Bird flu: the fall of "Dong Yong's hometown" in Xiaogan, Hubei Province

Introduction: at 7:30 a.m on November 20, the reporter came to Maochen Town, Xiaonan District, Xiaogan City, Hubei Province Earlier, at 8:00 p.m on the 17th, the Ministry of Agriculture released the highly pathogenic avian influenza epidemic in Jinggang village and Tianjing village 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" 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 outbreak 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 His duck shed is built by the river in the east of the village, more than a mile away from his residence According to Shu and his wife, his ducks were purchased on August 8 this year On September 30, Shu Zhicheng drove the ducks to Fengbo village, Jidian Township, Xiaochang County, a neighboring county, and raised them On October 29, he returned to the village Only two days in the riverside of the village, ducks were found sick By November 5, two people died, and every day more More than 350 died on November 10, and three of the seven chickens died 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 On November 10, Shu Zhicheng had to report the outbreak 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 12th, 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 the ducks in Shujia were highly pathogenic After the outbreak was confirmed, the local government designated three to five kilometers around the epidemic area as a threatened area, involving 23 villages, 6962 households and 2213000 live birds The veterinary department has implemented emergency compulsory immunization for birds in the threatened areas, and the vaccine is completely free of charge It took 18 veterinarians in Maochen town to get up early and return late It took a week to complete the compulsory immunization task As for the cause of the outbreak, the official judgment is 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 On the morning of November 20, in the interview with reporters, four people came to Xiaonan epidemic prevention station, and 86 blood samples were taken from shuzhicheng's family and other close contacts At the same time, more than 80 blood samples were taken from general staff, about 160 samples were taken, saying that comparative tests were needed According to officials from Xiaogan disease control center, as of November 20, they had conducted a week's medical observation on 72 people from 18 close contacts and 14 epidemic prevention personnel, and measured their body temperature every day At present, no cases of fever or cold have been found Although there is no worry about life, the Shu family has also suffered great losses A deputy director of the Publicity Department of the district Party committee told Caijing that the compensation standard for this forced killing is 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; while their teenage daughter walked around the house and outside curiously according to her arm, which had just drawn blood She didn't seem to understand what it meant to the family.