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Azerbaijan Recommends Entrepreneurs Do Not Import Poultry from Russian Rostov Province
13.12.07 13:35
Azerbaijan, Baku / ?TrendCapital? corr. S.Babayeva /
The State Veterinary Service at the Azerbaijani Agricultural Ministry recommended that entrepreneurs temporarily abstain from importing poultry from the Rostov province of the Russian Federation due to bird flu being discovered in the region.
? Azerbaijan does not import poultry from the region of Russia, but taking into consideration the entrepreneurs who do, we warning them of the current situation in the region,? a source in the State Service reported.
According to the Russian media, quarantine was announced in one of the biggest poultry plants of Rostov province in Gulay-Borisovski on 11 December. Some 35,000 died as a result of infection from 7 to 12 December which the Russian Scientific-Research Institute of Animal Protection identified as the H5N1 infection.
According to the Agricultural Minister of Rostov province Vacheslav Vasilenko, there are plans to destroy 450,000 chickens. ?Some 50,000 chickens will be destroyed a day in order to prevent the virus from spreading,? the Russian Vedemosti newspaper reported.
The RBKdaily newspaper stated that the virus may involve a range of poultry factories. Participants are afraid that there would be a repetition of what happened in 2005 when the bird flu was discovered in a range of Russian regions. The Russian Government imposed a ban on imported chickens and eggs both from the quarantine zone and some other regions.
At that time The Azerbaijani State Veterinary Service immediately imposed a ban on the import of poultry after receiving official notification by the International Epizootic Bureau of the virus threat. ?However, we have not received any such notification and will only impose a ban on the import of poultry once we have officially been notified by the Bureau,? a source from the State Service reported.
Azerbaijan purchases sausage from Podmoscovye and Krasnodar regions, and poultry from Turkey, Brazil and the United States.
Under the data by the International Epizootic Bureau bird flu was discovered in poultry farms in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Czech, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Laos, India, Pakistan, Rumania, Russia, Poland, Turkey, Britain and Vietnam.
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Re: 35,000 birds die of bird flu in southern Russia; H5N1 Confirmed
61,000 birds infected with H5N1 bird flu strain slaughtered in Rostov Region, Russia
By information as of December 13, 61,000 birds were slaughtered at Gulyai-Borisovo battery farm (Zernogradsky District, Rostov Region, southern Russia), where the H5N1 bird flu strain was registered. 54,800 of hem were burnt.
The information was received by REGNUM from the press office of the Russian Emergency Ministry Department in Rostov Region.
Overall, 450,000 birds are to be annihilated because of the avian flu outbreak in the area.
Mass plague started at the battery farm on November 29-30. Preliminary results of tests for bird flu detected the H5N1 bird flu strain. The farm was placed in quarantine since December 11.
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Re: 35,000 birds die of bird flu in southern Russia; H5N1 Confirmed
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ROSTOV-ON-DON, December 19 (RIA Novosti) - About 500,000 chickens have been culled at a poultry farm in southern Russia where the bird flu virus was found in late November, local authorities said on Wednesday.
Birds started dying at the Gulyai-Borisovskaya poultry farm in the Rostov Region on November 29, and analysis showed traces of the lethal H5N1 strain, which has killed at least 207 people across the globe since it was first discovered in Asia in 2003.
"The entire population of poultry has been culled, and efforts continue to cull birds at private subsidiary holdings in the endangered zone," the officials said.
The outbreak is the third this year in Russia. The Krasnodar Territory, which is on the route taken by migrating birds in winter, was hit by the H5N1 strain in September, and a total of 230,000 birds were culled at the Lebyazhye-Chepiginskoye poultry farm.
In February, dead poultry with traces of the lethal virus were found in Moscow, eight districts of the Moscow Region and a district in the Kaluga Region. All cases were traced to a single market in southwest Moscow.
Although no cases of human-to-human transmission of avian flu have been reported, scientists fear the virus could mutate into a strain that could pass easily among humans, raising the threat of a global pandemic.
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Re: 35,000 birds die of bird flu in southern Russia; H5N1 Confirmed
12:11 GMT, Dec 20, 2007 Latest Headlines...
Third outbreak of bird flu occurs in Rostov region (Part 2)
ROSTOV-ON-DON. Dec 20 (Interfax) - The third outbreak of bird flu
has occurred in Russia's Rostov region, the regional department of the
Emergency Situations Ministry told Interfax.
"Thirty-seven chickens and geese have died at a private farm in the
village of Shosseiny. The farm had 50 birds, the remaining birds were
destroyed," the department said.
The Rostov regional veterinarian laboratory confirmed that it was
the bird flu virus.
Another bird flu outbreak occurred at a private farm in the village
of Sladkaya Balka in the Rostov region. The overall number of privately
owned birds in that area is 4,000.
A bird flu outbreak at the Gulyay-Borisovskaya poultry farm in the
Rostov region happened in late November. About 400,000 birds died or
were slaughtered as a result.
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</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> ROSTOV-ON-DON, December 20 (RIA Novosti) - A third outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus has occurred in south Russia, regional veterinary officials said on Thursday.
The fresh outbreak of avian influenza took place in the Rostov Region, in the village of Shosseiny, some 10 km (6 miles) from the poultry farm where the first case of bird flu was registered in the region in late November.
"37 dead poultry were found, following which the entire population of 50 birds was culled," the officials said.
Birds started dying at the Gulyai-Borisovskaya poultry farm in the Rostov Region on November 29, and an analysis showed traces of the lethal H5N1 strain. The farm's entire population of 500,000 chickens has since been culled. A bird flu outbreak was later registered at private subsidiary holdings located close to the farm.
A second bird flu outbreak in the Rostov Region was later registered at a private farm in the Tselinsky district.
The outbreak in the Rostov Region is the third this year in Russia. The Krasnodar Territory, which is on the route taken by migrating birds in winter, was hit by the H5N1 strain in September, and a total of 230,000 birds were culled.
In February, dead poultry with traces of the lethal virus were found in Moscow, eight districts of the Moscow Region and a district in the Kaluga Region. All cases were traced to a single market in southwest Moscow.
The virus, which was first isolated in humans in 1997, has been spreading rapidly, resulting in the deaths and culling of millions of birds, and a human death toll of over 200.
Although the virus has so far been mainly restricted to animals, many scientists fear that it could mutate into a form transmissible between humans, unleashing a catastrophic global pandemic similar to the Spanish flu outbreak of 1918 that killed millions around the world.
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Re: Russia: Poultry H5N1 Confirmed
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ROSTOV-ON-DON, December 20 (Itar-Tass) - A third outbreak of bird flu has been registered in the Rostov region, the regional emergencies department said on Thursday.
According to laboratory tests, several dozens of birds died from the virus in a private backyard in the village of Shosseiny, Zernograd district.
All birds in the backyard were culled. Quarantine checkpoints were created in the village.
The bird flu virus was registered in two villages of the Rostov region. Around 500,000 birds were culled at a poultry farm of the village of Gulyai Borisova. In the village of Sladkaya Balka all poultry was culled and burnt at a private backyard, where two dead birds had been found. The quarantine was imposed in Sladkaya Balka, too.
Experts say the source of the virus is migration birds.
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Re: 35,000 birds die of bird flu in southern Russia; H5N1 Confirmed
CommentaryOriginally posted by niman View Post
H5N1 Spreads in Rostov
Recombinomics Commentary
December 20, 2007
The third outbreak of bird flu has occurred in Russia's Rostov region, the regional department of the Emergency Situations Ministry told Interfax.
"Thirty-seven chickens and geese have died at a private farm in the village of Shosseiny. The farm had 50 birds, the remaining birds were destroyed," the department said.
Another bird flu outbreak occurred at a private farm in the village of Sladkaya Balka in the Rostov region.
The above comments describe two more H5N1 outbreaks in Rostov. These are in addition to the earlier outbreak at a large commercial facility at the end of last month, and the adjacent Krasnodar outbreak in September (see satellite map).
The sequence of H5N1 from a chicken in Krasnodar was the Uva Lake strain and was closely related to sequences from wild bird isolates from three locations in Germany. Recently, H5N1 was sequenced from a whooper swan in Krasnodar, and the HA sequence was an exact match with the chicken sequences. Full sequences were generated for all eight gene segments for both Krasnodar isolates. The sequences were 99.95% identical demonstrating that the poultry outbreak was due to another introduction of H5N1 into the region via wild birds.
In addition to these public sequences, descriptions of sequences from outbreaks in Kuwait, Czech Republic, France, England, and Germany are related to the Uva Lake strain, suggesting that recent outbreaks in Poland, Romania, Rostov, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan will also be related to the sub-clade that traces back to the massive wild bird outbreak at Uva Lake.
Although H5N1 in the Black Sea region in the fall has been reported in 2005 and 2006, reports of H5N1 in western Europe and the Middle East was not. The reports of H5N1 in Europe in the summer signaled an endemic H5N1 in wild birds, which would lead to more frequent detection in the fall, which has happened this year. The human cases in Pakistan raises concerns that the additional cases expected in the upcoming weeks will lead to human cases in countries which have never reported human H5N1 infections previously.
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OIE report, dec 24 2007
A total of 4 outbreaks
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ROSTOV-ON-DON, December 25 (RIA Novosti) - A fifth case of bird flu has been confirmed at a farm in the Rostov Region, south Russia, close to the site of previous outbreaks, the regional emergencies ministry said. "The outbreak at two smallholdings was registered on Saturday, samples were taken and sent for analysis, they came back positive for bird flu," the ministry said.
All 79 birds on the smallholding have been culled. A quarantine zone has been introduced in the Tselinsky district near the site of the first case of the deadly virus.
The first bird flu outbreak was discovered in late November at the Gulyai-Borisovskaya poultry farm in the Rostov Region. The farm's entire population of 500,000 chickens was culled. Later a bird flu outbreak was registered at a smallholding close to the farm.
Another outbreak was then discovered at a farm in the Tselinsky district.
The Rostov Region is particularly vulnerable to bird flu as part of the Krasnodar Territory, which is on a route taken by migrating birds in winter. In September, the region was hit by the H5N1 strain and 230,000 birds were culled.
In February, dead poultry with traces of the lethal virus were found in Moscow, eight nearby areas. All cases were traced to a single market in southwest Moscow.
The virus, which was first isolated in humans in 1997, has been spreading rapidly, resulting in the deaths and culling of millions of birds, and a human death toll of over 200.
Although the virus has been restricted to birds, many scientists fear that it could mutate into a form transmissible between humans, unleashing a catastrophic global pandemic similar to the Spanish flu outbreak of 1918 that killed millions around the world.
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More than half a million birds culled on southern Russian farm after bird flu outbreak
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia: Authorities have culled more than half a million domestic birds on a farm in southern Russia hit by the H5N1 strain of bird flu, officials said Tuesday.
More than 600,000 chickens on the Gulyai-Borisovskaya farm in the Rostov-on-Don region have been destroyed to prevent the virus from spreading, said Oleg Ugnivenko, a spokesman for the regional branch of Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry.
The virus also sickened birds in the neighboring Tselinsky district, and authorities have taken steps to stop it from spreading, Ugnivenko said.
In September, authorities reported an H5N1 outbreak at a poultry farm in the neighboring Krasnodar region, and early in the year the strain was confirmed in several other regions across Russia.
No human cases of bird flu have been reported in Russia, which had its first reported cases of H5N1 in Siberia in 2005. World health authorities are tracking the H5N1 strain out of concern that it could mutate into a form more easily transmitted among people, sparking a global flu pandemic.
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In one additional settlement of Rostovskaya province the bird influenza is discovered
In the Rostovskaya province is revealed the fifth focus of bird influenza - in the settlement northern Of the tselinskeyeo region. Previously virus was revealed in two regions of Rostovskaya province - Zernogradskom and Tselinskom: at the Go for a walk- Borisov poultry processing facility, in the farmsteads go for a walk -Borisovka, sweet beam, settlement highway.
As they reported to correspondent IA regnum in the administration of the veterinary science of Rostovskaya province, yesterday, on 24 December, were obtained the results of the analyses of the fallen bird, carry ouied by provincial veterinary laboratory. They confirmed the presence of the genome of the virus of bird influenza in the investigated models.
Is earlier by two podvor'yakh of settlement north bollard seven head of poultry. Yesterday the decision of the chapter Of the tselinskeyeo region to the farmstead superimposed quarantine. Quarantine measures are conducted. Entire poultry on these podvor'yakh - 79 heads - is already utilized. The fulfillment of all quarantine measures assumes the destruction of entire livestock of poultry in the zone of quarantine - in the settlement northern. This approximately of 5 455 head of bird.
Furthermore, according to the order of the chapter of region, on the entrances from the populated area quarantine barriers are advanced, organized duty of two it is point-duty the police, are reploughed all secondary roads. In all since the beginning of the detection of the virus of bird influenza are utilized about 517 thousand head of bird, including in the past twenty-four hours are destroyed 1 287 heads.
According to the information of provincial control of veterinary science, by the source of bird influenza in the Rostovskaya province of steel the wild filantropnye birds: sparrows, rooks.
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The paper presents the results of interpreting the epizootic outbreak etiologically
associated with high-virulent influenza virus A/H5N1 among domestic and wild birds
in the Zernogradsky and Tselinsky districts of the Rostov Region.
Epizooty was characterized by a high infection rate in the synanthropic birds of a
ground-based complex. RT-PCT revealed influenza virus A/H5 in 60% of pigeons
and crows and in around 20% of starlings, and in 10% of tree sparrows.
Fifteen viral strains from chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus), Indian ducks
(Cairina moschata), rooks (Corvus frugilegus), rock pigeons (Columba livia),
tree sparrows (Passer montanus), common starlings (Sturnus vulgaris),
and great white herons (Egretta alba) were isolated and deposited in the
State Collection of Viruses of the Russian Federation.
Full-sized genomes of 5 strains were sequenced and deposited in the
international database GenBank. The isolated strains belong to the
Quinhai-Siberian (2.2) genotype, an Iranian-Northern Caucasian subgroup,
they are phylogenetically closest to the strain A/chicken/Moscow/2/2007
(inducing epizooty among poultry in the near-Moscow Region in February 2007)
and have 13 unique amino acid replacements as the consensus of the Quinhai-Siberian
genotypes in the proteins PB2, PA, HA, NP, NA, and M2, by preserving thereby
4 unique replacements first describes for the strain A/chicken/Moscow/2/2007.
The findings are indicative of a different mechanism that is responsible for bringing
the virus into the northeastern part of the Azov Sea area in September 2007
(during the fall migration of wild birds) and in December 2007 in the south-western
Rostov Region where a human factor cannot be excluded. Mass infection of
synanthropic birds endangers the further spread of epizooty, including that in
the central regions of the Russian Federation in spring after near migrants
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