Tweet
Re: RUSSIA - Dead birds and fishes in Tuvan Reserve
Commentary at
http://www.recombinomics.com/News/06...sk_Spread.html
Commentary at
http://www.recombinomics.com/News/06...sk_Spread.html
-
-
Re: RUSSIA - Dead birds and fishes in Tuvan Reserve
H5N1 Bird Flu Spreads to Tomsk Siberia
Recombinomics Commentary
June 27, 2006
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 above description of confirmed H5N1 bird flu in Tomsk provides additional evidence of earlier and more widespread outbreaks in Russia. Last year the first reports of H5N1 in the Novosibirsk region were in mid-July. Those reports were followed by H5N1 infections along the southern border with Kazakhstan. In August there were reports of H5 antibodies in birds in Tomsk.
The finding in Tomsk comes on the heals of a massive outbreak in Tuva, which also failed to report H5N1 last year. Earlier there were reports of H5N1 in northwestern Russia last month. These reports suggest H5N1 in Russia is more widespread and will increase in the upcoming months. Last year the reported cases were in southern Siberia in a region that links flyways to the Indian subcontinent, eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Less frequent outbreaks were reported in western Europe and there were no reports in the Americas.
Flyways in northern Russia link to western Europe and North America via the East Atlantic fly way. There are also links to Alaska via the East Asia / Australia flyway. The H5N1 reported in India over the winter may feed into north eastern Russia, which would link to the outbreak in Tuva.
These early reports of H5N1 in new areas in Russia may be signaling a significant increase in the H5N1 geographical reach and lead to additional expansion in H5N1 bird flu range in the upcoming months.
Comment
-
Re: RUSSIA - Dead birds and fishes in Tuvan Reserve
Massive H5N1 Bird Flu Die-off in Tuva, Siberia
Recombinomics Commentary
June 27, 2006
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 above report describes a massive number of H5N1 deaths in Tuva, which is in southern Russia, just to the north of Mongolia. Other reports indicate the number of dead birds is up to 3,339. The size of this outbreak is rivaling the deaths at Qinghai Lake in May, 2005 which topped 5000 dead birds primarily bar head geese. This year there is another outbreak somewhat south of Qinghai Lake near the southern border of Qinghai Province and northern border of Tibet. Over 1000 birds have died including ba headed geese and a number of other species. The recent wild bird meeting in Italy included phylogenetic trees of H5N1 from bar headed geese in China this year, indicating the isolates were most closely related to a crested Grebe from Novosibirsk or whooper swans from Mongolia.
This latest outbreak in Siberia suggests more H5N1 may be spreading worldwide this year. In 2005, there were no H5N1 reported until mid-July. The H5N1 this season may be more complex genetically because the H5N1 from Qinghai Lake on Novosibirsk evolved considerably in Europe as seen by the phylogenetic tree of over 70 isolates.
Thus, 2006 will likely see new sequences and new problems.Comment
-
Re: RUSSIA - Dead birds and fishes in Tuvan Reserve
Maybe this is noting new but the story made a Promed mail news so it will be disceminated in the scientific community.
Archive Number 20060628.1791
Published Date 28-JUN-2006
Subject PRO/AH/EDR> Avian influenza (145) - Russia (Siberia)
AVIAN INFLUENZA (145) - RUSSIA (SIBERIA)
***************************************
A ProMED-mail post
<http://www.promedmail.org>
ProMED-mail is a program of the
International Society for Infectious Diseases
<http://www.isid.org>
[1]
Date: Wed 28 Jun 2006
From: Joe Dudley <jdudley@eaicorp.com>
Source: Dow Jones via Cattlenetwork.com, 27 Jun 2006 [edited]
<http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=47948>
Bird flu outbreak intensifies in Russia's Tuva Republic
-----------------------------------------------
The Siberian office of the Russian emergencies ministry said on Tuesday [27
Jun 2006] that the outbreak of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in the
constituent Tuva Republic was intensifying.
The emergencies ministry first reported on 23 Jun 2006 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 [27 Jun 2006] statement said wild bird deaths were continuing,
with 371 new deaths reported by Sunday [25 Jun 2006] afternoon. A total 1622
birds have died since the 1st dead birds were found on the lake 15 Jun 2006.
The emergencies ministry warned further outbreaks were likely towards the
end of July 2006 among young wild birds, as their immunity to the disease
was weak.
--
Joseph P Dudley, PhD
Chief Scientist
EAI Corporation
Arlington, VA 22203
<jdudley@eaicorp.com>
******
[2]
Date: Wed 28 Jun 2006
From: Joe Dudley <jdudley@eaicorp.com>
Source: Ria Novosti, 26 Jun 2006 [edited]
<http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060626/50007747.html>
Expert doubts bird flu pandemic in East Siberia
-----------------------------------------------
A leading ornithologist in Siberia cast doubt Monday [26 Jun 2006] over a
possible bird flu pandemic in the region, after hundreds of wild fowl
carcasses were destroyed.
A total of 1622 bodies of wild geese, as well as more than 50 dead fish,
found on the shores of Lake Ubsu-Nur in the Republic of Tuva on the
Russian-Mongolian border had been incinerated by Monday [26 Jun 2006].
After preliminary tests, local virologists suggested bird flu had caused the
mass bird deaths in the last week, but Vladimir Zabelin, a leading local
ornithologist, said contamination of a river flowing into the lake could
have been to blame. "[The deaths] could have been the result of toxic waste
being dumped into the Tes-Khem River," he said. The expert said the fish
started dying first, apparently contaminating the birds through the food
chain.
The final results will be known by 29 Jun 2006, when a Vladimir-based
research institute in central Russia finalizes the analysis of blood samples
from dead birds.
--
Joseph P Dudley, PhD
Chief Scientist
EAI Corporation
Arlington, VA 22203
<jdudley@eaicorp.com>
[Results from the All-Russian reference laboratory at Vladimir, Moscow
(expected tomorrow [29 Jun 2006]?) and formal notification to the OIE will
enable verifying -- or otherwise -- the information included in these
newswires.
The Republic of Tuva (170 500 sq km: north to south 420 km, west to east 630
km; 1990 est. pop. 366 000) is situated in the center of Asia in the south
of Eastern Siberia, bordering Mongolia in the south, Irkutskaya region in
the northeast, the republic of Khakasia in the northwest, the republic of
Buryatia in the east, the republic of Altai in the west and Krasnoyarsky
region in the north. Map at
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:RussiaTuva2005.png>. - Mod.AS]
******
[3]
Date: Wed 28 Jun 2006
From: ProMED-mail <promed@promedmail.org>
Source: Ria Novosti, 27 Jun 2006 [edited]
<http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060627/50551090.html>
New bird flu outbreak hits Siberia
----------------------------------
A new outbreak of bird flu has hit the West Siberian region of Tomsk, the
local administration said Tuesday [27 Jun 2006]. 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 2006.
According to the Agriculture Ministry, bird flu was registered in 10
villages in 3 West Siberian regions in late May 2006.
--
ProMED-mail
<promed@promedmail.org>
[An official confirmation from the reference laboratory is anticipated in
this case as well. Russia's last avian influenza reports to the OIE on avian
influenza in domestic fowl was sent on 16 Feb 2006; see
<http://oie.int/eng/info/hebdo/AIS_30.HTM#Sec2>. On the same day, a
notification on infection in wild birds was sent as well; see
<http://oie.int/eng/info/hebdo/AIS_30.HTM#Sec12>. An update might be
helpful. - Mod.AS]
[see also:
Avian influenza (126) - Russia (Siberia), Nigeria 20060526.1484
Avian influenza (120) - Russia, Czech Republic 20060520.1433]
.................arn/msp/shComment
-
Re: RUSSIA - Dead birds and fishes in Tuvan Reserve
okay - so contamination from the river may have killed the birds - but could be they were already carrying the H5N1 asymptomatically??Comment
-
Re: RUSSIA - Dead birds and fishes in Tuvan Reserve
Remember last fall when the Russian hunters shot birds to check for H5N1? - 25 different species all carrying H5N1 (assuming there were no symptoms, since they were flying).
."The next major advancement in the health of American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself"-- John Knowles, Former President of the Rockefeller FoundationComment
-
Test results on the 29th?
This report says that there ought to be some test results today (June 29th):Tuva borders Altai as well as Mongolia -- there have been recent outbreaks in the Altai regions...Originally posted by niman
Tuva (Tyva) Republic [borders Altai and Mongolia]:
...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock HolmesComment
-
Test results reported on the 21st indicated influenza A
In this report from the 21st they said the test results indicated influenza A...
babelfished from Russian:
In Tuve is discovered the bird influenza
June 21, 2006
In the blood of wild ducks in the water area Of Ubsu-Nur lake in Tuve is revealed the virus of the bird influenza of group A.
As it transfers from Aleksandr Filatenko's Kyzyla, the specialists of Kemerovo interregional laboratory arrived at this conclusion, where serum was sent for a study. On this reported today the leader for the administration of the Federal Service for veterinary and fitosanitarnomu supervision on Tuve Of Aldyn-ool Of Kenden.
On the whole in the water area Of Ubsu-Nur lake are discovered 169 small carcasses of wild migratory birds. First the local residents of already 13 June reported about this.
On 19 June the blood serum of the selected for the analysis small carcasses was sent for two interregional laboratories: in Kemerovo and into Novosibirsk. Results became known today. Now the authorities of republic develop measures for localization of the focus of bird influenza.
...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock HolmesComment
-
"In Tuve suspicion to the bird influenza"
babelfished from Russian:
In Tuve suspicion to the bird influenza
June 22, 2006
In the territory of the republic Of tuva in the region of the filled with salt water lake Of Ubsu-Nur are discovered the signs 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 they were to the same day directed for the analyses into Novosibirsk and Kemerovo. On 21 June into Kyzyl entered the first results of studies, reported by evening into the medium the press-service of republic government with the reference to the statement about this of the leader of the Federal Service for veterinary and fitosanitarnomu supervision in Tuve Of Aldyn-ool Of Kendena, it transfers To "Utro.ru".
In the communication it is also emphasized that this "preliminary data", which within the next few days will be confirmed or disproved after the completion of more in-depth researches in the institute of the protection of animals in the city Vladimir. They will make it possible to determine, to eat in the blood serum of the killed birds the virus H5N1. Dangerous for the man nevertheless, press-service reports, operational staff with the government Of Tuvy declared the region of forbidden lake "hazardous zone". Are here advanced additional posts DPS on the highways, are carried out the circuits of the populated areas in the five-kilometer from the lake zone per farm by the arrived here colleagues of Sanepidsluzhby, MCHS [EMERGENCY AND DISASTER RELIEF MINISTRY] and by physicians, which gave out special armored clothing. They take necessary preventive measures. Thus, in particular, are already made necessary inoculations [??] 28 to local shepherds and to the members of their families.
...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock HolmesComment
-
H5 was confirmed in dead birds from Tuve
babelfished from Russian:
In birds in Tuve is discovered the bird influenza
June 22, 2006
In the birds, that be killwas in the region Of Ubsu-Nur lake in Ovyurskom Kozhuune (region) Of tuvy, is revealed the virus of influenza "A" of subtype Nshch, the press- service of the Siberian regional center OF MCHS [EMERGENCY AND DISASTER RELIEF MINISTRY] RF reports.
As it is noted in the communication, on 15 June entered information about that which from the surface of lake is assembled 169 fallen birds of different species and 30 dead fishes.
In FGU "Kemerovo inter-regional veterinary laboratory" was sent the material for a study.
"As a result of checking the pathogenic materials was established diagnosis - influenza of birds the code of disease 328 05 001, the genome of the virus of the influenza A of subtype H5", it is said in the communication.
On Thursday from Kemerovo the tests from the killed birds will be directed to the city Vladimir into the All-Russian center-institute of the protection of animals for establishing the pathogenicity of the virus A of subtype H5.
Main management MCHS [EMERGENCY AND DISASTER RELIEF MINISTRY] of Russia according to republic Of Tuv and Agentstv GO and CHS of republic carry ouied a number of preventive measures for averting and spread of the influenza of birds to the territory Of Ovyurskogo and the boards -Xemskogo of kozhuunov.
"As of 2:00 msk of Thursday of the dead birds not of Obnaruzheno", it is noted in the communication.
...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock HolmesComment
-
First report on bird deaths from TuvaOnline
This is the first report of the bird deaths at Ubsu-Nur (Uvs Nuur) in TuvaOnline (local news source)...
babelfished from Russian:
In in lake Ubsu-Nur (Tuva) of wild birds. Epidemiologists do not exclude the bird influenza
June 15, 2006
On the coasts Of Ubsu-Nur lake in the state natural biospheric preserve "Ubsunurskaya basin", which since 2003 is the component part of the object of the world heritage OF UNESCO, are discovered the small carcasses of wild birds. On this reported today main state sanitary doctor Tuvy Любовь Ооржак.
According to her, into the region of lake left the operations group of the specialists of veterinary and sanitary services, spasateley of 15 people. The small carcasses of birds are sent for Novosibirsk. Only by the results of the conducted there laboratory investigations it will be it is possible judge the reasons for the mass loss of feathered. Tuva epidemiologists do not exclude and the virus of "bird influenza". In the five-kilometer zone around the lake preventive measures are conducted. In particular, the course of preventive treatment is assigned 28 to shepherds and to the members of their families, whose chaylagi are broken in this zone.
The measures of preventive maintenance are undertaken in the attitude of 15 members of the brigade of epidemiologists, veterinarians and spasateley, that left into the region of lake and had direct contact with the dead birds. or purposes of preventive maintenance they all assume "remantadine" and other antiviral preparations.
The animal peace Of Ubsu-Nur lake is very rich. Here dwell more than 350 it is specific feathered. Among the discovered small carcasses - in essence of seagull.
Let us recall that during September of past year in the region of sphere -Nur lake the boards -Xemskogo of region was discovered the small carcass of wild duck, which was sent for the examination for Novosibirsk. The suspicion for the presence of the virus of "bird influenza" was not confirmed after the conducted there laboratory investigations.
Uvs Nuur:
Looks beautiful...
...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock HolmesComment
-
Reports of dead mice in the area / no sick persons reported
From the 21st...
babelfished from Russian:
Laboratory investigations confirmed that the reason for the mass case of wild ducks in Ubsu lake Of nur (Tuva) could be the bird influenza
June 21, 2006
In the blood serum of the wild ducks, discovered in the water area Of Ubsu-Nur lake, are revealed the antibodies to the virus of bird influenza. At this preliminary conclusion arrived the specialists of laboratories to Kemerovo and Novosibirsk, where serum was sent for a study. This information at the recently completed session of operational staff reported the leader for the administration of the Federal Service for veterinary and fitosanitarnomu supervision on Tuve Of Aldyn-ool Of Kenden, the press-service of government transfers.
Specialists on the basis of clinical results confirmed that the killed birds were infected by bird influenza; however, it is not established accurately, in what category it is placed (as the most dangerous for the people it is considered virus H5N1). More detailed examination will be carry ouied in Vladimir.
Let us recall that on the whole in the region Of ubsu lake Of nur (Tuva, Mongolia) were discovered 169 small carcasses of wild migratory birds [now many, many more]. According to main state sanitary doctor Tuvy To Lyubovi Of Oorzhak, first about this reported on 13 June the local residents. In the region of lake immediately left the group of the specialists of veterinary and sanitary services, spasateley of 15 people. Alertness of specialists caused communications about the detection in the lake of the small carcasses of mice [мышей], what, in their opinion, is unprecedented fact.
Anti-epizootic measures in Tuve are conducted since the beginning of the mass loss of birds. By the colleagues of epidemic care and prevention center are accomplished also the circuits per farm - thus far on the fifth day of the observation of the cases of infecting the people it is not revealed. The members of operational staff will developed detailed measures for localization of the center of infection. The solution about the introduction of quarantine or limiting measures will be accepted only after the entering of the official results of laboratory investigations from Kemerovo and Novosibirsk, and also Vladimir city.
Ubsu-Nur lake find on the territory of the famous state natural biospheric preserve "Ubsunurskaya basin", which since 2003 entered into the list of the objects of the world heritage OF UNESCO.
...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock HolmesComment
-
Confirmation of dead birds (ducks) on the Mongolian side of the lake
Not surprisingly...
babelfished from Russian:
The case of bird is fixed in the Mongolian section Of Ubsu-Nur lake
28 июня 2006 г.
Новость дня
ГТРК "Тыва"
The specialists for main management MCHS [EMERGENCY AND DISASTER RELIEF MINISTRY] of Russia on Tuve reported that their Mongolian associates confirm the case of wild ducks in the Mongolian section Of Ubsu lake Of Nur (one third of which are fallen to the territory of Russia). Let us recall that on 13 June the inhabitants Of Tuvy focused attention of local authorities to the mass case of birds in the water area of Tuva-Mongolian lake. Are until today discovered already more than 3000 fallen ducks.
http://www.tuvaonline.ru/ [No permanent link.]...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock HolmesComment
-
Re: First report on bird deaths from TuvaOnline
So there are dead seagulls too. Interesting that back in September, they had dead ducks too--it was never reported. Well, it looks like it's back with a vengeance! And let me just say that >300 species of birds is a lot--it is numbers like that which allow dramatic, rapid spreading of this virus. Anyway, below are two maps, one of the area west of this lake and the other east.Originally posted by Theresa42
Comment
-
Re: First report on bird deaths from TuvaOnline
Actually, there were dead birds in almost every province in Mongolia last fall, but the numbers reported per province were relatrively low. Some of these birds however, were H5 or H5N1 positive and there are several H5N1 Mongolian sequences that have not been made publicOriginally posted by Sharpe
Last edited by Laidback Al; June 20, 2007, 09:52 AM.Comment
Comment