Vietnam confirmed 12 deaths from avian influenza virus

Introduction: location quotation unit price Xinhua News Agency (reporter Huang Haimin) Zheng junxun, director of the Department of health prevention of the Ministry of health of Vietnam, said that the preliminary test results of the Ministry of health of Vietnam showed that the virus infected by 12 people who recently died of influenza A in Vietnam was the H5N1 avian influenza virus that caused the current avian influenza in South Vietnam This is the first time since the outbreak of avian influenza in Vietnam that human patients have been admitted to be infected with the virus There have been outbreaks of avian influenza in Qianjiang and Long'an provinces of the Mekong River Basin in the south of Vietnam recently, which spread to the north At present, more than 1.4 million chickens have been infected in Qianjiang and Long'an provinces, and 80000 chickens have been slaughtered and disposed in Hexi Province in the north 7QC expert: be alert for the new human influenza caused by avian influenza 7QC Xinhua News Agency (reporter he Degong) reported that in December 2003 and January this year, avian influenza broke out successively in South Korea, Japan and Vietnam The reporter interviewed the virologist Tian Daizhen from the National Institute of infectious diseases of Japan He said that the avian influenza virus is likely to cross species boundaries and cause a new type of influenza outbreak in people Human beings should keep a high degree of vigilance and take precautions in vaccine and drug development 7QC what is avian influenza 7QC avian influenza is caused by influenza A virus in poultry and wild fowl, which is a complex disease from respiratory disease to severe septicemia and other symptoms At present, it occurs in many countries and regions in the world, and the poultry industry has caused huge economic losses This kind of avian influenza virus mainly causes the systemic or respiratory diseases of birds Chickens, turkeys, ducks and quails, wild birds, waterfowl and seabirds can all be infected The incidence of the virus varies from acute septic death to asymptomatic poisoning, which mainly depends on the resistance of the infected body and the type and virulence of the infected virus 7QC