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    BIRD FLU IN TUVAN RESERVE: 3,339 DEAD BIRDS AND 56 FISHES FOUND
    27 June 2006 (NewsLab, Russia)

    3,339 dead birds and 56 dead fishes were collected and destroyed near the lake of Ubsu-Nur of the Ubsu-Nur Reserve in the Tuva republic by 6.00 a. m. on June, 27. It is expected that the results of tests of the pathologic samples will be sent to All-Russian Center of Animal Protection and will be announced on June, 29. That was stated by the press service of Siberian Regional Directorate for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Natural Disaster Remedies.

    As IA REGNUM-KNews had already reported, the strain of bird flu was detected in the salty water of Ubsu-Nur Lake on June, 22. 169 dead birds, mostly ducks, had been found at the lake banks a week before. The birds were sent to expert examination to Novosibirsk and Kemerovo.

    Source: http://english.newslab.ru/news/194994/

  • #2
    Re: RUSSIA - Dead birds and fishes in Tuvan Reserve

    Does this seem like a VERY large number to anyone else?

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      Hot Topic: Bird Flu Outbreak Intensifies in Russia's Tuva Republic
      MOSCOW (Dow Jones)--The Siberian office of the Russian emergencies ministry Tuesday said the outbreak of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in the constituent Tuva Republic was intensifying.
      The emergencies ministry first reported June 23 that 169 dead wild birds had been collected from the Ubsu-Nur Lake in the Ovyursky district of the Tuva Republic, and the presence of H5N1 in their blood samples had been confirmed by the Kemerovo veterinary laboratory.
      Tuesday's statement said wild bird deaths were continuing, with 371 new deaths reported by Sunday afternoon. A total 1,622 birds have died since the first were found on the lake June 15. The emergencies ministry warned further outbreaks were likely towards the end of July among young wild birds, as their immunity to the disease was weak.

      http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content...ontentid=47948

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        Re: RUSSIA - Dead birds and fishes in Tuvan Reserve

        Originally posted by hawkeye
        Does this seem like a VERY large number to anyone else?
        Yes, Hawkeye, it is a massive, massive number. In fact I estimate that it is the 5th largest kill of wild migratory waterfowl since October of last year. Below is an attempt to list in order of number the reports of dead wild migratory waterfowl that have occurred since last October. As such, it does not include reports of dead poultry or dead domestic waterfowl, nor does it include all of the reports where the number of birds were not quantified, nor non-waterfowl species such as crows, doves, pigeons, etc. Naturally, it will include many which are not bird flu-related, and many will never be confirmed anyway, if they even were. It is interesting, regardless, and puts into perspective just how big this most recent outbreak in SE Russia/Mongolia is.

        Masses of dead seagulls--Armenia, Oct06

        Thousands of migratory birds--Malawi, 16Dec05

        Thousands of flamingoes--southern Kenya, Apr06

        3673 waterfowl--Iran, 12Oct05

        >3300 geese, ducks, fish--SE Russia, June06

        2000+ migratory birds--Chilika Lake, India, Jan-Apr06

        1168 waterfowl--Qinghai Lake, Tibet, May, June06

        1000+ducks, coots--Aguascalientes, Mexico, Dec06

        >800 swans, wild birds--Astrakhan, Russia, Nov05

        755 storks--Spain, June06

        600 migratory birds--Pangong Lake, India, Feb05

        500 birds at lagoon, Argentina, 23Jan06

        >420 ducks, SE Australia, Nov05

        300+ birds--Okhla Sanctuary, India 4Feb06

        Hundreds of cattle egrets-Spain, 20Jan06

        Hundreds to thousands of auklets--Oregon, Mar06

        Hundreds of migratory birds--Eastern Kiril Islands, Japan, March06

        Hundreds of eiders--Massachussetts, March-May06

        300+ migratory birds--Lima, Peru, 17Mar06

        300+ cattle egrets--Morocco, 5Feb06

        238 migratory birds--Mangla Dam, Pakistan, 24Feb06

        200 geese--Araz Reservoir, Iran, Oct06

        Dozens to hundreds of pelicans--Southern California, March-Jun06

        >135 swans--northern Iran, Feb06

        100+ cranes--Quivira Park, Kansas, 23Mar06

        >70 swans, ducks--Central Poland, Feb-Mar06

        Dozens of ducks, geese--San Joaquin Valley, California, Apr06

        large numbers of black storks--Lebanon, Oct05

        60 Aleutian geese--Northern California, Nov05

        >50 seagulls--Lithuania, 12Apr06

        >50 seabirds--Norway, 16May06

        50 swans--Wexford, Ireland, Dec05

        40 migratory birds--Kuwait, Oct05

        40 birds--Zambia, June06

        27 geese--Illinois, 11Dec05

        >20 seagulls--Switzerland, Feb06

        >20 swans+lapwings--Finland, 7May06

        >20 ducks--Kotka, Finland, 27Feb06

        20 ducks--Belgium, 19Mar06

        20 ducks--Algeria, Oct05

        15 flamingoes, 5 spoonbills, cormorant--Bahamas, Feb06

        20 pelicans+seagulls, Trinidad and Tobago, Feb-Mar06

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        • #5
          Re: RUSSIA - Dead birds and fishes in Tuvan Reserve

          Last year was Quigai strain,

          next year will be Tuva strain ?

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          • #6
            Re: RUSSIA - Dead birds and fishes in Tuvan Reserve

            Originally posted by Mingus
            Last year was Quigai strain,

            next year will be Tuva strain ?
            The meeting in Italy had data on 2006 isolates in China. These recent isoaltes are close to isolates from Mongolia and Novosibisk and are probably similar in Tuva

            http://www.recombinomics.com/phylo/C...ghai_2006.html

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              tuvan reserve russia map - Straight as the crow flies west of Qinghai

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              • #8
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                In the Tuva preserve the infection continues to be extended: are found 3339 dead birds even 56 fishes

                As of 6 is hour the morning on 27 June in the region of the lake Of ubsu-Nur of the preserve Of the ubsu-Nurskeye basin of republic Tuva assembled and utilized 3339 dead birds and 56 dead fishes are expected that the results of the analyses of the pathologic materials, directed to the All-Russian center- institute of the protection of animals will be known on 29 June. On this IA rEGNUM-KNews they reported in the press- service of Siberian regional center on the matters of civil defense, the extraordinary situations and overcoming of the consequences of the natural calamities.
                Let us recall, in the republic Of tuva in the region of the filled with salt water lake Of ubsu-Nur on 22 June are discovered the signs of the virus of bird influenza. By week earlier on the coasts of this reservoir they were found with those be killeden of 169 wild birds, mainly weft, several small carcasses, which were to the same day directed for the analyses into Novosibirsk and Kemerovo.

                http://babelfish.altavista.com/babel...tml%3fforprint

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                  Re: RUSSIA - Dead birds and fishes in Tuvan Reserve

                  It's probably worth nothing that the news report cites 56 dead fish is of particular interest. Will it be possible to confirm that the fish died from H5N1? There has been suspicion, here at FT, of H5N1 causing fish kills in the past, and this may be an opportunity to completely confirm or deny fish kills based on H5N1.

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                  • #10
                    Re: RUSSIA - Dead birds and fishes in Tuvan Reserve

                    My god, the entire lake must be a virus soup.

                    I would like to know the viral load that can be found in this water at this time.

                    The quigai lake is a salty lake too.

                    Maybe that salinity can help preserved the virus healthy ?

                    We keep swab in sterile saline in lab instead of pure water...

                    no salt at all make the cell wall of bacteria to brake down because of the osmosis pressure.

                    too much salt make a cell to shrink because of that same osmosis force that equilibrium the salt concentration inside and outside of a cell.

                    The right salt concentration (isotonic) make cells viable longer because there is no osmotic presure on them.

                    Influenza virus is no cell but have a liposaccharide enveloppe that came from the cells it infect and that may be on pressure from the osmosis forces.


                    Do thoses lake are isotonic ?

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                      Re: RUSSIA - Dead birds and fishes in Tuvan Reserve

                      Lake Area
                      (sq.km) Volume
                      (cu.km) Mean depth
                      (m) Max. Depth
                      (m)

                      Caspian 422,000 79,000 187 1,072
                      Aral¹ 66,000 1,064 16 69
                      Balkhash 22,000 122 6 27
                      Eyre, North² 7,000 23 3 6
                      Issyk-kul 6,300 1,730 275 702
                      Urmia 5,000± 25 5 16
                      Qinghai 4,600 85 17.5 27
                      Great Salt Lake 4,400 19 4 10
                      Van 3,600 191 53 550
                      Dead Sea 940 136 145 330


                      The lake, located on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau 3,260 meters above sea level, measures 4,400 square kilometers. It is the largest inland saltwater lake in China. The plateau region is a state-level natural reserve and is home to 213 species of wild animals and 445 plants. Grassy marshlands, wetlands, brush and dunes, together with fish, birds and beasts make up the region's very special biological system.

                      Reduced water supplies and levels have resulted in higher salt concentrations in the lake, according to Qinghai's provincial water resource bureau. In 1962, the salt content of the lake was 12.49 grams per liter. Now, that figure has increased to 16 grams per liter. The average pH has increased from 9.0 to more than 9.2, or even 9.5 in some areas. Its alkalinity is even higher than that of the sea. The change of water quality poses a great threat to the lake's ecology, according to the bureau.

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                      • #12
                        A little bit of info about the Ubsu-Nur lake ecosystem



                        Ubsu-Nur Accepted into World Network of Biosphere Reserves

                        by Brian Donahoe

                        Imagine riding a horse from hot desert sands to glacial mountain peaks to Arctic-like tundra in a single day, with the possibility of seeing everything from camels and vultures to reindeer and snow leopards along the way. This would be possible in only one place in the world-the Ubsu-Nur Hollow, where the world's northernmost desert and southernmost tundra zone meet.

                        Ubsu-Nur is a fascinating, unique and fragile mountain basin straddling the border between Mongolia and the Republic of Tuva in the Russian Federation. It stretches 600 km from east to west, and 160 km from north to south; from 3000-meter-high snow-capped peaks to the salty Ubsu-Nur lake at about 1,000 meters above sea level, into which the entire depression drains. The more mountainous 20 percent lies within Tuva's territory, while the remaining 80 percent, composed primarily of steppe, desert-steppe and desert, lies within Mongolia.

                        According to Andriyan Dugarovich Doduk, director of the Ubsu-Nur Biosphere Nature Reserve headquartered in Erzin in southeastern Tuva, within this territory are found five of the Earth's seven major recognized ecological zones: from true desert through two types of steppe zones to taiga (heavy forest) and finally, on the snow-capped mountain slopes, a permafrost-tundra zone. The only major ecological zones not represented within the territory are savannah and humid tropical forest.

                        The existence of so many ecological zones in such a compact area, as well as the self-contained nature of the depression, make Ubsu-Nur ideal for studying such biospheric processes as the relationships between zones and the transition from one zone to another. "That's why it is quite correct to take the Ubsu-Nur hollow as a nature-model, allowing us to study all biospheric processes within that small area," wrote Professor Viktor Bugrovsky, the scientific supervisor of the International Ubsu-Nur Experiment, in the 1993 publication, "Experiment Ubsu-Nur."

                        The area is home to a number of endangered animal species and endemic plant species, Doduk said. In addition to the well-known snow leopard, there are mountain goats, big horn sheep, elk, and a number of species of eagle, kite and vulture. At least 44 endemic plant species have been identified.

                        Researchers from Russia, Tuva, Buryatia, Altai and Mongolia have been collaborating since 1984 in the "Ubsu-Nur Experiment." They shared their findings at the Fifth Ubsu-Nur International Symposium, a bi-annual event held this past July in Kyzyl, the capital of Tuva.

                        In recent years Bugrovsky, Doduk and others involved with Ubsu-Nur have been lobbying to have the Ubsu-Nur Depression included in the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere (MAB) World Network of Biosphere Reserves, a network of 352 biosphere reserves in 82 countries. At the end of October, their efforts paid off when both the Ubsu-Nur Biosphere Reserve in Tuva and the Ubsu-Nur Basin Cluster Biosphere Reserve in Mongolia were approved by the MAB Bureau for inclusion in its network.

                        The MAB Bureau is encouraging further transfrontier cooperation between the two reserves, with the ultimate goal of creating a single transfrontier biosphere reserve with joint management. This approach is becoming more common and has proved successful in other biosphere reserves such as the Tatra Biosphere Reserve on the border between Poland and Slovakia.

                        Such an arrangement would address what Doduk has identified as the single biggest problem Ubsu-Nur faces. "At present, the main problem is that there is an international border running through the middle of the depression," he said. "Visa requirements and travel and research permission make scientific collaboration difficult."

                        Doduk also said that he expected enforcement of regulations to be easier than it is now. "[As] part of the World Network, protection of the reserve will become the responsibility of the entire world, not just of Tuva and Mongolia," he said.

                        Jane Robertson, a program specialist at the World Network of Biosphere Reserves, noted that although full responsibility for the management of the reserves will still be up to the individual countries and they can expect no direct funding from UNESCO, UNESCO can help facilitate projects and sometimes help to implement them as well. In addition, UNESCO provides a framework for cooperation and information exchange among other members of the network. "The biosphere concept provides a mutual framework for working across boundaries," Robertson said.

                        UNESCO is promoting regional networks of biosphere reserves, Robertson said. She noted that Ubsu-Nur could become a part of the East Asia Biosphere Reserve Network, which includes 13 biosphere reserves in Mongolia, China, Japan, the DPR Korea, and the Republic of Korea.

                        Brian Donahoe is a graduate student in anthropology at Indiana University. His principal research interest is indigenous natural resource management among the nomadic reindeer herders of northeastern Tuva.

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                          Re: A little bit of info about the Ubsu-Nur lake ecosystem

                          The microbiology section here make their isotonic saline at 0.9%p/v that mean .9g/100ml so 9g/Liters.


                          So quigai lake is not "isotonic" but near that...

                          The alkalinity(high PH in a basic lake) is also a protective factor.

                          RNA and DNA are autocatalytic in low PH.

                          The cleavage site could automatically be cleaved without the virus attatch to a cell in a low PH water. (acid lake)
                          Last edited by Mingus; July 19, 2006, 06:16 PM. Reason: Correction of the saline's value

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                            Re: RUSSIA - Dead birds and fishes in Tuvan Reserve

                            Commentary at

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                              NOVOSIBIRSK, June 27 (RIA Novosti) - A new outbreak of bird flu has hit the West Siberian region of Tomsk, the local administration said Tuesday. A representative said a laboratory analysis of fancy pigeons that died in a village last week revealed the deadly virus.
                              "All the pigeons and chickens from the courtyard have been culled," the representative said. "The owner who had refused to vaccinate poultry will receive no compensation."
                              Governor Viktor Kress ordered vaccination as a preventive measure against an epidemic of the disease, which claimed over a million birds in Russia in February-April.
                              According to the Agriculture Ministry, bird flu was registered in 10 villages in three West Siberian regions in late May.

                              http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060627/50551090.html

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