Recall:
The highly pathogenic virus of the aviary influenza, reappeared at the end of 2003 in Eastern Asia where it made 76 died, responsible in Turkey for died of at least two children, perhaps three, of the same phratry.
Situation:
In France, fear of the aviary influenza: a fall of the poultry consumption from 20 to 30% in only 15 days, and prospect, a new crisis concerning the avicolous die.
For the moment, no case of aviary influenza, neither animal nor human, was detected in France.
The analyses revealed that the three Réunionais, incomes of a voyage in Thailand and presenting grippaux symptoms were not finally carrying virus H5N1 of the aviary influenza.
No trace either of the virus on the eleven died found starlings with Mâcon (Saone-et-Loire).
On the other hand, the containment of the poultry breedings was extended to five additional departments: the Aude, the Eure, Herault, Loiret and Morbihan according to recommendations' of the AFSSA.
| The experts fear that the virus does not undergo a sufficient change to be communicated of man with man and to cause a pandemia likely to kill out of the million people. |
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The device aims at "protecting the population in metropolis and overseas as well as the French from abroad", "to prepare the country with the possible appearance of a pandemia grippale of great width" and "to minimize the economic and social disturbances which would result from it", the minister recalled. The minister underlined the need "for organizing and for adapting the system of health" and for optimizing the information and communication systems to prepare the country with a possible epizooty. The new grinding of the plan integrates the six new phases of alarm of WHO (the World Health Organization) and establishes the various methods of preparation and of intervention of the authorities vis-a-vis to a possible pandemia grippale, by clarifying their roles and their responsibilities, Xavier Bertrand specified. In the event of epidemic, each ministry will have to work out "a plan of continuity for its central and decentralized services, the establishments placed under its supervision and the socio-economic branches of industry for which it has the responsibility". The device thus set up "will be regularly tested thanks to exercises organized on a scale local, national and European whose lesson will be necessary to its future improvement within sight of the evolution of the epidemiologic situation", explained Xavier Bertrand. According to the minister, 33 million antiviral treatments, type Tamiflu and Relenza, will be available in France in 2007, "is much more of the 25% of the population as WHO recommends it". Approximately 200 million masks of protection will be placed at the disposal of the professionals of health and a billion masks anti-projection could be delivered free with the patients in the event of pandemia. The Minister for Health confirmed information of the WHO according to which there was up to now no case of aviary transmission of influenza of human to human. article of France 2.fr |
