Mainland fighting bird flu correctly: HK virologist

內地控疫方向正確港專家預料禽流感兩周后漸弱

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2013-04-12 12:55 Ecns.cn Web Editor: Gu Liping comment

Empty cages are left in Shanghai's Wanshang Flower and Bird Market. Shanghai has halted live bird sales amid bird flu scare. (Photo/ Ming Pao Daily News)

(CNS) -- The mainland has taken the right direction in controlling H7N9 bird flu, and activity caused by the virus will decline in two weeks, a Hong Kong newspaper on Thursday quoted a local virologist as saying.

Guan Yi, a famous virologist and professor at Hong Kong University, said Wednesday that Shanghai and Nanjing have implemented suitable measures, including closing live poultry trading markets and slaughtering all birds, according to the Ming Pao Daily News.

Guan said chicken accounts for about 75 percent of all poultry in the mainland, and that 21 out of 33 H7N9-positive poultry samples have come from chicken. There is an 80 percent possibility that chicken first spread the virus, he concluded.

By Thursday, the mainland had reported 38 cases of H7N9.

Special report: H7N9 avian influenza

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