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  • #16
    Re: Bangladesh - H5N1 Spreads to 6 poultry farms

    Well -- here's a study done by the FAO in the '90s on combining poultry (chicken) raising with fish farming -- specifically catfish farming (Clarias gariepinus). One of the study locales was Biman Poultry Farms in Savar, Bangladesh:



    Wonder if they're still farming cat-fish there?

    And, again, all I have to say is -- ewwwww!
    Thus the fish was continuously fed by the chicken (housed above the pond water) in the form of excreta and waste feed. In addition, supplementary feed was given in small quantity for magur. The chicken house was built on the pond water surface making provisions for the chicken excreta and waste feed to drop directly in the water below the floor of the chicken-house. This arrangement allowed the magur to feed on the chicken excreta and waste feed as they dropped in the water.
    ...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes

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    • #17
      Re: Bangladesh - H5N1 Spreads to 6 poultry farms

      Looks like Biman Poultry is a subsidiary (or whatever) of Biman Bangladesh Airlines:


      From their corporate website:
      Biman Flight Catering Center (BFCC) - a modern flight kitchen of the airlines, has the capacity of producing 8500 meals a day and is providing excellent cuisine not only to Biman but also to other international airlines such as Aeroflot, Gulf Air, Iran Air, Qatar Airlines, Druk Airways, Dragon Airlines, which are operating through Dhaka....

      Biman Poultry Complex, a potential subsidiary of Biman was formed in 1976 which was put into operation in November 1980 to create profit earning concern to augment cash flow of Biman. The Complex is situated at Ganakbari, Savar, Dhaka, 40 Km North-West of Dhaka City. This project has a landed area of 75 acres, of which 5 acres poultry shed, 1 acre residential area and remaining 69 acres are agricultural land.

      http://www.bimanair.com/aboutus/corporate_profile2.asp
      ...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes

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      • #18
        Re: Bangladesh - H5N1 Spreads to 6 poultry farms

        Hat-tip, treyfish!

        Bangladesh Culls More Chickens as Bird Flu Spreads
        March 25, 2007

        Bangladesh has culled thousands more chickens amid an avian flu scare as the virus spread to additional areas of the country, officials said on Sunday.
        Bangladesh has already slaughtered some 40,000 birds since confirming the outbreak of the H5N1 flu virus in six farms near the capital Dhaka last week and plans to cull all poultry within one sq km (0.4 sq-mile) of infected farms.

        Mohammad Abdul Motalib, a senior official at the government's fisheries and livestock ministry, said some 9,000 chickens were killed on Saturday on three farms north of Dhaka after laboratory tests showed traces of the virus in the areas.

        "We are awaiting test results to know if they had died of the avian flu," Motalib told reporters, adding that all affected farms had been sealed.

        Some 1,000 poultry birds were reported to have died in a farm at Narayanganj, 20 km from Dhaka.

        Several farm workers in Bangladesh have been exposed to the virus. Another senior official at the fisheries and livestock ministry, Syed Ataur Rahman, said authorities have been treating them, without detailing what drugs had been administered.

        Local newspapers and residents around the country have reported that more chickens had become ill or had died, although not in large scale. Authorities said they had no official confirmation of an outbreak of the virus.

        At least 170 people have died of bird flu in 60 countries, mostly in Asia since 2003, media and other reports said. Health experts fear the virus could trigger a pandemic if it mutates to form a strain that can transmit between humans.

        The Bangladeshi government has banned transport of poultry from affected areas and imposed strict monitoring of poultry farms, including by the army.

        Traders in Dhaka markets said on Saturday sales of chickens and eggs had dropped by about 10 percent over the last few days.

        ...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes

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        • #19
          3 New Farms

          <TABLE style="WIDTH: 405px; HEIGHT: 44px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=caption style="WIDTH: 360px">March 26 2007 at 12:38AM </TD></TR><TR><TD style="HEIGHT: 1px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #cccccc" colSpan=2></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=23 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=svarticletext>Dhaka - Three new farms reported bird flu outbreaks in Bangladesh on Sunday after thousands of poultry were destroyed last week due to confirmed cases of the deadly virus, the government said.

          On Friday, authorities slaughtered more than 40 000 birds at six farms, a day after official confirmation of a bird flu outbreak on the outskirts of Dhaka.

          The outbreak was now suspected to have spread to farms in the north and central parts of the country, government spokesperson Abdul Motalib said.

          "Today we have detected bird flu on three more farms in the northern district of Jamalpur and destroyed about 9& ;000 birds there. We will now destroy all the birds within a one-kilometre area of the infected farms," he said.

          <!--pull quote --><TABLE cellSpacing=6 cellPadding=0 width=130 align=left border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=pullquote>'We have detected bird flu on three more farms'</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><!--pull quote end -->"We also have reports of mass deaths of chickens in central Narayanganj and northern Dinajpur districts. We have sent the samples to laboratories for tests," Motalib said.

          Officials confirmed Bangladesh's first case of bird flu late on Thursday after samples from one farm near the capital were sent to the National Institute of Animal Health in Bangkok and tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus.

          The caretaker government has agreed on a string of measures to prevent the spread of the disease in the densely-populated south Asian country of 144 million people.

          The H5N1 virus has killed at least 169 people since late 2003, most of them in Asia, according to the World Health Organisation.

          Scientists fear the virus could mutate into a form easily spread among humans, leading to a global pandemic with the potential to kill millions.

          Bangladesh is home to hundreds of thousands of poultry farms which employ more than a million people.

          The country had already banned imports of live birds from more than 50 countries including neighbouring India and Myanmar, after outbreaks were detected there.

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          • #20
            Re: Bangladesh - H5N1 Spreading

            Poultry industry faces uncertainty
            Staff Correspondent

            Leaders of World Poultry Science Association Bangladesh Branch (WPSA-BB) yesterday said the latest outbreak of the bird flu virus will hit hard the export potentials of the country's poultry products.

            They feared an imminent disruption of the industry if the menace cannot be handled carefully.

            "A few poultry growers had recently started exporting poultry products to some Middle Eastern countries, North Eastern region of India, and Nepal, and the present outbreak will hit hard this effort," said WPSA-BB Secretary General MA Saleque.

            Cashing on Bangladesh's reputation for remaining free from the bird flu virus, a few entrepreneurs started entering some new poultry markets, which even include Europe, he added.

            Saleque, also a high official of Brac, said different microcredit providers injected about 20 percent credit to the industry while different government and private banks contributed another 20 percent. These organisations may face recovery crisis in the wake of the recent invasion of bird flu in the country.

            WPSA-BB President Mashiur Rahman said the outbreak will suddenly stall the booming poultry sector involving directly around 10 million people. He hoped that both the government and private entrepreneurs will jointly face the situation boldly.

            Mashiur expressed satisfaction over the government's readiness to face the challenges, adding that the whole poultry industry will also face up to the challenge.

            SCENARIO AT SAVAR AND GAZIPUR
            Poultry farmers in Savar and Gazipur, the two main centres of the country's poultry industry, feared a huge investment loss because of the panic created by the detection of bird flu. They also feared a collapse in the marketing chain of eggs and fowls.

            The District Livestock Office in Gazipur said there are 7,135 farms for layer birds and 5,336 farms for broiler chicken in five upazilas in the district and the total number of broiler and layer birds is more than 2.71 crore.

            In the Bhabanipur, Ganakpara and Jirani areas in Savar, the farmers were seen wearing a glum look.

            The government authorities on Friday culled 3,000 fowls of Happy Poultry of Ganakpara, which the government has declared a bird flu affected area.

            Proprietor of the farm Abdul Latif is worried about the future. He said his father started the poultry business in 1998 with a small investment and the business--now with two farms--gradually grew bigger and its total liability stood at more than Tk 40 lakh.

            "I lost the whole business of one farm as all its fowls had to be dumped at the time of its full production," he said. The marketing activities are also paralysed since the government directed not to sell eggs or fowls until further orders, he added.

            Latif said it will be difficult to come back to the full swing in the business again as it takes at least six months after investing to come into production.

            Asked about the government's decision to compensate the affected, he said, "We are yet to receive any assurance from the government about compensation. The government officials came and destroyed our produces but said the matter of compensation will be discussed later."
            All the farms in the area are facing huge investment losses.

            Bhai Bhai poultry farm in the same area lost its investment as its 3,500 chicks and fowls had to be dumped.

            Its proprietor Jasim Uddin submitted an estimated loss of Tk 24 lakh for compensation to the Gazipur District Livestock Officer yesterday.

            The panic also resulted in dull business at places outside the infected areas.

            Adbur Razzak, a farmer of Bhabanipur, said although his farm is out of the infected areas, the sales of eggs and fowls experienced a drastic fall in the last few days.

            He took a loan of Tk 10 lakh from the Ashulia branch of Sonali Bank two years ago to expand his business. His Suma Poultry Farm now has 6,000 chicks and fowls.

            "I am not worried about bird flu but I am anxious about how I will pay my next bank instalment," said Razzak, who has to pay the bank Tk 40,000 per month against his loans.

            "The District Livestock Office instructed us to maintain cleanliness in the farms and report it if any death of chickens occurs," said Mozammel Haque, owner of a poultry farm containing 1,000 broiler chickens.

            He said poultry farm owners are constantly communicating with the District Livestock Office and following its instructions.

            "We are working together since an outbreak of bird flu in any farm will bring disaster to all of us," said another poultry farm owner in Gazipur municipal area.

            Meanwhile, the District Livestock Office said three teams were formed to investigate and monitor the poultry farms in the unaffected areas. The teams surveyed 90,000 birds in 38 farms in the district as of yesterday, it said.

            "If any abnormal or massive death of birds is found, we will collect the sample for test, but as of now we did not find any such case," Kafiluddin Bhuiyan, district livestock officer, Gazipur, said. The officials of the livestock office said poultry birds from Jirani of Gazipur were destroyed earlier as it was inside the one kilometre radius of the affected area in Savar where avian influenza virus was detected on March 22.

            The Daily Star.net
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            • #21
              Re: Bangladesh - H5N1 Spreading

              Chickens of six more farms culled
              Kazi Zahidul Hasan

              Poultry of six more firms in Savar in the neighbourhood of the avian flu hit Biman-owned farm were culled on Sunday to stem the spread of the deadly disease.
              Official sources said the bird flu monitoring cell in cooperation with the joint forces culled all the birds of the six farms located within the radius of one kilometre from the Biman farm, where country’s first case of bird flu was detected just a couple of days back.
              Industry people said now there is nothing to worry about as the government and the private sector have taken adequate precautionary measures to check the outbreak of the disease.
              “We have got fully prepared to check the outbreak of the disease and with the help of law enforcers a large number of chickens of the affected poultry farms were culled,” said Syed Abu Siddique, Secretary of Bangladesh Poultry Association.
              He urged the poultry owners and the people of the country not to get panicked over the disease. He also urged the media to play a constructive role by publishing correct news in this regard.
              A monitoring cell has already been formed, with District Livestock Officer Dr Fazlul Haque Khan as its head, to detect bird flu in Dhaka district following the detection of bird flu attack in Savar. The cell will monitor the situation and report every 24 hours to the centre.
              The cell asked the Upazila livestock officers to seal off the hatcheries found to be affected by the disease.
              Administration officials at a meeting in Dhaka also imposed embargo on taking out poultry 10 kilometres out of a farm.
              According to association sources, the size of country’s poultry industry is around Tk 7,000 crore with around 1.30 lakh poultry farms and four lakh employment, directly and indirectly. The farms produce 25.00 crore broilers and 600 crore eggs per year, they said.
              There are 5,000 poultry farms and 20 hatcheries in the district. No bird flu attack was detected in the district till Saturday.
              Deputy Commissioner Al Nuri Fayezur Reza held a meeting with the owners of poultry farms and hatcheries on Sunday to discuss the issue.
              Official sources said Jirani area has been declared an “infected area” for three months under the Bangladesh Animal Diseases Law, 2005.
              District Livestock Officer Dr Kafiluddin Bhuiyan received a letter in this regard from the acting DG of Livestock Directorate.
              Panicked by the detection of bird flue virus the poultry owners have been rushing to the Livestock hospital in the district to carry out postmortem of their chickens.
              Veterinary surgeon Dr Jahirul Islam said postmortem of over 100 chickens of 28 poultry farms was done at the sadar Livestock hospital Saturday, but bird flu was not detected in any of those chickens.
              The District Livestock Officer made a requisition to the Civil Surgeon for 2,000 preventive capsules for protecting the officials involved with the detection of the disease and treatment of chickens, but only 100 capsules were given.
              Meanwhile, an orientation programme has been taken up to check the spread of bird flu among the human population.
              However, the government has decided to compensate the flu affected farm owners.

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              • #22
                Re: Bangladesh - H5N1 Spreading

                Export orders cancelled after bird flu detection

                Monday March 26 2007 07:08:24 AM BDT


                Refayet Ullah Mirdha


                Bangladesh has lost its export markets of poultry birds following detection of the bird flu in some farms at Savar off the city recently.The country used to export poultry birds worth more than Tk 200 million (20 crore) a year, (Financial Express)

                especially to some countries of Middle East and Nepal.

                The Kazi Farms Group, the pioneer in export of poultry birds, has cancelled the order for poultry export worth US$ 4,000 to Nepal recently due to detection of the bird flu, said Director of the group Kazi Zahin while talking to the FE Sunday.

                "The consignment of parent stocks was scheduled to head for Nepal soon. But it was stopped after detection of the bird flu virus Thursday last," Zahin added.

                The Kazi Farms Group started to export the day-old chicks and hatching poultry birds to Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Yemen and Bahrain two years ago, when those countries stopped import of all kinds of poultry birds from India, Myanmar, Pakistan and some other countries after detection of the virus earlier there.

                The Kazi Farms Group was followed by a Chittagong-based poultry farm, which also started to export day-old chicks and hatching birds to those countries, he mentioned.

                Bangladesh could have exported poultry birds worth $ 4,000 a week if the country wanted. But the farmers could hardly meet the local demand for poultry birds, he observed.

                So the export markets of poultry birds remained limited, although the country had the potential to expand it, he said.

                "We are hopeful the country will be avian flu-free soon and the momentum in poultry business will be restored," Zahin said.

                In the local markets the prices of poultry birds declined significantly over the last two days due to the avian flu fear.

                When asked, Khokan Mia, a wholesale poultry trader at the city's Kaptan Bazar, said a poultry bird was selling at Tk 60-70 per kg compared to the previous rate of Tk 100-110 per kg.

                He feared that the prices would decline further, if the people could not be made aware that the viral flu would not cause any harm to the humans if boiled properly.

                "I used to sell poultry birds worth Tk 40,000-50,000 daily. But now I cannot sell poultry birds worth even Tk 7,000 as the consumers are not buying them as before following detection of the bird flu," Mia said.

                The supply of poultry birds from the countryside declined substantially, as the farmers were worried.

                The farmers belonging to the marginal group, who established farms borrowing money from banks, will not be able to repay their loans, he feared.

                When asked, secretary general of Bangladesh Poultry Industries Association (BPIA) Syed Abu Siddique said the damage done to the poultry sector by the avian flu threat has not yet been assessed.

                "But we (the farmers and businessmen) have been following the instructions given by the government for fighting the flu," he added.

                The bird flu might not do a great harm to the local poultry business. Many countries of the world also experienced the threat in recent times and overcame the problem successfully, he mentioned.

                Currently, there is a ban on import of poultry birds of all kinds from 56 countries of the world.

                Sources in the Fisheries and Livestock Ministry said they have been working on finding out the causes of the sudden death of a good number of poultry birds in two farms in Narayanganj and Jamalpur respectively.

                The ministry sources said they have received the inspection reports of 977 farms across the country and did not find any new affected farms until Sunday. Earlier, they identified six bird flu-affected farms in Savar and Gazipur.

                The officials of the ministry concerned examined 17,989,22 poultry birds across the country until Sunday and a total of total 39, 264 poultry birds were culled so far.

                Only a year ago Rabiya Rahman and her husband Abdur Rahman started their first business venture-a poultry farm at Shardaganj of Savar, according to bdnews24.com.

                They put together about Tk 2.0 million (20 lakh) in loans from a bank and relatives and built the farmhouses on their idle land adjacent to their home in Madrasapara.

                Business was good, they received orders for chicken from local brokers and their supply was quite satisfactory.

                But before they could even repay their first instalment of the bank loan, all hell broke loose on them.

                On the night of March 11, some 1,000 chickens in one of the three blocks died within a few hours. The Rahmans struggled to keep the chickens alive, watching the chickens die in dozens.

                "It was terrible to see the chickens die. I wondered what had happened. In the evening I had seen the chickens run around and they appeared healthy," Abdur Rahman said.

                By noon the day after, chickens in the second block started falling sick and the couple feared a repeat of the horrors of the previous day. They called a local veterinarian but by the time help arrived another 1,500 chickens perished.

                By late evening on March 13, the rest of the chickens in the first block also perished.

                The Rahmans lost chickens, ready for sale, worth Tk 800 thousand, according to their estimates and they now have no way to get over the losses as the government has ordered a moratorium on all activities in farms affected by avian flu that has also affected five other poultry farms in the neighbourhood.

                The avian flu mystery unfolded when Biman Poultry Complex, not very far from the Rahmans' farm, reported sickness of their poultry that led to culling of more than 30,000 chickens.

                The affected farms are Bhuiyan Poultry Farm and Happy Poultry Farm in Savar and PSBB Ayesha, Rahman Poultry and Monir Hossain Poultry Farms in Gazipur

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                • #23
                  Re: Bangladesh - H5N1 Spreading

                  Bird flu spreads to new farms 40,000 chickens culled so far
                  Staff Correspondent

                  Bird flu has been detected in three poultry farms in Jamalpur district while samples were collected for test from Narayangonj where some 820 chickens were affected.
                  This was disclosed at a press briefing by Livestock Secretary Syed Ataur Rahman at the secretariat on Sunday.
                  Meanwhile, the authorities have culled a total of 39,264 hens affected by avian influenza.
                  Bird flu has been detected in a total of 9 farms. Of them, 4 are in Savar, 2 in Gajipur and 3 in Jamalpur, sources said.

                  the bangledeshtoday.com
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                  • #24
                    Re: Bangladesh - H5N1 Spreading

                    <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=4 width="100&#37;" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=newsdetails vAlign=top>Bird flu found in Jamalpur farms
                    9,000 chickens already sold
                    Staff Correspondent

                    Avian Influenza virus has been detected in three poultry farms in Jamalpur, senior officials of the Department of Livestock Services disclosed yesterday quoting a laboratory report.
                    The director general of the of livestock department yesterday afternoon submitted the report to the fisheries and livestock secretary seeking directives for initiating preventive measures in Jamalpur where the virus had been detected following similar detections in six poultry farms in Savar and Gazipur a few days earlier.
                    "We received the report from Thailand on Saturday and have come to submit it to the ministry," Sunil Chandra Ghosh, director general of the Department of Livestock Services told reporters yesterday in a news briefing arranged by the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock in its conference room.
                    Dr Mohammad Abdul Motaleb, director of administration and animal health of the livestock department, said 9,000 chickens of the three Jamalpur poultry farms had been sold already before the lab report came.

                    The senior officials however did not give any detail about the three poultry farms as Fisheries and Livestock Secretary Syed Ataur Rahman interrupted them. A minute before, the secretary said, "Samples from Naryanganj and Jamalpur were sent to Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute for tests and results will be known today."
                    Livestock Adviser CS Karim yesterday in an interview with the Bangla Service of BBC Radio said, "At 4:00pm today, we received information regarding apprehension of Bird Flu in Jamalpur. But it has not been confirmed yet."
                    "A team will visit the farms in Jamalpur. The team will confirm us about the apprehension and if the virus is detected there, it will initiate measures for culling," the adviser said.

                    The adviser also said the government will seek cooperation from the international community if the situation spins out of control.
                    A special meeting of the council of advisers to the caretaker government on March 22 disclosed that Avian Influenza virus, popularly known as Bird Flu, had been detected in a poultry farm in Savar on the outskirts of the capital.
                    Since the detection of Bird Flu virus in the state-run Biman Poultry Complex, a huge number of chickens of six poultry farms in Savar and Gazipur have been culled.
                    In the news briefing yesterday, the fisheries and livestock secretary said officials of the livestock department have so far visited 977 poultry farms, which have a total of 17.98 lakh chickens. Till Saturday, a total of 39, 264 Bird Flu affected chickens were culled in six poultry farms in Savar and Gazipur. Also 30,720 eggs have been destroyed in a farm, he said.
                    "Around 100 Bird Flu affected chickens were culled in Gazipur area today," the secretary added.
                    He said all the deputy commissioners informed the ministry that they have launched awareness programmes to prevent panic among the people.
                    About the present situation in Narayanganj, the secretary said the deputy commissioner of the district in a report claimed that 820 chickens died there. "The reasons behind the deaths were not identified," he said.
                    Before the disclosure by the livestock department, the secretary claimed that the situation is under control and the Bird Flu virus was not detected anywhere else in the country other than Savar and Gazipur.
                    The secretary however tried to stop the senior officials of the livestock department from talking about the detection of Avian Influenza in Jamalpur.
                    Our Gazipur correspondent reported that although no farm raised chicken was culled in any poultry farm there, more than a hundred free range chickens were culled in Gazipur yesterday within a kilometre radius of the infected farms.
                    The report added that officials of the livestock department had bought larger free range chickens from their owners for Tk 80, the medium ones for Tk 60 and the small ones for Tk 15 and culled them. They conducted the drive in Kashimpur, Latifpur and Panishail areas of the district.
                    Meanwhile, owners of Bhai Bhai Poultry Farm and Dulal Poultry Farm applied to the district livestock office for compensations. The owner of Bhai Bhai Farm claimed Tk 23,89,000 for his 39,030 chickens while the owner of Dulal claimed Tk 2,52,000 for his 1,874 chickens that had been culled on Saturday.
                    The authorities have formed three Rapid Response Committees led by upazila livestock officers (ULO) which conducted surveys on 90,000 chickens of 38 farms in Gazipur yesterday. The teams tested some chickens on the basis of suspicions of Bird Flu infection but they did not get any sign of Avian Influenza there, the report added.
                    FARDIN FARM
                    No less than 2,100 chickens died between March 12 and March 16 in Fardin Farm in the Basan area under Gazipur upazila headquarters.
                    The owner of the farm claimed a compensation of Tk 3,57,000 but District Livestock Officer Dr Kafiluddin Bhuiyan said no sign of his farm being infected by the virus had been found.
                    Owners of three poultry farms are going to be punished in the district as they hid information of their chickens' deaths. They also hid some chickens in a sugarcane field near the farms.
                    Our Naraynaganj correspondent reported that another farm was found in the district where chickens died due to 'undetected reasons' in Kalyandi village under Bandar police station.
                    Akther Hossain, owner of the farm, informed the district livestock officer that his 250 layer hens died in the last few days. But the district livestock officer said those died due to 'undetected reasons'.
                    The district livestock officer sent samples from that farm to Dhaka for tests of Bird Flu virus. Earlier another farm was found in Narayanganj where around 5,000 chickens had died. Our Khulna correspondent reported that the Bird Flu Control Room in the district has yet to receive any case of flu from any of the 55,000 poultry farms in the district. Quoting the district livestock officer Dr Obaidul Karim told The Daily Star yesterday afternoon that they have taken all sorts of precautionary measures to prevent an outbreak of Bird Flu in the poultry farms. However, panic already gripped the consumers of poultry products in the district. Prices of chickens have already dropped by 25 to 30 percent in the local market within the last 48 hours.

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                    • #25
                      Re: Bangladesh - H5N1 Spreading

                      Series of steps ordered to check bird flu spread
                      Saturday March 24 2007 08:50:04 AM BDT[/font]


                      Authorities Friday ordered a series of steps including poultry culling and health examination of people at inflicted poultry farms a day after the government announced the detection of bird flu at suburban Savar, report agencies.(News Today)

                      "By now you are aware of the outbreak of the avian influenza or bird flu at several poultry farms in Savar. The government agencies concerned took urgent steps soon after the detection of flu at the farms," Health Adviser Maj Gen (retd) Dr Motiur Rahman told a press conference also joined by Agriculture and Livestock Adviser Dr CS Karim
                      and officials concerned.

                      The agriculture adviser told the newsmen under the urgent steps taken so far over 33,000 poultry were culled and buried in the six inflicted farms, people''s movement were restricted around the poultry ranches and conducting "chemo-profiling" and health examination, and monitoring of those handled inflicted poultry birds.

                      Dr Motiur, however, said preparations were under way from two years ago to face such situation and the authorities
                      undertook a series of steps to prevent further proliferation of the flu, which so far attacked 60 countries in Asia and Europe with Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia being the last victims.

                      Dr Karim said the authorities also ordered stamping out and disinfecting all poultry ranches around one kilometre radius of the afflicted firms, ban on transportation of poultry birds, chickens, eggs and pet birds to anywhere from within 10 kilometre radius in the affected area through virtual fencing and collection of people engaged in the flu inflicted ranches.

                      He said the joint forces were asked to come in aide of the district administrations to carry out "intensive and constant" monitoring against the avian flu across the country while the agriculture and livestock and the health ministry opened round the clock control rooms to monitor the development.

                      Following an urgent cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Adviser Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed the authorities last night confirmed the outbreak of the H5N1 subtype of bird flu that so far killed 169 people and attacked 281 others in 60 countries.

                      World Health Organisation (WHO) representative in Dhaka Dr Duangvadee Sungkhobol also joined the briefing and said the high population density exposed Bangladesh to intensified avian influenza but through "aggressive actions" involving all stakeholders and massive public awareness could help the South Asian country to overcome the crisis.
                      "We are very concerned because of the population density of the country," she said but hastened to add that the proliferation of the disease could be prevented through culling with cooperation of poultry farm owners alongside people''s awareness and other "aggressive actions".
                      Both the health and agriculture advisers urged the people not to get panicked with the outbreak of avian flu as the human infliction of avian influenza were not reported from anywhere in South Asia including India despite the outbreak of the bird flu.
                      They referred to studies by experts saying that the chickens or eggs of even the flu-inflicted poultry birds were safe after proper cooking provided the people handling them properly clean their hands and bury the poultry remnants underground.
                      Yet, Dr Motiur said, the Mohakhali Chest Hospital was kept prepared after massive mock exercises to treat possible avian flu patients while a large number of doctors were already trained to detect bird flu patients to be referred to the facility in Dhaka.
                      The adviser said there would be no dearth of drugs to treat people if required, a notion supported by the WHO representative, but said vaccines needed to save the poultry birds could appear a little expensive.
                      Dr Karim said currently the poultry industry involves some two billion dollars while the number of poultry birds at farms and households was estimated to be 20 crore and four lakh people were directly dependent on the poultry industry, considered a budding sector with a growth rate of about 60 percent.
                      Experts said there 15 strains of flu that affect birds, but the one causing the amplifying global scare is the H5N1 subtype, highly lethal to domesticated birds. It has circulated in migrating wild birds for years and has spread to poultry flocks, starting in Southeast Asia, spreading to Russia and other parts of Europe and Asia.
                      Avian flu was first identified in Italy around a century ago. It was not thought to be transmissible to humans until 1997, when the first human cases were seen in Hong Kong, also involving H5N1.
                      In the latest outbreak, around 60 people in Asia died, amounting to roughly half the known number of infections, which is a very high fatality rate.
                      Almost all these casualties were directly exposed to infected fowl, making contact with the virus through the birds'' saliva, nasal secretions and faeces, which become dry, pulverised and are then inhaled. Avian flu is not a food-borne virus, so the risk from eating properly cooked chicken is negligible.
                      According to the WHO bird flu in humans causes symptoms that are like human flu, such as fever, cough, sore throat and muscle aches, conjunctivitis, pneumonia and other severe respiratory diseases.
                      At present, H5N1 is not easily transmitted from bird to human as a person would have to pick up a lot of virus in order to be infected. Nor is it easily passed from human to human: there have been only three suspected cases, in Thailand, Hong Kong and Vietnam, where this is believed to have happened.
                      WHO experts said the big worry, though, is that H5N1 could pick up genes from conventional human flu viruses, making it both highly lethal and highly infectious. Because it would be a radically new pathogen, no one would have any immunity to it.
                      "In such case the situation would go beyond anybody''s control as it happened in 1919 when the avian influenza pandemic claimed at least 50 million human lives," said the health adviser, himself a doctor and public health specialist.

                      UNB adds: Some 5,600 chickens of three poultry farms were
                      culled on Friday in Savar on the outskirts of the capital following
                      the recent detection of bird flu at a government-owned poultry farm.
                      Sources said officials of Livestock Department destroyed 2,700
                      chickens of Friends Poultry Farm while 2,500 of Happy Poultry and 423
                      of Ainal Haque''s farm, situated one kilometer radius of the Biman
                      farm where the Avian Influenza virus was detected first.
                      The chickens were culled by using carbon dioxide gas and then
                      buried in nearby areas, official sources said.
                      Meanwhile, the Livestock Department has formed a 20-member Rapid Response Team (RRT), headed by Dhaka District Livestock Officer Munshi M Enamul Haque, to keep vigilance on the poultry farms in the areas.
                      Livestock Department Director (Admin) Abdul Motaleb, Chief Veterinary Officer Dr Mosaddek Ali, Dhaka District Livestock Officer Munshi M Enamul Haque and Deputy Director of Dhaka District Livestock
                      Department Dr Fani Bhusan Mondal were present during the culling.
                      Members of the joint forces also went to the spot and prevented the
                      people from entering in the affected farm areas.

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                        Khaleda cancels her Independence Day programmes




                        She cancels a trip to a h5n1 infected area

                        BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was learnt to have cancelled her programme at the National Mausoleum at Savar to pay homage to the martyrs of the liberation war on the Independence Day today (Monday), reports UNB.
                        She also dropped her programme at slain President Ziaur Rahman''s mazar on the occasion. According to her previous schedule, Khaleda was to visit both the places.
                        When contacted a senior BNP leader told UNB on condition of anonymity that Begum Zia did not get security clearance from the authorities concerned to visit those places.
                        BNP senior leaders, however, will place wreaths at the National Mausoleum and offer fateha at Shaheed President Zia''s mazar.

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                          4,000 chickens destroyed at Sharishabari
                          By UNB, Jamalpur
                          Mon, 26 Mar 2007, 12:26:00



                          About 4,000 chickens affected by the bird flu were destroyed under the earth today (Monday).

                          The affected chickens were buried under the earth in the evening in presence of senior officials of the livestock department.

                          Officials said 15 poultry farms in Sharishabari upazila were affected the disease. Earlier, 6,000 chickens were destroyed.

                          Investigation continued to detect the disease in all the poultry farms in Jamalpur district.

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                            No human cases

                            Bangladesh says no human case of bird flu

                            <!-- END HEADLINE --><!-- BEGIN STORY BODY --> March 27, 2007

                            There has been no human case of bird flu in Bangladesh, the health ministry said on Monday, after an outbreak of the H5N1 virus in nine poultry farms near the capital set off a scare in the densely populated country.

                            Blood samples of a number of workers at the farms, where the deadly virus was confirmed among chickens last week, tested negative for the deadly virus, Health Secretary Ehsan Ul Fattah told Reuters. The test was carried out at a local laboratory.

                            Bangladesh has already culled some 50,000 chickens since confirming the outbreak in the farms near the capital Dhaka and northern Jamalpur district.
                            "There is no human infection of the avian flu," Fattah said.

                            He said the country had sufficient stocks of flu drug Tamiflu and farm workers as well people living in nearby areas were being monitored closely.

                            The health ministry urged the media not to create panic after local newspapers and residents reported more chickens had become ill or had died, although not on a large scale.

                            At least 170 people have died of bird flu in 60 countries, mostly in Asia since 2003, media and other reports said. Health experts fear the virus could trigger a pandemic if it mutates to form a strain that can transmit between humans.

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                              Bangladesh seeks assistance with bird flu testing<!-- noindex -->

                              Bangladesh has called for international help to upgrade bird flu testing as the country battles a large outbreak of the disease in poultry.

                              C.S. Karim, head of the fisheries and livestock ministry, said: "We have invited donor representatives to a meeting today to discuss the situation and formally ask their assistance."

                              Samples are sent to the Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute but the laboratory cannot do the full range of testing needed to confirm the presence of the H5N1 bird flu virus.

                              Samples have to be sent to Bangkok for confirmation, a costly and time-consuming step.

                              Reuters news agency reports, a veterinary expert saying the virus could be detected two weeks earlier if they had the appropriate technology.

                              About 55,000 chickens have been culled since the outbreak of avian flu was confirmed in nine farms near the capital Dhaka and northern Jamalpur district last week. No humans have been confirmed to have the virus.

                              A UN official said they suspected bird flu had been raging in the country for several weeks or months before authorities could confirm it.

                              Bangladesh needed equipment and training for the staff at the laboratory, another official of the fisheries and livestock ministry said.

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                                People advised to take precautions against 'bird flu'
                                FE Report
                                3/28/2007

                                The government has advised the people to take precautionary measures to avoid being attacked by bird flu virus.
                                At the regular briefing held Tuesday, the officials of various ministries and departments advised the people to buy healthy and fresh poultry birds and wash their hands with soap after slaughtering those.
                                In a press statement they asked the people to wash knives and utensils before and after slaughtering the birds and to bury the feathers and other inedible wastes.
                                The statement also suggested the farmers for wearing masks before entering into their farms, restrain the children from coming into direct contacts with poultry birds, refrain from eating half-boiled eggs and partly cooked meat and to cook meat in high temperature.But, the officials advised in the press statement to eat poultry meat and eggs for nutrition.
                                Meanwhile, in its regular drive against the bird flu, the field officers of the Fisheries and Livestock Ministry culled a good number of poultry birds in two farms, one in Narayanganj and another in Jamalpur Monday last.
                                Our Chittagong correspondent adds: No 'bird flu' virus has been detected in Chittagong.
                                Chittagong District Livestock office and Veterinary specialists sources said, there is nothing to be worried about as 60 degree Celsius temperature is enough to kill the avian virus while normal cooking temperature is 100 degree Celsius.
                                UNB adds: Bird flu panic spread over the district following death of 500 chickens in two poultry farms at Morelganj upazila from Monday to Saturday.
                                Local livestock office sources said 442 chickens of a poultry farm of Nasiruddin Molla at West Saralia village died on Monday, while 100 died in another farm of Saydur Rahman at North Putikhali village on Saturday.
                                The samples of dead chickens were sent to Dhaka central livestock diseases laboratory for testing whether the birds were affected by bird flu.

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