HPAI H7N9 Kills Poultry In Guangdong

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Two cases of disease before the incidence of bird exposure history, and in the exposure of poultry birds have occurred in the phenomenon of death.

 

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H7N9 virus mutant was found in human cases from China

 

Release Date: 2017-02-19

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In January 2017, Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Disease on the two cases of human infection H7N9 cases were isolated virus gene sequencing analysis, found in the two strains of hemagglutinin link peptide position of the gene insertion mutation occurred, the test results Has been confirmed by the National Center for Viral Disease National Influenza Center.

I center experts to judge and communicate with the relevant experts in the agricultural sector that H7N9 virus in the hemagglutinin link peptide position of the gene insertion mutation, suggesting that the virus mutation to the highly pathogenic virus against birds; the second is based on the virus Sequence analysis results have not yet appeared in the mutant virus that has increased resistance to human infectivity, virulence and interpersonal communication.

Two cases of disease before the incidence of bird exposure history, and in the exposure of poultry birds have occurred in the phenomenon of death. At present, a case has been cured, another case is still in treatment. All the 105 cases of close contact after two weeks of medical observation, were not fever, cough and other symptoms.

H7N9 virus is a influenza virus, one of its main features is prone to gene reassignment and mutation. Some mutations may lead to the virus on the human appeal, virulence and interpersonal communication ability enhancement, so the virus variation has been widely concerned about the domestic and foreign.

It is understood that the agricultural sector laboratory also from Guangdong, four poultry specimens found similar to the variation of the virus. China's health care system will work together with the agricultural sector, the common source of the virus, the scope of the impact of in-depth study, and continue to strengthen the monitoring of H7N9 virus, in time to find any possible variation.

The results have been communicated to the World Health Organization.

China Center for Disease Control and Prevention