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Tuesday, February 4, 2014

China- Poultry industry request to stop every #H7N9 case notification

Poultry industry request to stop every case notification

At 00:59 on February 5, 2014 Beijing Times
According to Xinhua News Agency February 4 electric Recently, Guangdong, Guangxi and even the National Poultry Industry Association and companies have jointly submitted an open letter to the government at all levels, the demands of letters, a clear request "to stop the implementation of each notification H7N9 cases, to avoid the outbreak of super-density reports. " The health department, said no legal basis, does not help.
National Health and Family Planning Commission October 28, 2013 on the adjustment part of the statutory management of infectious disease, the inclusion of human infection with H7N9 avian influenza B infectious legal. Poultry Industry Association, the companies believe that the H7N9 downgrade, should not be unduly released epidemic, driven by excessive media coverage.
Guangdong, the largest agricultural enterprises in Guangdong Wen's Food Group Co., Ltd. Wen Pengcheng said, according to the National Planning Commission released guard in December 2013 of notifiable infectious diseases nationwide overview shows ranking of viral hepatitis, tuberculosis, and its infectious and the risk of dying than the H7N9 flu virus is high, but then H7N9 adopt unconventional measures involving practitioners and industry is not fair.
Guangdong health department official said in an interview responses, H7N9 although B infectious diseases in our country has been included in the management, but WHO (World Health Organization) regulations have clear provisions for emerging infectious diseases, each case must be informed of subtype . Since China joined WHO, must comply with the appropriate rules. Health sector insiders who asked not to be named, said: "For the loss suffered by the poultry industry, and no one worried, but not informed of sympathy and new cases, no legal basis, does not help, open and transparent with the government emergency information. contrary. "
Health sector expert who requested anonymity suggested that the poultry industry to reduce its exposure of the epidemic, as some idea of ​​updating, such as the promotion of "centralized breeding, slaughtering concentrate, chilled listed" mode, reducing the opportunity for direct contact with live poultry .
The industry believes that, in the event of a public health and safety, government responsibility should also be clear. Jianfeng and other CDC experts believe that other measures in live bird markets closed, the aquaculture industry to public health and safety made a great contribution to the Government's responsibility thanked aquaculture and compensation, but we can not simply allow farmers to bear the loss. http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&u=http://news.sina.com.cn/o/2014-02-05/005929398176.shtml&usg=ALkJrhiLqQ-xaaCn8ME3YWao-y92-qcHxA