China’s agriculture ministry issued a strongly worded defense late Friday afternoon of its policy of large-scale vaccination of poultry against the H5N1 avian influenza virus over the last decade, saying that it was not interfering with its efforts now to identify the emerging H7N9 virus.
Dr. Alex Thiermann, the president of the standard-setting Code Commission of the World Organization for Animal Health, had expressed concern in a telephone interview earlier this week that vaccination against the earlier bird flu strain might have made it harder this spring for Chinese veterinary technicians to spot the recent spread of the H7N9 virus. The new bird flu virus has sickened 38 people and killed 10 of them in recent weeks in Shanghai and three nearby provinces.
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Keith Bradsher, New York Times via CHINA US Focus http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChinaUsFocus/~3/q6AqJQBHFB0/
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