The situation of prevention and control of global bird flu

The situation of prevention and control of global bird flu allows of no optimist
Author: Ren HaiJun

Since entering 2008, both the epidemic situation of bird flu has appeared in a plurality of countries of Asia and Europe, though the countries concerned have taken measures to prevent and control bird flu, the epidemic situation still keeps spreading in some countries. The expert thinks, the situation of prevention and control of global bird flu allows of no optimist.

Indonesia is one of the severely afflicated areas of the epidemic situation of bird flu this year. Indonesian Ministry of Public Health verifies on January 24, a man 30 years old of this country dies of bird flu. Enter 2008, Indonesia report to, infect the bird flu case by 4 people already, the patients all die.

Another country with serious epidemic situation is India. According to report of January 14 of " the Indian Express ", general as many as ten thousand poultry of nurse area of Bill of West Bangladesh of the east of India die. Indian Ministry of Public Health verifies on the 15th, this epidemic situation is caused by H5N1 -type bird flu virus.

The epidemic situation of bird flu appears again in Vietnam and Thailand. According to January 23 of Vietnamese media, the officers of Ministry of Public Health of Vietnamese verify on the same day, a man 32 years old of this country died of H5N1 -type bird flu not long ago, this is infected with the bird flu case by the first individual that Vietnam verifies this year. The officers of administrative department of Thai fowl and animal say on the 24th, the H5N1 -type bird flu epidemic situation appears recently in a farm of Nakhon Sawan office in the north of Thailand, have already caused more than 4000 chickens to die.

The other countries that present the epidemic situation of bird flu have Israel, Dominica, Britain and Ukraine.

Analyze the bird flu epidemic situation of the above-mentioned country, can see two major characteristics appear generally in the epidemic situation of this year: It is high to spread in the poultry with patient's mortality rapidly.

Though Indian Ministry of Public Health has already required West Bangladesh to blockade general nurse of Bill and the south who presents the epidemic situation and guide Najib two areas rapidly on January 15, and close with Bangladesh, Bhutan and border of Nepal temporarily, in order to prevent diffusion of epidemic situation. But according to the 20th of Indian media, the epidemic situation is still spread to the west of this Nation, 5 villages and towns of the north and southern areas rapidly, and is spreading to Capital Calcutta area in the Nation. Only several days, this epidemic situation has already caused over 35,000 poultry to die. The rate of diffusion of epidemic situation of bird flu appearing in countries such as Thailand, Ukraine,etc. is very fast too.

By the look of history, the fatality rates to the mankind of H5N1 -type bird flu keeps at very high level. Indonesia finds together so far 120 people are infected with the bird flu case, 98 people among them die. The statistical data of World Health Organization website reveal, by the 23rd of this month, already 352 people have been infected with the bird flu case in the whole world, among them 219 people die. The high mortality of the bird flu patient has not changed this year.

The epidemic situation of bird flu has aroused the attention from relevant expert. Coming from the experts of more than 40 countries or regions says in Bangkok of Thailand on January 23, the spread course in the whole world in recent years of bird flu shows, overcome absolutely not thing daily of bird flu, the situation of prevention and control of global bird flu allows of no optimist. Though bird flu virus has not led to the fact yet in the mankind that prevails big, must notice the threat to the mankind of bird flu, can't adopt a casual attitude to bird flu definitely.

The situation of prevention and control of global bird flu allows of no optimist