Lei Zhou
Public Health Emergency Center, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, P.R.China
Biography
Dr. Lei Zhou, M.D., Senior Researcher, Epidemiologist, has completed her Bachelor and Master in School of Public Health, Peking University, specializing in epidemiology. She joined Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention after graduation and worked for over 14 years in public health emergency response in China. Now she is the Chief of Branch for Emerging Infectious Disease at the Public Health Emergency Center of China CDC. Her research interests are prevention and control of emerging infectious diseases, and pandemic preparedness and response. She has published over 40 peer review articles in international journals, including the NEJM, JID, and EID.
Abstract
Since the first human infection with avian influenza A(H5N1) case was reported in Hong Kong SAR of China in 1997, the fight with the avian influenza virus infection has been on going within more than two decades. Because the avian influenza virus such as H5N1 has been uaualy looked as the most risky virus having pandemic potential threat, and the 2009pdmH1N1 virus causing the 2009 pandemic epidemic had been confirmed that it also had avian original genes, each country especially the country reporting the human infections with avian influezna virus pay more attention to the pandemic preparedness since the end of the last century. In Mainland China, different subtypes of avian influenza viruses, including H5N1, H5N6, 2009pdmH1N1, H7N9, H10N8, H7N4 and H9N2, have been reported various numbers of human infections since 2005. Based on the experiences and lessons learned from the historical responses to the avian influenza virus outbreaks especially the responses to the six H7N9 epidemics through 2013 and 2018, we concluded the China’s main strategy of the avian influenza outbreaks control and improved the China’s pandmeic preparedness and response furthermore as well.