Thursday, December 25, 2008

Bangladesh re-emergence of bird flu

DHAKA, December 23 (Xinhua Wang Xuemei)
Bangladesh Bureau of Animal Husbandry 23, confirmed that since the beginning of winter, Bangladesh 5 county of new bird flu outbreak has killed nearly pigs and poultry, but not yet on the human infection report.
Bangladesh Livestock萨拉乌丁officials told reporters that, since December, Bangladesh, eastern, western, northern and central 4 poultry farmers plant and a disease has appeared, after examination, confirmed as the highly pathogenic H5N1 type virus infection. At present, the Government is actively taking measures to prevent the further spread of the epidemic, including farmers and breeders to promote preventive measures, such as plants. said that is not clear the source of bird flu, but is likely that the bird flu virus as the temperature dropped again active.
In March 2007, Bangladesh first outbreak of avian flu; in late 2007 to early 2008, bird flu in Bangladesh national large-scale spread of 64 counties in the country there have been 47 county report found that H5N1 avian influenza virus; by the end of March 2008, the National 150,000 poultry farms have been forced to close half, more than 150 million birds have been killed.
In May this year, Bangladesh Ministry of Health confirmed the first case of human infection with avian influenza virus, a 16-month-old girl was confirmed infected with the H5N1 avian influenza virus, recovered after treatment.

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