Ebola Virus Vaccine 80 Percent Effective In Mice: Study

Posted by Claire Shefchik on December 7, 2011 2:29 PM

A new Ebola virus vaccine is 80 percent effective in mice, Arizona researchers announced this week.
Charles Arntzen, a researcher at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, reported that his team has found a vaccine that fuses tobacco plants with an antibody, creating a stable vaccine. None of the previous vaccine candidates were able to withstand the long-term storage needed in case of an attack.
"All of these existing vaccine candidates are genetically modified live viruses," Arntzen said in a news release. "If you've got something that you're going to have to keep at liquid nitrogen temperatures for years at a time, in hopes that there will never be an outbreak, it makes it impractical. "
The rare African virus overwhelms the immune system, causing multiple organ failures and eventually killing 90 percent of its victims.
The UN's World Health Organization (WHO) reports that about 1,850 cases of Ebola have occured since 1976, with some 1,200 deaths.
Arntzen's team took a protein from the virus and joined it with an antibody that recognizes it and produced an immune complex in tobacco plants.
They injected it into the mice along with another chemical called PIC. Eight in 10 mice survived an Ebola infection. All those who were infected that did not receive the vaccine died.
Arntzen said more research is needed to prove the vaccine's effectiveness and safety in humans, but that the vaccine could potentially be stockpiled in case of a bioterrorism attack on the U.S.
The study appeared Dec. 5 online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

http://www.thirdage.com/news/ebola-virus-vaccine-80-percent-effective-in-mice-study_12-07-2011

S. Korea confirms second case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

2011/12/08 11:08 KST

 

S. Korea confirms second case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's health authorities on Thursday confirmed the country's second case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a degenerative neurological disorder.

A 48-year-old man was diagnosed with iatrogenic CJD (iCJD) on Wednesday, according to the Center for Disease Control. The person's identity was withheld for privacy reasons.

The report of the country's second-ever iCJD case comes after a 54-year-old woman was found last month to have died from the same disease that is often transmitted by the use of defective prion proteins found in surgical tissue graft products.
The woman had received brain surgery using Lyodura, a tissue graft product, some 23 years ago. The KCDC said the man in the latest case had also received Lyodura during brain surgery in 1988.

This form of CJD has an incubation period of more than 20 years but once symptoms occur, death usually takes place within a year.

CJD is the most common of so-called human prion diseases with one person in every 1 million diagnosed each year worldwide. It is an invariably fatal illness with death occurring after the onset of dementia, hallucinations, coordination dysfunction and seizures.
The animal form of the disease is called bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) which is commonly called mad cow disease. BSE also leaves holes in the brain that resemble a sponge.

 

http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/business/2011/12/08/51/0502000000AEN20111208002700320F.HTML

 

India- Bird flu variant killing crows in Jharkhand #birdflu #h5n1

Bird flu variant killing crows in Jharkhand
Posted: Thu Dec 08 2011, 00:38 hrs

RANCHI: With hundreds of crows dying in Ranchi, Bokaro, Jamshedpur and Dumka due to the H5N1 variant of bird flu, the animal husbandry department has asked locals to feed crows antibiotic-mixed cooked rice, to wear masks and gloves while burying a dead crow and to disinfect the area. The forests and zoo department has been spraying DDT in animal enclosures and the municipal department has been sprinkling lime powder on roads to ensure the disease doesn’t spread.  http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Briefly-Nation--Bird-flu-variant-killing-crows-in-Jharkhand/885178/

South Korea-Suspected FMD Cases Reported in N.Gyeongsang

• Suspected FMD Cases Reported in N.Gyeongsang
• [2011-12-07, 17:23:25]

Suspected cases of the foot-and-mouth disease have been reported in Andong and Yecheon in North Gyeongsang Province.

Provincial authorities say that farms raising domestic cattle, known as "hanu," in the two regions reported that a cow at each farm driveled frothy saliva and did not eat well, which are symptoms of FMD.

The farm in Andong raises 32 hanu cattle while the Yecheon farm has four, all of which have been vaccinated against FMD.

Tests to see whether the cows are infected are being conducted, with the results to be released Thursday morning.
http://english.kbs.co.kr/News/News/News_view.html?No=86577&id=Dm

New international consortium to prepare research community for future pandemics

7-Dec-2011
An international consortium aimed at ensuring that the clinical research community is better prepared for the next influenza pandemic or other rapidly emerging public health threat is launched today by leading funders of medical research from across the globe.

The International Severe Acute Respiratory Infection Consortium (ISARIC) is a global collaboration of over twenty hospital-based clinical research networks. It is aimed at ensuring the clinical researchers have in place the necessary open access protocols and data-sharing processes and have considered the ethical issues that will allow them to respond to rapidly emerging diseases with epidemic or pandemic potential, such as the recent pandemic H1N1 influenza and SARS outbreaks and potentially other rapidly emerging public health threats.

Its initial focus will be on clinical research in hospitalised patients to understand the causes of severe acute respiratory diseases, discover how these illnesses develop and progress in patients, and identify the best ways to treat the patients and prevent transmission. The studies will be undertaken both in the inter-pandemic period and in response to emergent threats. The ambition of the Consortium is not just to undertake high quality clinical research at a global scale but also to change the way such research is conducted in the settings of epidemics. It will also provide training, capacity-strengthening and public engagement activities.

The Consortium is being launched by the Wellcome Trust and the UK Medical Research Council, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Inserm, Li Ka Shing Oxford Global Health Programme and the Singapore Ministry of Health. The announcement will be made today at the annual meeting of the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Professor Jeremy Farrar, Director of the Wellcome Trust Vietnam Research Programme and Oxford University Clinical Research Unit Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Vietnam, will be the initial Chair of the Consortium.

"Clinical research will form a crucial element in the response to new epidemics and pandemics, and it is essential that we are prepared," says Professor Farrar. "The processes needed to initiate clinical studies and share data and samples effectively can take time to establish, but the faster we can react and the more trust we have built before the outbreak, the more effective will be our response and the more lives we can potentially save.

"By bringing together the many existing clinical research networks around the globe, by pooling the expertise across many countries, we can lay down the groundwork so that we are better prepared as a clinical community."

Outbreaks are often considered only in the context of influenza pandemics, whereas there are significant outbreaks occurring with increasing frequency around the globe on a regular basis, such as dengue, nipah, viral haemorrhagic fevers, artemisinin-resistant malaria and many others. The response of the clinical research community has been slow in almost all of these cases, argues Professor Farrar: "Many of the research communities involved in such outbreaks – for example the public health, epidemiology, modelling and virology communities – have improved their response and connectivity considerably since the SARS epidemic, but the clinical research community has been very slow to respond to these new and emerging threats. The ISARIC network and its global partners hope to help address this."

Professor Zhancheng Gao, Chief of the Department of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine at Peking University People's Hospital, one of the founding investigators in the Consortium, said: "The local and global clinical response to epidemics remains too slow. For a novel emerging or re-emerging infectious disease we have failed to learn as much as we could through clinical research during the early phase of these outbreaks. I am delighted to be a partner in the ISARIC Consortium and believe we can work together to change our approach to clinical research. ISARIC with its global partners and a focus on clinical research could help make a real difference to our ability to respond to epidemics and save patients' lives."

The ISARIC will develop and implement standardised protocols, metrics, and data-sharing processes and will operate with pre-approved, open-access protocols that can be rapidly implemented in response to novel threats. This will ensure that researchers from high to low-income countries are able to work to or adapt the same protocols and share data sets that are compatible. Its focus will initially be on respiratory infections, but it is hoped that this will extend to other areas in the future.

Over twenty networks are already signed up to ISARIC, spanning all six populated continents. This will enable rapid recruitment of patients across a range of income settings on a scale that is only possible with such a global collaboration. ISARIC is also working very closely with the InFACT Network, a newly-formed network of seventeen investigator-led intensive care research groups from countries around the world.

The networks will develop Consortium-wide projects in the inter-pandemic period. These projects will be supported via separate applications for funding through existing competitive mechanisms at funding agencies. Initial potential projects include large-scale randomised control trials of therapeutic interventions in respiratory infections, a randomised control trial of drugs to modulate the immune response to severe influenza, studies of pharmacology and host and pathogen genetic factors involved in pathogenesis, and the ethical considerations of clinical research in the context of rapidly emerging health problems.

The Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) the mechanism by which the international community can use to prevent and mitigate the spread of the disease

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7/12/2011

The United States looks forward to expanding cooperation in the fight against biological weapons and epidemics
Washington - provides killed five Americans in 2001 because of anthrax, which was hidden inside the envelopes sent by mail, a strong proof of the threat posed by biological weapons attack. He died in other parts of the world more than 300 people with HIV (5) The 1 (H5N1) virus, also known as bird flu since the virus was identified on the epidemic in 2003. In both cases - the deliberate attack or a natural epidemic in other parts of the world - The Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) the mechanism by which the international community can use to prevent and mitigate the spread of the disease.

Will meet the representatives of 165 countries signed the Biological Weapons Convention in Geneva from 5 December / December at the Seventh Conference for the Revision of the Treaty will be the Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's first foreign minister of the United States to attend this meeting.

According to Thomas Kantryman, the assistant secretary of state for international security and prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, will provide the Clinton ideas U.S. about how countries can increase their capacity and cooperation to the discovery of outbreaks of disease and response to build "a culture aware of the responsibility" between the scientific communities and industry across the world that will prevent abuse of biotechnology.

Said Kantryman told reporters in Washington, the first of December / December, that the United States also wanted to see the approval of the review conference on ways to strengthen the application of the provisions of the Biological Weapons Convention and to promote transparency and confidence-building measures, not only to ensure that Member States not to develop biological weapons, but also show "the absence of any points of non-state in its territory can develop these types of weapons."

Has become the nature of the threats of biological weapons since the signing of the Biological Weapons Convention in 1972. However it is still likely to try a country developing a biological weapon and use it against an enemy, he stressed Kantryman that "our concern is increasing the likelihood of the emergence of today's real threat by terrorists or entities not belonging to the state."

The Kantryman it at the same time became a rapid developments in knowledge of life sciences positive enormously to human health and prosperity, it has also created "greater opportunities for abuse of this technology," and increased the need to take steps to mitigate these risks.

The Kantryman, looking forward to the Conference of the review, he sees "a scene of a much broader consensus and cooperation during the meeting in Geneva, which I see for the emergence of conflicts."

Will be cooperation and exchange of information across international borders is crucial when an outbreak of highly contagious regardless of whether the disease is caused by nature or by accident, or been published deliberately.

The Kantryman to the origin of the disease "is not the first question we must answer. But the first thing that we have to do is to take immediate action to determine the nature of the disease that we deal with it and begin to combat it, and the direct provision of health services to those affected by it more directly . "

For this reason you will find the least developed countries that may not feel that they target a biological attack, it is still "post with enthusiasm" in the practical courses for the Biological Weapons Convention, as it allows them to benefit from the assistance and cooperation, which can others in the international community to offer.

Kantryman noted that in cases where the transmitted infectious organism from the environment to the natural environment of human beings, such as the Ebola virus, or swine flu, or avian influenza, "was the least developed countries are disproportionately affected by such diseases."

The United States has "a strong track record" in providing aid to assist other countries in building their capacity to detect and respond to outbreaks and B, and break down the barriers that stand in the way of implementation of a coordinated international campaign to address it.

The Kantryman that during the last year of the Office of International Security and Non-proliferation of nuclear, biological, headed "With more than 44 countries from around the world to build their capacity to address these threats."

He added, but "I think there's always more than you can do. We seriously consider that the United States must submit to lead by example, for itself and the rest of the world, in the application of the provisions of this Treaty and other arms control agreements and to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, biological and toxic We always strive to do so. "

For example, in order to encourage openness and exchange of information about potential global biological threats, the United States took the step to make confidence-building measures (CBM) followed by a public concern in 2010 and would like to see others doing it.

Provide confidence-building measures data and information on research centers and laboratories operating in the country and its national biological research defense and development, along with information about outbreaks of infectious diseases and any similar incidents caused by toxic substances, legislation and current regulations on biological materials and to disclose any previous activities in the development or research programs on biological offensive or defensive, in addition to vaccine production facilities.

He went Kantiriman, highlighting the confidence-building measures, "We have taken the decision to become our actions public concern and subject to inspection and accountability on the part of other countries. We hope that others do the same thing. We hope that this becomes the norm rather than the exception among the signatories of the treaty.

Iraq/Mosul: 2 Confirmed #H5N1 #Birdflu Deaths

Registered cases of bird flu deaths in Mosul
8-12-11
MOSUL - Nawfal al-Rawi
An official source in the Al-Zahrawi Teaching Hospital in Mosul for the registration of two new cases of bird flu in the province.

The source, who preferred not be named »Sabah» that both cases EDTA to the death with her where she supervised a medical team on the mechanism of buried bodies as a preventive measure to avoid transmission of HIV disease. He pointed out that the Department of Health Nineveh has its part to members of Red Hat, especially in all He has a government hospital and provide the requirements of sterilized and configured to receive any possible injuries or disease to receive suspected cases, and a team of specialist doctors to supervise the work of these corridors in order to take the action requested when registering new cases of the disease.

Vietnam: #H5N1 #Birdflu Sucessfully Stamped Out in Nghe An

On 05/12, Department of Animal Health (MARD) confirmed Nghe An has successfully controlled avian flu. So, is this dangerous disease has been extinguished over the country.

According to the Veterinary Department, the country has successfully controlled and blue ear pig epidemic of foot and mouth after a long period of time recur, spread and cause severe damage to farmers in a variety of provinces. These are favorable conditions for farmers re now, up now, to increase the food supply during Tet holidays.

However, according to veterinary experts, so many cattle and poultry were all immune smuggled cattle, poultry complicated risk above three types of recurrent disease during to be very high, the localities should actively prevent.

China- Military physicians called on people to strengthen Peach protection to reduce the risk of infection of #birdflu #h5n1

Military physicians called on people to strengthen Peach protection to reduce the risk of infection of bird flu

Issued on: 2011/12/07
(Military News Agency correspondent Lin Jingjie Taipei, 7)

 recent international spate of human and animal cases of H5N1 influenza, Taoyuan Armed Forces General Hospital, to remind the public and military officers and men, travel abroad at public expense before the inoculation of influenza vaccine as soon as possible, avoid contact with birds, to reduce the risk of infection.
Taoyuan Armed Forces General Hospital, pointed out that the spread of bird flu region, including Egypt, Vietnam and Nepal and other countries, people infected with the officers and men, if at the National Tourism should pay attention to personal hygiene and avoid contact with birds, especially when access to traditional markets must also pay special attention if the country of return after the ill person should wear masks as soon as possible for medical treatment, doctors explain to travel and contact history to facilitate diagnosis and treatment. Taoyuan Armed Forces General Hospital, stressed that so far the world's total confirmed cases of human H5N1 influenza have five hundred seventy-one cases, of which three hundred thirty-five cases of death, mortality rate of nearly sixty percent of which had a very high proportion of birds history of exposure, such as reminding people to travel abroad, you should avoid contact with birds and their excreta, return time as a fever or flu-like symptoms, quarantine officers should seek assistance at the airport. 

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Vietnam: Monitoring For the "New Flu" Recombinant

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On 5-12, Department of Preventive Health (MOH) has the power to send the Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Pasteur Institute of proactive prevention and intrusion New flu spreads in Vietnam.

Health sector needs to closely monitor cases of entry into Vietnam.

For influenza sentinel key countries, need regular monitoring for early detection of changes and the circulation of influenza virus; epidemic update plans to respond in time ...

The flu vaccine is in Vietnam for flu vaccine is usually common in humans, known as seasonal flu as influenza A/H3N1, H3N2, H1N1. However, according to epidemiologists, the flu vaccine shots are also very necessary, by external effective for preventing regular flu, it also helps prevent the creation of varieties of flu virus H5N1 bird flu as well as new more virulent due to recombination (a person infected with the two types of flu virus will be able to recombine the new flu).

Ranchi crows hit by mysterious epidemic

Ranchi crows hit by mysterious epidemic

2011-12-06
The mysterious disease that has caused the death of hundreds of crows has reached Ranchi with dozens of crows falling off trees and dying in a particular locality in the heart of the city over the last two days.

Scores of crows have been found dead in the premises of St Mary's Cathedral on Purulia Road, giving rise to a wave of speculation and panic over the unusual happening. The crows fall off their resting places and die within hours, observers said. "More than two dozen crows have died so far. They drop from the trees and die a slow and painful death. Once they drop, they are unable to fly again," Paulus Lakda, caretaker of the church, said.

The first incident of bird drop was witnessed two months back and now its frequency has risen after the sudden drop in temperature in the last two days. "The staff and students at the church have been playing with crows since October but the numbers have increased over the last two days" Emanuel Khalkho, catechist of the church, said.

Staff working in the Church for the last several years has never seen such a phenomenon. The first spate of such deaths occurred at Jubilee Park in Jamshedpur in September. Hundreds of crows died due to a mysterious disease during this period.

"It is an unknown viral disease whose vector is not known yet. The resting site of the crows provides favourable conditions for the virus to spread," KK Sharma, a renowned environmentalist and head of department of zoology at Co-operative College Jamshedpur, said.

A team from Bhopal visiting Jamshedpur has speculated that if the dead crows come in contact with human beings, this disease may take the form of an epidemic. "A similar phenomenon had come to light in North America two years ago. It was named the Neel Virus," Nitish Priyadarshi, an environmentalist in Ranchi, said. Though the visiting team of environmentalists from Bhopal in Jamshedpur has named the virus HN1H, the confusion regarding the naming persists among authorities in the State.  http://jhnews.co.in/news.php?id=2222

Vietnam: Proactive Defense Against "New Flu"

Department of Preventive Health (MOH) has the power to send the Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Pasteur Institute of proactive prevention and intrusion New flu spreads in Vietnam.

The request came after the Center for Prevention and Disease Control notified the United States, at Iowa State 23-11 days of this country have found three cases of new influenza strain is identified by recombinant from strains of influenza A (H1N1) pandemic in 2009 and influenza A (H3N2) derived from pigs.

For proactive intrusion prevention and spread in Vietnam, Department of Preventive Medicine Institute requested the Hygiene and Epidemiology, Institut Pasteur strengthening activities quarantine borders, particularly those with track fever, flu syndrome from epidemic areas.

At the same time, strengthen monitoring of cluster flu, suspected cases of severe pneumonia caused by viruses in the community, particularly the monitoring of key national influenza, early detection of changes and the prevalence of micro- influenza.

In addition, the need to actively coordinate with the World Health Organization (WHO), Center for Prevention and Disease Control United States for technical assistance in monitoring, detecting the virus on.

BA staff regularly monitor and update the epidemic to plan and respond promptly report prescribed diseases.

Crow deaths: Saryu Roy to call on CPCB chief

Crow deaths: Saryu Roy to call on CPCB chief

Monday, 05 December 2011 22:00

PNS | Jamshedpur

The social outfit Yugantar Bharati, which is also pursuing the crow’s death issue along with several other environmental problems confronting Kolhan, has decided to take up the matter with the Central Pollution Control Board and the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest.

Saryu Rai, senior functionary of the outfit and BJP leader, informed that he is scheduled to meet CPCB chairman on December 7 and subsequently have a dialogue also with the joint secretary of the Forest and Environment Ministry for demanding an effective and time-bound probe by wildlife experts into the crow deaths. It’s high time the Government here wakes up and takes the matter seriously as the phenomenon is spreading like wild fire.
“The neglectful approach of the forest department and clandestine conduct of the visiting probing teams (from Bhopal and Bareilly) have made us sceptical,” Rai said.
Holding the large scale felling of trees in violation to environment safety guidelines responsible for increasing pollution here, Rai asked the district forest office to set up enclosures of six feet circumference around trees and ensure adequate soil and water.
Meanwhile, the Ornithology Society of India has sought a comprehensive scientific probe by a competitive wildlife authority to arrive at accurate findings. The Society is not satisfied with the research of the National Institute of Virology Pune regarding the abnormal rise in the house crow mortality rate.
Calling for inclusion of crows in the category of wildlife, Prof. K K Sharma of OSI said: “The situation is getting grave with every passing day. Unless crows are made part of the wildlife category there is a least possibility of competitive wildlife authority taking up the case.”
In this regard, he said that senior World Wildlife Fund official RK Singh is visiting here on December 18 to make a spot study of the Steel City’s environmental issues.
“We need to study their behavioural pattern and roosting habitat along with the immediate causes (of crow deaths) and we are of the opinion only a qualified wildlife body can do it satisfactorily,” Prof. Sharma said.
An abrupt rise in the death of crows was first reported in a study by Sharma, the Head of Department of Zoology of Co-operative College, in September.
Sharma conducted the study after he found large number of carcasses at a spot in Jubilee Park. In his initial study, Sharma suspected encephalitis virus as the major cause and said he had detected some unnatural behaviour among the crows apparently affected by the virus. He claimed that 10 per cent of the population of crows in a particular region of the city has already died due to the virus within a fortnight since he began the study.

“It is a matter of great concern. As per my study, the symptoms found in the crows prior to their untimely death have given me reasons to believe encephalitis is apparently the cause behind the rise in the death toll,” said Sharma.

Sharma further added that thick presence of water hyacinths in the two adjoining rivers of Kharkhai and Subernarekha is primarily responsible for the spread of viral infections in the city which took its toll on the crows,. Poor climatic condition, high presence of bacteria in the water bodies and presence of germs in kitchen waste made things worse for the crow’s survival, he said.http://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/ranchi/25559-crow-deaths-saryu-roy-to-call-on-cpcb-chief.html

USAID Supports Poultry Market Upgrade to Reduce Risk of Disease

     

A vendor sells poultry in the newly-refurbished Dong Ha market. Photo: USAID/APII

DONG HA, Vietnam, December 6, 2011 -- Dong Ha Market in Vietnam's central Quang Tri Province unveiled its newly upgraded poultry sections on Monday featuring greatly improved market and hygiene practices that will reduce the risk of bird flu and other diseases.
The refurbished poultry market, funded by U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and carried out in partnership with the Provincial Coordination Unit, Dong Ha City People's Committee and the Market Management Board, provides a model for other provinces to follow. Representatives from Bac Ning, Hanoi, Hoa Binh, Hue, Hung Yen, Nghe An, Quang Binh and Vinh Phuc attended the opening event.
"We expect that the Dong Ha market model will become a demonstration and learning laboratory for others to adopt and adapt," said USAID Office of Health Director Jonathan Ross. "There are hundreds of markets throughout Vietnam that trade in live and plucked poultry on a daily basis. These markets are in a position to apply the technical concepts and designs, and adopt the practices and behaviors that will result in improved biosecurity and biosafety."
An agreement earlier this year between the USAID Avian and Pandemic Influenza Initiative, Dong Ha's People's Committee and the project's Provincial Coordination Unit led to clearly assigned roles, responsibilities and financial contributions of each party. Once construction was completed last month, the USAID project team provided training on risk reduction, safe handling of poultry and improved market and hygiene practices for the Market Management Board, Veterinary Officers, and market vendors.
The overall aim of this initiative is to help reduce the risk of spread of diseases among those who handle the birds and purchase and consume poultry from Dong Ha Market while improving the business operations for market vendors.
"This initiative plays a significant role in creating a safe and favorable place for local people to sell and buy poultry products, raise public awareness on reducing the risk of infectious diseases in humans and contributing to the city's efforts in controlling the spread of diseases," said Deputy Chairman of Dong Ha City People's Committee Mr. Le Cong Dinh.He added that with the support from local authorities and the community, the upgraded poultry sections in Dong Ha City Market "will prove their efficiency in preventing bird flu, protecting and improving people's health and contributing to the city's socio-economic development."
The upgrading was funded and carried out by USAID's Avian and Pandemic Influenza Initiative with additional financial and other support provided by the provincial government as well as private funds from market vendors.
Together with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and other partners, the project initially conducted a risk assessment and identified supply chain points for avian influenza risk reduction and development of demonstration models on improved biosecurity and biosafety. Project staff-designed the technical interventions for the market's live and plucked bird sections in collaboration with local counterparts.
USAID's Avian and Pandemic Influenza Initiative is a three-year project running through September 2012. Implemented by Abt Associates Inc. and building on previous experiences, the project strengthens the capacity of the Government of Vietnam and its counterparts to identify, prevent, and control outbreaks of avian influenza and other emerging infectious and zoonotic diseases in animals and humans. Activities have been implemented nationally and in the focus provinces of Can Tho, Ha Nam, Hung Yen, Kien Giang, and Quang Tri. The project is now moving beyond the focus areas and taking lessons learned and models to other provinces for wider adoption and replication with local resources.  http://vietnam.usaid.gov/usaid-supports-poultry-market-upgrade-reduce-risk-disease

More Crow deaths -Koylancl crows found dead in many places #birdflu #h5n1

Koylancl crows found dead in many places

Dec 06, 09:33 pm

 

West Bokaro: Bokaro Koylancl West in many places has been reported to the ravens. Pans of local Jama Masjid on Tuesday near the eastern Barugutu Murari Mohan Tiwari, a crow was found dead near the house. It appeared around a group of ravens.http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://in.jagran.yahoo.com/news/local/jharkhand/4_8_8593091.html&usg=ALkJrhglCg8GVz6AkgSO0TgQV5XlpGOTlw

Jharkhand, India- Dead crows in Kundhit #birdflu #h5n1

Kundhit dead crows in

Dec 06, 09:23 pm

Kundhit, Sons: Kundhit block headquarters in rural areas, including the deaths of crows puzzle remains unknown due to illness. There are still dozens of dead crows in the cheek of time. Many crows in the block headquarters on Tuesday to see the agony. The agony of a tree watching the crows took a host of people. In this section, said veterinarian Dr. V. Toppo listened to the disease in birds is unknown. The only reason the crows die appears that mobile tower radiation. However, after examination of dead birds is something to be said.http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://in.jagran.yahoo.com/news/local/jharkhand/4_8_8592986.html&usg=ALkJrhj_sCskMbCWABzjXixQ6tLj0k98ZQ

India-Team to probe death of the animals reached the area #birdflu #h5n1

Team to probe death of the animals reached

Dec 06, 10:13 pm 

 Ichak (Hazaribagh): Ichak block unknown disease-related animal deaths AFP news published in December after five of the team of doctors arrived in the village.
 According to the information division six December veterinary officer, Dr. Ashok Kumar, District Veterinary Officer Dr Jamuna Prasad Singh, Block Medical Officer Kamlesh Kumar Bharti's team Brkakhurd, Brkakla, Daria, Kaladwar visited the affected villages, including the death of animals investigated the causes.
Our veterinary officials told farmers that the potato leaf meal and cold, after the deaths of animals.  Did not know of any disease is unknown. December 10 will be free vaccines to affected villages.  http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://in.jagran.yahoo.com/news/local/jharkhand/4_8_8593341.html&usg=ALkJrhgtKoqKOSzIJhbFedulOjmHDEw0BQ

Discomfort to death overseas of the Crows birdflu #h5n1 #birdflu

..A report on our's and Flutrackers reporting on Jharkhand crow deaths

Discomfort to death overseas of the Crows
Dec 07, 01:47 am
Suman Chandra Singh, Jamshedpur: Jamshedpur and near death of the Crows are in the areas from overseas is पर्यावरणप्रेमियोंको shook. Ravens all the benefits of the 'Daily News' campaign being run by the support and your - your suggestions are given. Crows in the process of killing know that Jamshedpur has issued two and a half months. Thousands of crows have died during this period. This investigation has been to six teams across the country from now on but the reasons are shrouded in mystery. The H 5 N 1 virus fears is being talked about a report in this regard but has not made public. In addition to English newspapers on the Internet 'awakening' reports are also being sought. News reports appearing in the English translation of overseas posts are my friends. A site of America's Florida Many have commented on the death of the Crows.

Five December: Grit Wayne Dirhok, Editor, Senior Moderator, The Netherlands
Comment: Bird flu death prior notice of the Crows.

Five December - Ronan Kelly, United States
Comment: Do you know where the ravens are killed, the people are scared and are trying to do something to protect them.

Three December: Trefis, Director, Chaina Forum

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Comment: Jharkhand made a 'Dead Crows Zone ..
Comment: new virus of bird flu in Nepal.

Five December: Sharon Sander, Editor-in-Chief
Comment: Concern was expressed by putting the drug in the porcelain of the .. water? Animals and birds if anyone had it?

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Korea: The discovery of influenza virus in wild birds

2011-12-06

Health authorities raised in Korea, the level of control of the situation after the discovery of a type of bird flu in wild birds in some locations where migratory birds spend the winter in Korea.
The National Institute for Environmental Research he conducted tests on a sample of about 2,800 of these birds since last September, was discovered 44 cases of bird flu from.
Among those cases, found 21 cases in the establishment of sites of migratory birds including the Bay, "Chun-soo," and the mouth of the River "cloud."
The remaining 23 cases were found in the areas hit by the poultry over the past few years, including Anne Chun and San Eck.