Thursday, 08/01/2009, 03:25 (GMT +7)
Management of running ducks are in peril stages in Mekong Delta. Meanwhile, the control, vaccination for farms still small lot when grid network in veterinary facilities too thin. To Chinese New Year, state trading live poultry markets in the Mekong Delta Van Tran spread.
According to records of the veterinary region VII (in Can Tho), in 2008, Mekong Delta have at least 34 points flu occurred in poultry in 21 communes belonging to 7 provinces and cities in the region. Flu has died and 31,350 children destroys poultry. HPAI appear in localities such as Tra Vinh, Dong Thap, Soc Trang, Ca Mau, Kien Giang, Can Tho City.
Indeed, many local authorities before the "hot points" occur HPAI in the case of causing death as Hau Giang, but recently, thanks to implementation of many solutions have been determined to eliminate the avian cảm. Looking to "map" HPAI in the Mekong Delta in 2008, "confidence and frequency of" avian influenza reduced significantly. This is a sign praiseworthy. Song is also one of the causes leading to the officials and people in many localities is lơ, owner of the HPAI.
Meanwhile, the control movements of poultry only drastically when outbreaks occur, but when no local outbreaks almost empty? "The preventive last time in the provinces are not synchronized. Without the strict coordination between the local capabilities will happen on. Specifically, each of which perform a type of vaccination, should not the most difficult to manage "- Department heads Its italy Dong Thap concubine Hien urgent.
In Hau Giang, around 3 million children influenza, vaccination stage 1 of 97%; however, to only 2 first vaccine more than 60% of the total flocks. This status is similar happens in many localities. The difficulty of the local is: force veterinary slim, a small breeding population, not be nhốt, the rate of vaccinated chickens in the garden always drop lower reaches.
"Form raising small difficult management is epidemic, especially in remote areas. Results serum samples tested, the ability to protect the birds do not meet the regulations, the industry is very concerned in this cold season "- Nguyen Hien Trung, Director Department Its italy Hau Giang worry.
The veterinary line basis slim is one of the causes leading to the prevention of avian influenza in the Mekong Delta "They two ribs": the vaccination will "leopard skin" for farms small, not managed to thoroughly migration of ducks running contract.
There are comments that: the management of selling live poultry is "treo ngoe": Regulations of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is a not-for selling live poultry in the points but the market still sell suffuse can not control.
Its italy An Giang, said: At present the sale of beef cattle are very sophisticated, not ướp welded into the meat as before the switch pump into meat, look in the eyes often be difficult to detect. If measures are not processed in time these cases will be very harmful for consumers, especially in the Tet festival.
There are proposals: to tightly control the disease of cattle and poultry in the coming time, the province to be responsible for the self-government, the AP, organizations can manage. Accordingly, local governments have responsibilities in the management of the village, the province also check the district, district test in the new hope is closely! The mobilization of officers to enter the base is needed.
However, there are opinions for that of officials at grassroots level have ganh "too much work, should not" set "the focus on them. The main building and strengthening networks veterinary facilities as "nuclear" in preventing avian influenza outbreaks in Mekong Delta; strengthening propaganda enhance awareness to prevent avian influenza with the farm households are raising the cảm.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Avian Flu Becoming More Resistant To Antiviral Drugs
ScienceDaily (Jan. 7, 2009) — A new University of Colorado at Boulder study shows the resistance of the avian flu virus to a major class of antiviral drugs is increasing through positive evolutionary selection, with researchers documenting the trend in more than 30 percent of the samples tested.
The avian flu, an Influenza A subtype dubbed H5N1, is evolving a resistance to a group of antiviral drugs known as adamantanes, one of two classes of antiviral drugs used to prevent and treat flu symptoms, said CU-Boulder doctoral student Andrew Hill, lead study author. The rise of resistance to adamantanes -- which include the nonprescription drugs amantadine and rimantadane -- appears to be linked to Chinese farmers adding the drugs to chicken feed as a flu preventative, according to a 2008 paper by researchers from China Agricultural University, said Hill.
In contrast, resistance of the avian flu virus to the second, newer class of antiviral drugs that includes oseltamivir -- a prescription drug marketed under the brand name Tamiflu -- is present, but is not yet prevalent or under positive genetic selection, said Hill of CU-Boulder's ecology and evolutionary biology department. The CU findings should help health administrators around the world plan for the possibility of an avian flu pandemic.
The CU-Boulder study is the first to show H5N1 drug resistance to adamantanes arose through novel genetic mutations rather than an exchange of RNA segments within cells, a process known as re-assortment, said Hill. The research on the mutations, combined with molecular evolution tests and a geographic visualization technique using Google Earth, "provides a framework for analysis of globally distributed data to monitor the evolution of drug resistance," said Hill.
The CU-Boulder-led study appears online in the journal Infection, Genetics and Evolution. Co-authors included CU-Boulder Associate Professor Robert Guralnick, recent CU-Boulder graduate Meredith Wilson, Farhat Habib of Kansas State University and Daniel Janies of Ohio State University.
"As these adamantanes have gotten into nonhuman vectors like birds, the positive selection for resistance to avian flu is rising," said Hill. "If Tamiflu is ever used in the manner of adamantanes, we could conceivably see a similar resistance developing through positive selection."
The research team used an interactive "supermap" using Google Earth technology that portrays the individual gene mutations and spread of the avian flu around the globe, said Guralnick of CU-Boulder's ecology and evolutionary biology department. By projecting genetic and geographic information onto the interactive globe, users can "fly" around the planet to see where resistant H5N1 strains are occurring, said Guralnick, also Hill's doctoral adviser.
For the study, the researchers analyzed 676 whole genomes of Influenza A/H5N1 from National Institutes of Health databases of viruses isolated between 1996 and 2007. The team is comparing how often amino acid sequence changes in genes lead to mutations that affect drug resistance in the H5N1 virus and how often such changes evolve into random mutations that don't affect resistance, Hill said.
The next step is to analyze 2008 data, he said.
First detected in China in 1996, the avian flu has spread throughout Asia and to India, Russia, Pakistan, the Middle East, Africa and Europe by various carriers, including poultry and migratory waterfowl, Hill said. While H5N1 is not highly communicable to humans from birds or between humans, experts are concerned future evolution of this subtype or other subtypes, or genetic re-assortment between subtypes, could make an avian influenza strain more contagious with the potential to cause a pandemic.
"Even if H5N1 is not the flu subtype that develops into the next pandemic, this technique can help us understand the properties of flu viruses and we can use these methods to track mutations in other viruses," said Guralnick. "We can harvest genetic influenza data and monitor it in near real-time, which should give this project some traction to help governments make decisions on managing potential pandemics."
Like the legend of a road map, colors and symbols on the supermap indicate which types of hosts carry the virus or the distribution of genotypes of interest, said Hill. A click by users on viral "isolates" generates computer windows revealing H5N1 mutations linked to positive genetic selection resulting from the spread and use of adamantanes.
The information is linked by computer to the National Institutes of Health's GenBank, a database with more than 75 million sequence records.
According to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, an avian flu pandemic could kill millions of people in America, infect 15 percent to 35 percent of the population and cost well over $100 billion.
Mopping operation begins in Siliguri
Statesman News Service
SILIGURI, Jan. 7: Mopping up operation began today in the bird flu affected areas of Siliguri sub-division as a follow up to the culling process which started last Saturday. The operation has been smooth so far, according to the district and sub divisional officials. Mopping operation also started at the Rajganj block of Jalpaiguri district today.
About 30,000 birds were killed in course of the four-day culling operation, which ended yesterday. The bird killing campaign is expected to be over by tomorrow evening with the completion of the mopping exercise.
The Darjeeling district magistrate, Mr Surendra Gupta, said today that around 700 birds were slaughtered today, the first day of the mopping operation in the Siliguri sub-division. “The exact figure would be higher as reports from all the teams are yet to reach here,” he said.
Mr Gupta further said that the bird elimination campaign would be over with the mopping up tomorrow. “The sanitisation and the monitoring process would start day after tomorrow and these would continue for some days till the monitoring officials to be deputed by the Centre and the state government give the final certificate signaling the end of the entire process,” the Darjeeling DM said.
Briefing for the Jalpaiguri district the ADM (general), Mr NG Hira, said that around 1,500 birds had been killed in the course of culling at the Rajganj block. “Mopping has started today and it would be completed tomorrow,” he said.
Organisation for Animal Health urges bird flu vigilance
World Posted: 08 January 2009 0208 hrs
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An Indian health worker holds ducks during a culling operation at a village in the Indian state of West Bengal. | ||||||
PARIS: The world's paramount authority on trade in farm animals on Wednesday urged countries not to let up in the fight against deadly bird flu.
Outbreaks of H5N1 avian influence among poultry fell last year, as did the toll among humans who came into contact with infected birds, but the story is far from over, said Bernard Vallat, director general of the World Organisation for Animal Health, or OIE.
"There is still a risk from the poultry trade, because the virus has become endemic in some countries that have been unable to get rid of it," Vallat told reporters.
Vallat singled out Egypt and Indonesia as countries where, he said, veterinary surveillance was insufficient.
In China and Vietnam, said Vallat, outbreaks of H5N1 had been managed thanks to systematic vaccination of poultry flocks.
"However, this is expensive and will have to stop one day," he said.
H5N1 bird flu has now killed 248 people since it re-appeared in Asia in 2003, according to the the latest World Health Organisation (WHO) tally.
Of these, 113 died in Indonesia, 52 in Vietnam, 21 in China and 17 in Vietnam.
Deaths last year numbered 31, after 59 in 2007 and 79 in 2006. Eighteen occurred in Indonesia, five in Vietnam and four each in Egypt and in China.
Scientists fear the virus could eventually mutate into a form more easily transmissible between humans, triggering a global pandemic.
Despite the declining human toll, "the theoretical risk of the virus mutating and becoming a killer is still there," said Vallat, who made the comments in a New Year's meeting with reporters in Paris.
Vallat said it was in the interest of rich countries to beef up veterinary surveillance in poor countries.
As a result of globalisation, the spread of an animal-borne disease to other economies can have disastrous consequences, he noted.
On Monday, a 19-year-old Chinese woman died of H5N1 in Beijing after coming into contact with ducks at a poultry market. Authorities in Vietnam also announced on Tuesday an eight-year-old girl had tested positive for H5N1 in the north of the country. - AFP/de
It is E Coli; Not the flu !
By Our Staff Reporter
IMPHAL, Jan 7:
A large number of domestic fowls (hens) have reportedly died over the past few days in Misao Lhanvum village located near Khuga Dam in Churachandpur following outbreak of Colibacillosis, E-coli even as more than 40 villagers have been hospitalised with symptom of high fever.
Taking serious note of the matter, the Director of Veterinary and Animal Husbandry and the Director of Health Services have studied the situation.
In connection with hospitalisation of many villagers, the officers, have, however, ruled out any relation with Bird flu.
On receiving the report yesterday on the dead of many hens, specialist (disease) of the Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Department Dr Konsam Gopal was despatched to the village for collection of the dead fowls’ samples.
Talking to mediaper-sons in this connection today, Director of Veteri-nary and Animal Husban- dry Th Dorendro informed that the collected samples have been examined at the Disease Investigation Laboratory of the Department and confirmed that the hens have died from Colobacillosis, E-coli.
Explaining that Colibacillosis, E-coli is a disease of the hen common in winter and rainy season, the Director said that some of the affected hens have been cured after administering tetracycline.
The Director further informed that in all 16 hens have reportedly died in the village in between January 4 and 6.
Dissuading the apprehension over possible outbreak of Bird flu that led to the dead of the domestic fowls, the officer said that the dead of the hens in the village have nothing do with Bird flu. Nonetheless, as part of the Bird flu surveillance, the Department would be sending the samples of the dead hens thus collected to the Eastern Regional Disease Diagnostic Laboratory for further examination.
In view of the outbreak of Bird flu in Assam, import of poultry products including hens, eggs, chicks and chicken feeds from Assam is currently under restriction.
According to the Director, there are in all 100 hens and 47 ducks in the village located at a distance of 7 kms from Churachandpur district headquarters. There are in all 70 households with a population of 486 people in the village.
On the other hand, Health Director W Motilal have clarified that hospitalisation of over 40 villagers in the District Hospital of Churachandpur is due to high fever and it has nothing to due with Bird flu.
The patients are being treated with paracetamol and antibiotics and four of them have been discharged from the hospital today. The Additional Director (Public Health) Dr Th Bhubonchandra who had gone to the village today also reported back that no symptom of Bird flu have been detected from any of the patients, the Director added.
IMPHAL, Jan 7:
A large number of domestic fowls (hens) have reportedly died over the past few days in Misao Lhanvum village located near Khuga Dam in Churachandpur following outbreak of Colibacillosis, E-coli even as more than 40 villagers have been hospitalised with symptom of high fever.
Taking serious note of the matter, the Director of Veterinary and Animal Husbandry and the Director of Health Services have studied the situation.
In connection with hospitalisation of many villagers, the officers, have, however, ruled out any relation with Bird flu.
On receiving the report yesterday on the dead of many hens, specialist (disease) of the Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Department Dr Konsam Gopal was despatched to the village for collection of the dead fowls’ samples.
Talking to mediaper-sons in this connection today, Director of Veteri-nary and Animal Husban- dry Th Dorendro informed that the collected samples have been examined at the Disease Investigation Laboratory of the Department and confirmed that the hens have died from Colobacillosis, E-coli.
Explaining that Colibacillosis, E-coli is a disease of the hen common in winter and rainy season, the Director said that some of the affected hens have been cured after administering tetracycline.
The Director further informed that in all 16 hens have reportedly died in the village in between January 4 and 6.
Dissuading the apprehension over possible outbreak of Bird flu that led to the dead of the domestic fowls, the officer said that the dead of the hens in the village have nothing do with Bird flu. Nonetheless, as part of the Bird flu surveillance, the Department would be sending the samples of the dead hens thus collected to the Eastern Regional Disease Diagnostic Laboratory for further examination.
In view of the outbreak of Bird flu in Assam, import of poultry products including hens, eggs, chicks and chicken feeds from Assam is currently under restriction.
According to the Director, there are in all 100 hens and 47 ducks in the village located at a distance of 7 kms from Churachandpur district headquarters. There are in all 70 households with a population of 486 people in the village.
On the other hand, Health Director W Motilal have clarified that hospitalisation of over 40 villagers in the District Hospital of Churachandpur is due to high fever and it has nothing to due with Bird flu.
The patients are being treated with paracetamol and antibiotics and four of them have been discharged from the hospital today. The Additional Director (Public Health) Dr Th Bhubonchandra who had gone to the village today also reported back that no symptom of Bird flu have been detected from any of the patients, the Director added.
38 hospitalised in Ccpur village due to unknown disease
Lamka, Jan 7:
An unknown disease has plagued the residents of Misao Lhahvom since Sunday night. The village is located around 8 kms from Churachandpur police station in the south near the Khuga dam canal.
The epidemic has affected the villagers since Sunday night resulting in the hospitalisation of 16 persons within 24 minutes. However, as more and more people are being affected by the seemingly contagious disease, the number of patients till now has risen to a whopping 34 till 8.30 pm yesterday and 38 by today, as 4 more have been admitted to the district hospital.
According, to one of the villagers attending on the patients, on Sunday night one Nemneilam, 18, was the first one to be attacked by the disease. She had a high fever and soon after lost consciousness. Panicking at this development many people from the village arrived at her home to share the anxiety of the family members.
But the visitors were also not spared and suffered the same fate on returning home, he said adding that the number of people suffering was on the rise.
Within 3 to 4 hours during the night the number of patients crossed 10, he said.
The villager Lunthang told the IFP that there was one auto rickshaw in the village and using this the villagers brought many patients to the district hospital.
During all this while, some local NGOs like the ZYA and the KKL assisted them in bringing the patients to the hospital.
Yesterday , a medical team headed by the CMO Dr. Shingkhojam Haujel and Paulginthang from the malaria department went to the village and made an assessment of the situation. The team took the blood samples of 130 people and later the veterinary department officials also visited the village.
The DC Churachandpur, Sumant Singh, meanwhile, paid a visit personally to the patients languishing at the hospital and also sent a message to the additional secretary health urging him to dispatch a medical team urgently to the affected area.
The team which reportedly arrived at the village in compliance with the official call reached here around 4 pm and went straight to the village and thereafter returned to Imphal after collecting some blood samples. The team was led by Dr. K Gopal and it assuaged apprehensions among the local people that the disease could be bird flue, while stating that it was in fact a bacterial disease.
Meanwhile, Dr. T Hatzaw, the medical superintendent, also urged the additional director of the health department to conduct an investigation to find the cause of the disease.
A local body ZEPADA, meanwhile, has urged the officer in-charge of NICD, Plague Surveillance Unit, New Delhi to take immediate steps in the matter.
Today, Th Bubhan Chandra Singh, the additional director of public health and state nodal officer, ISDP visited Churachandpur and had a meeting with the DC and some other health officials in the district.
All the patients’ blood samples were collected today once again and are now under surveillance. However, in spite of all these efforts there is still no confirmation on what the disease was and how it had been caused.
Some blood samples that were tested yesterday were negative and there are no cases of malaria, according to the medical superintendant of the district hospital.
An unknown disease has plagued the residents of Misao Lhahvom since Sunday night. The village is located around 8 kms from Churachandpur police station in the south near the Khuga dam canal.
The epidemic has affected the villagers since Sunday night resulting in the hospitalisation of 16 persons within 24 minutes. However, as more and more people are being affected by the seemingly contagious disease, the number of patients till now has risen to a whopping 34 till 8.30 pm yesterday and 38 by today, as 4 more have been admitted to the district hospital.
According, to one of the villagers attending on the patients, on Sunday night one Nemneilam, 18, was the first one to be attacked by the disease. She had a high fever and soon after lost consciousness. Panicking at this development many people from the village arrived at her home to share the anxiety of the family members.
But the visitors were also not spared and suffered the same fate on returning home, he said adding that the number of people suffering was on the rise.
Within 3 to 4 hours during the night the number of patients crossed 10, he said.
The villager Lunthang told the IFP that there was one auto rickshaw in the village and using this the villagers brought many patients to the district hospital.
During all this while, some local NGOs like the ZYA and the KKL assisted them in bringing the patients to the hospital.
Yesterday , a medical team headed by the CMO Dr. Shingkhojam Haujel and Paulginthang from the malaria department went to the village and made an assessment of the situation. The team took the blood samples of 130 people and later the veterinary department officials also visited the village.
The DC Churachandpur, Sumant Singh, meanwhile, paid a visit personally to the patients languishing at the hospital and also sent a message to the additional secretary health urging him to dispatch a medical team urgently to the affected area.
The team which reportedly arrived at the village in compliance with the official call reached here around 4 pm and went straight to the village and thereafter returned to Imphal after collecting some blood samples. The team was led by Dr. K Gopal and it assuaged apprehensions among the local people that the disease could be bird flue, while stating that it was in fact a bacterial disease.
Meanwhile, Dr. T Hatzaw, the medical superintendent, also urged the additional director of the health department to conduct an investigation to find the cause of the disease.
A local body ZEPADA, meanwhile, has urged the officer in-charge of NICD, Plague Surveillance Unit, New Delhi to take immediate steps in the matter.
Today, Th Bubhan Chandra Singh, the additional director of public health and state nodal officer, ISDP visited Churachandpur and had a meeting with the DC and some other health officials in the district.
All the patients’ blood samples were collected today once again and are now under surveillance. However, in spite of all these efforts there is still no confirmation on what the disease was and how it had been caused.
Some blood samples that were tested yesterday were negative and there are no cases of malaria, according to the medical superintendant of the district hospital.
Bird flu like illness haunts CCpur village
Source: The Sangai Express / S Singlianmang Guite
Lamka, January 07 2009: Barely forty-eight hours after an epidemic like mysterious infection identified as 'highly infectious with cerebral infection' hit a tiny hamlet in the district, the conference hall of the Chief Medical Officer which was temporarily transformed to isolate the infected is now packed with patients as the number keeps mounting.
Thirty eight people, including children, all hailing from Misao Lhahvom village were admitted at the District Hospital here since Saturday night for the yet to be diagnosed infection.
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Quite a few articles today on "Pandemics". The following are all excerpts:
GPs flu pandemic workload warning
Wednesday, 7 January 2009
The Royal College of GPs and British Medical Association guidance said surgeries should "buddy up" with neighbouring ones to share resources.
And they said UK GPs may even need to set up separate waiting rooms for flu patients and draft in retired doctors to help with death certification.
Experts have been predicting a flu pandemic is long overdue.
-snip-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7815278.stm
Patients 'will be told not to visit GP in pandemic flu outbreak'
07 Jan 2009
Up to 20 million patients will be told to call a helpline rather than see their family doctor if a flu pandemic hits, under new guidelines.
-snip-
The new guidance will be sent to all GPs across Britain.
Dr Laurence Buckman, chairman of the BMA’s GP committee, said: “We are saying to GPs that they have to think about this now. This is not like the seasonal flu. This can happen at any time. We do not know when but we do know that it will happen.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/4162406/Patients-will-be-told-not-to-visit-GP-in-pandemic-flu-outbreak.html
GPs told to isolate flu patients as fears grow of a pandemic
07.01.09
DOCTORS were today told to set up waiting rooms to separate patients with flu from those not infected.
Guidance was issued by health experts to help GPs cope with a flu crisis as they were warned the NHS would be put under "unprecedented pressure" if a pandemic broke out. The British Medical Association and the Royal College of General Practitioners said doctors' surgeries will be "stretched beyond current limits" and said practices must draw up emergency plans to cope with a pandemic by the end of March.
-snip-
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23613606-details/GPs+told+to+isolate+flu+patients+as+fears+grow+of+a+pandemic/article.do
New bird flu cases revive fear of human pandemic
Los Angeles Times
11:19 PM EST, January 4, 2009
The deadly H5N1 virus, bird flu, has resurfaced in poultry in Hong Kong for the first time in six years, reinforcing warnings that the threat of a human pandemic still exists.
-snip-
Yet H5N1 has continued to "at the very least smolder, and many times flare up" since the outbreaks began in 2003, said Michael T. Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.
-snip-
Scientists have little experience with which to gauge how H5N1 will evolve. But, Webster said, "We still have to treat this as a potentially very, very dangerous virus."
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hsflu05-nws,0,727799.story?track=rss
How to Keep Your Family Safe From Bird Flu
January 07, 2009
U.S. News & World Report
With the news that a 19-year-old woman died of bird flu in China, it's time to think of how best to be safe, even if this latest case of the virus doesn't spark the long-feared global pandemic.
"We shouldn't be complacent," says Kathy Neuzil, an infectious-disease expert who specializes in flu through her work with the PATH global initiative and as a member of the pandemic flu task force for the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
-snip-
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/on-parenting/2009/01/07/how-to-keep-your-family-safe-from-bird-flu.html
GPs flu pandemic workload warning
Wednesday, 7 January 2009
The Royal College of GPs and British Medical Association guidance said surgeries should "buddy up" with neighbouring ones to share resources.
And they said UK GPs may even need to set up separate waiting rooms for flu patients and draft in retired doctors to help with death certification.
Experts have been predicting a flu pandemic is long overdue.
-snip-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7815278.stm
Patients 'will be told not to visit GP in pandemic flu outbreak'
07 Jan 2009
Up to 20 million patients will be told to call a helpline rather than see their family doctor if a flu pandemic hits, under new guidelines.
-snip-
The new guidance will be sent to all GPs across Britain.
Dr Laurence Buckman, chairman of the BMA’s GP committee, said: “We are saying to GPs that they have to think about this now. This is not like the seasonal flu. This can happen at any time. We do not know when but we do know that it will happen.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/4162406/Patients-will-be-told-not-to-visit-GP-in-pandemic-flu-outbreak.html
GPs told to isolate flu patients as fears grow of a pandemic
07.01.09
DOCTORS were today told to set up waiting rooms to separate patients with flu from those not infected.
Guidance was issued by health experts to help GPs cope with a flu crisis as they were warned the NHS would be put under "unprecedented pressure" if a pandemic broke out. The British Medical Association and the Royal College of General Practitioners said doctors' surgeries will be "stretched beyond current limits" and said practices must draw up emergency plans to cope with a pandemic by the end of March.
-snip-
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23613606-details/GPs+told+to+isolate+flu+patients+as+fears+grow+of+a+pandemic/article.do
New bird flu cases revive fear of human pandemic
Los Angeles Times
11:19 PM EST, January 4, 2009
The deadly H5N1 virus, bird flu, has resurfaced in poultry in Hong Kong for the first time in six years, reinforcing warnings that the threat of a human pandemic still exists.
-snip-
Yet H5N1 has continued to "at the very least smolder, and many times flare up" since the outbreaks began in 2003, said Michael T. Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.
-snip-
Scientists have little experience with which to gauge how H5N1 will evolve. But, Webster said, "We still have to treat this as a potentially very, very dangerous virus."
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hsflu05-nws,0,727799.story?track=rss
How to Keep Your Family Safe From Bird Flu
January 07, 2009
U.S. News & World Report
With the news that a 19-year-old woman died of bird flu in China, it's time to think of how best to be safe, even if this latest case of the virus doesn't spark the long-feared global pandemic.
"We shouldn't be complacent," says Kathy Neuzil, an infectious-disease expert who specializes in flu through her work with the PATH global initiative and as a member of the pandemic flu task force for the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
-snip-
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/on-parenting/2009/01/07/how-to-keep-your-family-safe-from-bird-flu.html
Beijing on alert after bird flu death
2009-1-8
AGRICULTURE officials have issued an alert against bird flu after a 19-year-old woman died of the disease in Beijing.
Workers disinfected the Yanjiaoqingong Market in Sanhe, Hebei Province neighboring Beijing, yesterday morning. The woman bought nine ducks at the market on December 19 and died of bird flu on Monday in a Beijing hospital.
The market's five shops selling live poultry have been closed.
The government of Sanhe City, under the jurisdiction of Langfang, has set up an emergency group headed by the city's Communist Party Chief Li Gang to deal with bird flu prevention, quarantine and market-regulation issues.
Local health authorities examined 15 people engaged in the live poultry trade in the market, and all of them were free of the disease. The authorities also surveyed city residents who had been diagnosed with fever and all poultry farms, and found no problems.
Beijing has banned live poultry from other parts of the country from entering the city. Experts have begun to inspect the city's slaughterhouses and poultry farms.
No domestic fowl were kept within 10 kilometers of the Sanjianfangdong Village of Chaoyang District in Beijing where the dead woman lived, said city officials.
In Tianjin, the suspected origin of the ducks, authorities also started bird flu prevention measures. Experts from the Ministry of Agriculture and the city have gone to Jixian County to inspect the poultry market. They found no signs of bird flu.
AGRICULTURE officials have issued an alert against bird flu after a 19-year-old woman died of the disease in Beijing.
Workers disinfected the Yanjiaoqingong Market in Sanhe, Hebei Province neighboring Beijing, yesterday morning. The woman bought nine ducks at the market on December 19 and died of bird flu on Monday in a Beijing hospital.
The market's five shops selling live poultry have been closed.
The government of Sanhe City, under the jurisdiction of Langfang, has set up an emergency group headed by the city's Communist Party Chief Li Gang to deal with bird flu prevention, quarantine and market-regulation issues.
Local health authorities examined 15 people engaged in the live poultry trade in the market, and all of them were free of the disease. The authorities also surveyed city residents who had been diagnosed with fever and all poultry farms, and found no problems.
Beijing has banned live poultry from other parts of the country from entering the city. Experts have begun to inspect the city's slaughterhouses and poultry farms.
No domestic fowl were kept within 10 kilometers of the Sanjianfangdong Village of Chaoyang District in Beijing where the dead woman lived, said city officials.
In Tianjin, the suspected origin of the ducks, authorities also started bird flu prevention measures. Experts from the Ministry of Agriculture and the city have gone to Jixian County to inspect the poultry market. They found no signs of bird flu.
World Organisation for Animal Health urges bird flu vigilance
Posted: 08 January 2009 0208 hrs
PARIS: The world's paramount authority on trade in farm animals on Wednesday urged countries not to let up in the fight against deadly bird flu.
Outbreaks of H5N1 avian influence among poultry fell last year, as did the toll among humans who came into contact with infected birds, but the story is far from over, said Bernard Vallat, director general of the World Organisation for Animal Health, or OIE.
"There is still a risk from the poultry trade, because the virus has become endemic in some countries that have been unable to get rid of it," Vallat told reporters.
Vallat singled out Egypt and Indonesia as countries where, he said, veterinary surveillance was insufficient.
In China and Vietnam, said Vallat, outbreaks of H5N1 had been managed thanks to systematic vaccination of poultry flocks.
"However, this is expensive and will have to stop one day," he said.
H5N1 bird flu has now killed 248 people since it re-appeared in Asia in 2003, according to the the latest World Health Organisation (WHO) tally.
Of these, 113 died in Indonesia, 52 in Vietnam, 21 in China and 17 in Vietnam.
Deaths last year numbered 31, after 59 in 2007 and 79 in 2006. Eighteen occurred in Indonesia, five in Vietnam and four each in Egypt and in China.
Scientists fear the virus could eventually mutate into a form more easily transmissible between humans, triggering a global pandemic.
Despite the declining human toll, "the theoretical risk of the virus mutating and becoming a killer is still there," said Vallat, who made the comments in a New Year's meeting with reporters in Paris.
Vallat said it was in the interest of rich countries to beef up veterinary surveillance in poor countries.
As a result of globalisation, the spread of an animal-borne disease to other economies can have disastrous consequences, he noted.
On Monday, a 19-year-old Chinese woman died of H5N1 in Beijing after coming into contact with ducks at a poultry market. Authorities in Vietnam also announced on Tuesday an eight-year-old girl had tested positive for H5N1 in the north of the country. - AFP/de
PARIS: The world's paramount authority on trade in farm animals on Wednesday urged countries not to let up in the fight against deadly bird flu.
Outbreaks of H5N1 avian influence among poultry fell last year, as did the toll among humans who came into contact with infected birds, but the story is far from over, said Bernard Vallat, director general of the World Organisation for Animal Health, or OIE.
"There is still a risk from the poultry trade, because the virus has become endemic in some countries that have been unable to get rid of it," Vallat told reporters.
Vallat singled out Egypt and Indonesia as countries where, he said, veterinary surveillance was insufficient.
In China and Vietnam, said Vallat, outbreaks of H5N1 had been managed thanks to systematic vaccination of poultry flocks.
"However, this is expensive and will have to stop one day," he said.
H5N1 bird flu has now killed 248 people since it re-appeared in Asia in 2003, according to the the latest World Health Organisation (WHO) tally.
Of these, 113 died in Indonesia, 52 in Vietnam, 21 in China and 17 in Vietnam.
Deaths last year numbered 31, after 59 in 2007 and 79 in 2006. Eighteen occurred in Indonesia, five in Vietnam and four each in Egypt and in China.
Scientists fear the virus could eventually mutate into a form more easily transmissible between humans, triggering a global pandemic.
Despite the declining human toll, "the theoretical risk of the virus mutating and becoming a killer is still there," said Vallat, who made the comments in a New Year's meeting with reporters in Paris.
Vallat said it was in the interest of rich countries to beef up veterinary surveillance in poor countries.
As a result of globalisation, the spread of an animal-borne disease to other economies can have disastrous consequences, he noted.
On Monday, a 19-year-old Chinese woman died of H5N1 in Beijing after coming into contact with ducks at a poultry market. Authorities in Vietnam also announced on Tuesday an eight-year-old girl had tested positive for H5N1 in the north of the country. - AFP/de
Bird flu scare in Manipur scuttled
NEWMAI NEWS
IMPHAL, Jan 7 – Setting to rest the speculations of the outbreak of bird flu in Manipur, Dr Rajen, officer of Disease Investigation Laboratory has clarified that the death of the chicken was due to a water- borne disease.
Cases of death of about 16 chicken in Churachandpur district over the last four days were due to water-borne disease known as ‘Colibacillosis’ which is a common disease, asserted Dr Rajen. “We came to know of the result after the joint director of the Veterinary department of Churachandpur sent a sample to the Directorate,” affirmed Dr Rajen.
However, not ruling out a possible outbreak of the flu in the near future, the officer of the DI Lab informed that surveillance work was under process to check any possible outbreak in the future. He also observed the need for steps and measures to check the flu and warned that Manipur was a very sensitive place for the bird flu.
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Avian and Human Pandemic Influenza in Beijing on the report system and the prohibition of live poultry outside Beijing
At 19:56 on January 7, 2009
China news agency, Beijing, January 7 (Reporter Du Yan) - In Beijing recently confirmed case of human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza deaths in Beijing with immediate effect the implementation of highly pathogenic avian influenza prevention and control on the reporting system at the same time, from now the prohibition of unauthorized outside Beijing live birds and live poultry trade in Beijing.
Beijing Health Bureau held a news conference on the 7th afternoon announced that from now on, all kinds of medical institutions at all levels in Beijing for treatment of all cases of influenza-like cases to register and report daily to the area for Disease Control and Prevention reported the county, and district County to be the prevention and control of inspection prior to 4:30 p.m. daily report major animal disease prevention and control of Beijing headquarters office.
Beijing Municipal Health Bureau said that the Beijing Disease Control and Prevention Department of the districts and counties should take the initiative to house survey, investigation and whether the residents have influenza-like cases, after the discovery of cases sent to hospital for treatment. Among them, if human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza suspected cases, according to human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza prevention and control work to implement the relevant requirements.
At the same time, a major animal disease prevention and control, Beijing has released Command "on further strengthening the highly pathogenic avian influenza prevention and control work" emergency notification, and launch public health emergencies in response to grade Ⅱ. Told that, from Beijing banned without a major animal disease prevention and control headquarters office outside the approved live in Beijing. To Beijing in the road, rail, aviation site supervision of animal quarantine, Beijing will enhance the relevant departments in Beijing animals and their products outside the supervision and checks, and do a good job means of delivery disinfection.
Beijing Municipal Health Bureau on the 7th also said that at present the city of influenza and other respiratory diseases is high season for respiratory infectious diseases prevention and control is also a crucial stage. In order to further strengthen human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza and other major respiratory infectious disease prevention and control work, it will take a variety of prevention and control measures. And Beijing also will be banned from the city's live poultry trading and focus on the special law enforcement inspection, start of slaughterhouses, farms and other regional category of spot checks of live birds.
It is learned that Beijing veterinary departments have been on the 6th place of residence for patients around the tight investigation shows that patients with place of residence and its surrounding areas within 10 kilometers without poultry. At the same time, the epidemiological investigation, the Beijing poultry found no abnormalities.
China news agency, Beijing, January 7 (Reporter Du Yan) - In Beijing recently confirmed case of human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza deaths in Beijing with immediate effect the implementation of highly pathogenic avian influenza prevention and control on the reporting system at the same time, from now the prohibition of unauthorized outside Beijing live birds and live poultry trade in Beijing.
Beijing Health Bureau held a news conference on the 7th afternoon announced that from now on, all kinds of medical institutions at all levels in Beijing for treatment of all cases of influenza-like cases to register and report daily to the area for Disease Control and Prevention reported the county, and district County to be the prevention and control of inspection prior to 4:30 p.m. daily report major animal disease prevention and control of Beijing headquarters office.
Beijing Municipal Health Bureau said that the Beijing Disease Control and Prevention Department of the districts and counties should take the initiative to house survey, investigation and whether the residents have influenza-like cases, after the discovery of cases sent to hospital for treatment. Among them, if human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza suspected cases, according to human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza prevention and control work to implement the relevant requirements.
At the same time, a major animal disease prevention and control, Beijing has released Command "on further strengthening the highly pathogenic avian influenza prevention and control work" emergency notification, and launch public health emergencies in response to grade Ⅱ. Told that, from Beijing banned without a major animal disease prevention and control headquarters office outside the approved live in Beijing. To Beijing in the road, rail, aviation site supervision of animal quarantine, Beijing will enhance the relevant departments in Beijing animals and their products outside the supervision and checks, and do a good job means of delivery disinfection.
Beijing Municipal Health Bureau on the 7th also said that at present the city of influenza and other respiratory diseases is high season for respiratory infectious diseases prevention and control is also a crucial stage. In order to further strengthen human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza and other major respiratory infectious disease prevention and control work, it will take a variety of prevention and control measures. And Beijing also will be banned from the city's live poultry trading and focus on the special law enforcement inspection, start of slaughterhouses, farms and other regional category of spot checks of live birds.
It is learned that Beijing veterinary departments have been on the 6th place of residence for patients around the tight investigation shows that patients with place of residence and its surrounding areas within 10 kilometers without poultry. At the same time, the epidemiological investigation, the Beijing poultry found no abnormalities.
Ministry of Agriculture: Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei three places that have not yet found bird flu poultry
Time: 2009-01-07 21:15:03
SUMMARY: Chaoyang District, Beijing confirmed one cases of human infection with bird flu, the Ministry of Agriculture immediately deploy Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei provinces and cities to expand the scope of the three emergency investigation poultry epidemic. After the epidemic monitoring and epidemiological investigation, the three provinces found no outbreak of bird flu.
Chaoyang District, Beijing confirmed one cases of human infection with bird flu, the Ministry of Agriculture immediately deploy Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei provinces and cities to expand the scope of the three emergency investigation poultry epidemic. After the epidemic monitoring and epidemiological investigation, the three provinces found no outbreak of bird flu.
By the China Animal Disease Prevention and Control Center and China Animal Health and Epidemiology Center, the expert group composed of experts of Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei farms in key areas (households) and poultry market to carry out epidemiological investigations and outbreak investigation, were found abnormal poultry deaths. Expert Group in the local veterinary departments of emergency gathering 1800 serum samples, 750 samples were etiology, pathogen detection were negative.
According to the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture, in June 2008 throughout the country since no outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza. 9,10 month in 2008 to carry out since the fall of animal epidemic prevention work, veterinary departments at all levels pay close attention to immunization, to strengthen quarantine supervision, strengthen epidemic monitoring and other key link in the immune antibody qualified than the national required standards. During December 2008, Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei provinces and cities in the three pathogenic avian flu were detected in samples of 8890, results were negative.
Again a few days ago the Ministry of Agriculture issued a circular urging all localities to strengthen the immune effect before the Spring Festival monitoring, according to different antibody level of protection of livestock and poultry, livestock and poultry in the new补栏, leak-free livestock and poultry and livestock and poultry immunization failed to carry out focus on premium-free to ensure that the quality of immunization.
Ministry of Agriculture also called for the focus of live poultry markets around the application of the weekly sentinel surveillance system, strictly enforce the rest regularly and thoroughly disinfected after the closed system, to effectively prevent the spread and spread of foci.
SUMMARY: Chaoyang District, Beijing confirmed one cases of human infection with bird flu, the Ministry of Agriculture immediately deploy Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei provinces and cities to expand the scope of the three emergency investigation poultry epidemic. After the epidemic monitoring and epidemiological investigation, the three provinces found no outbreak of bird flu.
Chaoyang District, Beijing confirmed one cases of human infection with bird flu, the Ministry of Agriculture immediately deploy Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei provinces and cities to expand the scope of the three emergency investigation poultry epidemic. After the epidemic monitoring and epidemiological investigation, the three provinces found no outbreak of bird flu.
By the China Animal Disease Prevention and Control Center and China Animal Health and Epidemiology Center, the expert group composed of experts of Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei farms in key areas (households) and poultry market to carry out epidemiological investigations and outbreak investigation, were found abnormal poultry deaths. Expert Group in the local veterinary departments of emergency gathering 1800 serum samples, 750 samples were etiology, pathogen detection were negative.
According to the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture, in June 2008 throughout the country since no outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza. 9,10 month in 2008 to carry out since the fall of animal epidemic prevention work, veterinary departments at all levels pay close attention to immunization, to strengthen quarantine supervision, strengthen epidemic monitoring and other key link in the immune antibody qualified than the national required standards. During December 2008, Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei provinces and cities in the three pathogenic avian flu were detected in samples of 8890, results were negative.
Again a few days ago the Ministry of Agriculture issued a circular urging all localities to strengthen the immune effect before the Spring Festival monitoring, according to different antibody level of protection of livestock and poultry, livestock and poultry in the new补栏, leak-free livestock and poultry and livestock and poultry immunization failed to carry out focus on premium-free to ensure that the quality of immunization.
Ministry of Agriculture also called for the focus of live poultry markets around the application of the weekly sentinel surveillance system, strictly enforce the rest regularly and thoroughly disinfected after the closed system, to effectively prevent the spread and spread of foci.
Beijing bird flu deceased had consumed ducks in close contact with normal
At 21:29 on January 7, 2009 Source: China News Network
(Reporter Du Yan) - Beijing confirmed case of human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza cases, patients had been cremated the body of Huang Yan-qing, allegedly had contact with his ducks and duck consumption, but the causes have not yet clarity.
Seven days, the reporters came to his home district in patients understand that the Chaoyang District, Beijing 3 Rural Housing is a lot of foreign workers who gathered to. 19-year-old girl Huang Yan-qing II OO seven years from Putian City, Fujian Province to Beijing, and parents living in three villages landlord, relying on a living wage.
Simple reporter knocked on the wooden doors, less than 20 square meters more than the cottage, the only display a wooden bed and a table, as well as the use of coal for cooking. The deceased's mother, sitting in a corner room, with several fellow红着眼circle daughter see a doctor about the debt.
The deceased father told reporters, according to his tradition, the winter solstice ducks to eat. December 19 last year, his daughter, two fellow Sanhe City in Hebei Langfang Yanjiao of a market to buy a nine ducks, from the sale of ducks were slaughtered on the spot. Since then, the fellow will be three of which were home to the Huang Yan-qing, Huang Yan-qing uncle and neighbors at home.
Huang said the father, in addition to鸭脖子mentioned, the daughter of contact with the duck is not too much.
December 24, Huang Yan-qing similar symptoms of fever; after medication, his condition improved. On the 27th, hospitalized exacerbations. Two days after the treatment condition did not improve, Huang Yan-qing was transferred to another hospital to receive treatment and was diagnosed as pneumonia.
But until the 30th, his daughter is still a high fever returned, and then was sent to Beijing Chest Hospital, a preliminary diagnosis of "fungal infection." Until the evening of January 4 this year, Huang father was told that her daughter may have contracted bird flu.
At 7:20 on January 5, Huang Yan-qing died after treatment. After the Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Academy of Military Medical Sciences of the parallel testing, as well as the China Disease Prevention and Control Center (China CDC) review of the testing, samples of the deceased showed that the avian flu virus (H5N1) nucleic acid positive.
According to the Beijing Municipal Health Bureau of Investigation, told Huang Yan-qing in close contact with a total of 116 people, including family members and neighbors, 14 people, hospital medical staff over a hundred people. In addition to a nurse had fever, and has returned to normal, the other officers are not unusual.
Huang introduced the father and daughter died the same day was cremated, and the place of residence around the relevant departments have also been investigating. He said the past few days, health care workers come daily temperature until the full seven days. The past few days, he and his wife did not appear abnormal.
Huang said the father, and now trying to approach the return of her daughter medical treatment incurred because relatives and friends of more than ten million yuan.
(Reporter Du Yan) - Beijing confirmed case of human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza cases, patients had been cremated the body of Huang Yan-qing, allegedly had contact with his ducks and duck consumption, but the causes have not yet clarity.
Seven days, the reporters came to his home district in patients understand that the Chaoyang District, Beijing 3 Rural Housing is a lot of foreign workers who gathered to. 19-year-old girl Huang Yan-qing II OO seven years from Putian City, Fujian Province to Beijing, and parents living in three villages landlord, relying on a living wage.
Simple reporter knocked on the wooden doors, less than 20 square meters more than the cottage, the only display a wooden bed and a table, as well as the use of coal for cooking. The deceased's mother, sitting in a corner room, with several fellow红着眼circle daughter see a doctor about the debt.
The deceased father told reporters, according to his tradition, the winter solstice ducks to eat. December 19 last year, his daughter, two fellow Sanhe City in Hebei Langfang Yanjiao of a market to buy a nine ducks, from the sale of ducks were slaughtered on the spot. Since then, the fellow will be three of which were home to the Huang Yan-qing, Huang Yan-qing uncle and neighbors at home.
Huang said the father, in addition to鸭脖子mentioned, the daughter of contact with the duck is not too much.
December 24, Huang Yan-qing similar symptoms of fever; after medication, his condition improved. On the 27th, hospitalized exacerbations. Two days after the treatment condition did not improve, Huang Yan-qing was transferred to another hospital to receive treatment and was diagnosed as pneumonia.
But until the 30th, his daughter is still a high fever returned, and then was sent to Beijing Chest Hospital, a preliminary diagnosis of "fungal infection." Until the evening of January 4 this year, Huang father was told that her daughter may have contracted bird flu.
At 7:20 on January 5, Huang Yan-qing died after treatment. After the Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Academy of Military Medical Sciences of the parallel testing, as well as the China Disease Prevention and Control Center (China CDC) review of the testing, samples of the deceased showed that the avian flu virus (H5N1) nucleic acid positive.
According to the Beijing Municipal Health Bureau of Investigation, told Huang Yan-qing in close contact with a total of 116 people, including family members and neighbors, 14 people, hospital medical staff over a hundred people. In addition to a nurse had fever, and has returned to normal, the other officers are not unusual.
Huang introduced the father and daughter died the same day was cremated, and the place of residence around the relevant departments have also been investigating. He said the past few days, health care workers come daily temperature until the full seven days. The past few days, he and his wife did not appear abnormal.
Huang said the father, and now trying to approach the return of her daughter medical treatment incurred because relatives and friends of more than ten million yuan.
Lap mission to check avian influenza
Wednesday, 7/1/2009, 20:26 (GMT +7)
(TBKTSG Online) - The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in the 7-1 has requested the local establishment of the mission to inspect and guide the implementation of preventive avian influenza at villages, hamlets.
In addition to the establishment of mission to check on, the request also clenching to check the vaccination, reviewing all of influenza vaccination has not been vaccinated or not enough on the nose area of the province.
Also, check the delegation in collaboration with the animal, the market managed to control the transport of poultry traders are increasing in the Chinese New Year festival. The trade, transport, slaughter, pepper consumption of poultry and poultry products in the country as well as through the border will also be clenching.
The 7-1, Department of Animal Health in Vietnam, said, does not detect more outbreak of new and up to now, and are Bùng at Thanh Hoa province and Thai Nguyen. Meanwhile, a baby girl 8 years old living in China Dien, Ba Thuoc district, Thanh Hoa province has been hospitalized due to H5N1 virus infection. There, patients are in the process of recovery.
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said that in 2008, HPAI has been controlled Bùng not play into the first major outbreaks, only occurs in small households that cause mainly by the Forum influenza vaccine is not vaccine or injected vaccine not properly regulated, the rate of vaccine achieved results low.
On 7-1, the approved projects to use vaccine to control and payment HPAI in the period 2009-2010. Accordingly, from now to 2010, the state budget will spend 120.3 billion for the injected vaccine. In it, who will be more than 106 billion to buy 230.5 million doses of vaccines annually.
Risk still gumshoe
According to experts, medical and veterinary, and avian influenza are at risk of Bùng quite high when the weather in the north are cold and dry. Meanwhile, the transport of poultry from areas with outbreaks, and border areas also increased in order to serve consumer needs in the Chinese New Year festival.
Do Huu Dung, Deputy rooms epidemiology, Department of Animal Health under the Economic Times Online Saigon know them smuggling chickens are increased before Chinese New Year, previously mainly through Lang Son border gate will now switch to the export Mong Cai (Quang Ninh Province).
Mekong Delta, although quite far north - where HPAI is Bùng play, also face the risk of avian influenza is very high by the seasons for ducks running of post-harvest rice. According to Dung, the flocks of ducks in the Mekong Delta has doubled in recent years.
Mr. Dung also said that does not identify the avian influenza has appeared in Vietnam or not, although information 300 of the duck Mr. Ngo Van Minh, in Ngoc Lam, Tam Tien, Nui Thanh district, Quang Vietnam died since last week. However, the central provinces to the high alert because in 2008, avian influenza outbreaks have occurred in concentrated areas.
According to Department of Animal Health, in 2008, HPAI has Bùng at 80 districts in 27 provinces and cities nationwide. At least 106,000 children of poultry have been burnt in the past year.
(TBKTSG Online) - The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in the 7-1 has requested the local establishment of the mission to inspect and guide the implementation of preventive avian influenza at villages, hamlets.
In addition to the establishment of mission to check on, the request also clenching to check the vaccination, reviewing all of influenza vaccination has not been vaccinated or not enough on the nose area of the province.
Also, check the delegation in collaboration with the animal, the market managed to control the transport of poultry traders are increasing in the Chinese New Year festival. The trade, transport, slaughter, pepper consumption of poultry and poultry products in the country as well as through the border will also be clenching.
The 7-1, Department of Animal Health in Vietnam, said, does not detect more outbreak of new and up to now, and are Bùng at Thanh Hoa province and Thai Nguyen. Meanwhile, a baby girl 8 years old living in China Dien, Ba Thuoc district, Thanh Hoa province has been hospitalized due to H5N1 virus infection. There, patients are in the process of recovery.
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said that in 2008, HPAI has been controlled Bùng not play into the first major outbreaks, only occurs in small households that cause mainly by the Forum influenza vaccine is not vaccine or injected vaccine not properly regulated, the rate of vaccine achieved results low.
On 7-1, the approved projects to use vaccine to control and payment HPAI in the period 2009-2010. Accordingly, from now to 2010, the state budget will spend 120.3 billion for the injected vaccine. In it, who will be more than 106 billion to buy 230.5 million doses of vaccines annually.
Risk still gumshoe
According to experts, medical and veterinary, and avian influenza are at risk of Bùng quite high when the weather in the north are cold and dry. Meanwhile, the transport of poultry from areas with outbreaks, and border areas also increased in order to serve consumer needs in the Chinese New Year festival.
Do Huu Dung, Deputy rooms epidemiology, Department of Animal Health under the Economic Times Online Saigon know them smuggling chickens are increased before Chinese New Year, previously mainly through Lang Son border gate will now switch to the export Mong Cai (Quang Ninh Province).
Mekong Delta, although quite far north - where HPAI is Bùng play, also face the risk of avian influenza is very high by the seasons for ducks running of post-harvest rice. According to Dung, the flocks of ducks in the Mekong Delta has doubled in recent years.
Mr. Dung also said that does not identify the avian influenza has appeared in Vietnam or not, although information 300 of the duck Mr. Ngo Van Minh, in Ngoc Lam, Tam Tien, Nui Thanh district, Quang Vietnam died since last week. However, the central provinces to the high alert because in 2008, avian influenza outbreaks have occurred in concentrated areas.
According to Department of Animal Health, in 2008, HPAI has Bùng at 80 districts in 27 provinces and cities nationwide. At least 106,000 children of poultry have been burnt in the past year.
Thousands of children dead ducks unknown cause in Vietnam.
The flocks of ducks Ngoc Loc village, Tam Tien, Nui Thanh district, Quang Nam Province) is gradually dying every hour.
[Date 07/01/2009]
The flocks of ducks Ngoc Loc village, Tam Tien, Nui Thanh district, Quang Nam Province) is gradually dying every hour.
In the last week, nearly a thousand baby ducks Ngoc Loc village, Tam Tien, Nui Thanh district, Quang Nam spread death unknown causes. Meanwhile, leaders of the provincial veterinary departments still have not confirmed the hề have any dead poultry in the province by the disease.
Only this morning, flocks of ducks 300 Le Xuan for 20 more children died, raising the total number of ducks have died in four days to more than 150 children. Riêng hộ anh Ngô Văn Minh chỉ trong tuần qua, 300 con vịt (200 vịt đẻ) đã chết và chỉ còn đúng 9 con trong chuồng.
The ducks have this common symptom is going groggy and spread death. "The child died ducks are most people butcher for food, water as duck meat is that the stream near the state should spread the disease duck out quickly," Mr. Tran Dinh Institute, Head Loc village Ngoc, said.
With the reality, to this lunch, Pham Ngoc Anh, Department Chief Veterinary Department in Quang Nam province, is confirmed, the vaccination, disease surveillance of the cross-sectoral networks and veterinary facilities should be very positive to this point in the province have no status influenza epidemic was dead.
Vietnam: Detect a case of influenza A/H5N1 infection
Contact with poultry must be finished washing your hands clean. (Photo: VNN)
After 10 months ang yen, on 6 / 1, Department of Health and the Environment (Ministry of Health) has officially notified of a new infection influenza A/H5N1.
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8 years old baby girl H5N1 infection
Thứ tư, 7/1/2009, 09:19 GMT+7
The risk of infection from the H5N1 strain cầm still very large
After a deposition time, H5N1 influenza A has to work with victims is a baby girl in Vietnam Dien, Ba Thuoc district, Thanh Hoa province.
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Nguyen Ngoc Thanh, Deputy Director of Health Department, said Thanh Hoa, the sick child's very typical of the early days and the ability, to assist breathing oxygen, the lungs can spread inflammation. But until now, the health of the child was better, almost back to normal, not more breathing oxygen.
The cause of the initial investigation that he has the same family eat thousand patients, but not hard-boiled the cooking, so can not thoroughly. However, their only child is home but who do not.
Dien Middle ago have never been cases of H5N1. Therefore, it is the disease was first detected here. He's said after the event, the medical unit for treatment environment, destroys poultry and conduct monitoring the health of all concerned.
The risk of infection from the H5N1 strain cầm still very large
After a deposition time, H5N1 influenza A has to work with victims is a baby girl in Vietnam Dien, Ba Thuoc district, Thanh Hoa province.
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Nguyen Ngoc Thanh, Deputy Director of Health Department, said Thanh Hoa, the sick child's very typical of the early days and the ability, to assist breathing oxygen, the lungs can spread inflammation. But until now, the health of the child was better, almost back to normal, not more breathing oxygen.
The cause of the initial investigation that he has the same family eat thousand patients, but not hard-boiled the cooking, so can not thoroughly. However, their only child is home but who do not.
Dien Middle ago have never been cases of H5N1. Therefore, it is the disease was first detected here. He's said after the event, the medical unit for treatment environment, destroys poultry and conduct monitoring the health of all concerned.
Both ducks thousand children die unknown causes
07/01/2009 0:09
In Ngoc Loc, Tam Tien, Nui Thanh H. (Quang Nam) during the past week thousands of children have almost stopped dead ducks bong is listed, making the area very wild bring. 300 ducks out of Le Xuan For nearly 100 children died. Passport he Ngo Van Minh raising ducks 300 children (including 200 ducks tongue) within 1 week to pass only 6.1 true 9 children.
The child she is very urgent that the flocks of ducks died unknown reasons, people have reported to local authorities last week but throughout all districts and communes are still not interested. So that today Pham Ngoc Anh - Department heads Its italy Quang Nam has confirmed a local are closely monitoring cattle disease of poultry. The worrying area Ngoc Loc village is adjacent border regions 3 communes and immediately adjacent to the city of Tam Ky, chickens from ducks was brought back to the city market to sell.
In Ngoc Loc, Tam Tien, Nui Thanh H. (Quang Nam) during the past week thousands of children have almost stopped dead ducks bong is listed, making the area very wild bring. 300 ducks out of Le Xuan For nearly 100 children died. Passport he Ngo Van Minh raising ducks 300 children (including 200 ducks tongue) within 1 week to pass only 6.1 true 9 children.
The child she is very urgent that the flocks of ducks died unknown reasons, people have reported to local authorities last week but throughout all districts and communes are still not interested. So that today Pham Ngoc Anh - Department heads Its italy Quang Nam has confirmed a local are closely monitoring cattle disease of poultry. The worrying area Ngoc Loc village is adjacent border regions 3 communes and immediately adjacent to the city of Tam Ky, chickens from ducks was brought back to the city market to sell.
Chicken death by disease, the animals not to italy
People take a series of children buried ducks died
This morning, 7-1, people Tam Tien, Nui Thanh district (Quang Nam) continue to reflect in more than a week through dozens of villages in Ngoc Lam khốn units out raising ducks do not understand why falls patients died series. Symptoms flocks of ducks are developing normally bong giay đành stop it, take the green and then rolling out to die.
He Ngo Van Minh raising ducks 300 (including 200 ducks birth) in one week ducks bong rolling out the use of death, now only 9 Vỏn vẹn children.
For Le Xuan, Ngoc Loc village 300 feeding the duck, now also have 100 children. In the last few days, flocks of ducks each day of his death for more than 20 children.
For England, said, neighbors have a family ducks died, but they do not overwhelm the meat bring food, water flows by streams flowing around the hamlet to the flocks of ducks spread the disease around.
Before this situation, people have reported the local government but also one of "you meeting." Trong khi đó, ông Phạm Ngọc Anh, Chi cục trưởng Chi cục Thú y Quảng Nam, khẳng định không hề có chuyện gia cầm chết xảy ra ở bất kỳ địa phương nào của tỉnh
Thon Ngoc Lam, Tam Tien has for China - where chickens ducks everywhere focus on selling to buy. Problems quarantine is not interested in the people very worried "resources" from other diseases brought about.
News, photos: Kim Son
Detect a case of influenza A/H5N1 infection
Date: 07/01/2009
Tiếp xúc với gia cầm xong... Contact with poultry is completed ...
Theo VietNamNet According to VietNamNet
Tiếp xúc với gia cầm xong... Contact with poultry is completed ...
Sau 10 tháng yên ắng, ngày 6/1, Cục Y tế dự phòng và môi trường (Bộ Y tế) đã chính thức thông báo một ca nhiễm cúm A/H5N1 mới. After 10 months ang yen, on 6 / 1, Department of Health and the Environment (Ministry of Health) has officially notified of a new infection influenza A/H5N1.
Theo bà con nhân dân tại thôn này, tình trạng vịt chết hàng loạt xuất hiện đầu tiên vào ngày 31/12/2008 tại trại vịt của ông Lê Xuân Đối. According to relatives of people in this situation ducks died series appear first on 31/12/2008 at duck farms by Le Xuan The.
Gia đình ông Đối thả nuôi đàn vịt này cách đây hơn 2 tháng, với khoảng 300 con, và đã xuất hiện tình trạng vịt chết hàng loạt trong những ngày qua khoảng hơn 100 con. Family him to drop out breeding ducks this month more than 2 months ago, with about 300 children, and has appeared in a series of ducks died in the days of more than 100 children.
Còn gia đình ông Ngô Văn Minh thả nuôi nuôi 300 con và đã chết gần hết cả đàn, chỉ còn khoảng 9 con. But his family Ngo Van Minh drop raising 300 foster children have died and nearly all of us, only about 9 children.
Ngay sau khi xuất hiện tình trạng các đàn vịt của các hộ dân trên chết hàng loạt trong những ngày qua, chính quyền địa phương đã cấp báo ngành chức năng kiểm tra, tổ chức phun hoá chất khử trùng để đề phòng lây lan trên diện rộng. Immediately after appearing in the flocks of ducks on the death of the series in the past, local authorities have reported industry function test, held spray chemicals coincides khử to prevent the spread of wide.
Theo nhận định của cơ quan chức năng và bà con trong khu vực cho biết, có thể dịch lây lan từ chợ gia cầm Kỳ Trung, là chợ đầu mối buôn bán gia cầm tập trung. According to authorities and relatives in the area said, and can spread from poultry markets in China Ky, for the poultry traders focused.
Hiện chính quyền địa phương huyện Núi Thành đã cử cán bộ thú y đến lấy mẫu gửi xét nghiệm để tìm nguyên nhân chết của đàn vịt này do đâu. At the local government Nui Thanh district sent veterinary staff to send the samples tested for the cause of death due to start this duck. Tuy nhiên, đến nay vẫn chưa có kết quả. However, until now still no results.
Ngày 6/1, TS Nguyễn Huy Nga, Cục trưởng Cục Y tế dự phòng và môi trường (Bộ Y tế) cho biết, kết quả xét nghiệm của Viện Vệ sinh dịch tễ Trung ương khẳng định tại Việt Nam đã ghi nhận thêm 1 trường hợp mắc cúm A/H5N1. On 6 / 1, Dr. Nguyen Huy Nga, Department Chief of Department of Health and Environment (Ministry of Health) said test results of the epidemiological hygiene Central confirmed in Vietnam has recorded 1 cases influenza A/H5N1.
Đó là một bé gái, 8 tuổi, tại xã Điền Trung, huyện Bá Thước, tỉnh Thanh Hoá, khởi bệnh ngày 27/12/2008, nhập viện Bệnh viện Đa khoa huyện Bá Thước ngày 2/1/2009 với các triệu chứng sốt, ho, đau họng, khó thở, chụp XQ có hình ảnh viêm phổi do vi - rút. It is a baby girl, 8 years old, in Central Fill, Ba Thuoc district, Thanh Hoa province, the disease started on 27/12/2008, hospitalized Hospital Ba Thuoc district on 2/1/2009 with the symptoms fever, cough, sore throat, difficulty breathing, XQ have taken pictures of the pneumonia - withdraw.
Cùng ngày, bệnh nhân được chuyển điều trị tại Bệnh viện Đa khoa tỉnh Thanh Hoá. The same day, patients are treated in transition Hospital Thanh Hoa province. Xét nghiệm tại Viện Vệ sinh dịch tễ Trung ương ngày 3/1/2009, cho kết quả dương tính với cúm A/H5N1. Tests at the Institute of Hygiene epidemiology Central on 3/1/2009, for positive results for influenza A/H5N1.
Theo kết quả điều tra dịch tễ, trước khi khởi bệnh 1 tuần, bệnh nhân và gia đình có ăn thịt gia cầm mắc bệnh. According to a survey epidemiology, disease started before 1 week, patients and families eat infected birds. Ngoài ra, tại gia đình bệnh nhân và các hộ gia đình xung quanh có xuất hiện gia cầm chết không rõ nguyên nhân. In addition, in families of patients and families around there appear influenza death unknown causes.
Sau khi bệnh nhân nhập viện, các cán bộ của Bệnh viện Đa khoa tỉnh Thanh Hóa đã tập trung cứu chữa cho bệnh nhân và hiện tình trạng bệnh nhân tạm thời ổn định. After the patient is admitted, the staff of the Hospital Thanh Hoa province has focused on research to treat patients and the patient's condition temporarily stabilized.
Cục Y tế dự phòng và môi trường đã chỉ đạo Viện Vệ sinh dịch tễ Trung ương, Trung tâm Y tế dự phòng tỉnh Thanh Hóa, cử cán bộ phối hợp với ngành thú y trực tiếp giám sát, khoanh vùng và xử lý triệt để ổ dịch nơi bệnh nhân sinh sống. Department of Health and Environment has directed the Institute sanitation epidemiology Center, Medical Center for Thanh Hoa province, election officials in collaboration with veterinary sector direct supervision, and fold the area thoroughly to handle outbreak where patients live.
Sắp đến Tết Nguyên đán, Cục Y tế dự phòng và môi trường khuyến cáo, khi phát hiện gia cầm ốm, chết tuyệt đối không được giết mổ và sử dụng mà phải thông báo ngay cho chính quyền địa phương; không vận chuyển, mua bán gia cầm không rõ nguồn gốc; đảm bảo ăn chín, uống sôi; rửa tay bằng xà phòng trước khi ăn và sau khi đi vệ sinh; Khi có triệu chứng sốt, ho, khó thở có liên quan đến cúm gia cầm phải đến ngay cơ sở y tế gần nhất để được khám và điều trị. Upcoming Chinese New Year, the Department of Health and Environment recommended when detecting influenza illness, death is not absolute slaughter and use which must immediately notify the local government, not transportation, purchase selling poultry unknown origin; ensure food cooked, boil drinking, washing hands with soap before eating and after going to the toilet; When symptoms are fever, cough, difficulty breathing related to avian influenza to be italy day basis in the nearest to the examination and treatment.
Như vậy, ca mắc cúm A/H5N1 gần đây nhất là tháng 3/2008 đến nay sau 10 tháng lại xuất hiện ca mắc mới. Thus, the influenza A/H5N1 infected last month are 3 / 2008 to now after 10 months appear to have new songs. Tích luỹ cả nước tính từ trường hợp mắc đầu tiên (tháng 12/2003) đến nay là 107 trường hợp, 52 trường hợp tử vong tại 36 tỉnh/thành phố. Accrued from the country cases first (in 12/2003) is now 107 cases, 52 cases of deaths in 36 provinces / cities.
Trong báo cáo khẩn của Phòng Nông nghiệp và Phát triển nông thôn huyện Núi Thành (Quảng Nam) gửi các cơ quan chức năng của tỉnh cho biết, tình trạng nhiều đàn vịt của các hộ gia đình ở thôn Lộc Ngọc, xã Tam Tiến, huyện Núi Thành chết hàng loạt xuất hiện từ ngày 31/12/2008, kéo dài đến nay. In reporting emergency room of Agriculture and Rural Development Nui Thanh district (Quang Nam) to send the function of that situation more and more ducks in households in Ngoc Loc, Tam Tien, Nui Thanh district died series appears on 31/12/2008, lasts up to now.
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| Chợ gia cầm - nơi xuất hiện dịch? Poultry markets - where the disease? |
Gia đình ông Đối thả nuôi đàn vịt này cách đây hơn 2 tháng, với khoảng 300 con, và đã xuất hiện tình trạng vịt chết hàng loạt trong những ngày qua khoảng hơn 100 con. Family him to drop out breeding ducks this month more than 2 months ago, with about 300 children, and has appeared in a series of ducks died in the days of more than 100 children.
Còn gia đình ông Ngô Văn Minh thả nuôi nuôi 300 con và đã chết gần hết cả đàn, chỉ còn khoảng 9 con. But his family Ngo Van Minh drop raising 300 foster children have died and nearly all of us, only about 9 children.
Ngay sau khi xuất hiện tình trạng các đàn vịt của các hộ dân trên chết hàng loạt trong những ngày qua, chính quyền địa phương đã cấp báo ngành chức năng kiểm tra, tổ chức phun hoá chất khử trùng để đề phòng lây lan trên diện rộng. Immediately after appearing in the flocks of ducks on the death of the series in the past, local authorities have reported industry function test, held spray chemicals coincides khử to prevent the spread of wide.
Theo nhận định của cơ quan chức năng và bà con trong khu vực cho biết, có thể dịch lây lan từ chợ gia cầm Kỳ Trung, là chợ đầu mối buôn bán gia cầm tập trung. According to authorities and relatives in the area said, and can spread from poultry markets in China Ky, for the poultry traders focused.
Hiện chính quyền địa phương huyện Núi Thành đã cử cán bộ thú y đến lấy mẫu gửi xét nghiệm để tìm nguyên nhân chết của đàn vịt này do đâu. At the local government Nui Thanh district sent veterinary staff to send the samples tested for the cause of death due to start this duck. Tuy nhiên, đến nay vẫn chưa có kết quả. However, until now still no results.
Indonesia: No Bird Flu Vaccines Effective
Kaji back Vaccination
No Bird Flu Vaccines Effective
Wednesday, 7 January 2009 | 01:03 WIB
Jakarta, Kompas - The bird flu vaccine on poultry need to be reset. This is because vaccination was not effective to kill the virus in the body so that poultry can not control the spread of the virus to humans.
As made Kompas, hundreds of members Himpunan breeder poultry farmer Local Indonesia (Himpuli) began the bird flu virus vaccination (AI). The results of research NGOs Civas show, vaccination in poultry does not significantly improve the local immune.
Similar research conducted by researchers from the Tropical Disease Diagnostic Center Airlangga University, CA Nidom drh. In the research, the research team to compare between the groups of vaccinated chickens and chicken AI that is not given the vaccine.
Once exposed to the AI virus, the chickens do not get the vaccine directly to die. The chicken and the divaksin form antibodinya appear healthy.
But in fact feses (dirt) that chicken is positive divaksin contain AI virus sixth day until the last day or laboratory examination. "From the spread of the virus in humans, vaccination is not useful, but it can prevent death in poultry," said Nidom, Tuesday (6 / 1), when contacted from Jakarta.
"This raises a concern in the community, including the breeder, because there are no signs of infection early," he said. So far, signs of infection of bird flu known if there is a lot of dead poultry.
Results of research on the 500 chicken samples in the traditional market in Surabaya, in 2008, showed, there was a potential H5N1 virus can spread to humans. After diisolasi, the virus is more vicious virus-virus before. "Thus, the indiscriminate use of the vaccine can increase the violence virus," he said.
Divert funds
Therefore, the government should divert the funds to become a mass vaccination of funds for compensation for the farmers who died unggasnya fell ill due to bird flu. "What needs to be done is bird flu surveillance nationwide to map the birds infected with bird flu," he said.
vSelain, the restructuring of poultry industry urged to do. One of them, prohibits trade in live poultry markets poultry, poultry to control the traffic between regions, and prohibit poultry farm in the settlement. "Control of bird flu should be national," said Nidom.
Do not have an effective
Director General of the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry Tjeppy D Soedjana admitted to this government does not yet have an effective vaccine AI combat bird flu that attack poultry.
"The government has been making various efforts, including working with the OIE reference laboratory for isolat create the vaccine from the right that we find in the field," he said. About when the vaccine is made is completed, it depends on the hard work of the FAO-OIE.
The Executive Director of Animal Health Deptan Agus Wiyono said, AI vaccines that have now been quite effective.
The issue of AI virus in Indonesia is quite complex because there are different types of the virus depends on the location. There are viruses that are already far serologis mutasinya or violent, but there are not too far-currently used as a source (master seed) vaccine. (Evy / MAS)
No Bird Flu Vaccines Effective
Wednesday, 7 January 2009 | 01:03 WIB
Jakarta, Kompas - The bird flu vaccine on poultry need to be reset. This is because vaccination was not effective to kill the virus in the body so that poultry can not control the spread of the virus to humans.
As made Kompas, hundreds of members Himpunan breeder poultry farmer Local Indonesia (Himpuli) began the bird flu virus vaccination (AI). The results of research NGOs Civas show, vaccination in poultry does not significantly improve the local immune.
Similar research conducted by researchers from the Tropical Disease Diagnostic Center Airlangga University, CA Nidom drh. In the research, the research team to compare between the groups of vaccinated chickens and chicken AI that is not given the vaccine.
Once exposed to the AI virus, the chickens do not get the vaccine directly to die. The chicken and the divaksin form antibodinya appear healthy.
But in fact feses (dirt) that chicken is positive divaksin contain AI virus sixth day until the last day or laboratory examination. "From the spread of the virus in humans, vaccination is not useful, but it can prevent death in poultry," said Nidom, Tuesday (6 / 1), when contacted from Jakarta.
"This raises a concern in the community, including the breeder, because there are no signs of infection early," he said. So far, signs of infection of bird flu known if there is a lot of dead poultry.
Results of research on the 500 chicken samples in the traditional market in Surabaya, in 2008, showed, there was a potential H5N1 virus can spread to humans. After diisolasi, the virus is more vicious virus-virus before. "Thus, the indiscriminate use of the vaccine can increase the violence virus," he said.
Divert funds
Therefore, the government should divert the funds to become a mass vaccination of funds for compensation for the farmers who died unggasnya fell ill due to bird flu. "What needs to be done is bird flu surveillance nationwide to map the birds infected with bird flu," he said.
vSelain, the restructuring of poultry industry urged to do. One of them, prohibits trade in live poultry markets poultry, poultry to control the traffic between regions, and prohibit poultry farm in the settlement. "Control of bird flu should be national," said Nidom.
Do not have an effective
Director General of the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry Tjeppy D Soedjana admitted to this government does not yet have an effective vaccine AI combat bird flu that attack poultry.
"The government has been making various efforts, including working with the OIE reference laboratory for isolat create the vaccine from the right that we find in the field," he said. About when the vaccine is made is completed, it depends on the hard work of the FAO-OIE.
The Executive Director of Animal Health Deptan Agus Wiyono said, AI vaccines that have now been quite effective.
The issue of AI virus in Indonesia is quite complex because there are different types of the virus depends on the location. There are viruses that are already far serologis mutasinya or violent, but there are not too far-currently used as a source (master seed) vaccine. (Evy / MAS)
Indonesia: Bird Flu Vaccination Less Effective
TUESDAY, 6 JANUARY 2009 | 22:00 WIB
JAKARTA, TUESDAY - Vaccination bird flu in poultry is not effective to kill the virus in the body so that poultry can not control the spread of the virus to humans. In fact, vaccination is the indiscriminate violence can increase the level of the virus and potentially spread to the big man.
According to researchers from the Tropical Disease Diagnostic Center (TDDC) Airlangga University, CA Nidom drh, Tuesday (6 / 1), in Jakarta, the research shows that vaccination is done on all types of poultry, both domestic poultry or village or broiler, no useful to prevent infection in humans.
In the research, the research team to compare between the groups of chickens vaccinated poultry and bird flu that is not given the vaccine. Once exposed to the virus of bird flu, the chicken does not get the vaccine directly to die. The chicken that has been divaksin and form healthy antibodinya visible although the virus has been presented with that.
But in fact feses or chicken dung divaksin that already contains the positive bird flu virus until the sixth day or the last day of the laboratory examination. "Thus, the aspect of the spread of the virus in humans, vaccination does not have any benefits, but can prevent death in poultry," he said.
Therefore, the government should divert the funds that mass vaccination for bird flu into the funds for compensation for farmers who unggasnya dead fell ill due to bird flu. That needs to be done is to control bird flu nationwide to map areas where the infected birds have bird flu, he said.
In addition, restructuring the poultry industry urged to do. One is, prohibits trade in live poultry markets poultry, the poultry traffic between regions, and prohibit poultry farm in the settlement. "Control of bird flu can not only breeders, but it must be a national scale," said Nidom.
JAKARTA, TUESDAY - Vaccination bird flu in poultry is not effective to kill the virus in the body so that poultry can not control the spread of the virus to humans. In fact, vaccination is the indiscriminate violence can increase the level of the virus and potentially spread to the big man.
According to researchers from the Tropical Disease Diagnostic Center (TDDC) Airlangga University, CA Nidom drh, Tuesday (6 / 1), in Jakarta, the research shows that vaccination is done on all types of poultry, both domestic poultry or village or broiler, no useful to prevent infection in humans.
In the research, the research team to compare between the groups of chickens vaccinated poultry and bird flu that is not given the vaccine. Once exposed to the virus of bird flu, the chicken does not get the vaccine directly to die. The chicken that has been divaksin and form healthy antibodinya visible although the virus has been presented with that.
But in fact feses or chicken dung divaksin that already contains the positive bird flu virus until the sixth day or the last day of the laboratory examination. "Thus, the aspect of the spread of the virus in humans, vaccination does not have any benefits, but can prevent death in poultry," he said.
Therefore, the government should divert the funds that mass vaccination for bird flu into the funds for compensation for farmers who unggasnya dead fell ill due to bird flu. That needs to be done is to control bird flu nationwide to map areas where the infected birds have bird flu, he said.
In addition, restructuring the poultry industry urged to do. One is, prohibits trade in live poultry markets poultry, the poultry traffic between regions, and prohibit poultry farm in the settlement. "Control of bird flu can not only breeders, but it must be a national scale," said Nidom.
Tianjin to start human avian influenza prevention and control measures to deal with emergencies
Time: 2009-01-07 15:40:33
Summary: In Beijing, confirmed case of human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza cases, the people in Tianjin to start bird flu prevention and control measures to deal with emergencies. According to Tianjin Public Health Bureau, at present, Tianjin found no suspected human avian influenza cases.
In Beijing confirmed case of human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza cases, the people in Tianjin to start bird flu prevention and control measures to deal with emergencies. According to Tianjin Public Health Bureau, at present, Tianjin found no suspected human avian influenza cases.
Tianjin Public Health Bureau said that Tianjin has set up by the medical and health institutions composed of professionals in Tianjin disposal of human avian influenza contingency teams, if the epidemic will be timely and effective manner to deal with emergencies. At the same time the requirements of various medical and health institutions to monitor cases of pneumonia of unknown causes, once found in the relevant cases to the Disease Control and Prevention report, timely investigation and deal with emergencies, so early detection of suspected avian flu and severe acute respiratory syndrome cases.
At the same time, in accordance with the "live operation in Tianjin market practitioners to monitor the implementation of health programs," the request of the District of Tianjin, county disease prevention and control institutions have carried out live poultry trading, slaughtering, processing and other acts of live poultry market operators to monitor the work of health practitioners .
This reporter has learned that the health sector and animal husbandry, Tianjin has established a cooperation mechanism, the establishment of a zoonotic diseases prevention and treatment of co-ordination group, implementing the department regular system, the establishment of communications related to the contents of the epidemic and monitoring the work of the cooperative mechanism, set up in Tianjin zoonotic diseases prevention and control work group of experts to ensure that once the epidemic information, the two departments also arrived at the scene to conduct investigations at the same time, the disposal of the epidemic at the same time.
It is reported that Tianjin has five national influenza monitoring the implementation of the hospital throughout the year to monitor and report on the implementation of the system.
Neighboring Tianjin and Beijing, is China's northern coastal populations have been tens of millions of mega cities.
Summary: In Beijing, confirmed case of human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza cases, the people in Tianjin to start bird flu prevention and control measures to deal with emergencies. According to Tianjin Public Health Bureau, at present, Tianjin found no suspected human avian influenza cases.
In Beijing confirmed case of human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza cases, the people in Tianjin to start bird flu prevention and control measures to deal with emergencies. According to Tianjin Public Health Bureau, at present, Tianjin found no suspected human avian influenza cases.
Tianjin Public Health Bureau said that Tianjin has set up by the medical and health institutions composed of professionals in Tianjin disposal of human avian influenza contingency teams, if the epidemic will be timely and effective manner to deal with emergencies. At the same time the requirements of various medical and health institutions to monitor cases of pneumonia of unknown causes, once found in the relevant cases to the Disease Control and Prevention report, timely investigation and deal with emergencies, so early detection of suspected avian flu and severe acute respiratory syndrome cases.
At the same time, in accordance with the "live operation in Tianjin market practitioners to monitor the implementation of health programs," the request of the District of Tianjin, county disease prevention and control institutions have carried out live poultry trading, slaughtering, processing and other acts of live poultry market operators to monitor the work of health practitioners .
This reporter has learned that the health sector and animal husbandry, Tianjin has established a cooperation mechanism, the establishment of a zoonotic diseases prevention and treatment of co-ordination group, implementing the department regular system, the establishment of communications related to the contents of the epidemic and monitoring the work of the cooperative mechanism, set up in Tianjin zoonotic diseases prevention and control work group of experts to ensure that once the epidemic information, the two departments also arrived at the scene to conduct investigations at the same time, the disposal of the epidemic at the same time.
It is reported that Tianjin has five national influenza monitoring the implementation of the hospital throughout the year to monitor and report on the implementation of the system.
Neighboring Tianjin and Beijing, is China's northern coastal populations have been tens of millions of mega cities.
Beijing restrictions on live birds outside Beijing on the
http://www.sina.com.cn 2009 on 07 day 01 years 15:15
Xinhua Beijing January 7 Xinhua (Liu Puquan杨晓亮) Beijing Health Bureau confirmed release on the 6th case of human infection of highly pathogenic bird flu death notification, Beijing major animal disease prevention and control headquarters that day to strengthen the prevention and control measures to prohibit non - approved live outside Beijing.
7 reporter was informed that major animal disease prevention and control, Beijing has released Command "on further strengthening the highly pathogenic avian influenza prevention and control work" emergency notice, Beijing launched a Public Health Emergency Response grade Ⅱ. Banned from Beijing without a major animal disease prevention and control headquarters office outside the approved live in Beijing.
It is reported that in Beijing to the highway, railway, aviation site supervision of animal quarantine, the Beijing Municipal departments in Beijing stepped up its animals and their products outside the supervision and checks, and do a good job means of delivery disinfection.
At the same time, the various districts and counties in Beijing to strengthen the area of poultry farms, farmers immunization management, take measures to ensure that the winter disinfection epidemic prevention, and strengthen management and closed rearing animals died harmless measures.
The circular stressed Beijing with immediate effect from the implementation of highly pathogenic avian influenza prevention and control on the reporting system, the district will inspect the prevention and control of the situation in the daily 4:30 p.m. before the report major animal disease prevention and control of Beijing headquarters office.
Xinhua Beijing January 7 Xinhua (Liu Puquan杨晓亮) Beijing Health Bureau confirmed release on the 6th case of human infection of highly pathogenic bird flu death notification, Beijing major animal disease prevention and control headquarters that day to strengthen the prevention and control measures to prohibit non - approved live outside Beijing.
7 reporter was informed that major animal disease prevention and control, Beijing has released Command "on further strengthening the highly pathogenic avian influenza prevention and control work" emergency notice, Beijing launched a Public Health Emergency Response grade Ⅱ. Banned from Beijing without a major animal disease prevention and control headquarters office outside the approved live in Beijing.
It is reported that in Beijing to the highway, railway, aviation site supervision of animal quarantine, the Beijing Municipal departments in Beijing stepped up its animals and their products outside the supervision and checks, and do a good job means of delivery disinfection.
At the same time, the various districts and counties in Beijing to strengthen the area of poultry farms, farmers immunization management, take measures to ensure that the winter disinfection epidemic prevention, and strengthen management and closed rearing animals died harmless measures.
The circular stressed Beijing with immediate effect from the implementation of highly pathogenic avian influenza prevention and control on the reporting system, the district will inspect the prevention and control of the situation in the daily 4:30 p.m. before the report major animal disease prevention and control of Beijing headquarters office.
Sanhe City, Hebei bird flu have been found
At 13:11 on January 7, 2009
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Three Rivers, according to the relevant person in charge of the municipal government, the early morning of January 7, Sanhe City departments received a higher level on the strengthening of bird flu prevention and control work notice. Sanhe city attached great importance to be seriously studied, and to take a series of measures.
Sanhe City set up a municipal party committee secretary Li Gang as the commander-in-chief of the command, set up under the bird flu prevention and control, health and epidemic prevention, market management, social stability control, information co-ordination Working Group 5. At present, the Working Group have all in place, all the work is proceeding in an orderly manner.
Sanhe City overnight closure of the relevant departments Yanjiao all live poultry trading market, the immediate external environment for the conduct of sampling, and carry out thorough disinfection.
According to the briefing, Prior to this, the health sector's marketing and distribution of live birds Yanjiao palace of the 15 employees were tested, we fail to find any abnormality. At the same time, the health sector is also the city's medical institutions fever patients conducted a comprehensive search, found no abnormalities. At present, the epidemic Sanhe City Search is still in progress. At the same time, all the poultry farms of the city to carry out epidemiological investigations, and the outbreak investigation, flocks in good health. At present, the prevention and control work in progress.
(Responsible editor: ZHANG Chun-lei)
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Three Rivers, according to the relevant person in charge of the municipal government, the early morning of January 7, Sanhe City departments received a higher level on the strengthening of bird flu prevention and control work notice. Sanhe city attached great importance to be seriously studied, and to take a series of measures.
Sanhe City set up a municipal party committee secretary Li Gang as the commander-in-chief of the command, set up under the bird flu prevention and control, health and epidemic prevention, market management, social stability control, information co-ordination Working Group 5. At present, the Working Group have all in place, all the work is proceeding in an orderly manner.
Sanhe City overnight closure of the relevant departments Yanjiao all live poultry trading market, the immediate external environment for the conduct of sampling, and carry out thorough disinfection.
According to the briefing, Prior to this, the health sector's marketing and distribution of live birds Yanjiao palace of the 15 employees were tested, we fail to find any abnormality. At the same time, the health sector is also the city's medical institutions fever patients conducted a comprehensive search, found no abnormalities. At present, the epidemic Sanhe City Search is still in progress. At the same time, all the poultry farms of the city to carry out epidemiological investigations, and the outbreak investigation, flocks in good health. At present, the prevention and control work in progress.
(Responsible editor: ZHANG Chun-lei)
China raises bird flu alert after woman's death
By MarketWatch
Last update: 12:14 a.m. EST Jan. 7, 2009
Beijing officials ordered stepped-up checks in markets, slaughterhouses and farms that handle and raise poultry in an area near the nation's capital Wednesday after confirmation that a 19-year-old woman died of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza earlier this week.Workers began disinfecting a market in Langfang, Hebei Province, where the woman purchased nine ducks and had them butchered on Dec. 19, according to the Xinhua News Agency.
The woman, who lived in a densely-populated area of Beijing known as Chaoyang District, fell ill on Dec. 24, was sent to the hospital three days later and died on Jan 5. The death was the first in China attributed to bird flu since February last year.
Municipal officials have also informed civilian agencies of the mater and raised the alert level at local hospitals. The five stalls selling live poultry in the market, located in the province bordering Beijing to the south, have been closed.
Commercial air travelers landing in Hong Kong from Beijing will hear a special announcement on bird flu. Passengers traveling to Beijing will be warned to avoid attending festivals marking the Lunar New Year where live birds are slaughtered, the South China Morning Post reported.
Hong Kong reported an outbreak of H5N1 at a poultry farm in a rural area last month, which triggered a mass culling and 21-day shutdown of poultry trade in the area.
Last update: 12:14 a.m. EST Jan. 7, 2009
Beijing officials ordered stepped-up checks in markets, slaughterhouses and farms that handle and raise poultry in an area near the nation's capital Wednesday after confirmation that a 19-year-old woman died of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza earlier this week.Workers began disinfecting a market in Langfang, Hebei Province, where the woman purchased nine ducks and had them butchered on Dec. 19, according to the Xinhua News Agency.
The woman, who lived in a densely-populated area of Beijing known as Chaoyang District, fell ill on Dec. 24, was sent to the hospital three days later and died on Jan 5. The death was the first in China attributed to bird flu since February last year.
Municipal officials have also informed civilian agencies of the mater and raised the alert level at local hospitals. The five stalls selling live poultry in the market, located in the province bordering Beijing to the south, have been closed.
Commercial air travelers landing in Hong Kong from Beijing will hear a special announcement on bird flu. Passengers traveling to Beijing will be warned to avoid attending festivals marking the Lunar New Year where live birds are slaughtered, the South China Morning Post reported.
Hong Kong reported an outbreak of H5N1 at a poultry farm in a rural area last month, which triggered a mass culling and 21-day shutdown of poultry trade in the area.
Tianjin to start human avian influenza prevention and control measures to deal with emergencies
January 7, 2009 14:59:37
Xinhua Tianjin January 7 (Xinhua Zhang Jianxin) in Beijing confirmed case of human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza cases, the Tianjin to start human avian influenza prevention and control measures to deal with emergencies. According to Tianjin Public Health Bureau, at present, Tianjin found no suspected human avian influenza cases.
Tianjin Public Health Bureau said that Tianjin has set up by the medical and health institutions composed of professionals in Tianjin disposal of human avian influenza contingency teams, if the epidemic will be timely and effective manner to deal with emergencies. At the same time the requirements of various medical and health institutions to monitor cases of pneumonia of unknown causes, once found in the relevant cases to the Disease Control and Prevention report, timely investigation and deal with emergencies, so early detection of suspected avian flu and severe acute respiratory syndrome cases.
At the same time, in accordance with the "live operation in Tianjin market practitioners to monitor the implementation of health programs," the request of the District of Tianjin, county disease prevention and control institutions have carried out live poultry trading, slaughtering, processing and other acts of live poultry market operators to monitor the work of health practitioners .
This reporter has learned that the health sector and animal husbandry, Tianjin has established a cooperation mechanism, the establishment of a zoonotic diseases prevention and treatment of co-ordination group, implementing the department regular system, the establishment of communications related to the contents of the epidemic and monitoring the work of the cooperative mechanism, set up in Tianjin zoonotic diseases prevention and control work group of experts to ensure that once the epidemic information, the two departments also arrived at the scene to conduct investigations at the same time, the disposal of the epidemic at the same time.
It is reported that Tianjin has five national influenza monitoring the implementation of the hospital throughout the year to monitor and report on the implementation of the system.
Neighboring Tianjin and Beijing, is China's northern coastal populations have been tens of millions of mega cities.
Xinhua Tianjin January 7 (Xinhua Zhang Jianxin) in Beijing confirmed case of human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza cases, the Tianjin to start human avian influenza prevention and control measures to deal with emergencies. According to Tianjin Public Health Bureau, at present, Tianjin found no suspected human avian influenza cases.
Tianjin Public Health Bureau said that Tianjin has set up by the medical and health institutions composed of professionals in Tianjin disposal of human avian influenza contingency teams, if the epidemic will be timely and effective manner to deal with emergencies. At the same time the requirements of various medical and health institutions to monitor cases of pneumonia of unknown causes, once found in the relevant cases to the Disease Control and Prevention report, timely investigation and deal with emergencies, so early detection of suspected avian flu and severe acute respiratory syndrome cases.
At the same time, in accordance with the "live operation in Tianjin market practitioners to monitor the implementation of health programs," the request of the District of Tianjin, county disease prevention and control institutions have carried out live poultry trading, slaughtering, processing and other acts of live poultry market operators to monitor the work of health practitioners .
This reporter has learned that the health sector and animal husbandry, Tianjin has established a cooperation mechanism, the establishment of a zoonotic diseases prevention and treatment of co-ordination group, implementing the department regular system, the establishment of communications related to the contents of the epidemic and monitoring the work of the cooperative mechanism, set up in Tianjin zoonotic diseases prevention and control work group of experts to ensure that once the epidemic information, the two departments also arrived at the scene to conduct investigations at the same time, the disposal of the epidemic at the same time.
It is reported that Tianjin has five national influenza monitoring the implementation of the hospital throughout the year to monitor and report on the implementation of the system.
Neighboring Tianjin and Beijing, is China's northern coastal populations have been tens of millions of mega cities.
ProMed: AVIAN INFLUENZA, HUMAN (01): CHINA (BEIJING)
| Published Date | 06-JAN-2009 |
| Subject | PRO/AH/EDR> Avian influenza, human (01): China (Beijing) |
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Date: Tue 6 Jan 2009
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Beijing bird flu patient dies
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A 19-year-old woman has died of bird flu in the Chinese capital
Beijing. It is the 1st time in almost a year that someone in China
has died after being infected with the H5N1 strain of avian influenza
[virus], which is dangerous to humans.
The woman was admitted to hospital on 24 Dec 2008, and Chinese media
report she had bought a duck at a market outside Beijing. She is
thought to have become unwell after slaughtering the bird.
The bird flu virus is passed on via direct contact with infected
birds or their droppings. Experts fear the virus could mutate into a
strain transmitted from human to human. Since the H5N1 strain
surfaced in Asia in 2003, about 250 people have died as a result of bird flu.
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Date: Tue 6 Jan 2009
Source: Beijing Agricultural Bureau [translated from Chinese and
abbreviated by Dan Silver, edited]
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No Avian Influenza Appears Near Residence of Deceased
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Health agencies report a human case of avian influenza in Beijing's
Chaoyang district. On 5 Jan 2009 after receiving a report from the
Municipal Health Bureau, Beijing veterinary agencies carried out
strict inspection in the area surrounding the patient's residence.
The inspection found that there is no poultry raised at the patient's
residence or within a 10-km [6.2-mile] area.
An epidemiological investigation of Chaoyang, Tongzhou, Miyun and
other districts found no abnormal circumstances among poultry. A
national immunization investigation in December 2008 showed that
Beijing's avian influenza immunization density was 100 percent. The
qualified [confirmed] antibody rate was 100 percent. In 2008, Beijing
took a total of 41 641 surveillance samples for avian influenza and
all were negative.
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[As of 16 Dec 2008, according to the World Health Organisation
(<http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/country/cases_table_2008_12_16/en/index.html>)
391 people have contracted H5N1 avian influenza and there have been
247 fatalities. The death of this young woman in Beijing is the 392nd
case and the 248th death worldwide. The 19-year-old woman is the 31st
case of H5N1 avian influenza to be confirmed in China, and the 21st
death. The most recent previous case of H5N1 avian influenza in China
occurred in February 2008.
Although resident in Beijing, the victim appears to have contracted
infection from a fowl purchased in a market distant from her district
of residence in Beijing. Further information is awaited.
A map of the districts of Beijing is available at:
<http://www.drben.net/ChinaReport/Beijing/MapsofBeijing/Doncheng_District/Beijing_DongCheng_District_Maps-All.html>,
and the HealthMap/ProMED-mail interactive map of China showing the
location of Beijing is available at:
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China issues bird flu alert after woman dies
Wed Jan 7, 2009 2:12am EST
By Phyllis Xu
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By Phyllis Xu
YANJIAO, China (Reuters) - China issued a bird flu alert Wednesday after a woman died of the virus, the first such death in the country in almost a year, and closed poultry markets for disinfecting in a province surrounding Beijing.
The 19-year-old woman died of the H5N1 virus after coming into contact with poultry in Hebei province, bringing the total death toll in China to date to 21.
In Hebei's Yanjiao, where the dead woman had bought ducks, poultry markets were closed and the sale of live birds stopped as workers in masks and white coats sprayed disinfectant.
The World Health Organization said it appeared to be an isolated case.
"We are concerned by any case of human H5N1 infection, however, this single case, which appears to have occurred during the slaughtering and preparation of poultry, does not change our risk assessment," the WHO said in a statement.
"WHO expects the ministry will continue to keep it updated on this case, and is prepared to offer technical assistance if requested," it added, referring to the Health Ministry.
The virus is generally more active during the cooler months between October and March, although the new Chinese case points to holes in surveillance of the virus in poultry.
Chinese Health Ministry spokesman Mao Qunan was quoted in state media as saying the government would step up monitoring.
"This year we must, on the basis of what we have done in the past, increase monitoring for the transmission of the highly pathogenic bird flu virus in humans," Mao said.
In Beijing, workers fanned out to inspect poultry markets and slaughterhouses in the capital city after the government issued a bird flu alert, the official Xinhua news agency said.
NO POULTRY OUTBREAK
Paul Chan, microbiologist at the Chinese University in Hong Kong, said it was worrying that this case was not accompanied by the detection of the virus in poultry nearby.
"The source of this infection seems to be poultry or the market (where the girl bought the ducks). If that is true, we need to know why we missed the outbreak of the virus in poultry or in the market," Chan said.
"If there was an outbreak in the market, there should have been large numbers of poultry deaths. If people in the markets and the government can't recognize this, then we have a serious problem on our hands," he added.
The H5N1 strain remains largely a disease among birds but experts fear it could change into a form that is easily transmitted from person to person and spark a pandemic that could kill millions of people worldwide.-snip-
CIDRAP: China, Vietnam report new H5N1 cases
Lisa Schnirring 
Staff Writer
Jan 6, 2009 (CIDRAP News) – Public health officials in two countries today announced new human cases of H5N1 avian influenza, involving a 19-year-old Chinese woman who died of her infection and an 8-year-old Vietnamese girl who is recovering.
In Beijing, local health authorities said the woman died yesterday after getting sick on Dec 24 and being hospitalized 3 days later, Xinhua, China's state news agency, reported today. Tests at two labs revealed she was infected with the H5N1 virus.
If the World Health Organization (WHO) confirms the case, she will be listed as China's 31st H5N1 case-patient and 21st fatality. Her illness marks China's first human case since February 2008.
The Beijing Municipal Health Bureau told Xinhua that the woman bought nine ducks at a market in Langfang city in neighboring Hebei province on Dec 19. She removed the ducks' internal organs and then gave three of the birds away to family and a friend.
Zhao Qingchao, a Langfang City official, said investigators found that 13 people ate the ducks but only the woman got sick, Xinhua reported. He said the ducks were from Jixian county in northern China
Beijing's health bureau said 116 people had close contact with the woman and that 102 of them were medical workers, according to the Xinhua report. One nurse who had contact with the patient had a fever but has since recovered.
The WHO's office in China released a statement saying the woman's death from the H5N1 virus should not prompt alarm, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported today. "We are concerned by any case of human H5N1 infection. However, this single case, which appears to have occurred during the slaughtering and preparation of poultry, does not change our risk assessment," the WHO said.
Meanwhile, an official from Vietnam's Preventative Medicine Department told AFP that the 8-year-old girl, from Thanh Hoa province in northern Vietnam, got sick with pneumonia on Dec 27 after eating poultry and was hospitalized on Jan 2. If her case is confirmed by the WHO, she will be listed at Vietnam's 107th case-patient.
Nguyen Huy Nga, who directs the department, said tests revealed the girl's H5N1 infection on Jan 3. Her case is Vietnam's first since March 2008.
An official with the provincial health department said he expected that the girl would be discharged from the hospital soon, according to the AFP report.
Nguyen Huu Dinh, an animal health official in Thanh Hoa, said infected poultry had been detected and culled in the province, AFP reported.
Jeff Gilbert, an avian influenza expert with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), told AFP that Vietnam is entering a high-risk season because of cold weather that favors virus survival and the Tet (lunar new year) celebration, which often includes eating poultry dishes.
"China has the (lunar) new year coming up, so the situation would be the same," Gilbert said in the AFP report.
If the WHO confirms the new cases reported today, they will raise the global H5N1 total to 393 cases with 248 deaths.
The number of H5N1 cases and deaths in 2008 was the lowest since 2003, when the lethal H5N1 virus began causing outbreaks internationally, according to WHO figures. In 2008 there were 40 cases and 30 deaths, down from 88 and 59 in 2007, 115 and 79 in 2006, 98 and 43 in 2005, and 46 and 32 in 2004.
Although there were fewer cases in 2008, the 75% case-fatality rate for the year was the highest since 2003, a moderate increase from 2007's case-fatality rate of 67%.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Likely H5N1 In Manipur Village With Hospitalized Patients
Recombinomics Commentary 01:21
January 7, 2009
they complained of severe headache, cough, while some felt unconscious after vomiting, the symptoms of which were similar to avian flu.
The findings suggested that the disease was “very close to avian influenza”.
“We found the symptom to be very similar to the avian influenza as many chicken were also found dead during the last few days in the village” said Dr. Piang. Villagers said 12 chickens died yesterday.
The above comments strongly suggest the poultry in the Misao Lhavom village near Churachandpur, Manipur (see updated map) is infected with H5N1. These infections are not a surprise because of the proximity of the village to confirmed H5N1 in adjacent countries or districts, or the excessive poultry deaths in southern Tripura.
The symptoms in the villagers are also consistent with H5N1. However, India has never reported H5N1 in humans or migratory birds, and these failures are testing related. Human H5N1 is detected with a throat swab, but the media reports describe blood collections from the patients and poultry.
Poultry also tests negative in blood tests because the birds die before antibody levels reach detectable levels. All initial H5N1 positive poultry in Assam was detected via tests on tissue samples, not serum samples.
The large number of patients with symptoms is unusual. In 2005 there were large numbers of symptomatic patients in central and northern Vietnam, but those were mild cases and details of test results were never disclosed.
The increase in the number of cases in Manipur is alarming, and serious testing is required.
The possibility of bird flu occurred in animals large emergency notification live trading investigation
Agriculture: issued an urgent circular trading investigation of live birds
By (Xinhua叶洲quiet) City veterinary departments have been on the patients had a place of residence around the investigation closely. Patients place of residence and its surrounding areas within 10 kilometers without poultry. As of Chaoyang, Tongzhou, Miyun counties, such as epidemiological investigation and found no abnormal poultry.
Last night, the city of Agriculture poultry market focus for a special inspection of the emergency notice has been issued, the market live poultry trading investigation. Urban Animal Health will monitor the start of the relevant departments, such as slaughterhouses, farms and other types of regional spot checks of live birds. Beijing has also introduced measures to continue to strengthen the avian flu immunization, with immediate effect, focus on a special inspection of law enforcement.
The Ministry of Health: This year the possibility of animal bird flu occurred in large
By (Xinhua叶洲) yesterday, the Ministry of Health said that the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture experts have recently been on this year's animal avian influenza and human bird flu risk assessment carried out. Experts predict that this year the possibility of avian influenza of animal large.
Press spokesman Mao Qun'an said the Ministry of Health has been the country to prevent human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza, including the patient's diagnosis, treatment standards, as well as monitoring of the epidemic, the report conducted a comprehensive deployment, and in accordance with the actual situation of the past work , for some management requirements have been adjusted in the past year proposed to increase the basis of human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza epidemic monitoring.
By (Xinhua叶洲quiet) City veterinary departments have been on the patients had a place of residence around the investigation closely. Patients place of residence and its surrounding areas within 10 kilometers without poultry. As of Chaoyang, Tongzhou, Miyun counties, such as epidemiological investigation and found no abnormal poultry.
Last night, the city of Agriculture poultry market focus for a special inspection of the emergency notice has been issued, the market live poultry trading investigation. Urban Animal Health will monitor the start of the relevant departments, such as slaughterhouses, farms and other types of regional spot checks of live birds. Beijing has also introduced measures to continue to strengthen the avian flu immunization, with immediate effect, focus on a special inspection of law enforcement.
The Ministry of Health: This year the possibility of animal bird flu occurred in large
By (Xinhua叶洲) yesterday, the Ministry of Health said that the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture experts have recently been on this year's animal avian influenza and human bird flu risk assessment carried out. Experts predict that this year the possibility of avian influenza of animal large.
Press spokesman Mao Qun'an said the Ministry of Health has been the country to prevent human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza, including the patient's diagnosis, treatment standards, as well as monitoring of the epidemic, the report conducted a comprehensive deployment, and in accordance with the actual situation of the past work , for some management requirements have been adjusted in the past year proposed to increase the basis of human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza epidemic monitoring.
Recombinomics: Human to Human H5N1 Transmission In Beijing?
Commentary
Human to Human H5N1 Transmission In Beijing?
Recombinomics Commentary 00:39
January 7, 2009
The Beijing Municipal Health Bureau said 116 people were in close contact with the victim.
One healthcare professional in contact with Huang contracted bird flu, but recovered, the bureau said.
The above comments describe transmission of H5N1 from the fatally infected patient to a health care work, which is a major red flag signaling an increase in transmission efficiency. Although other media sources acknowledged the fever and recovery in the health care work, none stated that the fever was due to an H5N1 infection.
Transmission to a health care worker is rare. Most H5N1 H2H transmission involves an index case and family members who are not trained in universal precautions, and have minimal protection. Therefore, independent confirmation of this transmission would be useful.
H5N1 cases in Beijing are also rare. The last confirmed case from Beijing was the first confirmed case in mainland China in 2003. That case was due to clade 7 H5N1, which is more common in the Beijing area, which is why it is likely that the latest human case was also caused by clade 7. The most recent confirmed H5N1 in poultry in mainland China were two outbreaks in Jiangsu, and both were clade 7.
Clade 7 is of concern because it is distinct from other H5N1 that is associated with human infections. Clade 1 is in southeast Asia and caused human case in Vietnam, Thailand, and Cambodia between 2004-2005. Although it is still circulating in poultry in southeast Asia, there have been few of any recent clade 1 human cases. Clade 2.1 is circulating in Indonesia and account for all public sequences, although Indonesia has not released a human H5N1 sequence for the past two years. Clade 2.2 is carried by wild birds west of China, and have cause human infections in Turkey, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Djibouti, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Clade 2.3 has cause human cases in China, and more recently in Vietnam and Thailand.
However, prior to the latest case, the only reported clade 7 infection was in Beijing.
If the source of the H5N1 for the latest case was linked to the ducks purchased at the market, then it is possible that they were asymptomatically infected, which would also increase concerns.
Release of sequences from this case, as well as the Jiangsu outbreaks, would be useful as would clarification of the cause of the fever in the health care worker.
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