Kyodo News April 30 a special working group by the Chinese and international medical experts say the H7N9 avian flu studies have shown that this virus may be derived from the vegetable market rather than poultry farms.
Chinese and foreign experts to come to this joint research results of the Chinese health authorities on Tuesday reported that, Fujian Province, and new cases of H7N9 cases, so that the total number of confirmed cases to 128 cases.
This Task Force is composed by the veterinary and medical experts from the World Health Organization and the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture. Shanghai and other infected poultry markets and poultry farms on-site survey at the end of April.
The report said that the task force had contact with staff was not discovered the H7N9 virus in poultry farms, farms and farms.
Reported that the risk of human infection from handling poultry, vegetable market.
Reported that the group had been unable to confirm the mode of transmission of the virus in the East, and urged Chinese health authorities continue to closely monitor the food market and other possible channels of infection.
The study conducted by the Chinese Center for Disease Control showed that H7N9 infection is closely related to the poultry market.
In a research report published in a U.S. medical journal, the CDC said, the majority of H7N9 patients in the poultry market come into contact with live chickens and other poultry, they are either vegetable market staff, or go there to buy things .
Shanghai and other local authorities shut down the live poultry market, in order to curb the spread of the disease, 24 patients had died since the end of March reports first H7N9 cases.http://news.xinhuanet.com/2013-05/03/c_124659078.htm
