Who in the Taiyuan Center for Disease Control and Prevention is called a virus hunter?

Recently, influenza has swept through many places in China, and the workload of disease control personnel known as "virus hunters" has also greatly increased.

At the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, microbiological inspectors test samples sent from the hospital. After discovering the influenza virus, CDC staff cultured it and obtained the virus strains, which provided laboratory basis for selecting virus strains for the influenza vaccine the following year.

The word Centers for Disease Control comes from the U.S. agency in charge of national disease prevention and control, now renamed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At present, our country has established the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and has set up corresponding branches in various provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government. The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (hereinafter referred to as the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention) is a public welfare institution organized by the government to implement national-level disease prevention and control and public health technology management and services.

The mission of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is to create a healthy environment, maintain social stability, ensure national security, and promote people's health through the prevention and control of diseases, disabilities, and injuries; its purpose is to rely on scientific research and use talents as the foundation and with disease control as the center. Under the leadership of the Ministry of Health, give full play to its technical management and technical service functions, focus on the key tasks of national disease prevention and control, strengthen research on disease prevention and control strategies and measures, and organize and implement various disease prevention and control work plans; carry out food safety, Management of occupational safety, health-related product safety, radiological health, environmental health, women and children's health and other public health services, vigorously carry out applied scientific research, and strengthen national disease prevention and control and public health services Technical guidance, training and quality control, and playing the role of the national team in disease prevention, emergency response, and building public health information capabilities.