Salmonella Outbreak Spreads to Pig Farm

published yesterday 06:18 PM, updated yesterday 08:38 PM

Image: YLE

Salmonella has been discovered on a pig farm in southern Ostrobothnia. The pig farm used feed supplied by Raisio Feed Ltd, which is the company that recently delivered salmonella-contaminated feed to poultry farms. To date, salmonella has spread to 12 egg-producing farms around Finland through contaminated feed.

Laboratory test results on Wednesday confirmed the existence of salmonella on a pig farm in Ostrobothnia. Sanitation operations at this farm are currently underway.

Officials will now test all Ostrobotninan pig and poultry farms for salmonella. Some 800 samples have been taken so far.

The Finnish Food Safety Authority, Evira, says it’s highly unlikely that any new salmonella cases will be discovered on pig farms.

Affected Farms Seek Compensation

Salmonella-infected farms have said they plan to seek compensation for loss of production and livestock. They also want to be reimbursed for money spent on disinfecting their premises. Raisio Feed says it plans to pay damages as soon as the number of contaminated farms is determined.

Mignon Egg Scare

Meanwhile, confectionary company Fazer is calming consumers that its Mignon chocolate Easter eggs, which are real eggs shells filled with chocolate, are salmonella-free. The company says all eggs shells rolled out on the Mignon production line have received a clean bill of health.

Prime Minister reported on blue ear disease in Quang Nam

The Last Updated: 9:07 AM, 18/03/2009

(LĐ) - (LD) - Previous events complicated by blue ear disease in Quang Nam, at the meeting of steering prevention HPAI 17.3 pm, Deputy Minister of NNPTNT Diep Kinh Tan requirements Animal Health Department to draft the right documents send Prime Minister, proposed measures for supporting Quang Nam and dập. Theo Under the guidance of blue ear disease is also found in Vietnam, but the process dập non-performance. Vice Minister Diep Kinh Tan requirements Animal Health Department immediately prepared a separate report submitted by the Prime Minister of the Quang Nam has become the center spread of blue ear disease to other localities, the provincial requirements must focus all resources, priority activities against blue ear disease in the province. In weeks, mission of the will to work directly with the People's Committee of Quang Nam, to find ways to resolve the situation ended on points.

EBOLA VIRUS, NEEDLE STICK INJURY - GERMANY: (HAMBURG)

Date: Tue 17 Mar 2009
Source: N24 online [machine translated, paraphrased and edited]
<http://www.n24.de/news/newsitem_4910557.html>


Woman with suspected Ebola infection
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An member of the Hamburg Tropical Institute has received a needle
stick injury and possibly has been infected with a dangerous
pathogen. The woman is being treated in Hamburg Universiy Hospital on
suspicion of Ebola virus infection. The victim worked in the Bernhard
Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, where last Thursday [12 Mar
2009] while working in the high security wing received a needle stick
injury despite wearing protective clothing. The woman has been
transferred to an isolation unit for treatment of the potentially
highly contagious disease. So far the patient has shown no signs of
illness. Risk of transmission of infection has been discounted.

In consultation with an international team of experts and the patient
herself [an experimental] vaccine was administered which has not been
used previously humans. Ebola virus is transmitted by direct contact
with body fluids. The disease progresses to internal bleeding, and
onset of death is rapid. There is no cure; 50 to 90 percent of those
infected die. In the case of the type of Ebola virus responsible for
the Hamburg incident, mortality can be as high as 90 percent. In the
most recent major outbreaks in the Congo and in Uganda, hundreds of
people died.

--
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Date: Tue 17 Mar 2009
Source: abenblatt.de [machine translated, paraphrased and edited]
<http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2009/03/17/1088430.html>


A member of the Bernhard-Nocht-Instituts fur Tropenmedizin has
received a needle stick injury from a syringe suspected to contan
Ebola virus. The woman did not leave the University hospital and was
immediately transferred to an isolation unit. In consultation with an
international team of experts and the patient herself, an
[experimental] vaccine, not previously tested in humans, was administered.

The scientist employed at the Hamburg Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for
Tropical Medicine is suspected to have been infected with the highly
dangerous Ebola virus. Last Thursday [12 Mar 2009] the woman was
working in the high security laboratory and received a needle stick
injury despite wearing protective clothing, and possibly she became
infected with Ebola virus. The victim was immediately isolated. Since
the scientist showed no symptoms of Ebola fever, it is considered
that there is no risk of onward transmission of disease.

Since Ebola virus is one of the most dangerous pathogens and in
almost 90 percent of cases leads to death, it was decided on Sat 14
Mar 2009 in consultation with a panel of experts from the U.S. and
Canada to administer a vaccine, which has never been tested a human
previuosly. Approximately 24 hours later the woman developed fever,
probably as a response to vaccination according to one doctor. In
Germany there has been no previous laboratory accident of this kind
according to Egbert Tannich of the (Bernhard-Nocht-Institute). A cure
does not exist. The mortality rate for the strain of Ebola virus
implicated in the Hamburg incident is 90 percent. In the most recent
major outbreaks, especially in the Congo and in Uganda, hundreds of
people died.

--
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ProMED-mail
<promed@promedmail.org>

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[3]
Date: Tue 17 Mar 2009
Source: Blomberg.com [edited]
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601100&sid=aaS8q6ZRiOWQ&refer=germany>


Ebola researcher in Germany is isolated after needle puncture
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A researcher at a Hamburg laboratory was punctured with a needle that
may have contained traces of the deadly Ebola virus and was
transferred to an isolation ward following inoculation treatment, the
clinic said in a statement. The university clinic in Hamburg-
Eppendorf, which is treating the woman, ruled out any danger to the
public, according to the e-mailed statement. Ebola is an animal-borne
virus that causes high fever, diarrhea, vomiting and internal bleeding.

The woman, a scientist at the Bernhard-Nocht-Institut for tropical
medicine, was punctured through protective clothing while in a high
security laboratory on 12 Mar 2009. Though she showed no signs of
infection, a group of experts recommended an inoculation treatment
developed in the U.S., the clinic said.

The virus strain with which the unidentified woman had been working
has a mortality rate of around 90 percent. She was put into isolation
after developing a fever 24 hours later, and doctors were examining
whether the high temperature resulted from the treatment or from an
Ebola infection.

The World Health Organization said on 18 Feb 2009 that an Ebola
outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo had killed 15 people.


--
Communicated by:
Axel Pettinger
<Axel.Pettinger@t-online.de>

[It is possible that no infectious virus was transferred as a result
of the needle stick injury. However the outcome of any resultant
disease following transfer of even a small amount of Ebola virus, and
the consequences of administration of an untried experimental
vaccine, cannot be assessed at this stage. No information has been
released regarding the identity of the strain of Ebola virus involved
in this incident. There are 5 subtypes of Ebola virus. Four of the 5
have caused disease in humans: Ebola-Zaire, Ebola-Sudan, Ebola-Ivory
Coast and Ebola-Bundibugyo. The 5th, Ebola-Reston, has caused disease
in nonhuman primates, but not in humans. Detailed information on
Ebola virus can be accessed at:
<http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/Spb/mnpages/dispages/ebola/qa.htm>. - Mod.CP]
.............................mpp/cp/ejp/dk

AVIAN INFLUENZA, ACCIDENTAL DISTRIBUTION - CZECH REPUBLIC ex AUSTRIA (03)

Mon 16 Mar 2009
Source: The Financial Times online [edited]
<http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d7a3e3d6-1237-11de-b816-0000779fd2ac.html>


WHO mulls stricter transport of bio products
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Public health officials are studying the need for tighter controls on
the transport of biological products after Baxter, the US
pharmaceutical company, inadvertently supplied samples of the H5N1
bird flu virus to a series of European laboratories. Specialists from
the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the European Centre for
Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) are monitoring the case at a
time of growing concern that existing international rules to minimise
the risks of the spread of pathogens are too weak.

Their scrutiny follows an incident that recently came to light when
samples of H5N1 from Baxter's Austrian labs contaminated batches of
the less harmful H3N2 seasonal flu virus that it was supplying under
a commercial contract to a customer, Avir Greenhills Biotechnology.

A combination of H3N2, which is highly transmissible between humans,
and H5N1, which has killed hundreds of millions of chickens and other
[birds] in recent years, could potentially lead to a mutated virus
that forms the basis of a new human pandemic threatening millions of
lives, according to scientists. Baxter stressed that the H3N2 strain
had been made replication-defective, and was handled in tightly
controlled laboratories purely for experiments, so there was little
chance it could have led to outbreak threatening humans. It also
stressed that all staff potentially exposed were tested and given
antiviral treatment to prevent any infection.

Baxter said the H5N1 samples were provided for its own research into
a pandemic vaccine it is developing, and were from a variant of the
virus identified in Viet Nam and provided to the company by the US
Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. "The material was handled
appropriately in all steps of the process in the right conditions,"
said Chris Bona, a Baxter spokesman. The experimental material was
produced exclusively for laboratory testing, was not used for product
production and was not for use in humans. It somehow mixed with H3N2
before distribution last December [2008] to Avir, and the more potent
virus was detected by a subcontractor in the Czech Republic last
month [February 2009] after it rapidly killed ferrets exposed to the
viruses. Avir had also sent samples to Slovenia and Germany. Mr Bona
stressed that Baxter had since taken corrective preventative actions
and its procedures had been approved by the Austrian authorities.

The incident comes just after the conclusion of an EU-funded project
on biosafety highlighted the need for improvement to national
regulatory frameworks for biosafety and laboratory biosecurity.

--
Communicated by:
ProMED-mail Rapporteur Mary Marshall

[Unfortunately there is no clarification of the basic error:
......."It [H5N1 virus] somehow mixed with H3N2 before distribution
last December [2008] to Avir". This thread is now cut.

RABIES, VIA DOG/CAT BUTCHERING - VIET NAM: PROBABLE

Date: Tue 17 Mar 2009
Source: inthenews.co.uk [edited]
<http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/autocodes/countries/vietnam/eating-dog-or-cat-linked-rabies-$1280986.htm>


Eating dog or cat linked to rabies
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A new study has detailed how 2 people in Asia contracted rabies after
eating dog or cat meat.

A report published in the journal PLoS Medicine [see part (2) below]
describes how the 2 patients in Hanoi, Viet Nam, died from
laboratory-confirmed rabies. Health experts claim their symptoms
developed after butchering, preparing, and consuming either a dog or a cat.

The researchers were unable to test the butchered animals for rabies,
so could not be entirely certain the animals were the source of the rabies.

However, they caution that butchering of unvaccinated dogs and cats
in rabies-endemic countries should be considered a risk factor for
rabies transmission.

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[2]
Date: Wed 18 Mar 2009
From: Heiman Wertheim heiman.wertheim@gmail.com>


Rabies infections highlight dangers of processing dog meat
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Eating dog meat is common in many Asian countries, but research
conducted as part of the South East Asia Infectious Diseases Clinical
Research Network has discovered a potentially lethal risk associated
with preparing dog meat: rabies. In research published today [18 Mar
2009] in the open access journal PLoS Medicine, Dr Heiman Wertheim
and colleagues from the National Institute of Infectious and Tropical
Diseases and the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology in
Hanoi, Viet Nam, report on 2 patients admitted to hospital showing
signs of rabies infection. Neither patient was thought to have been
bitten by a rabid animal in the preceding months.

Rabies is a very serious -- and in nearly all cases fatal -- disease.
It is estimated to kill more than 30 000 people each year in Asia,
and the number of cases in China and Viet Nam is increasing. Symptoms
include agitation, severe spasms, fever, fear of water and inability
to drink liquids, and eventually death. Humans are usually infected
after being bitten by an infected animal such as a dog or bat.

When the researchers investigated whether the patients had come into
contact with infected animals in the preceding months, they found
that both had been involved in preparing and eating animals that may
have been infected. In the 1st patient's case, he had prepared and
eaten a dog that had been killed in a road traffic accident; rabid
dogs were known to inhabit the neighbourhood. The 2nd patient had
butchered and eaten a cat that had been sick for a number of days.

In both cases seen by Dr Wertheim and colleagues, it is thought that
infection occurred during the slaughtering, and not by eating the
meat, as the meal was shared by others who did not become infected.
In Asia, it is believed that eating dog meat enhances health and
longevity. It is eaten throughout the year in the 2nd half of the
lunar month, particularly in the winter months, when it is believed
to increase body heat.

In Viet Nam, dogs with rabies have been detected in dog
slaughterhouses and workers at dog slaughterhouses are vaccinated
against rabies as part of the national programme for rabies control
and prevention. However, the private slaughter of dogs is relatively
common in the country.

"We need to alert both the general public and clinicians about the
risks around butchering and handling meat," says Dr Wertheim. "People
should not handle animals that may be infected with rabies. Rabies
can be prevented with a vaccine and people exposed to rabies can be
helped with post-exposure prophylaxis, but this needs to be
administered as quickly as possible following the exposure. Once a
person shows symptoms, the disease is almost invariably fatal.

"Vietnamese doctors already consider dog slaughtering a risk factor
for rabies transmission, but it is important that other health care
workers and policy makers, both inside and outside Vie Nam, are aware
of this risk factor."

The South East Asia Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Network is
funded by the Wellcome Trust and the National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health USA.

One patient of avian influenza infection

Thứ Ba, 17/03/2009, 11:09
Go in patients infected with avian influenza H5N1, which is her Huynh Thi Dong, 45 years old, in Vietnam Dong, Nam Binh, Thang Binh district, Quang Nam, hospitalization days 28-2 with symptoms of pneumonia heavy. Center for Health in collaboration with Provincial General Hospital in Quang Nam get products sent to test and wait for results from the epidemiological hygiene Central.
According patients before hospitalization have medium hair 9kg buy chickens in a chicken noodles in Tam Ky City home and exposed to the three players hencoop. http://74.125.65.132/translate_c?hl=en&sl=vi&u=http://www.tuoitre.com.vn/Tianyon/Index.aspx%3FArticleID%3D306471%26ChannelID%3D12&prev=/search%3Fq%3DC%25C3%25BAm%2Bgia%2Bc%25E1%25BA%25A7 m%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26as_qdr%3Dd%26start%3D40&usg=ALkJrhj3V2HdGD0k0YxQHt-QOf8ykDLVFg

bird flu virus detected in Netrakona

1595 chickens, 205 eggs culled

Our Correspondent, Netrakona

A total of 1595 chicken and 205 eggs were culled in a form at Kendua Upazila in the district on Friday last due to detection of bird-flu virus.

Netrakona District Livestock Office sources said, an incident of detection of Bird Flu virus in a poultry farm of one Rasel Ahmed at village Rampur under Kendua Upazila of Netrakona district was reported.

The bird flu virus was found in the bodies of some childrens of the pouiltry firm after examining these in the district livestock laboratory by rapid antigen detection test (RADT).

The concerned livestock officials examined the children of the poultry farm after receiving an information that over a dozen of children died in the farm during the last one week, the sources said.

Meanwhile, 1595 chickens and 205 eggs were culled in the farm by an official team of Livestock Department and the Upazila Administration. District livestock officer Netrakona Dr Tamiuddi Ahmed led the culling operation, the officials added:

New Strain of Bird Flu Poses Threat

Tuesday, March 17, 2009 by: David Gutierrez, staff writer
(NaturalNews) Even as governments and health experts around the world have been focusing on the threat of a pandemic of the H5N1 strain of avian flu, another dangerous strain known as H9N2 has gone mostly ignored, according to a study published in the journal PLos ONE.

"Our results suggest that the establishment and prevalence of H9N2 viruses in poultry pose a significant threat for humans," the researchers wrote.

Of three known species of influenza virus, two of them regularly infect humans. The third species, influenza A virus, primarily affects birds and is also known as bird flu. Among hundreds of strains of influenza A, the World Health Organization says that only four have ever been known to infect humans: H5N1, H7N3, H7N7 and H9N2.

H5N1 has attracted the most attention due to its extreme virulence and high death rate - of 385 humans known to have been infected with the virus since 2003, 243 have died. The virus is widespread in both domestic and wild bird populations, giving rise to fears that it could mutate into a form more easily transmissible to and between humans.

But H9N2 can also cross from birds to pigs, humans and other animals, and has infected at least four Hong Kong children to date. In its current form, the virus causes only mild symptoms. In the current study, however, researchers found that a single mutation was enough to make H9N2 more infectious and virulent, but also to enable it to cross directly between infected ferrets.

Ferrets react to influenza similarly humans, and are often used as an animal model for the disease.

Hybridization of the H9N2 and H3N2 strains also resulted in a more pathogenic and easily transmitted flu. Researchers believe this could occur if a single organism is infected with both strain simultaneously

Neither of the laboratory-produced strains was able to spread through the air and could only spread by touch, similar to colds.

Sources for this story include: www.reuters.com.

Engineering Flu Vaccines: New Method Could Improve Vaccines For Both Seasonal Flu And Bird Flu

ScienceDaily (Mar. 18, 2009)

A new computerized method of testing could help world health officials better identify flu vaccines that are effective against multiple strains of the disease. Rice University scientists who created the method say tests of data from bird flu and seasonal flu outbreaks suggest their method can better gauge the efficacy of proposed vaccines than can tests used today.

Rice's Michael Deem, the lead scientist on the project, will present the group's results March 19 at the American Physical Society's 2009 meeting in Pittsburgh. The results are also slated to appear in the forthcoming book "Influenza: Molecular Virology" from Horizon Scientific Press.

Avian flu, or bird flu, is a particularly deadly type of flu that's transmitted from birds to humans. It hasn't yet evolved into a form that can be transmitted readily between humans, but scientists and world health authorities are trying to prepare for a potential outbreak. Because the virus mutates continually, creating a vaccine in advance is problematic. For example, scientists have already found that a vaccine designed for the 1997 strain of bird flu does not work against a 2003 strain.

"Current vaccines contain only a single version of a given flu subtype," Deem said. "We wanted to gauge the effectiveness of a vaccine that contained multiple versions of a given subtype."

World health authorities currently test the efficacy of proposed flu vaccines using either ferrets, which can contract the same forms of flu as people, or genetic assays. Rice's new computerized method could be a cheaper and faster alternative.

-snip-

Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching

Dr. Michael Greger, author and Director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture, The Humane Society of the United States

Leading public health authorities now predict as inevitable a pandemic of influenza, triggered by bird flu and expected to lead to millions of deaths around the globe. The influenza virus has existed for millions of years as an innocuous intestinal virus of wild ducks. What turned a harmless waterborne duck virus into a killer? In an engaging multimedia presentation, Dr. Michael Greger traces the human role in the evolution of this virus.

In the face of the coming pandemic, Dr. Greger reveals what we can do to protect our families and what society can do to reduce the likelihood of such potential catastrophes in the future.

A graduate of the Cornell University School of Agriculture and the Tufts University School of Medicine, Michael Greger, M.D., serves as Director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture at The Humane Society of the United States. He is the author of Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching.

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The DBD patient in Tasikmalaya Died

Rabu, 18 Maret 2009

Raihan (3) the patient Deungue Dengue Fever (DBD) died in the Daerah Public Hospital (RSUD) Tasikmalaya, on Wednesday, around struck 10,00 WIB. According to parents of casualties, Dedi, the resident Cempaka Warna RT 01 RW 04, the Cilembang District, Kecamatan Cihideung, his child was attacked by the fever since Thursday (11/3) were afterwards carried to the Cilembang Community Health Centre. When being checked by the doctor in the Cilembang Community Health Centre it was said the hot sign that was suffered by Raihan often happened in the age of children, heard this explanation of Raihan being brought came home and was treated in the house.

However hot him was increasingly high finally Raihan on Tuesday (17/3) in brought to RSUD Tasikmalaya to be checked and treated. After one day was treated in Gawat Darurat Installation space, Raihan, with the condition for the high fever finally blew out the last breath.

In the meantime according to Deputy Director's explanation of Pelayanan RSUD Tasikmalaya, Cecep Z Kholis, the patient DBD that died when in brought to RSUD the condition for his health has been critical or shock. However the RSUD side at that time did not yet confirm the patient was attacked by DBD because must through the inspection medically for a long time when five days could after that be it was known positive or negative DBD. Whereas since the arrival of the patient to RSUD only was carried out by the inspection to control trombosit, and results of the inspection trombosit the patient descended reached 33. Moreover the condition for the health of casualties and blood pressure of the pulse situation him was felt or mentioned with Deungue Shock Shindrome (DSS).

"So this patient died because when just came here already in the situation shock, (critical, red)," he said. According to Cecep the case of the patient who came to RSUD in the critical condition quite often to happen, but if strong resistance of the patient's body then the big possibility could recover. Whereas for the patient Raihan that aged children, his body resistance not strong kept the illness attack that was suffered by him, so as could not be helped.

In the meantime the number of sufferers DBD that died in RSUD Tasikmalaya that was recorded in 2009 already two people including Raihan, whereas the case that was attacked by DBD for 2009 in the data of RSUD Tasikmalaya totalling 205 people. The number that died with the number of DBD cases still could not be acknowledged as the extraordinary incident, the Penanggulangan broad headword, Pencegahan of the Illness and the Environment (P2PL), the Kesehatan Service of the Tasikmalaya City, Dr Hasni. "Yes still could not be acknowledged as KLB, and we continue to strive for to increase the awareness" of the "importance community cared about the environment around, with applied 3 M.," he said.

Tetelo, Causes Death in the Chicken Dayeuhkolot

[Now isn't this very interesting. Same situation I posted on earlier here:]
19 chickens died Suddenly

[oversaturation of poultry dying, residents do not wait for authorities to give a diagnosis, the local garbage collector burns them, in his everyday apparel. Because they are worried about bf. But...wait....there are no bf outbreaks in people...at least that we know of...so it seems they are overreacting. But why would they do that? Most stories report that they want compensation for culled poultry, are reluctant to inform authorities because their poultry would be culled, or, are just not informed enough on bf to inform the authorities. Yet here, they can't wait for the authorities, and go ahead without them.]

RABU, 18 MARET 2009

Totalling 19 chickens belonging to Ai Hasanah (56), villagers and the Subdistrict of Dayeuhkolot, Kabupaten Bandung, died suddenly for the last three days.

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).

The burning of the carcass was carried out by Sutisna, the local garbage collector. He claimed only wore socks and without gloves and special clothes that normally are used for depopulation.

Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Regency Bandung ensure, causes the death of 19 chickens belonging to Ai Hasanah in the Village and District Dayeuhkolot is Newcastle Disease (ND) violent.

It was delivered after a team of Animal Husbandry and Fisheries District comes to location and a quick test of the chickens that are alive and dead poultry remaining on Wednesday (18 / 3). From the results of the two testing, the birds that die of sudden death because ND is violent or often called tetelo.

"We will still take a blood sample as data assistants," said the officer Partisipatory Disease Surveillance Respondent, Cecep Hendrayadi.

As a follow-up, he said, expected more people around keep the cage birds, considering the location of poultry died suddenly in the dense population settlements.

District Secretary Dayeuhkolot Ning Ning Hendasih asserted, the issue immediately appeal to all the villages in the region Dayeuhkolot to improve biosecurity on poultry. The last case had occurred in the Village is Cangkuang Kulon that is 10 kilometers more.

Indo: Purwakarta KLB DBD

18/3/2009 14:34 WIB


Tita Sopandi - Purwakarta, Purwakarta District Health Office, West Java declares extraordinary incident (KLB) dengue dengue fever following a finding as many as 300 people in Purwakarta DBD.

It was submitted by the Head of Section Penanggulangan Diseases Dinkes Purwakarta Regency, Darwis to ELSHINTA Court on Wednesday (18 / 3).

He said, Purwakarta region is endemic DBD area and has expressed KLB DBD, where on sunday to munggu first to 11 in 2009 this number of DBD has reached 300 people. Number of the 300 percent increase from the previous year only 90 people. (Der)

19 chickens died Suddenly

[oversaturation of poultry dying, residents do not wait for authorities to give a diagnosis, the local garbage collector burns them, in his everyday apparel. Because they are worried about bf. But...wait....there are no bf outbreaks in people...at least that we know of...so it seems they are overreacting. But why would they do that? Most stories report that they want compensation for culled poultry, are reluctant to inform authorities because their poultry would be culled, or, are just not informed enough on bf to inform the authorities. Yet here, they can't wait for the authorities, and go ahead without them.]

RABU, 18 MARET 2009

Totalling 19 chickens belonging to Ai Hasanah (56), villagers and the Subdistrict of Dayeuhkolot, Kabupaten Bandung, died suddenly for the last three days.

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).

The burning of the carcass was carried out by Sutisna, the local garbage collector. He claimed only wore socks and without gloves and special clothes that normally are used for depopulation.

Indo: Be careful Serangan ISPA Spread

the rainy season transition to the dry season brought the special impact. If preceeding, illness diarrhea, cough, and very itchy to dominate, kini the Acute attack of the Respiratory Tract Infection (ISPA) threatened. ISPA generally attacks the part of the respiratory tract organ like hidung,sinus, the pharynx or larynx. Kepala Dinas Kesehatan of the City (ET AL) Semarang Tatik Suyarti said, the community was asked to continue to care about the behaviour of the healthy life. He mentioned, the sign of this illness is generally known from the effect that was caused, that is taking the form of the cough, pilek, had a headache, was sick to the throat resulting from the existence of the virus, the bacteria, as well as the fungus that attacked. “Selain the behaviour of the healthy life, must maintain stamina. Because generally this illness attacked in seasons like ini,” he said yesterday. The child's specialist RSUP Dr Kariadi, Dr Hapsari,SpA explained, ISPA was divided into two jenis.Yakni ISPA the upper part and ISPA the underside. ISPA his cause underside was the bacteria like the inflammation of the lungs (pneumonia) and bronchitis. As for his sign, the patient would mengaklami breathless.

Whereas the illness that was categorised by ISPA the upper part among them laryngitis and influenza. The sufferer will experience the temperature of the body rose, pain during swallowed, the cough, pilek, and the eyes were juicy. His cause was the virus, bakteri,dan the fungus. “ISPA this kind usually really is influenced by the weather factor. Also could be caused pollution udara,” he said. Dr Hapsari continued, the sufferer ISPA bagianatas in handled by treating the road. “Differ with ISPA low that needed the patient was treated inap in an intensif,” manner imbuhdia. He continued, the ISPA patient upper entered this March enough. “Ratio him 50:50 for the laryngitis patient and influenza. Most indeed the patient anak,” he said. (susilo himawan/hendrati hapsari)

Vietnam: Blue ear pig outbreaks in Quang Nam still place complex

ND - In the meeting the Steering Committee national prevention HPAI, 17-3 pm, in Hanoi, Department of Animal Health, said: The blue ear pig disease in Vietnam is very complicated, the outbreak new continuous birth in the last two weeks (from 3-3 to 17-3).

Meanwhile, Vietnam is moving along the central national highway 1A, if no measures are processed and will drastically very dangerous and can spread to other provinces. According to members of the Steering Committee: In any blue ear pig disease also occurs in Quang Nam province, but the process dập and very poor. Up to now, the Quang Nam blue ear pig disease occurred in 31 communes in four districts: Electricity Ban, Que Son, Thang Binh, and Duy Xuyen. Meanwhile, in Quang Ninh and Bac Lieu, blue ear disease has temporary control. Vice Minister Diep Kinh Tan said in the week I will be mission of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to work directly with the People's Committee of Quang Nam province to find solutions to resolve points cut, while only the Department of Animal y send the electricity requirements Quang Nam to focus all resources, priorities for activities against blue ear pig disease in the province.

Related HPAI and worry mom, long móng (LMLM), according to Department of Animal Health, the avian influenza outbreaks in the local temporary control but the risk of spread is high. The country now has five provinces namely Ca Mau, Soc Trang, Bac Lieu, Quang Ninh and Electricity eventless HPAI not last 21 days. Dịch LMLM has gradually control the situation, in particular the province of Kon Tum and have them sign, but the province still needs to continue implementing measures to drastically prevention outbreaks. The country now has two provinces as Bac Kan and Kon Tum have LMLM not last 21 days.

* According to Department of Animal Health, after many days no outbreak HPAI new, Quang Ninh 8-3 on the outbreak of avian influenza in Hoa Hai ward (Ha Long). So, currently, there are in the Soc Trang province (18 days), Ca Mau (15 days), Bac Lieu (eight days), and Quang Ninh Electricity eventless HPAI not last 21 days.

And worry about mom, long móng, on 11-3, and occurred in two communes in the Chau and Chau Tien district Quỳ Chau (Nghe An). Thus, the country has three provinces as Bac Can (16 days), Kon Tum and Nghe An have worry mom, not long móng last 21 days.

Cambodia: Bird flu prevention starts in villages: PM

Wednesday the 18th of March 2009

A three-year project funded by the World Bank includes efforts to aid responses to suspected cases of the virus.

COMMUNE councillors and village-level agents from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries are at the forefront of the fight to prevent a bird flu outbreak in the Kingdom, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday in a speech marking the launch of the Cambodia Avian and Human Influenza Control and Preparedness Emergency Project.

The three-year project, funded by a World Bank grant worth US$11 million, is part of a global effort to direct resources to countries that require assistance in dealing with the deadly H5N1 avian influenza virus, which Stephane Guimbert, acting Cambodia country manager at the World Bank, said continued to pose a threat "to the health of the population and to the livelihoods of many small farmers in the region".

Of the $11 million, $5.8 million will go to the Agriculture Ministry to promote animal health, $3.5 million will go to the Ministry of Health and $1.7 million will go to the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) to devise inter-ministerial responses to potential outbreaks, said Nhim Vanda, the NCDM's first vice president.
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Assessing the threat
The conference Tuesday, attended by 600 government officials, NGO members and development partners, included updates on the H5N1 virus and regional efforts to combat it.

Sorn San, who runs the Agriculture Ministry's bird flu project, said the virus has appeared in 23 different locations in eight provinces: Takeo, Siem Reap, Phnom Penh, Kandal, Kampong Cham, Kampot, Kampong Speu and Prey Veng. There have been eight recorded human cases, resulting in seven fatalities. He said 18,566 heads of poultry had died of the disease, while 9,862 had been culled.

Guimbert said more poultry cases could occur and that "cross-species infection from poultry to humans is likely to recur".

He cited China, Vietnam, Indonesia and Bangladesh as countries in which the H5N1 avian influenza virus remains "entrenched" and called on Cambodia to prepare for a potential human pandemic.

Though he acknowledged recent progress in preventing the spread of the disease, he said the Kingdom's efforts had "also highlighted a number of gaps that remain to be filled, including issues related to the capacity of veterinary services".

Ningxia University North Campus is currently 6 people happen influenza Hospital for observation

2009-3-17 18:02
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Ningxia University North Campus of the current influenza happened 6 person be hospitalized for observation Ningxia Net News WWW.NXNEWS.NET 【2009-3-17 13:29:05】 Ningxia News Forum News Reporter hearing March 17 from the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Health Department Emergency Response Office was informed that the evening of March 16, Ningxia University, North Campus students found unexplained upper respiratory tract infections by the autonomous regional health department initially diagnosed as influenza B (18 cases). As at 10:00 on the 17th and continue to be hospitalized for observation 6 cases, and the rest have been discharged. The following is issued on the source】 【Ningxia News Network
I witnessed:封校is now closed for disinfection. And does not allow students to go out or go home. The evening of March 16, I go north of Education be closed to observe the two school buildings and found a dozen ambulances, squad cars and a number of Lanzhou Military Region's air force has linked the military vehicle license, asked me to go was told no comment, at location near the rear window, a thick smell of the disinfectant smell.

Ningxia University North Campus controllability happen "influenza B"

Source: China Radio Net | Time: March 17, 2009

Ningxia University North Campus
HONG Yinchuan message March 17 (Reporter GUO Chang-jiang, XU much)
Last night, Ningxia University, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, North Campus has 18 students who happen unexplained cases of upper respiratory tract infection and was sent to Ningxia Autonomous Region People's Hospital observation and treatment. Department of Health diagnosed as a control of the "B influenza" caused. As of 10:00, 6 cases have continued observation, and the rest have been discharged. It is understood that at Ningxia University Hospital where there is no other similar situation of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.

This morning, when the reporter arrived at the north campus of Ningxia University, the gate has been closed for security personnel, banned from entering. According to introduction, the school has been in the office areas, classrooms and other regional use of ultraviolet radiation, such as spraying disinfectant消杀bacteria. School students to give hair a special message, please have the symptoms of students in speed to the designated location checks to keep the dynamic condition.

Ningxia People's Hospital opened a special green channel. Such patients, will be free to the rapid isolation rooms, treatment observation. It is understood that the night of observation of treatment

18 students and the prevalence of symptoms very similar to the common cold, the body temperature slightly, the general body at 37,38 degrees. Among them, the students have 5,6 at the temperature above 38 degrees.

This morning, 18 students have been carried out pathological examination, one of
Example 6 continued observation, and the rest have been discharged. At the same time, Nanjing has started at all the big scope for bacteria消杀and clean campus job.

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High rate of bird flu to remind: Do not eat raw eggs in the spring, chicken guts

Chinese poultry http://www.chinafowl.cn Net 2009-3-16 10:17:04

Spring, are the crowd of highly pathogenic avian influenza peak. People for the prevention of avian influenza outbreak in our city the first time the crowd started the occupational exposure of highly pathogenic avian influenza monitoring at the habitat of migratory birds, live poultry market, the establishment of monitoring points, grasp the Wuhan City of avian flu, pandemic law.
Wild migratory birds habitat monitoring points located in Liangzihu江夏区,新洲区Zhangdu Lake, Lake Shen Caidian District, other districts in the monitoring at a live poultry market.

CDC is responsible for City-related person said that while the spring population of highly pathogenic avian influenza are a high-fat period, but do not have to worry too much and fear. Avian influenza virus more sensitive to high temperature, commonly used method of heating can be cooked so that the loss of avian influenza virus infection.

To guard against avian flu, in addition to the reduction of dead birds, poultry manure outside contacts, but also change some eating habits, such as not to trust the "drinking chicken blood", the "chicken guts" prescriptions, etc., not to raw eggs, for some type of half-baked chicken dish is also a minimum intake.