Updated at: 8:36 PM, 19/03/2009
Also by information from hospital Tropical, an adult suspected H5N1 infection in the local child Tran Cong Phuc was transferred from Dong Thap on this basis to emergency.
Dr. Tran Huu Ngoc, Director of HCMC Pasteur Institute said test results he's sick in the hospital also positive for H5N1 virus. According to Dr. Huu, you most likely infected by influenza playing with chickens, ducks sick.
Afternoon 19 / 3, the reverse Tran Phuc, live in Chau Thanh district, Dong Thap, death in hospital in Ho Chi Minh City Tropical Disease by H5N1.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
3 Additional patients in Vietnam
one may be from the earlier post -
Children 3 years old child dies of H5N1
Children 3 years old child dies of H5N1
Cập nhật lúc : 8:36 PM, 19/03/2009 Updated at: 8:36 PM, 19/03/2009
/ Patients transferred from Dong Thap Hospital on Tropical on 16 / 3 states in fever, respiratory failure, and avian influenza. Bệnh viện lấy mẫu bệnh phẩm xét nghiệm và phát hiện cháu nhiễm virus H5N1. Hospital patient samples tested products and found them infected with H5N1 virus.
Dr. Tran Huu Ngoc, Director of HCMC Pasteur Institute said test results he's sick in the hospital also positive for H5N1 virus. According to Dr. Huu, you most likely infected by influenza playing with chickens, ducks sick.
Medical Center for HCMC to the Hospital for Tropical khử same area khuẩn due process procedures A/H5N1 flu. The two patients was processed and taken to a local at 16h this afternoon.
Also by information from hospital Tropical, an adult suspected H5N1 infection in the local child Tran Cong Phuc was transferred from Dong Thap on this basis to emergency.
Dr. Tran Huu Ngoc, Director of HCMC Pasteur Institute said test results he's sick in the hospital also positive for H5N1 virus. According to Dr. Huu, you most likely infected by influenza playing with chickens, ducks sick.
Medical Center for HCMC to the Hospital for Tropical khử same area khuẩn due process procedures A/H5N1 flu. The two patients was processed and taken to a local at 16h this afternoon.
Also by information from hospital Tropical, an adult suspected H5N1 infection in the local child Tran Cong Phuc was transferred from Dong Thap on this basis to emergency.
Avian Influenza Research Center (2) Use the monkey, the International Drag Attention
[Google Translation]
Thursday, 19 March 2009
By: Reny Mardiningsih
For the purposes of research, Avian Influenza Research Center using a monkey, chicken, mouse and Ferret (a kind of civet cat, Red.) As the experimental animal. Rat was selected because the animals have a normal one so this animal experiment. Chicken taken because bird flu-related research. While monkeys and Ferret characteristics selected as most relevant people.
The use of mice, chickens and Ferret as experimental animals do not have a problem because the lab-lab most others also use it. But once the monkey, the reaction appears. Moreover, the bird flu lab at the Campus C Unair Primate using this in a number of quite large.
Meanwhile, the new bird flu lab has four containers that each contain two monkey cage. In each enclosure can be filled with a monkey or two, depending on the needs of research. So, if counted, the monkeys required more than 10 head. That is if there is no additional enclosure.
"We have 20 stalls inginnya monkeys here. But help is coming down because the new container 4, so we receive. If there is an opportunity to get a pen, we will take, "said Chairman of the Laboratory of Avian Flu Tropical Disease Center (TDC), Dr CA Nidom, drh, MS, who also led the Avian Influenza Research Center.
Too much monkey used to make automatic Avian Influenza Research Center of attention from the international world. Animal protection agencies will clearly have a voice if a large-scale exploitation in the use of monkeys as experimental animals. Especially abroad, lab-lab research rarely utilizes guard because of the price per ekornya expensive, pemakaiannya also limited.
"Attention on the biggest job we will use is to the monkey. Therefore, we must be careful, "said Nidom.
To avoid protests and criticism from the activists, and all the staff Nidom researchers mengantongi license from Kyoto Primate Center. License give permission to the use of monkeys as the object of research animals.
However, there is the positive use of the guard in bird flu lab. Researchers from abroad definitely interested in doing research on Avian Influenza Research Center due Primate used. Abroad, researchers can not freely use monkeys as much as possible for research purposes. The price of a very expensive monkey.
In Japan, the price of one monkey tails reach Rp 10 million. In the U.S. much more expensive. The State of Wisconsin, the price can be up to Rp 180 million per head. Meanwhile in Indonesia, the price of Rp 2-3 million, a monkey can take home.
Nidom sure will be many researchers from abroad to come to Avian Influenza Research Center to take advantage of the primates that are as experimental animals. This is so the opportunity for Indonesian researchers to gain or share knowledge with them.
"Clearly there are a lot of knowledge that can we can from them. Either with the direct learning through exchange opinions or "steal" without them, "said Nidom.
In addition, Pamor Indonesia in international eyes will also be picked up. The Avian Influenza Research Center to sit in line with other lab-lab in the world. Lab results of bird flu cooperation the Ministry of Health and Unair this does not make Indonesia more inferior in the international eye.
"With the existing equipment and the number of foreign researchers who came, not only the name Unair the exposure in the international world, but also Indonesia. This is clearly improving Pamor Indonesia. We are so flush with researchers from other countries who may be more advanced, "said Nidom.
According to Nidom, many researchers from outside of a mengantre to participate can take advantage of Avian Influenza Research Center as a research site. One of the Universiti Sains Malaysia recently made visits to Unair. The position of an independent lab and not under the wing TDC or create FKH Avian Influenza Research Center researchers receive free the country from which you want to do any research in this lab.
"Avian Influenza Research Center not only shows the seriousness in handling the cases of Indonesia bird flu. But also the bargaining position in Indonesia before the other countries. Besides Malaysia, the researchers from Japan also plans participate utilize this lab, "Nidom demolished.
Thursday, 19 March 2009
By: Reny Mardiningsih
For the purposes of research, Avian Influenza Research Center using a monkey, chicken, mouse and Ferret (a kind of civet cat, Red.) As the experimental animal. Rat was selected because the animals have a normal one so this animal experiment. Chicken taken because bird flu-related research. While monkeys and Ferret characteristics selected as most relevant people.
The use of mice, chickens and Ferret as experimental animals do not have a problem because the lab-lab most others also use it. But once the monkey, the reaction appears. Moreover, the bird flu lab at the Campus C Unair Primate using this in a number of quite large.
Meanwhile, the new bird flu lab has four containers that each contain two monkey cage. In each enclosure can be filled with a monkey or two, depending on the needs of research. So, if counted, the monkeys required more than 10 head. That is if there is no additional enclosure.
"We have 20 stalls inginnya monkeys here. But help is coming down because the new container 4, so we receive. If there is an opportunity to get a pen, we will take, "said Chairman of the Laboratory of Avian Flu Tropical Disease Center (TDC), Dr CA Nidom, drh, MS, who also led the Avian Influenza Research Center.
Too much monkey used to make automatic Avian Influenza Research Center of attention from the international world. Animal protection agencies will clearly have a voice if a large-scale exploitation in the use of monkeys as experimental animals. Especially abroad, lab-lab research rarely utilizes guard because of the price per ekornya expensive, pemakaiannya also limited.
"Attention on the biggest job we will use is to the monkey. Therefore, we must be careful, "said Nidom.
To avoid protests and criticism from the activists, and all the staff Nidom researchers mengantongi license from Kyoto Primate Center. License give permission to the use of monkeys as the object of research animals.
However, there is the positive use of the guard in bird flu lab. Researchers from abroad definitely interested in doing research on Avian Influenza Research Center due Primate used. Abroad, researchers can not freely use monkeys as much as possible for research purposes. The price of a very expensive monkey.
In Japan, the price of one monkey tails reach Rp 10 million. In the U.S. much more expensive. The State of Wisconsin, the price can be up to Rp 180 million per head. Meanwhile in Indonesia, the price of Rp 2-3 million, a monkey can take home.
Nidom sure will be many researchers from abroad to come to Avian Influenza Research Center to take advantage of the primates that are as experimental animals. This is so the opportunity for Indonesian researchers to gain or share knowledge with them.
"Clearly there are a lot of knowledge that can we can from them. Either with the direct learning through exchange opinions or "steal" without them, "said Nidom.
In addition, Pamor Indonesia in international eyes will also be picked up. The Avian Influenza Research Center to sit in line with other lab-lab in the world. Lab results of bird flu cooperation the Ministry of Health and Unair this does not make Indonesia more inferior in the international eye.
"With the existing equipment and the number of foreign researchers who came, not only the name Unair the exposure in the international world, but also Indonesia. This is clearly improving Pamor Indonesia. We are so flush with researchers from other countries who may be more advanced, "said Nidom.
According to Nidom, many researchers from outside of a mengantre to participate can take advantage of Avian Influenza Research Center as a research site. One of the Universiti Sains Malaysia recently made visits to Unair. The position of an independent lab and not under the wing TDC or create FKH Avian Influenza Research Center researchers receive free the country from which you want to do any research in this lab.
"Avian Influenza Research Center not only shows the seriousness in handling the cases of Indonesia bird flu. But also the bargaining position in Indonesia before the other countries. Besides Malaysia, the researchers from Japan also plans participate utilize this lab, "Nidom demolished.
Government Provide Rp200 Billion For Bird Flu Research
[google translation]
19/03/09 17:54
Surabaya (ANTARA News) - The government provides funds Rp200 billion to finance various research on the disease bird flu (Avian Influenza / AI), as well as prevention efforts and protecting/controlling.
"Already the funds provided Rp200 billion per year for that. Help is also overseas, but we remain in control," said Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari after speaking international symposium on bird flu at the University of Airlangga (UNAIR) Surabaya, on Thursday.
He added that his side have a basic mechanism related to the provision of government funds and the use of foreign assistance funds to research bird flu disease.
"There is selection, the only quality approved. Research with assistance from abroad also have their own mechanism," he said.
Separately, Head of Research and Development of Health Department of Health Agus Purwadianto has explained his side have a plan of research on bird flu disease.
"It has been mapped based on the needs, the implementation is coordinated so that does not overlap," he said.
He explains, research on bird flu primarily focused on search techniques and detection diagnosis disease bird flu in humans and the development of bird flu vaccine for humans.
"The point of all that is required for the effort and prepandemik pandemic. For that there must be detection and diagnosis technique that quickly and accurately," he said.
He added that the government has begun research to develop bird flu vaccine production in humans.
"Research and development of vaccines done in the BSL-3 laboratory in the UNAIR and in Jakarta," he said.
According to him, there are currently three units with laboratory safety standards Bio-Safety Level 3 (BSL-3), ie, in a laboratory owned UNAIR, University of Indonesia, and the Eijkman Institute Biomolekuler.
Laboratory BSL-3 Research and Development Agency Health Department of Health, he said, will also be completed and start operation this year.
"That's enough. Tinggal maintenance only, soalnya expensive maintenance costs," he said.
The four BSL-3 laboratory and several regional laboratories in the region are expected to support research activities on infectious diseases, especially bird flu disease.
"In the future, we are no longer left behind and could only follow, but can be parallel or step further from the other," said Minister of Health. (*)
19/03/09 17:54
Surabaya (ANTARA News) - The government provides funds Rp200 billion to finance various research on the disease bird flu (Avian Influenza / AI), as well as prevention efforts and protecting/controlling.
"Already the funds provided Rp200 billion per year for that. Help is also overseas, but we remain in control," said Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari after speaking international symposium on bird flu at the University of Airlangga (UNAIR) Surabaya, on Thursday.
He added that his side have a basic mechanism related to the provision of government funds and the use of foreign assistance funds to research bird flu disease.
"There is selection, the only quality approved. Research with assistance from abroad also have their own mechanism," he said.
Separately, Head of Research and Development of Health Department of Health Agus Purwadianto has explained his side have a plan of research on bird flu disease.
"It has been mapped based on the needs, the implementation is coordinated so that does not overlap," he said.
He explains, research on bird flu primarily focused on search techniques and detection diagnosis disease bird flu in humans and the development of bird flu vaccine for humans.
"The point of all that is required for the effort and prepandemik pandemic. For that there must be detection and diagnosis technique that quickly and accurately," he said.
He added that the government has begun research to develop bird flu vaccine production in humans.
"Research and development of vaccines done in the BSL-3 laboratory in the UNAIR and in Jakarta," he said.
According to him, there are currently three units with laboratory safety standards Bio-Safety Level 3 (BSL-3), ie, in a laboratory owned UNAIR, University of Indonesia, and the Eijkman Institute Biomolekuler.
Laboratory BSL-3 Research and Development Agency Health Department of Health, he said, will also be completed and start operation this year.
"That's enough. Tinggal maintenance only, soalnya expensive maintenance costs," he said.
The four BSL-3 laboratory and several regional laboratories in the region are expected to support research activities on infectious diseases, especially bird flu disease.
"In the future, we are no longer left behind and could only follow, but can be parallel or step further from the other," said Minister of Health. (*)
Because Expensive the Government of the Production Personally the Bird Flu Vaccine
Health News Wed, 18 Mar 2009
The increase in the number of patients of the bird flu sufferer in Indonesia that was not matched by the number of bird flu vaccines that must in import from Japan, made the government initiating to produce personally the bird flu vaccine. These efforts were carried out by the government also to press the high price of the bird flu vaccine from the Japanese country.
According to RI Health Minister, Siti Fadilah Supari said in the near future the government will erect the building in the campus of Unair Surabaya as the centre for the production of the vaccine of the bird flu illness. “ at this time has begun the production of the bird flu vaccine. With developed site the virus to be known the number of mulberrys of the bird flu vaccine that would dibuat” he said.
Siti Fadilah Supari explained production efforts of the local vaccine for the bird flu sufferer were government efforts that at this time must receive the support of all the sides, because this was the first time Putra the nation made the flu vaccine burung” we must be proud of could make this vaccine kind. Because beforehand for the production of the bird flu vaccine always in the domination by Jepang” he continued. Technically, at this time has been developed site the vaccine (the cause) bird flu where from site this vaccine could be known by the method and the vaccine kind that will be made in accordance with the condition for the sufferer. ” was this vaccine was adapted to the condition for the sufferer. Compared with belonging to Japan this vaccine kind got along well with the Indonesia community" he added.
In the meantime, in his visit to East Java, RI Health Minister, Siti Fadilah Supari praised pemProv East Java that budgeted especially for the allocation of the fund of APBD East Java in 2009, for the handling of the flu sufferer burung” this ought to be copied by the area lain” he said. Moreover, the Health Minister praised the side of RSUD Dr. Soetomo was the only hospital that provided the special room for the sufferer of the bird flu illness. “ I the salute was the same East Java, for his care for the bird flu sufferer. Moreover will be heard by me from the East Java governor apart from RSUD Dr. Soetomo eventually the room of the bird flu sufferer will also be made all over the community health centre in East Java. This showed the East Java Provincial Government was indeed serious to wage war on the illness kind ini” he stated.
The increase in the number of patients of the bird flu sufferer in Indonesia that was not matched by the number of bird flu vaccines that must in import from Japan, made the government initiating to produce personally the bird flu vaccine. These efforts were carried out by the government also to press the high price of the bird flu vaccine from the Japanese country.
According to RI Health Minister, Siti Fadilah Supari said in the near future the government will erect the building in the campus of Unair Surabaya as the centre for the production of the vaccine of the bird flu illness. “ at this time has begun the production of the bird flu vaccine. With developed site the virus to be known the number of mulberrys of the bird flu vaccine that would dibuat” he said.
Siti Fadilah Supari explained production efforts of the local vaccine for the bird flu sufferer were government efforts that at this time must receive the support of all the sides, because this was the first time Putra the nation made the flu vaccine burung” we must be proud of could make this vaccine kind. Because beforehand for the production of the bird flu vaccine always in the domination by Jepang” he continued. Technically, at this time has been developed site the vaccine (the cause) bird flu where from site this vaccine could be known by the method and the vaccine kind that will be made in accordance with the condition for the sufferer. ” was this vaccine was adapted to the condition for the sufferer. Compared with belonging to Japan this vaccine kind got along well with the Indonesia community" he added.
In the meantime, in his visit to East Java, RI Health Minister, Siti Fadilah Supari praised pemProv East Java that budgeted especially for the allocation of the fund of APBD East Java in 2009, for the handling of the flu sufferer burung” this ought to be copied by the area lain” he said. Moreover, the Health Minister praised the side of RSUD Dr. Soetomo was the only hospital that provided the special room for the sufferer of the bird flu illness. “ I the salute was the same East Java, for his care for the bird flu sufferer. Moreover will be heard by me from the East Java governor apart from RSUD Dr. Soetomo eventually the room of the bird flu sufferer will also be made all over the community health centre in East Java. This showed the East Java Provincial Government was indeed serious to wage war on the illness kind ini” he stated.
European lab accidents raise biosecurity concerns
Source: Reuters
* Bird flu and Ebola virus accidents raise biosecurity fears * European states urged to improve lab accident disclosure * Northern Europe reports most lab-acquired infectionsBy Laura MacInnis and Debra Sherman GENEVA/CHICAGO,
March 19 (Reuters) - Lab accidents involving bird flu and Ebola viruses have increased biosecurity fears in Europe, where public health experts say research on dangerous pathogens needs to be more strictly monitored. A scientist in Germany last week pricked herself with a needle that was believed to be contaminated with a strain of the Ebola haemorrhagic virus with a mortality rate of around 90 percent. She is still under observation in hospital. That accident added to public health concerns following the recent disclosure that deadly H5N1 bird flu virus samples were mixed with seasonal flu samples at a Baxter International
Security experts say viruses and other biological agents could be used as weapons, as occurred in 2001 in the United States when envelopes containing anthrax were sent to media outlets and U.S. lawmakers, kiling five people.
HUMAN ERROR Baxter spokesman Chris Bona said the Illinois-based company learned in February about the H5N1 contamination, which was due to "a combination of process, technical and human error." The flu virus samples were meant only for testing and not vaccine or product development, according to the spokesman, who said Baxter has "put corrective measures in place" after the accident but declined to give details "for proprietary reasons." All 37 people exposed to the mixture at subcontractor sites in Germany, the Czech Republic and Slovenia, and at AVIR Greenhills Biotechnology, an Austrian company that bought the samples, tested negative for H5N1 bird flu, Bona said.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) fears that virus, which has killed 256 people since 2003, could trigger a deadly flu pandemic if it mutates and starts to spread more easily.
Biosafety Europe's project coordinator Kathrin Summermatter said that better training and more collaboration on safety standards could help reduce pathogen risks in European labs. "We found that even though there are European guidelines concerning biosafety, the awareness, the implementation and the control was not the same in the different European countries," she told Reuters by email. The group's report, compiled before the recent bird flu and Ebola accidents, said that Northern European countries disclosed more laboratory-acquired infections than other parts of Europe, "which in part may reflect reporting differences." Summermatter said greater transparency about incidents that do occur was essential to help identify and reduce risks: "It is important to learn from the experience of other laboratories." (Editing by Mark Trevelyan)
Dayeuhkolot: 20 chickens died Suddenly Terjangkit Bird Flu
[NY Ai (60) is "Ai Hasanah (56)" mentioned in the first article I posted on this. No mention of anyone symptomatic in this article].
Excerpt:
Bird flu was contagious in Kab. Bandung. From Monday (16/3) to Thursday (19/3), 20 chickens in Kp. The group of Kel/Kec. Dayeuhkolot died suddenly, and was stated positive terjangkit the bird flu virus. Up until Wednesday late afternoon (18/3), 19 chickens belonging to NY Ai (60) in Kp. The group died because of the bird flu virus. Whereas on Thursday (19/3) of a chicken belonging to Baron Kadarusman, that the place was adjacent to the NY place. Ai also died, with the strong assumption because of bird flu.
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"On Thursday morning, the CIRAI team (Community-based Integrated Research ounce Avian Influenza) --a joint team from RSHS and the Unpad School Of Animal Husbandry -- visited Kp. The group. The CIRAI team carried out the inspection of the poultry in a radius of 200 metre from the NY place. Ai. They also went round, to check about the possibility of the existence of the resident that terjangkit bird flu. "
Excerpt:
Bird flu was contagious in Kab. Bandung. From Monday (16/3) to Thursday (19/3), 20 chickens in Kp. The group of Kel/Kec. Dayeuhkolot died suddenly, and was stated positive terjangkit the bird flu virus. Up until Wednesday late afternoon (18/3), 19 chickens belonging to NY Ai (60) in Kp. The group died because of the bird flu virus. Whereas on Thursday (19/3) of a chicken belonging to Baron Kadarusman, that the place was adjacent to the NY place. Ai also died, with the strong assumption because of bird flu.
-snip-
"On Thursday morning, the CIRAI team (Community-based Integrated Research ounce Avian Influenza) --a joint team from RSHS and the Unpad School Of Animal Husbandry -- visited Kp. The group. The CIRAI team carried out the inspection of the poultry in a radius of 200 metre from the NY place. Ai. They also went round, to check about the possibility of the existence of the resident that terjangkit bird flu. "
The chicken died in Dayeuhkolot Positive Bird Flu
A continuation of this story posted here:
KESRA--19 MARET: The sample that was taken from the chicken carcass died suddenly in RW 9 villages and the Dayeuhkolot Subdistrict, Kabupaten Bandung, by the official from the Peternakan Service and fisheries, on Wednesday (18/3), evidently positive bird flu. When being checked struck 15,30, results rapid test showed results of the significant negative the chicken suffered Newcastle disease. Cecep Hendriyadi, the official Partisipatory Disease Surveillance Respondent, at that time spoke that the cause of the death was raging Newcastle disease. However, not old at intervals of evidently results rapid test positive.
One of the residents, Deni Kustiwa, on Thursday, said, this morning again was found by one chicken that died suddenly. Moreover, did something wrong a resident was named Jajang Wijaya that suffered the sign like bird flu like hot and coughs. Until the news was filed, the team from Community-based & Integrated Research of Avian Influenza (CIRAI) combed the territory in and around the chicken died suddenly was found. This team was bisected, that is combing the sample of the animal and surveying the resident. (kp/hr).
Tetelo, Causes Death in the Chicken Dayeuhkolot...the story of the town that decided to burn their own chickens because they were worried, the local garbage collector burnt them without any PPE...but the next story said the authorities came in, and took the tests, and discovered it was New Castle disease....now they claim it's bird flu...and...a resident that "did something wrong" has symptoms. Did something wrong....like culling with no PPE something wrong?.....This is particularly upsetting because they contacted the authorities, to no avail. From the 1st article posted on this situation:
March 18th...Posted by Commonground at 9:09 AM
Because worried that was the sign of bird flu, the resident then at once burnt the poultry carcass without could be ascertained by the cause of his death.
According to RW public relations 09 of Deni Kartiwa, the guidance to burn this chicken carcass came from the Dayeuhkolot Community Health Centre after giving the report.
This decision was chosen because, after reporting to the government of the subdistrict, there was no assurance that was given. "There was no clear and certain solution, we at once burnt the chicken carcass," said Deni, on Wednesday (18/3).
KESRA--19 MARET: The sample that was taken from the chicken carcass died suddenly in RW 9 villages and the Dayeuhkolot Subdistrict, Kabupaten Bandung, by the official from the Peternakan Service and fisheries, on Wednesday (18/3), evidently positive bird flu. When being checked struck 15,30, results rapid test showed results of the significant negative the chicken suffered Newcastle disease. Cecep Hendriyadi, the official Partisipatory Disease Surveillance Respondent, at that time spoke that the cause of the death was raging Newcastle disease. However, not old at intervals of evidently results rapid test positive.
One of the residents, Deni Kustiwa, on Thursday, said, this morning again was found by one chicken that died suddenly. Moreover, did something wrong a resident was named Jajang Wijaya that suffered the sign like bird flu like hot and coughs. Until the news was filed, the team from Community-based & Integrated Research of Avian Influenza (CIRAI) combed the territory in and around the chicken died suddenly was found. This team was bisected, that is combing the sample of the animal and surveying the resident. (kp/hr).
HK: Man ill with Dengue fever
March 19, 2009
The Centre for Health Protection has confirmed the year's fourth case of Dengue fever involving a 59-year-old man who fell ill after travelling to Indonesia.
The Centre for Health Protection has confirmed the year's fourth case of Dengue fever involving a 59-year-old man who fell ill after travelling to Indonesia.
He came down with a fever and headache on March 5 and was admitted to Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital on March 9. He was discharged from hospital March 17.
BANGLADESH: Unusually early outbreak of diarrhoea in Dhaka
Previously reported from March 3rd:
DHAKA, 19 March 2009 (IRIN) - As temperatures climb and power outages continue, a lack of safe drinking water has resulted in an unusually early outbreak of diarrhoeal diseases across Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.
Compared with the same period of last year, the number of patients has trebled. At least three tents have been set up in the ICDDR,B car park to cope with the influx.
More severe cases are being treated with intravenous rehydration treatments and oral rehydration therapy (ORT) accompanied by zinc supplements, while those less severely affected are getting ORT and liquid food.
Since 11 March, an average of 700 patients have been admitted to ICDDR,B each day, and health workers are struggling to cope.
"Usually we don't have more than 250 patients admitted at a time. But this season, as the situation worsens every day, we have had to set up temporary wings. We admitted 811 patients on 14 March and 747 on the 18th,” Shahadat Hussein, head of ICDDR,B’s Longer Stay Unit, told IRIN.
“Usually diarrhoea breaks out in late April. But this year, the diarrhoea season seems to have started early. In mid-March, we are admitting more patients than [in] the average April-peak season,” Hussein said.
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Power shortages to blame?
ICDDR,B sources blame increasing temperatures and chronic power outages as the primary cause.
Load shedding is nothing new in this city of 12 million, but with an increase in population and the number of industries, demand for safe drinking water has increased exponentially over the last decade.
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Vaccine
Regarding ICDDR,B’s development of a vaccine for rotaviruses - described by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a leading cause of severe diarrhoeal disease and dehydration in infants and young children throughout the world - Shahadat Hussein said that although the vaccine was available in retail outlets, it had not yet been included in the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI).
Both WHO and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) have declared rotavirus vaccination a public health priority.
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BANGLADESH: Drive to stem bird flu in backyard farms
DHAKA, 3 March 2009 (IRIN) - The Bangladesh authorities, with assistance from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), have employed 300 field volunteers since October 2008 to strengthen surveillance of bird flu in rural areas.
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“The coming three months are crucial. Then the [June] monsoon rains will ease the situation,” said Mohammad Abu Bakr, a livestock worker at Jibika-CLP (Char Livelihood Programme), an NGO funded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID),...
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Scientists concerned
Some scientists, however, are particularly concerned about the risk in backyard farms.
“Backyard farms are in the rural areas where people are poor and ignorant. They also have very poor access to the media. They do not know much about bird flu or preventive practices,” said Habibur Rahman of Bangladesh Agricultural University.
Cases of bird flu in backyards often go unreported, posing a risk not just to birds but also humans, say scientists and government experts.
“The increasing outbreaks in backyard farms are disturbing. Human infections occur mainly from backyard farms,” said Rahman.
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http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=83265
DHAKA, 19 March 2009 (IRIN) - As temperatures climb and power outages continue, a lack of safe drinking water has resulted in an unusually early outbreak of diarrhoeal diseases across Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.
Compared with the same period of last year, the number of patients has trebled. At least three tents have been set up in the ICDDR,B car park to cope with the influx.
More severe cases are being treated with intravenous rehydration treatments and oral rehydration therapy (ORT) accompanied by zinc supplements, while those less severely affected are getting ORT and liquid food.
Since 11 March, an average of 700 patients have been admitted to ICDDR,B each day, and health workers are struggling to cope.
"Usually we don't have more than 250 patients admitted at a time. But this season, as the situation worsens every day, we have had to set up temporary wings. We admitted 811 patients on 14 March and 747 on the 18th,” Shahadat Hussein, head of ICDDR,B’s Longer Stay Unit, told IRIN.
“Usually diarrhoea breaks out in late April. But this year, the diarrhoea season seems to have started early. In mid-March, we are admitting more patients than [in] the average April-peak season,” Hussein said.
-snip-
Power shortages to blame?
ICDDR,B sources blame increasing temperatures and chronic power outages as the primary cause.
Load shedding is nothing new in this city of 12 million, but with an increase in population and the number of industries, demand for safe drinking water has increased exponentially over the last decade.
-snip-
Vaccine
Regarding ICDDR,B’s development of a vaccine for rotaviruses - described by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a leading cause of severe diarrhoeal disease and dehydration in infants and young children throughout the world - Shahadat Hussein said that although the vaccine was available in retail outlets, it had not yet been included in the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI).
Both WHO and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) have declared rotavirus vaccination a public health priority.
-snip-
Recombinomics: Mild H5N1 Cases in Egypt Raise Concerns
Commentary
Mild H5N1 Cases in Egypt Raise Concerns
Recombinomics Commentary 14:30
March 19, 2009
Girl, age 1½, began experiencing symptoms March 6. She was admitted to Menouf Fever Hospital upon showing symptoms of high fever and cough, and was given Tamiflu. Infection with avian influenza was confirmed March 10. The child was reported in a good general condition on March 10.
The above comments describe the two most recent confirmed cases in Egypt (see updated map). As seen in the description of the most recent case, the disease course is short and the patient was only symptomatic for four days, which is less than most season flu courses. Moreover, all eight confirmed cases this year have recovered. There is no indication that the two patients above developed pneumonia and only one of the eight cases this year was described as being in critical condition. The last fatal confirmed case in Egypt died in December.
The mild H5N1 cases this year are similar to the Egyptian cases in the spring of 2007, when 16/17 cases survived. Most of those cases were in children from upper Egypt. However, this year the cases are spread over a wide area and are likely infected with the vaccine resistant strain first described in late 2007.
Although NAMRU-3 has not released any sequences from this season, two of the human isolates from this year, A/Egypt/0001-NARMRU3/2009 and A/Egypt/0585-NARMRU3/2009, appear to be somewhat related to the vaccine-resistant strain, but may be recombinants, with additional genetic information from earlier Egyptian isolates. Release of sequences from these cases would be useful.
However, the recent mild cases raise concerns that the level of H5N1 cases in Egypt is markedly higher than reported. Many cases who do not develop pneumonia and have mild cases similar to the most recent case likely do not seek medical attention, while others may be treated for seasonal flu and recover untested for H5N1. Moreover, all seven confirmed cases in Egypt this year, prior to the most recent case were 1 ½ to 2 ½ years old. The confirmation of this number of toddlers, also suggests that there are more cases in older children and adults.
These mild cases in Egypt also raise concerns that the level of H5N1 in countries which report high case fatality rates, like Indonesia, Vietnam, and China also have a high number of mild cases that are untested or test negative, especially on samples collected after the start of Tamiflu treatment.
Bird flu kills 3-year-old boy in southern Vietnam
Source: Reuters
HANOI, March 19 (Reuters) - A three-year-old boy infected with the H5N1 bird flu strain has died in southern Vietnam, a state-run online newspaper reported on Thursday, the country's third human fatality from the poultry virus this year. The boy was admitted to a Ho Chi Minh City hospital early this week suffering from coughing, headaches and vomiting and doctors there confirmed he had contracted the H5N1 virus, Vietnam Net (www.vietnamnet.vn) said. The boy, who had fallen sick after his family in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap ate duck congee, died on Thursday afternoon, the report quoted a relative and doctors at the hospital as saying. The World Health Organization, which often waits for official announcements from Vietnam's Health Ministry before confirming bird flu cases, has yet to report the boy's death.Prior to the boy's death, Vietnam had reported 109 cases of human infections, of whom 54 had died, the WHO's tally showed. The Animal Health Department in Vietnam says there are bird flu outbreaks among poultry stocks in five provinces, but Dong Thap province is not on the government's watch list.
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Vietnam confirms 3rd human case died of bird flu this year
HANOI, March 19 (Xinhua) The three-year old Vietnamese boy from Southwestern province Dong Thap of Vietnam confirmed of being infected H5N1 virus died, a local doctor from the Ho Chi Minh Hospital of Tropical Diseases told Xinhua Thursday.
The infected patient named Tran Cong Phuc died this afternoon because of severe breathing difficulty caused by H5N1 virus tested by the hospital, said the doctor.
The boy was taken to the Ho Chi Minh Hospital of Tropical Diseases on Monday with symptoms similar to bird flu patients.
He contacted with ducks raised by nearby farms before developing bird flu symptoms, said his family member.
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Egypt: New bird flu Assiut Governorate
44663 السنة 133-العدد 2009 مارس 19 22 من ربيع الاول 1430 هـ الخميس
Abdel Rahman Shahin, official spokesman for the Ministry of Health yesterday the emergence of human infection No. 59 of bird flu, a woman claims Zeinab Abdel Rasul Mustafa, aged 38, from the village of Al Fatah Almasrp Center Assiut Governorate, Sahin said that the onset of symptoms, they were on Saturday the past, entered admitted to hospital in Assiut, the same day, which is experiencing a rise in temperature and coughing after exposure to dead birds suspected of being infected with bird flu.
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أعلن الدكتور عبدالرحمن شاهين المتحدث الرسمي لوزارة الصحة مساء أمس ظهور الإصابة البشرية رقم59 بمرض إنفلونزا الطيور لسيدة تدعي زينب مصطفي عبدالرسول38 سنة من قرية المعصرة مركز الفتح بمحافظة أسيوط, وقال شاهين إن بداية ظهور الأعراض المرضية عليها كانت يوم السبت الماضي, دخلت علي أثرها مستشفي حميات أسيوط في اليوم نفسه, وهي تعاني ارتفاعا في درجة الحرارة وسعالا عقب تعرضها لطيور نافقة يشتبه في إصابتها بمرض إنفلونزا الطيور.
Dr. Abdel Rahman Shahin, official spokesman for the Ministry of Health yesterday the emergence of human infection No. 59 of bird flu, a woman claims Zeinab Abdel Rasul Mustafa, aged 38, from the village of Al Fatah Almasrp Center Assiut Governorate, Sahin said that the onset of symptoms, they were on Saturday the past, entered admitted to hospital in Assiut, the same day, which is experiencing a rise in temperature and coughing after exposure to dead birds suspected of being infected with bird flu.
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Vietnamese boy dies of bird flu
HANOI: Health officials say a Vietnamese boy has died of the H5N1 virus. It is the country's third human bird-flu death this year.
Nguyen Huy Nga of Vietnam's Ministry of Health said the3-year-old boy died Thursday at a hospital in Ho Chi Minh City.
Provincial health director Hoang Van Phi said the boy became ill on March 10 after eating a duck that his family had slaughtered at their home in Dong Thap province in southern Vietnam. Dong Thap is some 119 miles (190 kilometers) west of Ho Chi MinhCity.
Nguyen Huy Nga of Vietnam's Ministry of Health said the3-year-old boy died Thursday at a hospital in Ho Chi Minh City.
Provincial health director Hoang Van Phi said the boy became ill on March 10 after eating a duck that his family had slaughtered at their home in Dong Thap province in southern Vietnam. Dong Thap is some 119 miles (190 kilometers) west of Ho Chi MinhCity.
Hospital HCMC detect a baby you have H5N1
Posted on 19-03-2009
Hospital for Tropical Diseases has discovered that a positive HPAI H5N1. The disease is a 3-year-old boy, in the Chau Thanh, Dong Thap. Doctor Nguyen Van Chau, Director of the Department of Health HCMC for you baby hospital today 16 / 3 in the state of fever, avian influenza. Hospital patient sample products tested and found positive for H5N1 virus.
Hospital for Tropical Diseases has discovered that a positive HPAI H5N1. The disease is a 3-year-old boy, in the Chau Thanh, Dong Thap. Doctor Nguyen Van Chau, Director of the Department of Health HCMC for you baby hospital today 16 / 3 in the state of fever, avian influenza. Hospital patient sample products tested and found positive for H5N1 virus.
At the health status of patients at risk of a play with the symptoms of respiratory failure seriously.
HCMC Pasteur Institute also conducted to test sample products disease, but according to Mr. Chau conclusions from Tropical Hospital has enough. Isolation of patients to combat the spread of hospital has been implementing strict. Talking to VnExpress.net, Dr. Nguyen Ngoc An, Director of Health Center for Dong Thap province, said after the Health Department HCMC report test results, the center was associated with the veterinary all the processes and prevention.
"The contact with patients and poultry in the village of Phu Hoa, Phu Long are we sending samples Pasteur Institute for testing. The cleaning, cleaning the environment with chemicals has been conducted" Dr. Press said.
In HCM City, last evening, Dr. Le Truong Giang, Vice Director of Department of Health city gets a check in the district and found 11 still live poultry are loft waiting for your guests .
Survey VnExpress.net in some poultry sold in District 7, 8, 12, Go Vap District, Hoc Mon, the buying and selling live poultry are still happening.
Vitenam-A Three year old boy tested positive to Bird Flu this morning in Dong Thap.
19/03/2009 05:15:06
A three-year-old boy in Vietnam has tested positive for potentially deadly bird flu, doctors said Thursday.The patient from the Mekong delta province of Dong Thap was admitted to Ho Chi Minh City’s Tropical Diseases Institute Monday and on Wednesday a test came back positive for the virus’s H5N1 strain, said Nguyen Van Chau, director of the city’s health care department.
"The situation of the boy is getting worse," Chau told AFP.
Another doctor, from the municipal Pasteur Institute, said the boy’s sample will be tested again to confirm the infection.
Communist Vietnam has the world’s second-highest bird flu death toll after Indonesia, with 54 deaths.
Since the beginning of the year, the deaths of two people have been blamed on the virus and the three-year-old boy is the fourth infection reported this year.
Poultry in five of Vietnam’s 63 provinces are infected with the H5N1 strain, the animal health department says.
According to the World Health Organisation, H5N1 has killed more than 250 people across the world since 2003.
The H5N1 virus typically spreads from birds to humans via direct contact, but experts fear that it could mutate into a form easily transmissible between humans, with the potential to kill millions in a pandemic.
Egyptian woman tests positive for bird flu
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CAIRO, March 19 (RIA Novosti) - A 38-year-old woman in Egypt has been diagnosed with bird flu, bringing the country's official total number of cases to 59, a spokesman for the country's health ministry said on Thursday.
The woman from the Asyut province, to the south of Cairo, was hospitalized with a high temperature and bad cough on Saturday. She is believed to have contracted the virus after coming into contact with dead poultry.
Last week, an 18-month-old girl in northern Egypt's Manoufiya province was also diagnosed with bird flu.
Egyptian officials said that 23 deaths from bird flu have been recorded in the country since 2006.
As of March 11, a total of 411 bird flu cases had been registered worldwide since the virus was first detected in 2003, resulting in 256 deaths, according to the WHO.
Although there have been no incidences of human-to-human infection, experts fear that the bird flu virus may mutate into a form that could be easily transmitted from person to person, causing a global pandemic.
Vietnam reports another human bird flu case
Vietnam reports another human bird flu case |
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Health officials say a Vietnamese boy has tested positive for bird flu, the country's fourth human case this year. Hoang Van Phi, deputy health director in Dong Thap province said Thursday that a 3-year-old boy developed a high fever, chronic cough and respiratory problems after eating duck meat. He was hospitalized in the province some 119 miles (190 kilometers) west of Ho Chi Minh City on March 10 and test results released Thursday showed he had the H5N1 virus. Bird flu has killed 54 people in Vietnam - including two this year - since it began raging through Asian poultry stocks in late 2003. |
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Bird Flu: ARD feels polls may fan spread
KOLKATA, March 18: With the Lok Sabha poll less than 60 days away, the officials of the state animal resources development department (ARD) are spending sleepless nights to arrest the rapid spread of Bird Flu in the Darjeeling Hills.
Officials feel that the since poll preparations have already started, it would be difficult for them to carry out measures in case the disease spreads further in the area.
Meanwhile, affected villagers refused to accept the allotted compensation and demanded higher pries for culled birds. Thus, the officials apprehend that carrying out culling operations would be a trouble as well. “Till now, four blocks in Darjeeling district~ Matigara, Rangli Rangliot, Kurseong and Mirik~ have been hit by the Bird Flu virus. Villagers of Matigara have accepted the compensation against the culled birds. But villagers of three other blocks have refused to accept compensation after culling of poultry birds,” said an official.
Senior ARD officials said the Hills would be in an heated state during the election. At that time, it would be tough for the department to carry out culling and disinfecting operation. This apart, an official said as the polls were approaching nearer, they were already having trouble in carrying out surveillance of poultry birds in the Hills.
“The issue is serious as the spread of the virus has to be stopped at the earliest in the Hills. If it spreads to more areas, it would be tough to get a grip of the situation due to the tough geographical terrain,” said another official. However, officials said they were laying stress on disinfecting operation in areas from where the disease has already been reported. n SNS
Officials feel that the since poll preparations have already started, it would be difficult for them to carry out measures in case the disease spreads further in the area.
Meanwhile, affected villagers refused to accept the allotted compensation and demanded higher pries for culled birds. Thus, the officials apprehend that carrying out culling operations would be a trouble as well. “Till now, four blocks in Darjeeling district~ Matigara, Rangli Rangliot, Kurseong and Mirik~ have been hit by the Bird Flu virus. Villagers of Matigara have accepted the compensation against the culled birds. But villagers of three other blocks have refused to accept compensation after culling of poultry birds,” said an official.
Senior ARD officials said the Hills would be in an heated state during the election. At that time, it would be tough for the department to carry out culling and disinfecting operation. This apart, an official said as the polls were approaching nearer, they were already having trouble in carrying out surveillance of poultry birds in the Hills.
“The issue is serious as the spread of the virus has to be stopped at the earliest in the Hills. If it spreads to more areas, it would be tough to get a grip of the situation due to the tough geographical terrain,” said another official. However, officials said they were laying stress on disinfecting operation in areas from where the disease has already been reported. n SNS
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