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Premier Wen: We will surely conquer bird flu
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-11-17 22:14
"We have conquered the SARS epidemic in 2003, and we will surely conquer the
bird flu virus," said Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao here Thursday when inspecting
workshops of bird flu human vaccine and medicine.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao came to the Beijing
Kexing Biological Product Company on Thursday morning for inspection of
China's research on bird flu human vaccine on Nov. 17, 2005.
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Accompanied by Vice Premiers Wu Yi and Hui Liangyu, Wen came to the Beijing
Kexing Biological Product Company on Thursday morning for inspection of China's
research on bird flu human vaccine.
Kexing company, the first in the world to develop SARS vaccines, is now
taking joint effort with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
to research bird flu human vaccine.
Chinese scientists have developed human vaccines for the bird flu and will
carry out clinical tests in days.
Millions of chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry have been culled after
bird flu outbreaks were reported in Xinjiang, Liaoning, Hubei, Anhui and Hunan
provinces.
China's health authorities have confirmed on Wednesday the first two human
infection cases of bird flu in the country, and enhanced efforts to prevent and
control the epidemic.
The two confirmed cases involve a nine-year-old boy in Xiangtan County of
Hunan Province and a 24-year-old woman farmer in Zongyang County of Anhui
Province. The boy has been discharged from hospital. The woman died on November
10.
When coming to the vaccine workshop, Wen watched carefully the whole process
of vaccine manufacture and packing, frequently asking questions about the
progress of vaccine research and development, technical characteristics and
producing capacity.
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