Justice Ministry deems Hanoi’s livestock rules impractical

Chickens transported on a motorbike in Hanoi The Ministry of Justice Friday asked Hanoi to reconsider its recent regulations on slaughtering, transporting and trading poultry and cattle, saying parts of it are “baseless”.

The regulation, which took effect on Monday, bans people from transporting poultry and other livestock on motorbikes, bicycles and pedicabs. They are also not allowed to transport the animals into the city center either. Le Hong Son, head of the ministry’s bureau for testing legal documents, said the bans were “somewhat baseless.” He also said the regulation, which was issued on January 22 by Hanoi People’s Committee, includes orders that are “impractical at present.” This could cause people to do whatever they want, he said. According to the regulation, abattoirs must be built under the committee’s approval, have separate storing and slaughtering sections, a place for workers to clean themselves, a standard waste treatment plant and waterproof flooring. Cattle and poultry product stores should be at least six square meters large and booths at the market at least three square meters, with the meat products placed on stainless steel, enameled tile or quality wood not lower than 0.8 meters from the floor. Experts have agreed these rules can help prevent dangerous epidemics like avian influenza, mouth-and-hoof and blue ear diseases but argued they don’t suit the country’s current conditions. Most slaughtering houses and means of transport currently in use are simple and selling places are often crowded, they said. Son said the regulation “needs to be reconsidered to ensure legal interests of residents involved in the poultry and livestock business.” Luu Tien Long, director of Hanoi Department of Industry and Trade, Friday said the city’s Department of Justice had been consulted on the regulation. Long said the city may add supplementary provisions to the regulation, including allowing people to use motorbikes for animals weighing up to 100 kilograms. Vietnam has seen increasing incidence of fowl and cattle related diseases in recent years. This year, the southernmost province of Ca Mau has reported an epidemic of the avian flu, affecting thousands of ducks. An eight year old girl from northern Thanh Hoa Province was diagnosed with bird flu recently, sparking fears it could spread widely among human beings. The girl has since recovered. Bird flu has killed 52 people in Vietnam since 2003, while the highest toll in the world has been recorded in Indonesia with 113 fatalities.

Hong Kong seized the bodies of seven birds tested positive for H5N1 virus

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新华网香港2月7日电香港特区政府渔农自然护理署发言人7日表示，当日取得的禽流感病毒测试结果显示，近日捡获的7只禽鸟尸体经多项测试后，证实对H5N1病毒测试呈阳性反应。 Xinhua Hong Kong February 7 Xinhua Hong Kong SAR Government Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department spokesman said on the 7th day of the avian flu virus to obtain the test results show that recently seized seven birds body by a number of tests, proved to be H5N1 virus tested positive.

7只禽鸟包括上周在大屿山一带捡走的3只鸡尸和1只鸭尸；2月2日在米埔自然保护区捡走的苍鹭；2月3日分别在青山公路汀九段海涛花园附近捡走的游隼及在屯门蝴蝶湾捡走的一只鸡尸。 Birds, including seven last week seized on Lantau Island area of three chicken carcasses and a duck carcasses; February 2 seized in Mai Po Nature Reserve of the heron; February 3, respectively, in the Castle Peak Road, Ting Kau Section sea Tao Garden near the seizure of a peregrine falcon and the Butterfly Beach in Tuen Mun, seized the corpse of a chicken.

Nizhegorodtsev no danger of a new influenza virus is particularly dangerous

07 February 2009

Influenza viruses prevalent in Russia and, in particular, in the Nizhny Novgorod region, remains a N1N1, N3N2 A and B. This is the head of TU Rospotrebnadzor of the Nizhny Novgorod region Yevgeny Petrov at a press conference on Friday, February 6.

E. Petrov noted that an influenza pandemic in the country and the region to speak early, and the appearance of a new highly dangerous strain (variety) virus. He explained that, as a rule, timely treatment to the doctor and treatment flu passes in the same way as any other disease.

«The flu itself is not so, as intimidating its complications. They can lead to death », - said E. Petrov. He added that in the Nizhny Novgorod region of fatal cases due to influenza or its complications over the past 5-6 years is not fixed. In Russia, in 2009, died of influenza-year child in the city of Saratov region Rtischevo.

With regard to avian influenza A (N5N1), then, according to E. Smith, the incidence of avian influenza cases, people in Russia have not yet been. The emergence of new influenza virus in the region is projected to have about 5 years old, and, he says, «all the same some day it will happen».

Remember, the virus of avian influenza A (N5N1), distributed in South-East Asia. It affects the lungs and other human organs, causing a violation of endothelial kidney, liver, organs of blood, often resulting in death.

The first outbreak of bird flu in humans with high mortality and the danger of the world was registered in Hong Kong in 1997. Then the virus A (N5N1) of sick birds have been infected 18 people, 6 of them died despite treatment. To stop the pandemic, emergency measures have been taken, the country has destroyed all poultry. However, once again severely ill people, who managed to N5N1 virus appeared in Hong Kong in February 2003 (5 years after the first death).

Since 2003, the geographical spread of influenza virus N5N1 increased outbreaks of disease among domestic and wild birds have been observed with increasing frequency. Now they have gone beyond the borders of South-east Asia and there are many Asian, European and African countries.

Previously, it was reported that the epidemic of influenza in the Nizhny Novgorod region will begin in 2-4 weeks.

Corr. Ekaterina Kharchenko

Russia: An uninvited guest to better flu

08:04 06.02.2009
Source: http://wobla.ru

An uninvited guest to better flu

The epidemic in the central part of Russia will start from day to day - promise the central media. From the epidemiological situation more ads in January, the major Russian cities rescued long winter vacation, which freed schools, kindergartens, public transport and other places of possible contamination of mass population. Now flu, according to Rospotrebnadzor, goes to Moscow immediately from the two border regions, where the epidemic is already raging in full force and effect.
Through the western border of the virus hit the country in Kaliningrad, where from February 2 to week canceled classes in schools. Just before epidemiologists noted breakthrough on the eastern border. On Sakhalin classes in schools have already abolished two weeks, and in the Khabarovsk physicians recorded overshooting the incidence of 7%.

In the country every year since the fall ready to meet guests that no one called. Yet his guile to resist many Russians still can not. How to build a castle?

A particular risk of avian influenza has pushed scientists, and today they actively invent new vaccines and improve old ones. Virologist from Oxford started testing on volunteers a universal vaccine against all strains of the virus, including the causative agent of avian influenza. Will need to enter it every year, but only once every 5 - 10 years. In practice the vaccine will go through 5 years. Успеем whether we run a universal vaccine in production or avian influenza virus will cause a new and terrible pandemic?

The future ...

- Universal vaccine developed in England, Germany, China and in Russia, - said Oleg Kiselev, Academician of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and director of the Research Institute of influenza in St. Petersburg. - We are with the Center «Bioengineering», Russian Academy of Sciences, headed by Academician Skryabin, also patented a universal vaccine. We are still lagging behind - it is very difficult to obtain the necessary financing. But the idea of a vaccine is very original. It will be available in the form of spray to the nose. Why is a universal vaccine effective against all influenza viruses? Today's vaccines are directed against two viral antigens, which refer to English letters N and H (see figure). They called N5N1 bird flu, and viruses on the basis of which made the vaccine this year, - H1N1 and H3N2. These antigens are located on the surface of the virus and rapidly changing. Therefore, for them every year to do a new vaccine. Universal same vaccine neutralize other purposes - proteins M1, M2, and NP, located inside the virus and its envelope (see figure). Because they are so quickly mutates, the protection of the new vaccine will be long.

... And now.

In Russia, recorded all the generations of vaccines (see top). They demonstrate a good history of vaccination against influenza. First, a vaccine made of whole viruses, killed or weakened. They were frequent complications because of large quantities of viral protein. In order to reduce its content, the virus began to disintegrate, and the protein is partially removed. So there splitvaktsiny. They represent the solution of purified viral fragments. Then scientists learned how to allocate from the virus only antigens N and H, removing the rest. Such vaccines are called subedinichnymi. And more recently, to make them even safer, the World Health Organization began to recommend to reduce the dose of antigen. That such vaccines were effective, they added stimulators of immunity. This recipe is made grippol, which we use for the free vaccination. Another way to improve vaccine - the creation of structures in the form similar to a virus on the surface which have the antigen. So put infleksal.

All vaccines are contraindicated for people with allergy to chicken protein.

- As early as next year in the world and in Russia, you may receive the first vaccine without this deficiency, "- says Ludmila Luss, professor, academician of RANS, head of department of Institute of Immunology. - Viruses for it will not grow on embryos and on cultured cells. According to WHO experts, is the most modern technology that you'd like to introduce as much as possible.


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05.02.2009

African swine plague, and avian influenza bypass Tatarstan side

[out of Russia]

February 6, 2009, 15:17

(Kazan, February 6, «Tatar-inform», Irina Ignatieva). In the Republic of Tatarstan remains stable epizootic welfare ostrozaraznym such diseases as African swine plague, bird flu, anthrax, barbel, brucellosis, tularemia and other diseases. This is now explained in his report to Head of Veterinary Medicine Cabinet RT Bulat Vagiz, summing up the work stations for 2008 and outlining an action plan for 2009.

In 2008, the republic there was a complicated epizootic situation of rabies. There were 140 recorded cases of the disease in 128 of the Republic (32 areas). In order to improve the epizootic situation of rabies in the Republic of Tajikistan in December last year in the areas of the state veterinary service in conjunction with ohotovedami was oral immunization of wild carnivores with the help of raskladyvaniya in their habitats 360 thousand doses primanok-filled rabies vaccine «Oralrabivak». This work will continue in the current year.

In 2008, in districts and towns of the Republic of Tajikistan has been shooting 2479 foxes, 40 gray wolves, 18,623 street dogs and 6564 cats homeless.

In order to prevent bird flu have been taken special measures: a supply disinfection equipment, disinfectants, protective clothing purchased reliable to perform activities of epizootic foci, etc. These activities led to epizootic and veterinary and health well-being of the country. With regard to African swine fever, the veterinary experts also do not lose vigilance - a complex of preventive measures implemented in full.

Ministry of Agriculture, addressed to the broad masses of peasants: to remind the attention of bird flu prevention and control 4 things

[This article is also from the Hubei Agricultural Distance Education Network]

February 5, 2009 Xinhuanet

Ministry of Agriculture, a major animal disease emergencies and Emergency Command Center to issue an open letter to the broad masses of peasants, peasant Friend reminded poultry farmers in particular, note that in the prevention and control of highly pathogenic avian influenza should pay particular attention to four things:

- Once there is an outbreak, we do not flustered, we must immediately report to local township veterinary station staff, but also to counties, cities, provincial animal husbandry and veterinary department.

- There is an outbreak of poultry culled areas, the Government will give a reasonable economic compensation, the state also decided to grant subsidies to poultry immunization.

- Can only rely on highly pathogenic avian influenza vaccination for immunization, it is impossible to use other drugs, prevention and treatment, do not have cure for credulity that the prevention and control of time delay.

- To look for the Ministry of Agriculture approved the fixed-point production of the vaccine only reliable, remember not to buy from the market假劣vaccine.

Open letter suggested that farmers usually have to strengthen the poultry house, cages, litter such as the disinfection of the poultry house to keep clean. Home chickens, ducks, geese, pigs and other livestock and poultry should not polyculture. In accordance with the norms of the immune process to poultry vaccination, enhance disease resistance. Has not understand the problem and promptly with the local animal husbandry and veterinary departments, they will guide the U.S. to do a good job of preventive work.

At the same time, to understand the highly pathogenic avian influenza symptoms. If it is found that the poultry died of unknown causes occur, especially against Newcastle disease vaccine in poultry have been a sudden onset, in a short period of time not feeding, the rapid increase in body temperature, listlessness,肉垂Jiguan with edema, hemorrhage, accompanied by a large number of deaths, it should suspected poultry infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza. In addition, it is necessary to increase the immunization efforts, enhance the immune density. Faster dissemination of highly pathogenic avian influenza, poultry mortality, there are no other drugs except vaccines can be effectively prevented or treated. To timely vaccinations to poultry to prevent avian flu infection.

The letter also reminded the millions of peasant friends to keep in mind that should not to eat sick birds, dead birds, but also should not handle or sell on their own at random. To the local animal husbandry and veterinary departments, under the guidance of infected poultry culling and safe and timely treatment, and do a good job in the poultry house, ground and may have been contaminated sites, equipment, feed the work of disinfection and sterilization.

Highly pathogenic avian influenza make a comeback

[This is from the Hubei Agricultural Distance Education Network]
Excerpt:

February 5, 2009

Most doctors are now worried about is H5N1 virus, because it can be transmitted in the crowd, it can lead to the outbreak of the 3-4000 or one-third of human deaths, but the Chinese medical experts believe that the most dangerous time has passed, According to their view, there are two issues that require attention, first, if the birds did not find such a virus, but people are still infected, then take it that such a virus has been in the body copy and mutation, the second , has little grasp can prove that birds are carriers of the virus, if the birds are carriers, then why the birds had no characteristics of H5N1 viruses?

Treatment of avian flu to spend more than one million

2009-02-07

Huang Yan-qing on December 24 last year, incidence, January 4 this year was diagnosed with human bird flu patients, died the next day early morning. The incidence of death from a total of 11 days. This is the second in Beijing so far confirmed cases of human bird flu cases across the country who died of bird flu the first 21 cases. Taiyuan four hospital李书记Commission for Discipline Inspection, said the cost of all hospital patients for free; the entire treatment process took approximately over 100 million.

February 2 according to the World Health Organization (WHO) report on global human bird flu, China since 2003 a total of 38 cases of human avian influenza cases, 25 cases of death. That is, only 13 were spared, the mortality rate close to 70%. In a total of 254 cases of human avian influenza global deaths rankings in January as a result of the new cases, China has more than 23 cases in Egypt and the third largest, after Indonesia's 115 cases, 52 cases in Vietnam.

China: 2 Patients Discharged

2 cases of human bird flu patients discharged from hospital experts say the disease can be preventable and curable

[That would be Zhou (29) from Guizhou, and Peng (2) from Hunan Province]

2009-02-06
Excerpts:

Guizhou Zhou human avian influenza patients recovered and were discharged, 3 This is the second day of Shanxi彭某in children with the second case of post-discharge rehabilitation cases.

Guizhou Province January 25 confirmed the cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza patients who. Guizhou Province People's Hospital after 22 days the full treatment, clinical symptoms lifted, February 6 recovered and been discharged.

Hong Kong, found nine dead birds carrying avian influenza virus

posted yesterday:

Friday, February 6, 2009
Hong Kong authorities have closed the famous nature reserve due to bird flu
11:26 / / 06.02.2009

Hong Kong authorities have decided to close for a while after the famous sanctuary of identifying deaths of poultry from avian influenza. According to the Associated Press, popular among tourists and residents of the city park Maypo will be closed to the public for three weeks starting today. The authorities argue that this is done in precautions.

Earlier in the area, it was found the body of gray herons. The results of the examination showed that death was the heron virus H5N1, also known as avian influenza. Currently, experts are trying to establish a link between diseased poultry, and mainland China, where since the early years of bird flu deaths of five people.

Hong Kong announced yesterday that they found nine dead bodies of birds carrying avian influenza virus, which is a heron in Shenzhen Mangrove Nature Reserve, the other side of the Mai Po Nature Reserve found, Mai Po Nature Reserve temporarily closed 21 days.

The Ma'anshan females doubt contract the bird flu to send to hospital the government

now she is 40

2009-02-07 11:46

A 40 year-old female, about 10:00 am when treats toward the clinic, doctor learned that she once only and had flu sickness illness in inland contact chicken, suspected that she contracted the bird flu therefore to summon the ambulance, by put on prepares protects clothes's rescue patrol to escort to her the Wells Hospital, right now isolates the treatment.




here she is 57 and negative


The Dabu that dozen of element hospital female patient assumes the negative reaction to the bird flu
2009-02-07 11:14

The Dabu tastefully beautiful what years of youth and beauty that dozen of element hospital spokesperson indicated that because has a fever in hospital incident on yesterday 57 year old of female patients, the hospital completes this patient today to bird flu's fast test, finally demonstrated that she assumed the negative reaction to the bird flu.
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Officials: Tamiflu no longer combats dominant flu strain

Los Angeles Times

10:40 PM EST, February 6, 2009

A milder than usual U.S. flu season is masking a growing concern about widespread resistance to the antiviral drug Tamiflu and what that means for the nation's preparedness in case of a dangerous pandemic flu.

Tamiflu, the most commonly used influenza antiviral and the mainstay of the federal government's emergency drug stockpile, no longer works for the dominant flu strain circulating in much of the country, government officials said Tuesday.

Of samples tested since October, almost 100 percent of the strain -- known as type A H1N1 -- showed resistance to Tamiflu.

In response, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new guidelines to physicians in December. Doctors were told to substitute an alternative antiviral, Relenza, for Tamiflu, or to combine Tamiflu with an older antiviral, rimantadine, if the H1N1 virus was the main strain circulating in their communities.

Each flu season, several types of flu viruses circulate, and various ones can dominate in different regions and times. Only the H1N1 virus is showing signs of Tamiflu resistance, CDC officials said, speaking at an influenza conference in Washington.

Other flu viruses currently circulating are not Tamiflu-resistant.

Each year, the three most prominent flu strains -- two type A's and one type B -- are chosen for the creation of the flu vaccine. Unlike last year, both of the A viruses matched this year's vaccine, although the B did not, officials said.

Public health experts recommend flu shots as the best way to avoid the virus.

Health officials have long urged constraint in using antivirals out of fear that, as with antibiotics, misuse could lead flu viruses to develop a resistance, rendering the drug ineffective when it was truly needed.

Tamiflu, which is known generically as oseltamivir, and Relenza, or zanamivir, came on the market 10 years agoand were hailed as being more effective at treating the flu and having fewer side effects than the older antivirals rimantadine and amantadine. They were also lauded as being much less prone to develop resistance.

Tamiflu and Relenza have been stockpiled by the federal government for treating the public in case of the emergence of a dangerous pandemic flu. Four times as many Tamiflu doses have been stockpiled as Relenza doses.

Some microbiologists have argued that Tamiflu is more likely to develop resistance than Relenza. Therefore, they say, Relenza should make up at least 50 percent of the stockpiled antivirals.

"There have been people, and I'm one of them, that have suggested that there be more of an equal stockpiling of oseltamivir and zanamivir," said Dr. Anne Moscona, a pediatrician and professor of microbiology and immunology at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Tamiflu became the more popular drug because it can be taken orally in pill or liquid form, whereas Relenza must be inhaled and can't be used by young children or the elderly.

What mystifies infectious disease experts and microbiologists is the Tamiflu-resistant strain now circulating appears to be a mutation that spread naturally, not as a response to antiviral use.

"We don't think it's due to overuse," said Dr. Anthony Fiore, a CDC epidemiologist. "There's not as large amount of use of oseltamivir as there might be with antibiotics."

Influenza viruses are ribonucleic acid-based, which are error-prone when replicating. This means they change rapidly, Fiore said. If a change occurs that confers an advantage of some sort, then it's likely to be passed on.

Viruses also swap genes among themselves, and one fear is the resistance mutation will be passed on to other flu viruses, including the deadly H5N1 bird flu circulating in Asia.

For now, H5N1 responds to Tamiflu, although it must be administered early. The virus is more than 60 percent fatal in humans.

Deadly tide of birds fuels fears of bird flu cover-up

Deadly tide of birds fuels fears of bird flu cover-up

Posted : Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:29:59 GMT Author : DPA http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/254494,deadly-tide-of-birds-fuels-fears-of-bird-flu-cover-up.html

Hong Kong - For more than a week now a deadly tide has been washing out of China into the sea surrounding Hong Kong, bringing with it growing fears that China is in the grip of a covered-up bird-flu outbreak. With each day that passes, more dead birds, ducks and chickens washed up on the beaches of Hong Kong, suggesting that H5N1-infected birds may have been dumped into the China's polluted Pearl River and carried by the tide to Hong Kong waters. China has insisted there are no bird-flu outbreaks in China, despite eight human cases in January alone this year. But experts fear the tide of death washing out of southern China shows that China is once again covering up another major public health catastrophe. It happened before in 2003, when Beijing denied the existence of the deadly condition that became known as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome - or SARS - until it had crossed the border into Hong Kong where it went on to spread worldwide infecting thousands and killing hundreds. It happened again last year when state newspapers were initially ordered to keep quiet about a scandal which lead to many thousands of young children falling sick and seven dying after drinking baby milk tainted with the chemical melamine. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), China has recorded a total of 38 bird-flu cases since the disease resurfaced in 2003, including 25 deaths. Five people died in China of bird flu in January alone, two more than in the whole of 2008. Three other people were infected. So far more than 20 dead birds have been found on Hong Kong beaches within the last week. Six of the birds have so far tested positive for the H5N1 virus strain. However, there are no current outbreaks in Hong Kong nor are there any farms close to the sites where the infected birds were discovered. Together, these facts are causing concern in Hong Kong which boasts arguably the world's most stringent bird flu detection and prevention measures, introduced after 1997 when the former British colony witnessed the first modern incident of the virus crossing the species barrier when it infected 18 people of which six died. Hong Kong Secretary of Health Dr York Chow confirmed Thursday the birds are most likely to have drifted down from the Pearl River in southern China sometime over the last week. He also said that tests on the dead birds detected a strain of H5N1 previously found in southern China and not Hong Kong. Leading Hong Kong bird-flu expert and chairman of the Hong Kong Medical Association, Lo Wing-Lok said all these facts indicated that "something very terrible" could be happening in China. "In China they are repeatedly denying any outbreak among birds but how come we have these dead birds turning up in Hong Kong?" Lo said. "I don't believe the source of these dead birds is Hong Kong. They are from the mainland. Possibly, they were dumped in the river or sea by farmers who have farms close to the Pearl River or sea." Lo said the birds was especially worrying in the light of the high number of human cases in China this year. Taken together this could indicate the virus had changed into a form more easily transmitted from birds to humans or that the vaccine used on poultry was suppressing symptoms but not the transmission so outbreaks were going unnoticed. The WHO's Western Pacific spokesman Peter Cordingley said their area of concern was that many of the recent human infections in China seemed to be occurring in the absence of any infection among birds. "Usually we have birds serving as sentinels, telling us there is something going on in the environment. But in China, people are falling sick before any reports of sick birds. That is the wrong way round and is quite worrying," Cordingley said. "Quite clearly there seems to be gaps in the surveillance of wild birds and poultry in China. We don't know what these gaps are and it may not be sloppy surveillance. But from a human health point of view, we are concerned. "If people are to stay safe and healthy we need to know where the virus is and the evidence is that in China at the moment, people don't know where it is." That uncertainty is especially worrying for Hong Kong which shares its waters and border with China and imports millions of chickens from the mainland every year. "We often ask where this virus is coming from and we get no answers, Lo said. "Seeing dead birds floating towards Hong Kong shows the virus is not being controlled at its source. "The only thing we can do is progressively step up our controls. But controls have their limit and we are approaching that limit. We have to now rely on China to do its part."

Chinese expert issues new BF warning

Chinese expert issues new bird flu warning http://www.chinaview.cn/ 2009-02-06 17:59:50 http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-02/06/content_10775326.htm GUANGZHOU, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- A leading Chinese expert on respiratory diseases has warned the public to be aware that poultry can be infected with the bird flu virus but show no symptoms. "Special attention should be paid to such animals, including those that have been vaccinated," said Zhong Nanshan. "The existing vaccines can only reduce the amount of virus, rather than totally inactivating it," he said. Zhong, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, is one of the scientists who helped control the spread of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS, in China in 2003. His warning comes after eight human cases of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza have been reported across the country since January. Zhong said he had noticed that more than half of those infected had no direct contact with birds and nor did they live in the areas where infected fowl with symptoms were reported. He urged people to minimize contact with all domestic fowl and birds. "Have the chicken butchered in the market, not in your home," he said. A study led by Zhong on a low-cost treatment for chronic respiratory disease has been voted the people's choice for last year's paper of the year in The Lancet, the United Kingdom-based general medical journal. ====================

Mrin five hundred chickens in Malda

Feb 05, 12:42 am

Malda / Dinhata: Kaliyck in Malda district on Wednesday Mrin five hundred chickens, but the district administration is unaware. Administrative level is not taking any steps. Property Department, however, being a medical team to send to the affected area is said. The last fifteen days of Malda Kaliyck a block number of the Gram Panchayat Jlalpur Kushbadhi about five hundred chickens died in the village with too many chickens are sick. Tapas Chowdhury, head of the panchayat area, the issue of information was given to the district administration. That is charged by the district administration has taken a step. About two months ago before Nrhatta in the village of Malda Berdflu of bacteria was spread. Of the people of the district administrative charge that the negligence Berdflu soon Old Malda, Manik Chuck and rust spread in the block. Also is looking Isbar administrative negligence. Sridhar Ghosh said the district magistrate to issue information is received. District Department of the property being examined to take the appropriate steps have been asked. Here again, two hundred chickens on Wednesday Mrin. It has spread terror in the area wide. According to sources, the area of the Gram Panchayat Jalajpur Ftekhani, Dharara Balucra, North Dairyapur, on Wednesday in Sukdevpur Mrin chicken. Creature of the property sub-district officials, said Nikhil Chandra Situ creature in the village sent a team of department property, which will inspect the area. Need to be to check the blood sample will be sent. The Dinhata met Wednesday evening, according to a report from the killing of poultry in Dinhata was introduced. Dinhata of this day a number of villages with Dinhata block of block number two in the newly Tiadh Muja to kill chickens work was started.

Sixteen teams on Wednesday and a number two villages in different blocks of the evening was introduced by Kaling. Dinhata block a number of Beedio Dutt said Wednesday evening Anabil Kaling from work to start at seven in the evening to a reported Kaling. However, on Tuesday, about a thousand chickens killed Jean did. Ie in the last three days Sunday, Monday and Tuesday killed five thousand more than the chicken did. Here, in the city on Wednesday morning Dinhata Padha Madan Mohan in the area and a crow balrampur road in the area and recovered the body of a bird about to be Mach Dinhata Hdkanp was in town. Yet Dinhata sale of poultry in the market of various Ddlle is from. Police administration and it is not picking up any steps.

Bird flu reported in three regions

Bird flu reported in three regions

08:46' 06/02/2009 (GMT+7)

VietNamNet Bridge – The Veterinary Agency (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) has said that as of February 5, bird flu has appeared in the southern provinces of Ca Mau and Soc Trang, the central provinces of Nghe An and Thanh Hoa, and the northern province of Thai Nguyen. The epidemic was discovered in Thai Nguyen, Thanh Hoa and Ca Mau provinces during the lunar New Year (Tet) holiday, resulted in 16,000 fowls culled. Soc Trang and Nghe An are the two latest localities which were hit by the epidemic (February 3). The Veterinary Agency also says that foot-and-mouth disease in cattle and green ear in pigs has been recorded in the northern provinces of Hoa Binh, Son La, Yen Bai, the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum and the southern province of Long An. In the central province of Ha Tinh, from January 30 to February 5, 275 pigs died of cholera, said the chief of the local Veterinary Department, Nguyen Thanh Binh, on February 5. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Cao Duc Phat, sent an urgent note to all provinces, cities and related agencies asking them to take drastic measures to prevent epidemics in cattle and poultry.

Measles epidemic shows no sign of abating in Hanoi

15:09' 06/02/2009 (GMT+7)

VietNamNet Bridge - The number of people infected with measles continues to increase in Hanoi, mainly among students and pupils. According to Dr Do Si Hien, chairman of the National Expanded Programme for Immunisation (EPI), the increase in the number of adults infected with measles is normal in those countries including Vietnam, which have implemented a measles vaccination programme well. However, Mr Hien added that the number of infected people will increase and spread to other localities if drastic measures are not taken. To limit the spread of the disease, the Hanoi Hygiene and Epidemiology Institute and the EPI held a working session with Hanoi’s health department to help the community to learn more about preventive measures, and proper treatment against the disease. Around 700,000 students and pupils are expected to get vaccinated against measles in the coming days. According to Nguyen Hong Ha, deputy head of the National Hospital for Infectious and Tropical Diseases, the measles virus can develop quickly, especially through the respiratory system. Therefore, people aged under 40 should get vaccinated. For patients experiencing symptoms such as high fever, families should isolate them, clean their houses and ensure safe water sources.

Atlanta hospital checking Legionnaire's cases

February 6th, 2009 in Medicine & Health / Health

(AP) -- Atlanta's largest hospital is investigating an unusual number of Legionnaire's disease cases after four patients were diagnosed with the infection since January 1, officials said Friday.

Grady Memorial Hospital officials were looking at the possibility that the disease spread through the hospital's water or air. Hospital spokeswoman Denise Simpson said preliminary test results should come back Monday.

Legionnaires' disease is a bacterial infection that can cause potentially deadly pneumonia. The bacteria do not spread from person to person. Instead, people get it from inhaling contaminated mist or vapor. Tainted air conditioning systems or whirlpool spas are among the ways the bacteria can get in the air.

Officials said about 80 beds on the hospital's 11th and 12th floors have been taken out of service pending tests of hospital water samples.

The four patients all had been treated at Grady. They were released, then got sick with Legionnaire's and returned to the hospital, where they were diagnosed. None died.

Grady is working with state health officials to check into all possible ways the patients could have gotten the infection, Simpson said.

Grady - a public hospital in downtown Atlanta with about 950 beds - customarily sees only two or three cases of infection with the bacteria each year.

FAO report on China's failure to make timely and expressed dissatisfaction with the avian flu

Wednesday criticized the United Nations Food and Agriculture said that China's recent spate of outbreaks of bird flu, but they since last December has so far not received the report of the relevant Chinese authorities. In addition, once infected with a lethal H5N1 avian influenza Shanxi PENG Jie 3-year-old girl has been recovered and were discharged Tuesday.

FAO said that Jiangsu has had avian flu outbreak, but since last December so far, they have not received the Chinese government Ministry of Agriculture of any broadcast of birds for avian flu reporting.

Martin said that this case should be a number of suspected cases and report to the agricultural sector, of which some cases have positive results may occur. FAO is currently awaiting the report, if there is expected, will be investigated.

UN Food and Agriculture Organization contrast over the past year and this year China has a record of bird flu last year China has reported only three deaths, but the beginning of this year have been reported for more than a month have only eight cases, of which five died.

International bird flu FAO Senior Technical Advisor to the Agence France-Presse, Martin said, which certainly has the virus is being broadcast, or may have broke out some time in the future.

Although the World Health Organization has said that so far this year occurred in China in bird flu cases are they expected, but the surrounding areas of concern. Martin said the situation this year is abnormal, the bird flu cases increase over the last year, while in the report of avian influenza have occurred in regions, including Jiangsu and Shandong in birds in case of human infection cases, these places have not been outbreaks of bird flu transmission .

Bird flu experts Guan Taiwan have said that the bird flu virus may have variants, and more easily transmitted between birds and humans.

In addition, the Chinese Ministry of Health Web site for publishing press reports, the earlier infection can be deadly H5N1 avian influenza Shanxi 3-year-old girl Peng Jie, the Tuesday after treatment has been recovered and were discharged. PENG Jie on January 7 this year in the market fever after contact with live birds, and later admitted to the hospital 9 days after the confirmed case of H5N1 avian influenza.(博讯boxun.com) (Boxun.com)

Once touched the chicken only Dabu fever female to doubt dyes the bird flu

2009-02-06 20:09

About 4:00 pm because, a 50 year-old female has a fever ill, goes to Dabu Wang Shaoqing the clinic to treat, when responds doctor inquires the condition, disclosed the other day returned to when inland once touched slaughtering chicken, Dr. Wen Yan has feared her to catch the bird flu, summoned the ambulance to deliver her that dozen of element hospital isolation observation.