2012-11-28
Nov. 28 - The Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department's Animal Management Centre in Sheung Shui outbreak of psittacosis, five employees earlier onset, three of them confirmed, and another eight employees of upper respiratory tract symptoms.
Animal Management Centre in Sheung Shui has been temporarily closed, and strengthen the cleaning and disinfection. Ko Wing-man, the Food and Health Bureau, stressed psittaci not human-to-human transmission, the current situation is under control; also refers to some experts, human-to-human transmission is very low.
Management Center last month to receive sixteen spots Amazon parrots, including three deaths, authorities to be humanely destroyed another ten. Five center staff subsequently appear different respiratory symptoms, including cough, chills, sore throat, and there are still four people hospitalized. CHP said, has confirmed that three patients positive for Chlamydia psittaci.
In addition, the Health Protection center contact 59 the AFCD staff working in the Animal Management Centre in Sheung Shui, that among eight people present symptoms of upper respiratory tract infection. CHP's arrangements for the eight people with the Hospital Authority to provide medical evaluation and laboratory investigation to rule out that they are infected with psittacosis.
The Centre for Health Protection and Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department is investigating whether the outbreak of psittacosis, the HKU infection and the Director of the Centre for Infectious Diseases, Ho Pak-leung said, other birds such as pigeons, sparrows, ducks psittaci bacterial infection.
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