Now everyone is afraid to eat chicken. The price of poultry has plummeted

Introduction: according to the report of the Wall Street Journal on November 8, health officials in Beijing ordered the closure of all live poultry trading markets, and banned people from keeping poultry in urban areas and carrying live birds into the urban areas of Beijing An outbreak of bird flu broke out in Liaoning Province on November 1st, when the government wiped out 140 thousand poultry Since the middle of October, there have been four outbreaks of avian influenza in China, and the government is more concerned about whether it will spread among humans and cause a fatal blow to China's fragile poultry industry At present, it is clear that consumers are avoiding buying poultry food, while the price of poultry has dropped by 60% in a few weeks, even in provinces where there is no outbreak of avian influenza, officials from the Ministry of Agriculture said In China, poultry industry is a huge industry, and China is the largest poultry country in the world According to the data provided by the food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1 / 4 of the world's captive chickens, 2 / 3 of the world's captive ducks and 1 / 10 of the world's captive geese are all produced in China In 2004, the total output value of animal husbandry reached 148 billion US dollars, accounting for 8.9% of China's GDP, while the poultry industry accounted for 33% of its share Although Chinese health ministry officials say bird flu may have killed a little girl in Hunan Province, so far, there have been no confirmed cases of human infection in China China has asked the World Health Organization to help investigate these possible cases of infection Around the world, at least 120 cases of avian influenza have been confirmed in Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia, and 60 people have died, while H5N1 avian influenza virus has also been found in some birds in Europe, such as Russia, Turkey and Bulgaria The World Health Organization has warned that if the avian influenza virus has the ability to mutate and spread among humans, it is likely to trigger a global epidemic On November 7, who hosted a three-day General Assembly in Geneva, which is jointly coordinating the efforts of countries around the world to prevent the development of avian influenza virus into a global infectious disease More than 300 scientists, health experts and government officials attended the conference "It's only a matter of time before the avian influenza virus mutates into an infectious disease that can break out between humans," said Lee Jong wook, who head Representatives of China's poultry industry say their business has been hit hard "Everyone is afraid to eat chicken now, even if we reduce the price, no one wants it," said a poultry sales manager from Anhui Province Who officials said the aim of the conference was to draw up a plan, including helping the world poultry industry to take better measures to prevent the outbreak and spread of avian influenza, and strengthening the global monitoring and prevention mechanism, which the world bank would probably fund.