After the incidence of bird flu at Jinhua New Market in Liwan District, the Guangzhou Animal Epidemic Prevention and Supervision Institute continued to patrol and check the poultry marketplaces in Guangzhou on March 18. According to Director Peng Cong, the Guangzhou Animal Epidemic Prevention and Supervision Institute had recently inspected 4,576 poultry farms in Guangzhou. The result showed that over 95% of these poultry farms are immune. The inspection to 512 poultry marketplaces also indicated that there was no clinical abnormities in the animal products. Also, the epidemic prevention and supervision authority enhanced the check-up of the poultry antibodies and among the 22,674 samples randomly selected, 17,618 were eligible, with an eligible rate up to 77.7%, higher than the national standard of 70% and no positive cases were found among all the random samples in Guangzhou.

The agricultural authority also intensified its prevention inspection over the 109 stores of the 28 markets of agricultural products within a 3-kilometer-semidiameter centered at the epidemic spot. The agricultural authority issued two copies of Remedy Advice during its inspection.

However, Peng Cong also remarked that there are still some hidden trouble spots in epidemic prevention and controls and that these need to be improved.

Editor: Yan