China Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Situation Update June 2012 No. 6
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The “China HPAI Situation Update” is a publication of the FAO ECTAD office in China, which provides up to date information about HPAI H5N1 surveillance to assist the government of China to contain the disease and thus to reduce the risk of human infection. This document contains an important summary including human health data in order to use a “One Health” approach. To do this, FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) and WHO (World Health Organization) exchanged data and integrated them togethe r in a single paper.This publication comprises interpretations of surveillance results that are reported by the Chinese government. It contains studies of outbreaks including animal and human cases and of virological and post-vaccination surveillance. At the end, there is a virological update including some changes in the circulation of clades.This sixth update describes the situation of HPAI in China from 2010 to June 2012. The information used for this analysis comes from surve illance and outbreak data published in the Official Veterinary Bulletin. In the last 2 years there have been relatively few outbreaks and cases and these include 4 human cases and 5 poultry outbreaks. The poultry outbreaks were concentrated in the last six months.This information paper also provides information on surveillance in pigs, virological changes of clades and provides an update on vaccination.