OIE: Reassortment of Swine H1N1 virus with Pandemic H1N1 virus, Hong Kong (SAR

OIE: Reassortment of Swine H1N1 virus with Pandemic H1N1 virus, Hong Kong (SAR - PRC)
submited by kickingbird at Jul, 3, 2010 0:42 AM from OIE

Information received on 02/07/2010 from Dr Thomas Sit, Assistant Director , Inspection & Quarantine, Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department, Cheung Sha Wan , Hon Kong , Hong Kong (SAR - PRC)

Summary

Report type	Immediate notification (Final report)
Start date	07/01/2010
Date of first confirmation of the event	11/01/2010
Report date	02/07/2010
Date submitted to OIE	02/07/2010
Date event resolved	07/01/2010
Reason for notification	Emerging disease
Morbidity	1 %
Mortality	0 %
Zoonotic impact	May affect humans
Causal agent	A/Swine/Hong Kong/201/2010

New outbreaks

Summary of outbreaks

Total outbreaks: 1

Location(s)

HONG KONG (Sheung Shui Slaughterhouse)

Total animals affected

Species	Susceptible	Cases	Deaths	Destroyed	Slaughtered
Swine		1	0

Outbreak statistics

Species	Apparent morbidity rate	Apparent mortality rate	Apparent case fatality rate	Proportion susceptible animals lost*
Swine	**	**	0.00%	**

* Removed from the susceptible population through death, destruction and/or slaughter
** Not calculated because of missing information

Epidemiology

Source of the outbreak(s) or origin of infection	Unknown or inconclusive Under investigation
Epidemiological comments	The government has stepped up inspection of live pigs and continued to closely monitor the health condition of pigs on local pig farms.

Control measures

Measures applied	Screening No vaccination No treatment of affected animals
Measures to be applied	No other measures

Diagnostic test results

Laboratory name and type

Department of Microbiology, University of Hong Kong (Regional Reference Laboratory)

Tests and results

Species	Test	Test date	Result
Swine	virus isolation	11/01/2010	Positive
Swine	virus sequencing	26/02/2010	Positive

Future Reporting

The event is resolved. No more reports will be submitted.

See Also:

http://www.oie.int

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