The State Council has a clear response to the avian influenza epidemic

Introduction: due to the global spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza, the "Global Ministerial Conference on influenza prevention" held three days ago attracted wide attention According to Gao Qiang, Minister of health, at a press conference held after the closing of the meeting, bird flu occurred in some villages of five provinces in China, but the whole epidemic was under control, and there were no cases of human being infected with bird flu Although there are no cases of human infection in China, from the global perspective, there have been 120 people infected with avian influenza since the end of December 2003, 62 of them have died, and the mortality rate is over 50% This undoubtedly shows that the threat of avian influenza cannot be ignored More importantly, the spread of avian influenza has no borders, especially in the context of globalization How to prevent and control avian influenza has become a serious problem facing governments and the international community For China, which had a nightmare of SARS, this test is particularly important Looking back at the SARS epidemic two years ago, one of the important reasons for such serious consequences is that at the beginning of SARS, the opacity of epidemic notification, the imperfection of early warning and monitoring mechanism The non transparency of the notification of the epidemic will lead to the panic of the common people and further expand the scope of transmission; and the imperfection of the early warning and monitoring mechanism will lead to the misjudgment of the government, lack of response measures, and ultimately lead to the further expansion of the epidemic In a word, the performance of the government at the time of the outbreak is enough to influence the development of the epidemic and ultimately the consequences of the epidemic Never forget the past, the teacher of the future It is the tragic lessons of SARS that make the Chinese government more mature, open and pragmatic when the bird flu appears Gao said that there is no major threat to the bird flu epidemic in China, thanks to the seven systematic measures taken by the Chinese government, including the establishment and improvement of the leading mechanism from the central government to the local government to deal with bird flu, the establishment of the cooperation mechanism of joint prevention and control by relevant government departments, the establishment of a strict epidemic monitoring mechanism, and the establishment of an open and transparent epidemic notification system Compared with the situation at the beginning of SARS, it is obviously not difficult to judge that the attitude, method and performance of the government in response to the avian influenza epidemic are enough to win more trust from the people However, due to the uncertainty of the avian influenza epidemic, it is still difficult to determine which aspects and the extent of the impact it will bring If we consider the particularity of China's 13 billion poultry and most of its free range breeding, we need not panic unnecessarily about the current epidemic, but there is absolutely no reason to be blindly optimistic After the SARS epidemic, the State Council formulated the information release system of epidemic situation and public health emergencies, and established the information release system of major animal epidemic in 2004 However, this kind of system is just established, whether it is effective or not needs to be proved by practice In this context, how to maximize the mobilization of all parties to deal with the immediate epidemic, it is particularly important For example, how to break the barriers of information exchange brought by the Ministry of agriculture and the Ministry of health, establish a mechanism to block the spread of avian influenza from the source of poultry, and strengthen the rapid and comprehensive communication of avian influenza monitoring information is an urgent problem Natural disasters are hard to control, but man-made disasters can definitely be prevented The last thing people want to see is that it was originally a natural disaster, but it eventually turned into a man-made disaster At this point, we have reason to expect the government to do more and better.