Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Of deaths due to H5N1 tests negative

Mortality after 4 days to fever with symptoms caused physicians and flu infected chickens, but test results this morning showed that patients age 26 in Soc Trang are not H5N1.
Talking to VnExpress.net, doctor Nguyen Thanh Tung, Director of Health Center for Bac Lieu province, said, as a report from the Institute Pasteur HCMC, form the patient's death has negative with avian virus cầm.

16 / 3, the patient was taken to a clinic in the local situation cough, fever. Treatment for 3 days does not decrease, the patient was transferred to General Hospital and Bac Lieu provinces have been the 20 / 3.

Pursuant to the manifestation of the disease and the families of underprivileged, before about 3 weeks the patient can eat ducks died, Hospital Bac Lieu sent sample products to patients HCMC Pasteur Institute tests.

19 / 3, a disease of 3 years old live in Chau Thanh, Dong Thap, died 3 days after hospitalization. Xét nghiệm từ Viện Pasteur và Bệnh viện Bệnh Nhiệt đới TP HCM cho thấy, cháu bé mắc cúm gia cầm. Tests from Pasteur Institute Hospital and Tropical Diseases, HCMC that you close HPAI.

The same day, a 4 year old patient, indicated at the Dong Thap also be transferred to hospital in Tropical Diseases, HCMC with manifestations of influenza, H5N1 suspected. However, disease testing products then negative. There you have the baby in hospital.

Prevent recurrence of HPAI from areas with outbreaks

23-03-2009

Prevent recurrence of HPAI from areas with outbreaks


ND-Per Animal Health Department Electricity Bien province, there are many farms in the area and do not in Luong district Biên Electricity has been raising ducks than 2,000 children. People do not handle the birds, which dispose, lose the clutter of online channels, lake irrigation. In the past month, the number of dead birds being disorderly dispose tennis are over 5,000 children, Bùng risk of HPAI back very high. Currently, the province has banned slaughter, transport and trade of poultry and poultry products in the commune have.

3 months from the beginning of this year, Ninh Binh province has vaccinated H5N1 vaccine to more than 205,000 children all kinds of poultry, 21,000 vaccine doses of vaccine types mồm long mong, 17,000 doses of vaccine together for the same blood herd, cows and pigs. Veterinary Department has given the local more than 10,000 liters of chemicals on Benkocid khử to match, resolve sanitation chuồng farm in the breeding.

Bocah 2 Year suspect Bird Flu


Tuesday, March 24 2009 13:52 WIB

Tribun Pekanbaru journalist reports, Melvinas Priananda

PEKANBARU, KOMPAS.com - Malang IS correct fate. The age of five new two-year contract this virus kill suspected Avian Influenza (H5N1) or bird flu.

Variety of detection equipment and medical tools inserted in the body that is now treated at hospitals Arifin Achmad Pekanbaru, Tuesday (24 / 3).

He still is under the supervision of a special team of doctors pending the results of the sample has been sent to the Laboratory of the Ministry of Health RI.
Redaksi flu and is currently undergoing treatment in a bird flu isolation room RSUD Arifin Achmad Pekanbaru, Tuesday (24 / 3). He allegedly infected with Avian Influenza virus (H5N1) or bird flu, and at this time under the supervision of a special team of doctors pending the results of the sample has been sent to the Laboratory of the Ministry of Health RI.
hattip Sally

Monday, March 23, 2009

U.S. Gov't: Interim Guidance for Cargo Trucking Crews for the Prevention of Pandemic Influenza

Guidelines and Recommendations
Interim Guidance for Cargo Trucking Crews for the Prevention of Pandemic Influenza

[Also posted in the "Preparations" section of this blog for future reference.]
hat-tip: http://afludiary.blogspot.com

Cumulative Number of Confirmed Human Cases of Avian Influenza A/(H5N1) Reported to WHO

23 March 2009
click on chart

Authorities thwart pig hijacking in epidemic zone

Monday, March 23, 2009

Authorities stopped a group of hijackers from stealing a truck carrying more than 300 frozen swine in a blue ear pig disease epidemic zone Saturday.

The truck driver had been stopped by disease control and commercial management agencies earlier for attempting to bring the 305 swine out of Que Son District, Quang Nam Province. The district is currently a quarantine zone due to an outbreak of blue ear pig disease.

The driver had been instructed to transport the frozen animals to a culling center as it is illegal to transport pigs or pork out of the zone.

It was en route to the culling center that three people on motorbikes pulled in front of the truck, forcing the vehicle to pull over.

While the would-be bandits checked the vehicle’s inventory, nearby officials witnessing the ordeal called the police, who soon arrived at the scene and arrested the hijackers.

An increasing amount of smuggling across quarantine boundaries has been recorded over the last 10 days, said local authorities.

The province has ordered all district authorities in the quarantine zone to sterilize breeding areas for free, but many villages have reported being charged fees of VND3,000 (US$0.17) per pig.

The disease has infected at least 1,300 pigs in Quang Nam Province so far.

Two other provinces, Quang Ninh in the north and Bac Lieu in the Mekong Delta, have been hit by the syndrome this year.

Blue ear disease, also known as Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS), is a viral and economically important pandemic disease which causes reproductive failure in breeding stock and respiratory tract illness in young pigs.

Reported by Ho Trong

Egyptian woman contracts bird flu - WHO

23 Mar 2009 15:45:43 GMT

Source: Reuters

GENEVA, March 23 (Reuters) - A 38-year-old Egyptian woman has contracted the H5N1 strain of bird flu and is in a stable condition, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday.

The woman, from Elfath in central Egypt, developed a fever and headache on March 14 and was admitted to hospital where she is being given the antiviral drug Tamivir, it said.

The Geneva-based U.N. agency said she fell ill after coming into contact with dead and sick poultry. She is the 59th case of bird flu in the Arab country.
Since 2003, the H5N1 avian influenza virus has infected 412 people and killed 256 of them, WHO figures show.
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Avian Influenza - often can not be considered!

Only within 3 months, the health of the 3 patients with influenza A H5N1 and unfortunate that all 3 patients are fatal. Meanwhile, the flu on poultry, the source only spread the disease to be present to still continue, and tends not them. The authorities, once again, similar to a bell to alert status to "deaf not fear guns" of the people and the authorities now.

Thuy Cam - potential outbreak

Report of Veterinary Department (MARD) showed that more than 40 outbreak in more than 20 districts belonging to 13 provinces and cities were discovered since the beginning of the year to now making over 52 thousand poultry must all, in this up to 73% is from water cầm (ducks, Muscovy ducks). This again shows the potential of harm from carrying out marine cầm virus can be sprung at any time.


Exercise emergency patients with avian influenza.

Face the risk of disease can be spread out a large scale, MARD has established many mission in person by Minister Cao Duc Phat and Deputy to the test and directed prevention of HPAI in method. Before that, a line of communication with 12 provinces and cities by the Standing Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung has chaired a command prompt the provinces can not lơ is considered and often. Deputy Prime Minister stressed: HPAI is not only affecting the production, but also affecting the social life and networks of people. Government and local authorities must be responsible, with timely solutions to extinguish and to avoid damage to property and people. We must realize that the weaknesses in the prevention to overcome, measures to prevent and effectively.

Deputy Prime Minister proposed the problem of high responsibility at all levels of government, from President provinces, districts and communes to the village chief, the. In addition, the responsibilities of the industry, all levels, especially agriculture, health and related agencies also need to improve. Prevention must be considered as particularly important. The vaccination, sanitation chuồng farms are difficult even to start also conducted drastically effective. Organizations control the situation when detected and overcome, to prevent the spread of large scale. For prevention of avian influenza reaching effect, levels, departments need to work closely and effectively with the unions at local and breeding.

Influenza virus has not spread from person to person

While HPAI in poultry are still continue, 3 patients spread the disease from poultry is also not a new release from death. Fame set to reasonable questions influenza viruses are changing in the more powerful, spread speed faster? Answers to this question, PGS.TS. Nguyen Tran Hien, Director of Institute of Hygiene Central epidemiology confirmed: the death rate in patients influenza A H5N1 was detected this year not to say what is. Up to this point has not recorded a significant variation of influenza A H5N1 virus. Studies on the virus in cases of influenza A H5N1 in recent times that type of virus causing the disease for the flu vaccine is the H5N1 type A 2.3.4. This flu vaccine is discovered circulated since 2005 and are related to influenza vaccine virus detected in China. According to TS. Visible, the nature of the virus is continually changing and the flu virus is not exception. Therefore, do not exclude cases can type virus will change up or re-combination with an influenza virus vaccine usually to become a new vaccine virus in the strong, rapidly fatal and dangerous than all is can spread directly from person to person. And then, a global pandemic has experts warning is entirely possible.
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Nigeria: 51 Million Citizens at Risk of Lassa Fever Forum

21 March 2009
Abuja — National Lassa Fever Stakeholders' Forum declared in Abuja on Friday that Nigeria was rife with the killer disease, with estimate of the at-risk population of 51 million, annual number of illness of about three million and annual death of about 58,330.

It called on the Federal Government to, as a matter of urgency, make budgetary provision for national prevalence and morbidity/mortality for Nigerians to know areas that are prone to the dreaded disease.

The forum also advised that urgent steps should be taken by government to establish zonal Lassa fever control centres and a central coordinating agency to help tackle advocacy crusade, preventive and curative assignments.

Speaking during an interactive session with House of Representatives Committee on Health, the National Chairman of the forum, Professor George Akpede, said the battle against the disease was largely hampered by lack of political will, lack of information and adequate funding.

He regretted that since the outbreak of the epidemic in the country, the awareness on the part of Nigerians was very low, leading to high cases of death, as a large size of the population was still unaware of the cause and consequences of the disease.

Akpede, who was at the meeting with all the leadership of the forum, stated that Lassa fever was a silent killer, explaining many deaths have occurred as a result of Lassa fever in many communities, but other causes ranging from spirituality to culture have been attributed.

He commended the leadership of the National Assembly for stepping into the Lassa fever epidemic in the country, adding that the new political will would help in finding solution to the further spread of the disease.

He also called for attitudinal change among Nigerians, saying that negative behaviour, bad hygienic environment, beliefs and other poverty related factors worsen the disease situation.

The chairman of the forum also called on the public to support any legislation by the National Assembly to enhance the control of the disease, adding that if a law was in place it would surely advance the crusade against the disease.

Meanwhile, he advocated the discouragement of the killing and eating of rats by Nigerians, explaining that contact with rat, being the reservoir of the disease, was a maximum risk.

Nigeria: How Entire Family Was Wiped Out By Lassa Fever

21 March 2009

The death toll from a fresh outbreak of Lassa Fever increased penultimate Saturday when an eight year old boy and another adult male patient lost their lives to the disease at Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital ( ISTH), Edo State.

The hospital had admitted seven patients suffering from the disease that weekend. This was disclosed Dr. Danny Asogun, Director of the hospital's Institute for Lassa Fever Research and Control ( ILFRC) while speaking to Saturday Vanguard at Irrua Wednesday last week.

It was gathered that among members of the deceased family were two medical doctors including one who was based in the United States. Saturday Vanguard learnt that the US-based medical doctor had returned home for the burial of his parents who had died almost at the same time after being afflicted by the mysterious disease. However, the US-based doctor had hardly returned to his foreign station when he was informed that his younger brother, also a medical doctor who had attended the burial but was still practicing within the country had died. A short-while after, the US-based doctor himself fell ill and died.

However the shock waves generated by these multiple deaths that occurred in quick succession were still reverberating within the community and beyond when news reached Ekpoma that the deceased American-based doctor had been diagnosed to have suffered from Lassa Fever by the Centre for Disease Control of that country. That was when the alarm bell about the killer disease rang in Edo State.

According to Dr. Asogun, " the CDC of US had taken samples from the blood of the sick doctor before he died. It was after this blood sample was screened by the centre that it was realised that the he had died from Lassa fever".

He continued : " Meanwhile there were rumours within the local community that maybe it was witchcraft or something like it, that was responsible".

Dr. Andrew Dongo, a Consultant Surgeon at ISTH also informed Saturday Vanguard that for a long time other doctors practicing within Ekpoma and its environs had known about the existence of the severe disease and its symptoms which appeared similar to those of other common ailments but all the same killed its sufferers within days of infection. However, these local doctors had no name for the disease.

"Local doctors around within Edo North and Central Zones knew of the disease because some of the patients would bleed from their noses and mouths while others would experience convulsions. Sometimes they thought it was malaria, at other times they called it typhoid or several other names" Dr. Dongo remarked.

He continued: "All this continued to happen until Dr.Omoigbe died and the CDC came with Prof. Tomori in 1989. That was when it became known that this strange disease was Lassa Fever."

He disclosed that some of the villagers had even deserted the village of Umudume-Ekpoma due to the strange multiple deaths which wiped out the entire family before the findings by the CDC were disclosed to the public.

He said this situation was similar to what prevailed in other West African countries who belonged to the Mano River Union where the disease had been endemic since the 1960s.

Dr Dongo maintained that there is a high possibility that similar deaths were taking place in many other communities in different parts of Nigeria today without the people realising that Lassa Fever was responsible because they would not have a way of knowing what was happening. He explained that many of such cases would end up requiring surgical intervention due to the abdominal pain normally associated with the disease adding this was usually very risky for surgeons if they assumed the patient was suffering from say appendicitis.

Japan announced plans to cope with HPAI

[Out of Vietnam news site]

Updated at: 4:08 PM, 23/03/2009

(VOV) - Defense Minister of Japan recently announced action plan to deal with the ability to stage a new type of flu Bùng in the range of domestic and foreign.
The accountability of Japan predicted that about 640,000 people in Japan may be dead in a first stage and by avian influenza viruses cause infection and can be from person to person.

This plan called Ministry of Defense immediately establish a work force of tasks dealing with the situation any stage avian influenza have occurred which affect Japan.

Militia service and government will be used to transport people from Japan occurred flu of the isolation and special treatment. Ministry will appoint the medical staff to the airport and ports to support the inspection safety and hygiene.

In the case of flu happen in water, facilities and aircraft of the defense will move medicines and other aid to the flu is. /.

Dong Thap to step up bird flu fight after death of 3-year-old boy

Health officials have called for strengthened precautionary and preventive measures against the spread of bird flu in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap.

The call came after the death of a three-year-old boy from the province’s Chau Thanh District on Thursday.

Nguyen Huy Nga, head of the Health Ministry’s Preventive Health Department, Friday ordered the district to treat itself as an epidemic hotspot.

Nga said a locality is normally considered to have an epidemic after two locals test positive for the avian influenza virus.

“But now that the virus has spread quickly and poses a high threat, one human case is enough.”

Three-year-old Tran Cong Phuc from the district, admitted to Ho Chi Minh City’s Tropical Diseases Institute on Monday, is the country’s third human victim of bird flu so far this year.

The two other victims, from the northern provinces of Quang Ninh and Ninh Binh, had both slaughtered and eaten sick fowls.

Nga said the 100 percent death ratio so far in avian flu cases was caused mainly by late discovery and treatment.

Another boy of four-year-old from Chau Thanh District, identified as N.T.K.T., was transferred to the Tropical Diseases Institute Thursday with bird flu symptoms but Friday tested negative for the H5N1 virus.

Doctors said T. didn’t eat and touch poultry but his Hoa Tan Commune neighbors Phuc’s Phu Long Commune and he lives 100 meters from an area where three chickens have died for unknown reasons.

T. is still segregated and being treated as a bird flu victim.

Le Vinh Tan, vice chairman of the province People’s Committee, asked health officials to continue sterilization at the two communes, ban the transport of poultry out of the communes, and keep constant watch for any sign of human infection, in order to prevent an outbreak in the province.

Doan Phi, deputy director of Dong Thap Province Health Department, said the department has started to vaccinate all the fowls in Chau Thanh District and cull those in Phuc’s neighborhood.

Five of Vietnam’s 63 provinces, cities are currently battling bird flu outbreaks, according to the Animal Health Department.

According to the World Health Organization, the H5N1 virus has killed more than 250 people since 2003. Vietnam has the world’s second-highest bird flu death toll after Indonesia, with 55 deaths.

Reported by Nam Son – Thanh Tung – Ngoc Tram

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Vietnam Cases List

Adm:
Name: 13 year old
From: Thanh Hoe
Hospital:
Sym Onset:
Recon:
Notes: 8 year old sister died, never tested
Confirmation: positive
DOD: recovered


Adm: 2/2
Name:
From: Quang Ninh
Hospital:
Sym Onset: 1/28
Recon: Medical Center 1/31
Notes:
Confirmation: positive
DOD: 2/21

Adm: 2/5
Name:
From:
Hospital:
Sym Onset: 2/3
Recon:
Notes:
Confirmation: positive
DOD: 2/25

Adm: 2/28
Name: Huynh Thi Dong (45)
From: Nam Binh, Thang Binh District, Quang Nam
Hospital: Provincial General, Quang Nam
Sym Onset: heavy pneumonia
Recon:
Notes: Bought chicken in Tamky City home
Confirmation:
DOD:


Adm: 3/16
Name: Tran Cong Phuc (3)
From: Long Phu (Phu Hoa hamlet), Chau Thanh district, Dong Thap
Hospital: Ho Chi Minh City’s Tropical Disease Inst.
Sym Onset: 3/10 sym’s on adm: cough, headache, vomiting, fever
Recon: BVDK SaDec Dong Thap Hospital on 3/14. Sym: fever, cough, breathless
Notes: Ate duck family slaughtered
Confirmation: positive
DOD: 3/19


Adm: 3/19
Name: Adult from same residence as Tran Cong Phuc (3) - no other word.
From:
Hospital: Tropical Disease Hospital
Sym Onset:
Recon:
Notes:
Confirmation:
DOD:

Adm: 3/20
Name: Nguyen Thi Kim Tuyen (4)
From: An Hoe Hamlet, Tan Hoe (shares border w/Phu Hoe (3yo)
Hospital: Tropical Diseases Hospital
Sym Onset: 3/19 difficulty breathing
Recon: Hospital in SaDec (Dong Thap Hospital?)
Notes: Does not eat poultry, no contact w/poultry. Poultry died 100 meters away.
Confirmation: Negative (3/20)
DOD:

Adm: 3/20
Name: Ly Thi Hang (26F)
From: Chau Hung Commune 23, Thanh Tri subdistrict, Soc Trang.
Hospital: General Hospital Bac Lieu
Sym Onset: Fever a few days ago (?)
Recon: Community Ctr 3/16
Notes: 20 days ago ate meat from dead duck. Gave birth 3 months ago.
Confirmation:
DOD: 3/20

Likely H5N1 Fatality in Soc Trang Southern Vietnam


Recombinomics Commentary 13:23
March 21, 2009

According to report of Hospital Bac Lieu am 20 / 3, patients Ly Thi Hang, 26 years old, living at 23 Hamlet, Chau Hung Commune, Thanh Tri district, Soc Trang, have died of infection by the H5N1 virus.

The above translation describes another suspect H5N1 fatality in southern Vietnam. This case is about 35 miles south of the two earlier cases in Dong Thap (see updated map). In Dong Thap, the initial case (3M from Phu Hoa Hamlet in Chau Thanh district) died March 19 and was H5N1 lab confirmed. The second case (4F) was from an adjacent hamlet (An Hoa hamlet in Chau Thanh district) and is recovering. This case has tested negative.

However, the case fatality rate in Vietnam is high, raising concerns that milder cases are testing negative. The other two cases in the south have died, as have three of four confirmed cases in northern Vietnam. However, the only reported survivor in northern Vietnam was the sister of a fatal case (13F) who was not tested. The surviving sister (8F) initially tested negative on the rapid test, but was subsequently PCR confirmed twice, meeting the WHO definition of an H5N1 confirmed test. However, local media reports indicated the lab confirmation was inconclusive, citing the negative rapid test, and the attending physician tried to justify the lack of testing of the fatal case, even after the sister was twice PCR confirmed. The comments regarding this cluster in the north raise questions about testing and reporting of H5N1 cases in Vietnam in general.

Previous, in the spring of 2005, northern Vietnam had an increase in the number of clusters and a dramatic drop in the number of fatal cases (less than 10% CFR). Similar mild cases have been reported in Egypt in the spring of 2007, and this year all 8 confirmed cases in Egypt have been discharged or stable. The most recent confirmed case in Egypt was symptomatic for 4 days, raising concerns that the number of mild cases in Egypt this year is markedly higher than the 8 confirmed cases, since most suspect cases without a link to dead or dying poultry are not tested fro H5N1, and milder cases would commonly be diagnosed as seasonal flu.

In Vietnam, the current cluster of three cases in the south are the first reported this year, and last year the vast majority of confirmed cases were also in the north. These recent cases in the south raise additional concerns of unreported milder cases in Vietnam, as well as other countries which report high case fatality rates, such as Indonesia and China.

One patient died of avian influenza infection

Updated at: 10:52 AM, 22/03/2009

Who the patient for about three weeks before Ms. H (patient name) have eat dead poultry.
Morning 21 / 3, doctor Tran Van Khanh - Director of Hospital Bac Lieu - for a patient from Soc Trang province has died at the hospital with symptoms of virus infection of avian influenza.

This is her LTH, age 26, in Village 23, Hung Chau (Thanh Tri, Soc Trang) family is taken to General Hospital emergency Bac Lieu on 18 / 3 in state hot fever, or more, Respiratory failure Sleek ... Image X-ray shows lung damage was so severe after the patient died. Medical Center for Bac Lieu province has diseases product samples sent HCMC Pasteur Institute tests.

Doctor Truong Hoai Phong - Deputy Director of Health Department of Soc Trang province - said Chau Hung Thanh Tri district not happen HPAI, but after the patients died of disease infected H5N1 virus had been sent to the preventive health urgently investigate epidemiology.

Saturday, March 21, 2009

WHO expert to probe Matara Rubella death and catastrophe - Lankan Health Minister

By Ravi Ladduwahetty – Sri Lanka Editor – Asian Tribune

Colombo, 21 March, (Asiantribune.com):

The Government of Sri Lanka has requested the World Health Organisation to send a top expert to Colombo to probe how a 12 year-old St. Thomas Matara Girls’ College schoolgirl died yesterday morning and how 29 others were hospitalised following the administration of the Rubella injection for German Measles .

"I have personally ordered the WHO to sent and expert to probe this as this is the first and only time this happened in this country," Sri Lankan Leader of the House of Parliament and Minister of Healthcare and Nutrition Nimal Siripala De Silva told Asian Tribune.

The Sri Lankan Health Minister, who is also the incumbent Chairman of the Executive Board of the WHO, said that there were more that 300,000 school girls and apparel factory workers on whom the Rubella injection was administered and this was the only time that this injection had adverse effects.

He also denied the main Opposition party’s allegation in Parliament that the dosage of Rubella was bordering the expiry date.

"These are baseless allegations coming from a bankrupt Opposition which is virtually crying and dreaming to come to power", the Minister charged.

Meanwhile, the Government has also already dispatched a two pronged and 5 member team of Medical Specialists from the Ministry of Health and also from the Epidemiological Department of the Department of Health which is expected to report to the Health Minister the basis of their findings tonight.

The two teams headed by Health Ministry’s Director-General Dr Palitha Mahipala told Asian Tribune that the Epidemiological Department will probe the Technical aspects while the Ministry team will go into the Administration aspects.

"The 29 students who are yet "Dr. Mahipala assured.

Use Reserves All Beat Livelihood

On Saturday, March 21 2009
Impact Pandemic Bird Flu in middle Citizens

Several inhabitants of a village raged, because in several of their last weeks did not have economic access. The social life and economics in the village were paralysed, including the world of tourism and art that became the income mainstay of the government and the community. The piece of the film that was turned to the workshop berteme the "Simulation" of the "Pandemi Influenza response", that was spread out in the Batu City not yet for a long time, has shown the impact of the bird flu pandemic in an area that caused the social disorder. The film said that bird flu if has been the status of the pandemic, only did not have an impact on the problem of the health, but also in non-the health.

The activity that was spread out by the Service of Kesehatan East Java by being supported by Unicef, Komnas Pengendalian of Bird Flu and Menghadapi Pandemi Influenza Preparedness (FBPI) that, was followed by the envoy and private enterprise of the government agency.

In the simulation, participants who consisted of the element of the government and private enterprise was divided into several groups in accordance with his task field to identify various possibilities if East Java to exist in the condition for the bird flu pandemic.

In the presentation of the transport group, the telecommunications and tourism that were presented by Endah showed, an area will be chaotic because all the sectors were affected by his impact. "Economic access was disrupted because of the restriction" on the "social interaction happening, the restriction" on the "distribution" of the "thing, and the service as well as the disturbance" of the "business world," Endah words. If the bird flu pandemic happening, then the government will restrict the community in order to not go out of the house so as to not have the activity of economics. Moreover if the area must be isolated, then will not be food supplies from outside.

"In the situation like that, the situation will happen was uncertain in the community." The community will fight for the foodstuff so as to have to involve Republic of Indonesia State Police and TNI apparatus, said Hendy, from the speaker's group with the theme of the defence and the security. Therefore, he said, in the situation like that, needed the existence of efficiency in all the fields, including the utilisation of the foodstuff outside the rice to guarantee continue to the fulfilment of the requirement for the community's food. Vice Chairman Pelaksana Harian FBPI, Emil Agustiono, also proposed that the bird flu pandemic was indeed very influential in various aspects. "All of the community's services will be paralysed." Nevertheless, we were not possible to be able to overcome 100 percent impact, but we could reduce his impact, he said.

The deputy the Kesra Co-ordinating Minister, suggested that in handling this problem needed the co-ordination that was good from all the available sides in an affected area the bird flu pandemic. Therefore, according to him, at this time was very urgent to be formed by the FBPI regional committee so that if the bird flu pandemic happening immediately could be taken by the step that spread everywhere by involving all the components in various sectors of the government, private enterprise, and the community.

He suggested, because the deadly virus came from the poultry, then the regional government preferably made the regional regulation about poultry breeding. Through the Regional Regulations could be arranged by the poultry traffic that went out entered his area. "With the Regional Regulations existence could be arranged so that the poultry that was sent to the other area really free from the illness, including the poultry that entered his area," he said.

Moreover, he said, also must be prevented so that the poultry does not leave an area beyond the port was unofficial. If through the port was unofficial, then the poultry that contained the illness will not be monitored. "Indeed was not easy to make the Regional Regulations because of must have the agreement between the government and the people through his delegation in DPRD," he said.

About the simulation workshop of the handling of this influenza pandemic, said Emil, that was one of the efforts to ask all the elements of the community in order to be on the alert faced the possibility of the bird flu pandemic. Moreover, he said, the cycle of the bird flu pandemic happened between 20 and 40 years. In accordance with the note, the influenza pandemic the first time happened the year 1918-1919 by the name of Spanish flu that caused the death 40 million as far as 50 million people.

Afterwards, 37 years afterwards emerged Asian flu, that is during 1957 that claimed fatalities of two million until four million people and afterwards Hong Kongese flu emerged 1968 with casualties 1 million people. By seeing the pandemic cycle, then did not close the possibility of the pandemic of happening in these years. "To readiness this, Komnas FBPI will carry out the skills exercise comprehensively to deal with the spread" of "inter-island bird flu in East Java with involved TNI Al, TNI AD, Dinas Kesehatan and other in May 2009 in Surabaya and the Madura Strait," he said. While Unicef Perwakilan East Java and NTB also placed the interest in handling efforts if the bird flu pandemic in East Java by carrying out the socialisation and the simulation happening.

The "socialisation activity and the simulation this 2009 we budget for around 300 thousand US dollar in order to protects children from the danger of the influenza virus," Delegation's headword of Unicef Perwakilan East Java and NTB, Sinung D. Kristanto. According to him, last year his side also held the simulation activity by the fund that hamir same. The area that became the focus of attention was Tulungagung, Kabupaten and Kediri as well as the Regency and the Mojokerto City. "This has because of the five areas had the case" of "bird flu that fell on humankind." We gave the training to teachers, the organisation of the woman but also involved the artist, namely Kartolo that was asked to make the 'aphorism' (the Javanese language song) with the message of influenza of the problem, he said.

He proposed, his side gave attention in the problem because the community's Indonesian culture still often was leaving children playful with the poultry without having the protection. "We informed so that children avoid the poultry and always wash the hands with soap." We also reported that the soapy water could be made the material to clean the poultry pen, he said. Moreover, he said, the data showed that from 119 bird flu sufferers in Indonesia that died, 60 to 70 percent him was children. "Since 2005, the case" of "bird flu in Indonesia totalling 145 cases and that died 119 people," he said. (fay,an)

Hong Kong imported back processing poultry from Thailand

Updated: 20/03/2009 14:39

Safety Center Food Hong Kong (CFS) recently announced decision to allow import again and poultry products poultry processing from 6 administrative regions of Thailand, mainly the area west and center, the decision take effect immediately.

CFS pause imported processed poultry from Thailand after avian influenza outbreaks in Thailand have been published relating to the H5N1 vaccine virus in 11/2008.

CFS has annulled banned import of poultry processing in Thailand from 1 / 2009 (excluding the area of management 6) while continuously monitoring the situation at the No. 6 this.

According to the language of CFS, consider measures that Thailand implemented and practical results show that no course of avian influenza have been developed in this country in recent years. So CFS decision chp allowed to import from the entire Thailand.

A more deaths and other influenza A/H5N1 infection

21/03/2009
Add one more case has been fatal Hospital Bac Lieu (Soc Trang) is notified of the influenza A/H5N1 virus infection. It is the patient is Ly Thi Hang, born 1983, resident in village 23, Chau Hung Commune, Thanh Tri district, Soc Trang province, died on 20 / 3.

Hang her new born child is 3 months, ago almost a month eat ducks sick and sick and just go heavy and treatment in general hospitals Bac Lieu from 16 / 3. After 4 days of treatment, more patients with severe symptoms of headache, tired, or ... and 20 am to 3 is death.
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Swine fever fears

The Food Administration has temporarily closed the Danish Crown slaughterhouse in Horsens.

- Foto: Finn Frandsen
Danish Crown's slaughterhouse in Horsens has been temporarily closed following fears that a pig sent to slaughter may have been suffering from highly contagious swine fever. The pig was from a farm near Århus.

Tests are due to determine today whether the slaughterhouse can reopen, or whether the swine fever diagnosis is confirmed.

Swine fever is not dangerous to humans, but confirmation of the disease could seriously affect Denmark's multi-billion pork exports.

There are relatively frequent swine fever fears in Denmark, but the country has not seen an outbreak of the disease since 1933.