Elimination of the possibility of SARS virus in live livestock
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Last Update: 2008-11-03
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Source: Internet
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Author: User
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Introduction: in order to assess the impact of SARS on China's import and export animal inspection and quarantine and food safety, and to assess the impact of SARS on China's import and export animal inspection and quarantine and food safety, Guangdong Inspection and Quarantine Bureau recently carried out an animal SARS epidemic investigation among poultry and livestock The results showed that the detection results of SARS virus in live livestock and poultry in Hong Kong and Macao were all negative, which basically ruled out the possibility of containing SARS virus in live livestock and poultry in Hong Kong and Macao YNC who has clearly declared that the pathogen of SARS is a variant coronavirus So far, the source of the virus has not been determined In accordance with the requirements of the AQSIQ, Guangdong Bureau took effective measures in time to track and understand the latest progress and trends of the research on the pathogen of SARS at home and abroad, prevent and reduce the impact of SARS, pay close attention to the research progress of the pathogen and treatment methods of the disease, and fully mobilize the strength of animal and plant quarantine technicians through tracking the Internet and Media information, consultation with relevant research institutions and experts in China, including BGI, Beijing Institute of genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, collected and collated data on animal coronavirus, conducted data analysis and Research on whether there is a close relationship between the pathogen of the disease and animal coronavirus, and timely analyzed whether there is such a change in China's main economic animals Different coronaviruses were investigated In May of this year, in order to find out the situation of the registered livestock and poultry farms for Hong Kong and Macao and prevent the impact of SARS on the inspection and Quarantine of live livestock and poultry for Hong Kong and Macao, the Bureau sampled and tested the SARS virus situation of the registered livestock and poultry farms for Hong Kong and Macao The survey involved 34 registration sites in 15 branches, 210 samples were actually tested, including 117 respiratory swabs of birds (chickens, geese, ducks, pigeons) (5-8 samples from 21 registration sites), 93 pig swabs (13 pig farms), 60 nose swabs (4-5 samples from each site) and 33 rectum swabs (2-3 samples from each site) The results showed that all of the samples were negative, indicating that there was no SARS infection or pollution in the registration farm of live livestock and poultry in Hong Kong and Macao According to YNC, before that, the bureau also investigated the slaughterhouses, aquatic products processing plants, food processing plants and other export animal food enterprises within its jurisdiction, and no employees were found to be infected with SARS YNc At present, Guangdong Inspection and quarantine department is further carrying out the research work of coronavirus: carrying out the investigation of animal coronavirus epidemic situation and virus isolation in poultry and livestock, cooperating with scientific research institutions, making a comparative study of the isolated virus strains and SARS virus strains, so as to know whether there is a variation trend related to SARS virus in animal coronavirus; as soon as possible on animals, animals Whether the products and foods transmit the coronavirus (including the transmission as host and indirect transmission as attachment) and the risk degree of transmission form the risk analysis report YNc
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