Commonground: Change in Diagnostic Methods in Indonesia & Egypt??

Indonesia:
February 3, 2010
..."Bandung – Bird flu/avian influenza/AI H5N1 case has reached over a half of total cases recorded in West Java on 2009. At the beginning of 2010, about 70 bird flu cases had been found in ten municipals (kabupaten). Head of Livestock Service of West Java, Koesmayadi Tatang Padmadinata stated that current situation had been a warning..."The increase of cases was suggested because of the change of diagnostic method. The Public Health Division of Livestock Service of West Java, Sri Mudjiatiningsih mentioned that the procedural change had been an agreement between FAO (who managed the Participatory Diseases Surveillance and Response) with Livestock Services. Previously, bird flu control measures would be done if only molecular biology or PCR test showed positive of AI to the samples which had been tested positive by rapid test. However, new policy of diagnostic method would be done by applying every bird flu control measures when rapid test showed positive. Control measures here would be biosecurity procedure and vaccination. Depopulation would be done only when PCR showed positive, described Sri."...
http://www.tempointeraktif.com/hg/nusa/2010/02/03/brk,20100203-223094,id.html

Egypt:
January 19th:
...."MALR/GOVS on 19 January 2010 announced 17 household cases in 8 governorates (marked below with an asterisk * ). GOVS said the volume of cases was a result of the strengthening of passive surveillance in veterinary clinics. Veterinarians in the clinics were trained in a new HPAI case definition and use of a rapid field test. The veterinarians were given tasks for early detection of cases in the village, i.e., regular checks on the clinical status of birds in surrounding villages and testing for sick chickens in consistency with the case definition by using the rapid field test. In the cases announced January 19 (*), all samples taken by rapid field test were sent to the laboratory for confirmation by PCR technique regardless of the result of the rapid field test.".....
http://www.saidr.org/en/animals.php