Don’t panic Prevention and control of H7N9 avian influenza.
CCTV News:Knowing the characteristics of the H7N9 epidemic, we can see that the virus is not terrible as long as it is well prevented and controlled. This requires not only the national departments to do a good job in epidemic prevention, but also everyone’s self-protection. So what measures has the country taken now? How should everyone prevent and control it?
Multi-department joint prevention and control to strengthen the management of live poultry market
In response to this year’s H7N9 epidemic, the National Health and Family Planning Commission, together with agriculture, industry and commerce departments, launched a joint prevention and control mechanism under the unified deployment of the State Council. Provinces in the epidemic area, suspend or permanently close the live poultry market; Strengthen the management of the live poultry market that has not been shut down or closed, and strictly implement the system of cleaning once a day, disinfection once a week, closing the market on January and zero stock.
Changing consumption habits and promoting consumption of chilled poultry
In addition, all departments should strengthen market supervision, cross-regional transportation supervision of live poultry, implement the measures of "clean poultry and white poultry", and study and implement long-term measures such as completely stopping live poultry trading and promoting the transformation and upgrading of poultry industry. The National Health and Family Planning Commission will form a joint supervision team with agriculture, industry and commerce, food and drug supervision and other departments in the near future to supervise the prevention and control work in key provinces of the epidemic.
Avoid contact with live birds. Cook them thoroughly.
It is not complicated for ordinary people to protect against avian influenza. First of all, they should avoid contact with sick and dead birds in their daily lives, and try to avoid direct contact with live birds and birds. If they do, they must wash their hands as soon as possible. Secondly, buy fresh, live and frozen livestock and their products with quarantine certificates, and don’t buy live birds from mobile vendors. Wash your hands thoroughly after processing raw poultry meat and eggs, separate raw and cooked during processing, and cook thoroughly when cooking.
Protection for ordinary people: Patients with persistent high fever and asthma should seek medical advice in time.
Experts suggest that once a patient has a persistent high fever of 39 degrees or even 40 degrees, the symptoms are heavier, accompanied by shortness of breath, asthma, suffocation, acceleration, palpitation, and digestive tract symptoms, the family members must be sent to the hospital in time and inform whether they have a history of contact with live birds. In particular, people over 60 years old, children under 5 years old, pregnant women, obese people and those with basic diseases such as diabetes should pay special attention.