Establishment of Southeast Asia bird flu center

The source of Xinhua News Agency said on April 7, the Office of the US Agency for International Development in Cambodia said it would fund the establishment of a Southeast Asian bird flu prevention center located in Bangkok (Thailand).

The function of the center is to store equipment related to epidemic prevention: antiseptic equipment, personal protection equipment . to support Southeast Asia in case of outbreaks of avian influenza. widespread.

Too little drug before the risk of returning SARS (Photo: Kimicontrol.com)

Related to the SARS epidemic, the China Daily reported in a four-year summation meeting of the China-Europe program (SEPSDA - a joint program between eight EU and Chinese science institutes) studying how Diagnosis of SARS and anti-virus took place in Beijing on April 8, scientists from both sides claimed to have successfully studied five mixtures with strong effects against SARS virus.

In parallel with this statement, the scientists also called on countries to be vigilant because they feared the risk of SARS return is very high, while the amount of existing treatment is still too little. Citing Professor Rolf Hilgenfeld, of Lübeck University (Germany), China Daily said only 0.5% of Hong Kong's population (where the outbreak of SARS was the strongest in 2003) had strong antibodies to the virus. this. This suggests that the SARS virus is likely to reappear suddenly.