An employee of a pet store was diagnosed with new coronary pneumonia, and Hong Kong was suspected of the world's first hamster transmission case.
Xu Shuchang, a government expert advisor and chair professor of the Department of Respiratory Medicine at CUHK, said on a Hong Kong and Taiwan program this morning (19th) that it is estimated that the hamsters were infected before they came to Hong Kong. The hamsters have a high chance of transmitting the virus to humans, and the confirmed shop assistant may have been exposed to the infection. It is believed to be the first case in the world that the fly or secretions of hamsters have become infected.
Xu Shuchang said that there was a video conference on the decision to destroy humane destruction yesterday morning, and he agreed with the relevant practice. In the past, all chickens were slaughtered during bird flu.
When asked if there are not many preliminary positive samples at present, if there is any reason to destroy all of them, he emphasized: "The public health perspective will not follow you one by one", and think that it is impossible to test the hamsters one by one, "There are not enough reagents for people." .
▼1.18 AFCD personnel destroy animals at Little Boss in Causeway Bay▼
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Rat Killing Order｜Little Boss, Causeway Bay, Causeway Bay, Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department Humanely destroy animals, put red plastic bags and take them away. Decisive and wise: I don't want a new variant of the virus to spread. I don't want to give hamsters. The law requires voluntary rat breeding without compensation. I have to sign a letter of abandonment. I have no right to question my life and death in the future.