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Human bird flu infection under control in Myanmar border area
Human bird flu infection under control in Myanmar border area
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YANGON, Dec. 15 (Xinhua)
Human infection of bird flu has been under control in Myanmar's border area of Kengtung in eastern Shan state as a bird-flu-infected girl has been discharged from a local hospital after treatment, state media reported Saturday.
The girl, Ma Nan Kham Tha, 7, was found infected with bird flu virus among four suspected of carrying the virus during the outbreak last month in Kengtung's Naungngin village and she was kept in quarantine and given a dosage of timi flu pills at the People's Hospital in Kengtung since Nov. 27 until her discharge on Dec. 12, said the New Light of Myannmar newspaper.
Specimens of the four suspected were first sent to a lab in Yangon which confirmed on Nov. 26 the girl's infection. The human samples of the four were also sent to a lab in Bangkok as well as a lab of the World Health Organization in Tokyo and those laboratory tests further confirmed the status, the report said.
According to the report, the Myanmar health authorities monitored altogether 689 close contact persons who involved in culling chickens and live near the farms and suspected that four of them were infected with the virus.
The report added that other persons were not so found after monitoring the close contact persons for 10 days.
H5N1 virus was detected on some chickens and ducks of local species which died unusually at the village farm in Kengtung on Nov. 18.
In its prevention and control measures, the local authorities culled 14,889 chickens, ducks, geese and Muscovy ducks within a week after such unusual deaths were found on the fowls traded in the area, the then official statement said.
Other measures of disinfecting of the farm, restriction of transport of chicken and biosecurity were also taken, it added, calling on the people to prevent the entry of poultry and birds from neighboring countries into Myanmar.
Some poultry farms in the country's Mandalay and Sagaing divisions were first struck by an outbreak of HPA1 and H5N1 virus in February and March last year, some in Yangon division in February and March this year, some in Mon state's Thanbyuzayat and western Bago division's Letpadan in July and some in eastern Bago division's Thanatpin in October this year.
Again in October this year, H5 antigen was found at a poultry farm in Yangon division's Hmawby township with no symptom of bird flu detected.
During 2006's first outbreak of bird flu cases in the two divisions of Mandalay and Sagaing, altogether 342,000 chickens, 320,000 quails and 180,000 eggs as well as 1.3 tons of feedstuff were destroyed at 545 poultry farms, official statistics show.
During this year's outbreak of the disease from Feb. 28 to March 31 at seven poultry farms in Yangon's five townships -- Mayangon, Hlaingtharya, North Okkalapa, Mingaladon and Hmawby, nearly 2,000 fowls died of the virus with 65,812 poultry from the affected farms and those nearby culled.
In July this year's occurrence of the H5N1, all chickens of the two farms in Thanbyuzayat and about 4,000 broilers raising at a poultry farm in Letpadan, totaling over 5,000 were culled for risk prevention under then Early Detection and Containment Program.
In fight against the disease, Myanmar has been cooperating with experts from the Food and Agriculture Organization and AID. The human-infected case of bird flu was the first which occurred in Myanmar.
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2007-12-15 10:38:24</TD><TD class=hui12 align=middle width="26%"> </TD><TD class=hui12 align=middle width="12%"> Print</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="80%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD height=20></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE class=lt14 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="97%" align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=lt14>YANGON, Dec. 15 (Xinhua)
Human infection of bird flu has been under control in Myanmar's border area of Kengtung in eastern Shan state as a bird-flu-infected girl has been discharged from a local hospital after treatment, state media reported Saturday.
The girl, Ma Nan Kham Tha, 7, was found infected with bird flu virus among four suspected of carrying the virus during the outbreak last month in Kengtung's Naungngin village and she was kept in quarantine and given a dosage of timi flu pills at the People's Hospital in Kengtung since Nov. 27 until her discharge on Dec. 12, said the New Light of Myannmar newspaper.
Specimens of the four suspected were first sent to a lab in Yangon which confirmed on Nov. 26 the girl's infection. The human samples of the four were also sent to a lab in Bangkok as well as a lab of the World Health Organization in Tokyo and those laboratory tests further confirmed the status, the report said.
According to the report, the Myanmar health authorities monitored altogether 689 close contact persons who involved in culling chickens and live near the farms and suspected that four of them were infected with the virus.
The report added that other persons were not so found after monitoring the close contact persons for 10 days.
H5N1 virus was detected on some chickens and ducks of local species which died unusually at the village farm in Kengtung on Nov. 18.
In its prevention and control measures, the local authorities culled 14,889 chickens, ducks, geese and Muscovy ducks within a week after such unusual deaths were found on the fowls traded in the area, the then official statement said.
Other measures of disinfecting of the farm, restriction of transport of chicken and biosecurity were also taken, it added, calling on the people to prevent the entry of poultry and birds from neighboring countries into Myanmar.
Some poultry farms in the country's Mandalay and Sagaing divisions were first struck by an outbreak of HPA1 and H5N1 virus in February and March last year, some in Yangon division in February and March this year, some in Mon state's Thanbyuzayat and western Bago division's Letpadan in July and some in eastern Bago division's Thanatpin in October this year.
Again in October this year, H5 antigen was found at a poultry farm in Yangon division's Hmawby township with no symptom of bird flu detected.
During 2006's first outbreak of bird flu cases in the two divisions of Mandalay and Sagaing, altogether 342,000 chickens, 320,000 quails and 180,000 eggs as well as 1.3 tons of feedstuff were destroyed at 545 poultry farms, official statistics show.
During this year's outbreak of the disease from Feb. 28 to March 31 at seven poultry farms in Yangon's five townships -- Mayangon, Hlaingtharya, North Okkalapa, Mingaladon and Hmawby, nearly 2,000 fowls died of the virus with 65,812 poultry from the affected farms and those nearby culled.
In July this year's occurrence of the H5N1, all chickens of the two farms in Thanbyuzayat and about 4,000 broilers raising at a poultry farm in Letpadan, totaling over 5,000 were culled for risk prevention under then Early Detection and Containment Program.
In fight against the disease, Myanmar has been cooperating with experts from the Food and Agriculture Organization and AID. The human-infected case of bird flu was the first which occurred in Myanmar.
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