Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in China - CHINA - This is a Follow-up report (No. 2) via OIE on the recent outbreak of Avian Influenza in China.

See also: 13 February 2004, 6 February 2004

Information received on 19 February 2004 from Dr Shen Zhenzhao, Director General, Bureau of Animal Husbandry and Health, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing:

End of previous report period: 10 February 2004 (see Disease Information, 17 [7], 42, dated 13 February 2004).

End of this report period: 19 February 2004.

On 19 February 2003, the National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory confirmed that the poultry deaths at the locations mentioned in Table 1 were not caused by the avian influenza virus.

Table 1.- Suspected outbreaks invalidated

Gansu Province	Xigu district, Lanzhou city
	Anning district, Lanzhou city
	Jingyuan county

To date, there have been a total of 49 outbreaks in 16 provinces (autonomous regions or municipalities), of which 46 (see Table 3) have been confirmed by the National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory as subtype H5N1-caused highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), the other 3 (see Table 2) being suspected HPAI.

The cumulated number of diseased birds is 144,800, of which 127,900 have died.

Control measures during reporting period:

In accordance with the Law on Animal Epidemic Prevention, the local governments in the above-mentioned places:

- have sealed off the infected areas;

- have culled all the poultry within a 3-km radius around the foci of infection, and

- have imposed compulsory vaccination on the poultry within a 5-km radius around the foci of infection.

Up to now, 7,961,400 poultry have been culled.

Up to now, 10,211,800 poultry have been compulsorily vaccinated.

At present, the disease in the places mentioned below is under control.

Table 2.- Suspected outbreaks

Yunnan Province	Anning city
	Songming county
Shaanxi Province	Huayin city

Table 3.- Outbreaks confirmed by the National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory

Anhui Province	Yushan district, Maanshan city
	Guangde county
	Yingzhou district, Fuyang city
	Jieshou city
Gansu Province	Gaolan county
Guangdong Province	Chaoan county
	Haifeng county
	Luoding city*
	Jiedong county*
	Doumen district, Zhuhai city*
	Maogang district, Maomin city*
	Jiangcheng district, Yangjiang city*
	Shenzhen city*
	Nanxiong city*
Guangxi Autonomous Region	Longan county
	Xingning district, Nanning city*
Henan Province	Pingyu county
Hubei Province	Wuxue county
	Ezhou city
	Yichang city
	Xiangfan city
	Macheng city*
	Honghu city*
	Gongan county*
	Songzi city*
	Yangxin county*
	Huangmei county*
Hunan Province	Wugang county
	Pingjiang county
	Shaodong county*
	Heshan district, Yiyang city*
	Suxian district, Chenzhou city*
Jiangxi Province	Qingyunpu district, Nanchang city
	Dongxiang county
	Guixi city
Shaanxi Province	Changan district, Xi’an city
Xinjiang Autonomous Region	12th Agriculture Division under the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps
Yunnan Province	Chenggong county
	Guandu district, Kunming city
	Xishan district, Kunming city*
	Shilin county*
Zhejaing Province	Yongkang city
Shanghai	Nanhui district*
Tianjin	Jinnan district*
Tibet	Yaowangshan Live Poultry Wholesale Market, Lhasa*
Jilin Province	Zhenlai county, Baicheng city*

* New outbreaks confirmed during the present reporting period

Source: Office International des Epizooties - 20th February 2004