After Hong Kong announced that after the first case of human infection with monkey herpes virus, the Hong Kong Fishing and Protection Agency plans to increase the work of sterilization in the next five years to further reduce the number of monkey groups.
The Hong Kong Department of Health Protection Center on Wednesday (April 3) said in the newsletter that the center is investigating a case of a 37 -year -old man infected with B virus (also known as monkey herpes virus).According to a preliminary investigation, the man visited the Jinshan Country Park in late February. During the period, he had exposed to wild monkeys and was injured by monkeys.
Comprehensive Hong Kong Radio Station and Hong Kong Zhongtong News Agency reported that Shi Zhongtang, the senior animal nursing director of the Hong Kong Fisheries and Protection Agency, said on the radio program on Friday (April 5) that the Fisheries and Protection Department plans to increase sterilization in the next five yearsThe work intensity, 100 to 200 monkeys a year, will further reduce the number of monkey groups.
Shi Zhongtang said that the AFCD has commissioned the Ocean Park Conservation Fund by 2007 to conduct contraceptives and sterilization surgery for monkeys. So far, more than 1,900 monkeys have sterilized, accounting for 70%of the overall monkeys.
He revealed that in the past three years, 200 to 300 monkeys were recorded each year, which was significantly reduced by thousands of each year from 2006 and 2007.Zong, reflecting the improvement of Hong Kong monkeys.In addition, the cases of illegal feeding monkeys have been increased from 66 to 196 in the past three years.
Shi Zhongtang calls on the public to not eat when you see a monkey, or hold a plastic bag with food, so as not to make the monkey misunderstand someone to feed.In addition, you should also avoid dealing with monkeys, because this will be regarded by monkeys as provocation.He emphasized that if you have contact with monkeys, wash with water or soap, and he should call the police and seek medical treatment as soon as possible if there are wounds.
Monkey herpes virus naturally exists in the saliva, urine and feces of macaques, and macaques are a common wild monkey in Hong Kong.Infected people at first will have fluid signs and may evolve into central nervous system infections.If the patient is not treated in time, the mortality rate exceeds 70%, and even if survival may have neurological sequelae.
