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Saturday, March 16, 2013

Guan Yi: Mainland infectious disease research restricted area



At 12:45 on March 16th, 2013 Saturday




SARS in 2003, the University of Hong Kong from the Mainland to get samples of the first to discover the SARS virus from civet cats. The past decade, the face of the Mainland strict legal infectious disease experts, collecting samples, published research, restrictions far more.
HKU School of Public Health Professor Guan Yi is an expert on avian flu, SARS period in person to the Guangzhou samples brought back to Hong Kong to study, from which he Shenzhen Dongmen market sample, the first found that the SARS virus from civet cats, prompted Mainland fasting game.
However, it is difficult to collect samples in the Mainland, more and more senior.
2005, Guan Yi in the medical journal research report published by the outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza in migratory birds in Qinghai Lake, the source of southern China.
Immediately by the Ministry of Agriculture to refute, that his illegal collection of the sample, and then change the regulations, regardless of the samples, information dissemination, and must be approved by the Ministry of Agriculture, otherwise they will be held criminally liable.
Guan Yi of the current collection of infectious disease samples to do scientific research, only go gray area.
He believes that the state has put more resources for scientific research, but local officials have denied the real lessons of SARS lessons, subject to the test of time. http://news.now.com/home/international/player?newsId=62515