BEIJING, April 26 (Xinhua) -- China has the
technologies to detect the Swine Influenza A/H1N1 and is taking measures to
prevent the deadly virus from entering the country, an inspection and quarantine
expert said here on Sunday.
Li Huailin, director with the Chinese Academy of Inspection and Quarantine affiliated to the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, said the academy was currently assisting relevant authorities to taken necessary measures to prevent the entrance of the swine flu found in the United States and Mexico.
The new flu strain, a mixture of swine, human and
avian flu viruses, has killed at least 62 people among about 900 cases in the
two countries by Thursday.
According to the Chinese Center for Disease Control
and Prevention, no cases of the swine flu had been so far reported in China as
of Sunday.
Although there is no vaccine to fight the virus so
far, the center said the swine flu was "preventable, controllable, and
treatable."
On Saturday, the General Administration of Quality
Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine issued an emergency notice requiring
people to report flu-like symptoms at the point of entry when coming from the
deadly swine flu affected places.
People who developed flu-like symptoms after
returning from the disease affected regions within two weeks should also report
to the local entry-exit inspection and quarantine authorities.
These people reporting flu-like symptoms must be
scrutinized and the those who have been infected or are suspected to be infected
by the virus should be isolated and treated, the administration said.