H7N9 bird flu prevention and control program

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Updated: 2014-06-30

Counties (districts) with confirmed H7N9 cases should carry out two-week monitoring after diagnosis. For those emergency patients and out-patients with influenza-like illness and the in-patients who have acute respiratory infections, Grade II and above hospitals and medical institutions should promptly collect respiratory tract samples, ask their exposure history, and carry out test based on the H7N9 Bird Flu Virus Sample Collection and Lab Test Strategy formulated by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Medical institutions at all levels should make weekly report of the total number of influenza-like cases and hospitalized patients with severe acute respiratory infections, sampling number, hospital inspection number, the number of tests sent for disease control and prevention center, and the number of cases with positive results. More reporting methods can be found at CDC’s monitoring information report intensification. All regions can expend monitoring scope and time in accordence with actual situation.

Opinions on epidemic development study

Health and family planning departments at all levels should arrange for experts to evaluate the situation in accordance with the H7N9 bird flu epidemic, etiology monitoring and research development. Based on the evaluation, emergency response plan should be lunched or ended up in time while related criteria have been reached.

Health and family planning departments at all levels should play a leading role in the joint prevention and control mechenism of mutiple-sectors and suggest local government to take pertinent prevention and control measures. Live fowl market without epidemic outbreak should be advised to conduct daily cleaning, weekly sterilization and monthly break. Live fowl market with epidemic outbreak should be suspended and receive thorough sterilization, or take seasonal break.

Take care of heath education work

All regions should take care of information release and public opinion guidance work, timely respond to social concern, guide the public in dealing with epidemic outbreak through scientific and rational methods, popularize epidemic prevention and control knowledge, and help the public develop good hygienic habit, especially strengthening health education and risk communication for people involved in live fowl breeding, slaughtering, selling and transporting business.

Strengthen medical institute’s professional training, monitoring and supervision

Medical institute should carry out training on H7N9 bird flu discovery and report, epidemiological investigation, sample collection, lab testing, case management and infection prevention and control, and risk communication.