influenza by Xinjiang veterinary department [NextPage] on November 18, 402 poultry raised in group 8, laobutou village, Qilidian office, Lingling District, Yongzhou City, Hunan Province died On November 25, it was preliminarily diagnosed as highly pathogenic avian influenza by Hunan veterinary department On November 28, the national avian influenza reference laboratory confirmed that the above two outbreaks were H5N1 subtype highly pathogenic avian influenza At present, the Ministry of agriculture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Hunan provincial government have done a good job in dealing with the epidemic situation The veterinary departments of Xinjiang and Hunan have killed 52162 and 13481 poultry within 3 kilometers around the epidemic area respectively The Ministry of health of the people's Republic of China has made it clear that the avian influenza virus in China has mutated but will not be transmitted to people According to this report (reporter Wei Mingyan), the virus in human avian influenza patients in China has mutated, but they do not have the ability to transmit human Since yesterday, the Ministry of health has focused on the prevention and control of human avian influenza, which is concerned by the media and the public It has made it clear that ordinary people who do not contact sick or dead birds will not get avian influenza in general Since 1997, human cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) have been found in Hong Kong, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia and Mainland China So far, the total number of cases is more than 150 No human cases of H5N1 avian influenza have been found in Europe The results of epidemiological investigation and laboratory study on all human avian influenza cases show that direct contact with infected birds, their secretions and excreta, inhalation of virus particles in their secretions or excreta are the main ways and means of human infection with avian influenza The general public who are not exposed to sick or dead birds will not be infected with avian influenza virus China this month reported three confirmed cases of human avian influenza Laboratory analysis showed that the H5N1 virus isolated from the patient's samples was highly homologous with the virus isolated from the domestic avian influenza epidemic point samples this season At the same time, the Ministry of Health said that compared with the H5N1 avian influenza virus infected in Vietnam, the gene sequence of the virus has changed to some extent, but the variation does not have the ability to cause human to human transmission - prevention and control of imported eggs to be licensed in Hong Kong According to Hong Kong media reports, in order to prevent eggs from flowing into Hong Kong, the Hong Kong health, welfare and Food Bureau plans to set up a licensing system to regulate eggs, require egg makers to register, declare the place of production of eggs, and follow the procedures to disinfect eggs Chen Yude, Deputy Secretary General of the Hong Kong health, welfare and Food Bureau, said yesterday that since Hong Kong does not care about the import of eggs, egg makers can get them from all over the country, but he said experts believe that it is safe to eat eggs as long as they are washed and cooked Professor Yuan Guoyong, a microbiologist at the University of Hong Kong, also said that in theory, the virus in chicken manure can stick to the egg shell, but it is safe to eat only by washing with detergent and boiling the eggs Chen Yude said the worry is that fertilized eggs, once infected with avian influenza virus, may infect other chickens In case of animal epidemic, the range of culling will be decided according to relevant information collected from 20000 people involved in birds in Shanghai, Xinhua news agency, Shanghai, Nov 28 (reporter Ji Ming) The agriculture and health departments of Shanghai municipal government have recently conducted a full coverage investigation on 20000 practitioners of wading birds in the city The basic information of all practitioners of wading birds has been collected and put into storage Once the outbreak of avian influenza occurs, the government departments will use this information base to carry out prevention and control work The 20000 practitioners surveyed mainly serve the production, transportation, operation and processing of poultry The information collected by the government includes what kind of work they are engaged in, where they work, how large-scale the farms are, and the telephone number These information laid the foundation for the prevention and control of avian influenza The head of Shanghai's epidemic prevention department said that once there is an animal avian influenza epidemic, the government can determine the range of poultry to be slaughtered within a certain distance of the epidemic spot according to the relevant information in the information base; and once there is a case of human infection with avian influenza, it can also carry out epidemiological investigation and determine the source of infection - experts say that the avian influenza virus is still stable Who experts say that there is no need for excessive panic According to Xinhua news agency, Paris, November 27 (reporter Yang Jun), World Animal Health Organization Director General Walter said recently that at present, we still need to keep a high degree of vigilance against avian influenza, but excessive panic is not necessary People should treat this problem rationally Wallett points out that some international experts often say they don't know when avian influenza will break out in humans, and they also say they know it will break out, and it's only a matter of time According to Wallett, this statement is unscientific in itself In fact, many animal viruses in nature are likely to spread among humans and cause epidemics The same is true for H5N1 avian influenza virus, when does it break out with the number of viruses in animals and diseases