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Monday, April 15, 2013

China will work jointly with the WHO assessment of H7N9 outbreak



Published: 2013-04-15 20:28 China news agency, Beijing, April 15 (Reporters Ou Yang and Kai Yu) - China will inspect the H7N9 avian flu epidemic in collaboration with WHO. Reporters learned from the Chinese Ministry of Health and Family Planning Commission in the 15th.
Since March, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and other places have reports of human infection with the H7N9 avian influenza. Recent days, Beijing, Henan have also found that the epidemic. Up to now, the Chinese people infected with the H7N9 avian flu cases has more than 60 cases.
After the outbreak, the Chinese official with the World Health Organization to maintain close cooperation, the first time the WHO has informed epidemic information, and by the Chinese Center for Disease Control, the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for the WHO and the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia Japan Cooperation Center shared the H7N9 strain of the virus.
For the current epidemic situation, the Chinese Ministry of Health and Family Planning Commission and the World Health Organization (WHO) agreed jointly organized "people infected with the H7N9 bird flu prevention and control joint study group" to carry out a week-long joint assessment of the epidemic in China, analysis and assessment of the epidemic and the prevention and control work provide recommendations for the next step in the prevention and control measures in China.
Earlier, the World Health Organization representative in China Blue Ruiming, WHO will provide more support. In the world, the World Health Organization's responsibility is to ensure that it can become a link between China and the other countries of the world to share information.
According to the news that the Chinese Center for Disease Control, the center has with the United States Center for Disease Control, the European Center for Disease Control, as well as Canada, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands and other disease control agencies maintained daily epidemic reporting mechanism, and working with national disease The control experts jointly epidemic information analysis to assess the risk of a pandemic.(End)http://news.cnwest.com/content/2013-04/15/content_8968946.htm