Czechs report bird flu (poultry, wild birds), June 27 +

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Potentially lethal H5N1 found in Czech Republic 27 Jun 2007 11:50 GMT
... PRAGUE: The potentially lethal strain of H5N1 bird flu has been detected in chickens in the Czech Republic, authorities said on ...

Bird flu revealed at another Czech farm 27 Jun 2007 10:20 GMT
... a broiler farm in Norin, east Bohemia, but the presence of the highly dangerous H5N1 strain has neither been confirmed nor disproved yet, Czech State Veterinary Administration spokesman Josef ...


Bird flu: Aggressive H5N1-Virus in east-Bohemian chicken farm found in Czech further cases of bird flu arose. In a chicken farm in Norin with 60 animals also the type of virus H5N1 dangerous for humans was found. Veterinarians furnished the breed enterprise closed and a quarantine zone; with the help of the army those are to be killed about 28,000 animals of the enterprise in the evening. The breed enterprise lies only approximately four kilometers far away from a Truthahnfarm in Tisova, where the virus had been proven on past Thursday. Likewise today the bird flu virus was determined with a swan ended, which had been found in Suedmaehren in the lock park by Lednice. Whether it concerns also viruses of the type H5N1 is examined at present.

[HenryN]

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Czech H5N1 infected broilers to be culled by Thur morning

Norin- Soldiers will start to liquidate broilers at the farm in Norin where the H5N1 bird flu virus strain that is dangerous to man was confirmed today still during the night, not on Thursday morning, Ales Cernohorsky, from the regional firefighters' rescue corps, has told CTK.

Cernohorsky, deputy director of the firefighters' corps, said that the culling should be completed by tomorrow morning.
Veterinaries have closed the farm today and started to take safety measures similar to those applied in Tisova, four kilometres away from Norin, where bird flu was uncovered at a local turkey farm last week.
"The (Norin) farm is owned by the same agricultural cooperative like the farm in Tisova. The infection was uncovered during a standard examination," first deputy Pardubice Regional governor Roman Linek said.
The bird flu virus was found in 60 out of 27,800 broilers bred in Norin.
The Pardubice Region will on Thursday discuss the possibility of financially compensating the locals who will have to cull their poultry from its emergency budget, just as in the case of Tisova.
Since H5N1 virus was confirmed in Tisova last week, veterinaries have been carrying out tests in the area that determine the virus's incidence in a matter of hours.
Pardubice Regional Veterinary Administration director Josef Bohac said his office has no information about a clinical manifestation of the illness.
"It has only been uncovered in a laboratory test and the breeder's daily recordings show no increased loss of poultry," he said.
Bohac said that no infected poultry could have reached the market since the illness was detected before the chickens left the farm.
In the first stage all of the almost 28,000 broilers at the farm will be culled and liquidated. Afterwards all domestic poultry in Norin will be culled.
Veterinaries think that the source of the infection was an indirect contact with a human or bird virus carrier.
The police have closed all roads to Norin and they only let locals in. It is supposed that the liquidation of the broilers would end on Friday at the latest.
"It will be followed by a clean-up of the farm, removal of the litter and disinfection of the complex. We will do our utmost to manage it in three days like in Tisova," Bohac said.
In Tisova, 6,000 turkeys were culled and liquidated.
Meanwhile, a bird flu virus was detected in a dead swan found in Lednice, south Moravia.
The results of the first test are yet to be confirmed by the National Reference Laboratory in Prague, however.
The first bird flu case in the Czech Republic was discovered in March 2006. Since then another 13 cases of H5N1 infection of swans living in the wild have been registered.

Autor: <!-- Pole autor -->ČTK. <!-- Pole zdroj -->(ČTK)
18:46 - 27.06.2007

http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/tisk_clank....php?id=259694

[HenryN]

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AVIAN INFLUENZA (114): VIET NAM, PAKISTAN, CZECH REPUBLIC
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[1] Viet Nam
[2] Pakistan: suspected
[3] Czech Republic: 2nd outbreak, H5

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[1] Viet Nam
Date: Tue 26 Jun 2007
Source: Thanh Nien News [edited]
<http://www.thanhniennews.com/healthy/?catid=8&newsid=29424>


On Tuesday [26 Jun 2007], 2 more Vietnamese provinces officially became
bird flu-free, with Son La and Nam Dinh in the north reporting no new
outbreaks in the last 21 days. [Son La and Nam Dinh are, respectively, No
51 and No 39 on the map at
<http://www.angelfire.com/co/hongnam/vnmap.html>. - Mod AS]

There are 12 provinces and cities, mostly in the north, which remain on the
list. Outside the north, only Can Tho city [No 18 on the map] in the south
and Quang Nam province [No 46 on the map] remain in the grip of the epidemic.

The Ministry of Agriculture stipulates that if a province has no new
outbreak for 21 days, it is considered to be free from bird flu.

Bac Ninh province [No 9 on the map] was taken off the list on Sunday [24
Jun 2007].

Meanwhile, 2 new infected sites were discovered in Quang Nam province.

Deputy minister of agriculture, Bui Ba Bong, warned on Tuesday [26 Jun
2007] that the epidemic could hit the south since the region is set for its
autumn-summer rice harvest before which farmers tend to leave their fowls
roam freely to find food.

A woman died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu last week [18-24 Jun 2007] in
the northern Ha Nam Province [No 25 on the map], the 2nd person to die in
11 days.

Since May [2007], 18 provinces and cities have been affected in which 5
humans contracted the H5N1 strain of the disease and 2 died, taking the
total death toll since 2003 to 44.

Of the 65 provinces and cities, 44 have completed this year's [2007] 1st
round of vaccination for 83.86 million chickens, 59.39 million ducks, and
3.47 million white-winged ducks.

[byline: Quang Duan]

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[2] Pakistan: suspected
Date: Wed 20 Jun 2007
Source: Paktribune.com [edited]
<http://paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?181730>


Sources reveal that possibility of bird flu is rising in Taxila [Punjab
province] and adjoining areas after supply of sick chickens that later died
in the shops. Further, it has been reported that shopkeepers are purchasing
ailing chickens at [low prices] and later selling them at higher prices.

--
communicated by:
Rana Jawad Asghar MD, MPH
Coordinator South Asian Public Health Forum
<jawad@alumni.washington.edu>

[Confirmation or otherwise would be helpful. - Mod.AS

A map of Pakistan is available at
<http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/pakistan_pol_2002.jpg>.
- CopyEd.MJ]

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[3] Czech Republic: 2nd outbreak, H5
Date: Wed 27 Jun 2007
Source: CeskeNoviny [edited]
<http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/index_view.php?id=259552>


Bird flu was discovered at a broiler farm in Norin, east Bohemia, but the
presence of the highly dangerous H5N1 strain has been neither confirmed nor
disproved yet, Czech State Veterinary Administration spokesman, Josef
Duben, told CTK today [27 Jun 2007].

Norin is located 4 km (2.5 mi) from Tisova, where the 1st Czech case of the
H5N1 strain of bird flu among bred poultry was revealed at a turkey farm
last week [18-24 Jun 2007].

Duben said that tests proved bird flu in 60 cases at the farm with 27 800
broilers. He said the broilers tested positive for the H5 strain and
further tests are to show whether it is H5N1 or not.

The turkeys bred at Tisova got infected through hay litter, while the
broilers allegedly got into indirect contact with a carrier of the virus,
man or bird.

As in Tisova, the poultry at the Norin farm will be culled and liquidated,
the area disinfected, and strict measures applied in the vicinity.

The 1st bird flu case in the Czech Republic was discovered in March 2006.
Since then another 13 cases of swans living in the wild have been registered.

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[Final laboratory results on the new H5 event are expected.

If the turkeys in the index outbreak got -- as alleged in the report --
infected through hay litter, then a previous outbreak should have occurred
elsewhere or the hay got contaminated from wild birds.

In their notification to the OIE (Office International des Epizooties;
World Organization for Animal Health) of 22 Jun 2007 on the Tisova
outbreak, the Czech authorities reported that the diagnosis was
accomplished by their National laboratory at the State Veterinary Institute
(SVI), by gene sequencing and RT-PCR (reverse transcription polymerase
chain reaction). The source of infection was reported as "unknown or
inconclusive". See the notification, including a map, at
<http://www.oie.int/wahid-prod/public.php?page=single_report&pop=1&reportid=5626>
.

It may be assumed that samples have been forwarded to an OIE reference
laboratory. Anticipated results of the molecular studies and phylogenetic
analysis, carried out by the relevant OIE reference laboratory, may help
the attempts to unfold the possible origin of infection. - Mod.AS]

[see also:
Avian influenza (106): Czech Republic, turkeys, DEFRA 20070622.2018
Avian influenza (105) - Czech Republic, turkeys 20070621.1999
Avian influenza (101): Viet Nam (Bac Giang) 20070618.1973
Avian influenza (87): Nigeria, India (RFI), Pakistan 20070526.1680
Avian influenza (85): Viet Nam, Ghana, Pakistan, OIE 20070523.1651
Avian influenza (84): Bangladesh, Viet Nam (Nghe An), OIE 20070522.1631
Avian influenza (79): Viet Nam, Bangladesh 20070506.1469
Avian influenza (69) - Pakistan, Indonesia (Bali) 20070411.1219]

[HenryN]

Re: Czechs report bird flu (poultry, wild birds), June 27 +

AVIAN INFLUENZA (114): VIET NAM, PAKISTAN, CZECH REPUBLIC
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If the turkeys in the index outbreak got -- as alleged in the report --
infected through hay litter, then a previous outbreak should have occurred
elsewhere or the hay got contaminated from wild birds.

Reports from almost a week ago addressed this issue:

http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/index_view.php?id=258943

"Veterinaries believe that the turkeys bred at the farm got infected through hay litter. The hay came from near a pond and could be contaminated by droppings of birds living in the wild. "

[HenryN]

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All poultry at Czech Norin farm culled over bird flu

Norin- Czech military and firefighters have completed the liquidation of some 28,000 broilers this morning at a farm where the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu was confirmed on Wednesday, Ales Cernohorsky from the regional firefighters' rescue corps told.


This morning the culling of the poultry of small farmers in the neighbourhood will be completed.
Soldiers and firefighters will disinfect and clean the Norin farm.
Veterinaries have closed the farm today and started to take safety measures similar to those applied in Tisova, four kilometres away from Norin, where bird flu was uncovered at a local turkey farm last week.
Pardubice Regional deputy governor Roman Linek said that the inhabitants of the region do not face any threat.
The police have closed all roads to Norin and they only let locals in.
The ban on poultry exports to EU countries has been introduced in the region, Pardubice regional authorities spokeswoman Katerina Nohavova said.
This week, bird flu virus was also detected in a dead swan found in Lednice, south Moravia. However, the results of the first test for H5N1 are yet to be confirmed by the National Reference Laboratory in Prague.
The first bird flu case in the Czech Republic was discovered in March 2006. Another 13 cases of H5N1 infection of swans living in the wild were registered last year.

Author: <!-- Pole autor -->ČTK

http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/index_view.php?id=259749

[HenryN]

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Bird flu found in domestic poultry

Outbreak in east Bohemia poses little risk to people

June 27th, 2007
<TABLE style="CLEAR: right; MARGIN: 0px 0.8em" width=250 align=right border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>SRDJAN SUKI/ISIFA </TD></TR><TR><TD style="FONT-SIZE: 9px; COLOR: #666666; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Health officials collect turkeys for culling after the H5NI strain was confirmed at a co-op in east Bohemia. <CENTER>enlarge </CENTER></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><!-- Rside table --><TABLE style="CLEAR: right; MARGIN: 0px 0.9em" cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=8 width=250 align=right border=1><TBODY><TR><TD class=ban>H5N1: A timeline 1996, China: H5N1 is isolated from a farmed goose
1997, Hong Kong: The first reported cases (18 total) of human infection with H5N1 leave six people dead
July 2004, U.S.A.: Research shows H5N1 has become "progressively more lethal" for mammals
September 2004, U.S.A.: A report concludes cats can spread H5N1 infection to other cats. Domestic cats had previously been considered resistant to similar viruses
January 2005, U.S.A.: In the first published account of probable human-to-human transmission of the virus, researchers find that a Thai girl probably passed it to relatives
April 2005, China: The first mass die-off of wild birds occurs when more than 6,000 migratory birds die
October 2005, U.S.A., UK: Researchers reconstruct the 1918 flu virus that left tens of millions dead worldwide, concluding that the virus was avian and shares characteristics with H5N1
February 2006, France: H5N1 appears in domestic poultry for the first time in the EU
December 2006, China: To control spread of the disease, live animal markets are permanently closed in Beijing
May 2007: WHO adopts a resolution to create a global stockpile of flu vaccines

Source: World Health Organization


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After six days of lockdown, the road to Tisov&#225;, east Bohemia, reopened June 25. The move marks the completion of cleanup of a turkey farm that has been at the center of a week-long saga testing the response to avian flu.

By official accounts, it was successful. Though the episode was the first time the deadly H5N1 virus was found here in domestic flocks, health officials say the outbreak poses almost no risk to the public.

Bird flu first surfaced in the Czech Republic in March 2006, via wild swans. Since then, 13 cases have been registered in the wild.

František Bartoš, chairman of the Agricultural and Business Cooperative Z&#225;lš&#237;, which owned the turkeys, said birds began dying in larger numbers than usual starting June 17. “So not like two or three, but it was in the tens,” he said.

Lab tests confirmed June 20 that bird flu had hit the flock. Two days later, tests revealed that the particular strain to infect the birds was H5N1, the deadliest to humans.

Veterinarians created two zones surrounding the co-op. The first, which extended for 3 kilometers (1.9 miles), was closed off and the second, reaching 10 kilometers from the site, was under supervision.

About 1,800 of the 6,000 turkeys owned by the co-op died of the virus and the rest had to be culled. Another 1,000 birds from the village, Tisov&#225;, were killed, too, according to the Agriculture Ministry. Cleanup finished June 22, and the next day the area was fumigated.

The virus likely came from droppings that wild birds had left on hay, which was later used as bedding for the domestic flock, according to Zbyněk Semer&#225;d of the State Veterinary Administration.

“You can’t prevent these situations,” Josef Duben, spokesman for the veterinarian administration told iDnes.cz. It’s likely the hay later used for bedding was from uncovered haystacks, as Bartoš insists that his birds could not have made direct contact with wild birds.

Though bird flu outbreaks have devastated the livelihoods of some farmers in other parts of the world, Bartoš calls turkey farming “marginal” to his business, which focuses on cattle farming and milk production. The co-op, with 300 employees and annual sales “in the hundreds of millions,” according to Bartoš, sustained about a 2.5 million to 3 million Kč loss.

Agriculture Ministry officials met Monday to discuss how much compensation the government will give to the co-op.

“It is really hard to tell you now the exact amount of compensation, because we are waiting for the farmers to provide us with all kinds of documents,” said T&#225;ňa Kr&#225;lov&#225;, a spokeswoman for the ministry.


Intimacy issues

As for the possible health effects, Chief Public Health Officer Michael V&#237;t told Hospod&#225;řsk&#233; noviny there’s little to fear from this outbreak.

None of the birds had been brought to market yet as they were not fully grown, he said in the June 25 article.

Even if they had, it is extremely unlikely that people would catch the virus. To do so, V&#237;t said, one would have to “literally sleep with the birds, breathe in their powdered droppings, and never wash, drink their blood or eat semi-raw meat from infected birds.”

It is this kind of close contact with infected birds that has resulted in hundreds of people, mostly in Asia, contracting the virus. According to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, 161 people worldwide have died from bird flu between 2003 and January 2007.

Fears persist that H5N1 could mutate into a virus capable of spreading rapidly among humans. The risk has prompted years of international collaboration to address the concern, including the June 26–27 gathering of experts in Aviemore, Scotland, to discuss recent cases.

No one in the European Union has died from the disease so far.

“There has been no case of passing the virus from poultry to humans in Europe,” said Tom&#225;š Cikrt, spokesman for the Health Ministry. “[Asia] differs a lot from Europe in terms of sanitary codes and cultural habits. Only those people living in close contact with poultry got bird flu.”

However, the World Health Organization has reported that a less deadly form of the virus infected four people in the United Kingdom.

All employees at Z&#225;lš&#237; were given the antibiotic Tamiflu as a precaution. Should an outbreak occur, Cikrt said the country has enough of the medication to cover 20 percent of the population, adding, “There isn’t a country in the world that would have enough medication to cover all the population.” The expiration dates of the current stock range from 2008 to 2011, he said.

Recent outbreaks in domestic flocks have occurred in Italy, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Ukraine, Albania, France and the United Kingdom. About 160,000 turkeys were culled as a result of the UK outbreak.

Though V&#237;t has said the risk of infection from eating domestic poultry is virtually nonexistent, the Ukraine, Russia and Poland have all taken steps to ban poultry imports from the Czech Republic.


— Naďa Čern&#225; and Hela Bal&#237;nov&#225; contributed to this report.

http://www.praguepost.com/articles/2007/06/27/bird-flu-found-in-domestic-poultry.php

[AlaskaDenise]

Re: Czechs report bird flu in poultry at second farm

Commentary at

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/06...ch_Spread.html

Commentary

Qinghai H5N1 Spread in the Czech Republic
Recombinomics Commentary
June 27, 2007

Bird flu was discovered at a broiler farm in Norin, east Bohemia, but the presence of the highly dangerous H5N1 strain has neither been confirmed nor disproved yet, Czech State Veterinary Administration spokesman Josef Duben told CTK today.

Norin is located four kilometres from Tisova where the first Czech case of the H5N1 strain of bird flu among bred poultry was revealed at a turkey farm last week.

Duben said that tests proved bird flu in 60 cases at the farm with 27,800 broilers. He said the broilers tested positive for the H5 strain and further tests are to show whether it is H5N1 or not.

The turkeys bred at Tisova got infected through hay litter, while the broilers allegedly got into indirect contact with a carrier of the virus, man or bird.

The above comments describe the spread of H5N1 to a second farm in the Czech Republic. The close proximity of the farm to the index farm suggests spread was via poor biosecurity.

Information on the sequences linked to this outbreak, as well as the status of H5N1 testing in suspect wild bird cases in the region would be useful.


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[AlaskaDenise]

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Commentary at

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/06...ch_Kuwait.html

Commentary

Qinghai H5N1 in the Czech Republic Similar to Kuwait
Recombinomics Commentary
June 27, 2007

Influenzavirus has very large genetic similarity (99.5 per cent) with the H5N1 - virus, which had arisen in the spring in Kuwait with poultry and hunt falcon.

The above translation indicates the H5N1 on the turkey farm in the Czech Republic is similar to 2007 isolates from Kuwait. Linkage between western Europe and the Middle East is not a surprise. One of the markers that was in clade 2.2.2.3 in Germany, NA G743A, was appended onto 2007 sequences in Moscow, the Egypt, and the initial isolates from Ghana. Similarly, the HA M230I that appeared in the Nile Delta in late 2006 was in a clade 2.2.2.3 eagle owl, isolated in February 2006 in Germany.

Polymorphism tracing defines a large number of polymorphisms that were in Europe Qinghai H5N1 isolates and were subsequently acquired by isolates in the Middle East and Africa.

Wild birds transport and transmit these sequences, and the migration routes can be readily define by polymorphism tracing.


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[AlaskaDenise]

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Commentary at

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/06...B_Austria.html

Commentary

Bird Flu in Czech Republic Dead Swan Near Austrian Border
Recombinomics Commentary
June 27, 2007

Czech veterinaries revealed another case of bird flu as tests proved the virus in a swan that died in Lednice, south Moravia, public Czech Television (CT) and Aktualne.cz news server reported today.

Further tests have yet to confirm whether the virus is the deadly H5N1 strain, said Jaroslav Salava, who heads the veterinary administration in south Moravia.

He said that the result of the tests will be known on Thursday or later.

The Lednice water reservoirs are one of the most risky areas through which very many wild birds move, but from the veterinary point of view it is a rather good locality as there are no big bird farms around, Salava said.

The above confirmation of bird flu in a dead swan in Lednice will almost certainly be Qinghai H5N1. H5N1 has been confirmed on a turkey farm in northern Czech Republic. It is likely in an adjacent farm, where dead poultry is H5 positive. Dead wild birds in that area also have bird flu symptoms. The H5N1 on the turkey farm is said to be 99.5% identical with H5N1 from Kuwait.

The detection of bird flu in a dead swan in Lednice is near the southern border with Slovakia and Austria, defining another location of bird flu in wild birds in Europe. Detection of bird flu in June, further supports the endemic nature of H5N1 in Europe and highlights the need for an improved surveillance system.

Western Europe failed to detect H5N1 in almost all countries between June 2006 and June 2007. There have been no reports of H5N1 in live wild birds. These surveillance failures remain a cause for concern.


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[hawkeye]

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I've updated the Czech Republic Map

[Gert van der Hoek]

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Bird flu resurfaces in eastern Bohemia

- snip -

Then, on Wednesday morning, came the news that the deadly virus has been detected at a poultry farm just four kilometers away. 28,000 chickens were culled there on Thursday morning as well as all poultry in the nearby village of Norin.

Experts say they believe that the virus must have come from wild birds contaminating stacks of straw which was later used at the turkey farm. It could then have been transferred on the shoes of a worker or on a car tire between the two poultry farms which belong to the same farming cooperative.

This theory is supported by the most recent developments - one dead swan, now being tested, and close to 250 dead seagulls found near the Rozkos man-made lake near Nachod.

For the time being Czech vets are not planning on eliminating wild birds for fear that they would flee in a panic and could speed up the potential spread of the virus.

- snip -

http://www.radio.cz/en/article/92866

[HenryN]

Re: Czechs report bird flu (poultry, wild birds), June 27 +

Commentary at

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/06280702/H5N1_Czech_More.html

[HenryN]

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AVIAN INFLUENZA (115): TOGO, BANGLADESH, CZECH REPUBLIC
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In this update:
[1] Togo: confirmed
[2] Bangladesh (north)
[3] Czech Republic (Moravia): swan

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[1] Togo: confirmed
Date: Thu 28 Jun 2007
Source: Hemscott.com, Thomson Financial report [edited]
<http://www.hemscott.com/news/latest-news/item.do?newsId=45709189803142>


Independent tests carried out in Italy have confirmed the presence for the
1st time of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in poultry from the West
African nation of Togo, officials said.
"The results of the tests from the world reference laboratory in Padua have
come in: it is clearly H5N1," said agriculture minister, Yves Nagou Mado.
Several thousand poultry birds have been found dead in Togo recently, most
of them in the past week on the one farm in Sigbehoue, 45 km (30 mi) east
of the capital Lome.

The agriculture ministry said last week [18-24 Jun 2007], that measures had
been taken to try and contain the possible spread of the virus, notably the
slaughtering and disposal of infected poultry.

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[Togo has duly and swiftly notified OIE (Office International des
Epizooties/World Animal Health Organization) of the outbreak (see
ProMED-mail 20070626.2054).

The following extracted, additional information is derived from an AFP
(Agence France-Presse) newswire in French, kindly forwarded by Coulibaly
Sidi, and available at
<http://www.izf.net/izf/AFP2/francais/special/afrique/070627194724.ggc4dc0l.html
>:


Togo's minister of agriculture, Mr Nagou, indicated that localities and
villages around the outbreak are under active monitoring. He added,
"Culling of the animals in the infected premises will begin Thursday [28
Jun 2007]", and announced the installation of a committee of "crisis"
charged to follow the evolution of the situation. - Mod.AS

A map of Togo is available at
<http://www.infoplease.com/atlas/country/togo.html>. - CopyEd.MJ]

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[2] Bangladesh (north)
Date: Wed 27 Jun 2007
Source: Reuters Foundation AlertNet [edited]
<http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/DHA225567.htm>


Bird flu has spread to another district in Bangladesh forcing health and
veterinary workers to cull 5000 chickens, officials said on Wednesday [27
Jun 2007].

The latest case was reported from a village in Thakurgaon district, 500 km
(310 mi) north west of the capital, Dhaka, said Abdul Motalib, a senior
officer of the fisheries and livestock ministry.

The H5N1 strain of bird flu was 1st detected near the capital Dhaka, in
central Bangladesh, in March [2007], and has since spread to northern
districts. The virus has affected 16 of the 64 districts in Bangladesh, but
there have been no reported cases of human infection.

About 4 million Bangladeshis are directly or indirectly associated with
poultry farming.

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communicated by:
ProMED-mail rapporteur Mary Marshall

[Bangladesh submitted its latest follow-up report, including a map, to OIE
on 25 May 2007; see
<http://www.oie.int/wahid-prod/public.php?page=single_report&pop=1&reportid=5477
>.
A new follow-up report, with an updated map demonstrating the northward
spread of the disease, is expected.

Thakurgaon is located in the north western tip of Bangladesh, within the
Rajshahi district. It can be located on the map at
<http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/bangladesh_pol96.jpg>.
- Mod.AS]

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[3] Czech Republic (Moravia): swan
Date: Thu 28 Jun 2007
Source: Prague Daily Monitor, Czech News Agency (CTK) report [edited]
<http://launch.praguemonitor.com/en/116/czech_national_news/8797/>


Public Czech Television (CT) and Aktualne.cz news server reported Wednesday
[27 Jun 2007] that Czech veterinaries revealed another case of bird flu, as
tests confirmed the virus in a swan that died in Lednice, south Moravia.

Further tests have yet to confirm whether the virus is the deadly H5N1
strain, said Jaroslav Salava, who heads the veterinary administration in
south Moravia. He said that the result of the tests would be known on
Thursday [28 Jun 2007], or later.

The Lednice water reservoirs are one of the most risky areas through which
many wild birds move, but from the veterinary point of view it is a rather
good locality, as there are no big bird [poultry] farms around, Salava said.

Turkeys at a farm in Tisova, east Bohemia, tested positive for H5N1 last
week [18-24 Jun 2007] and those who did not die of bird flu had to be
culled. Today [28 Jun 2007], the deadly virus was confirmed at another farm
near Tisova.

In 2006, 14 cases of bird flu were registered in the Czech Republic, all in
swans living in the wild.

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communicated by:
ProMED-mail rapporteur Mary Marshall

[The results of the EU ADNS (Animal disease notification system)
surveillance of HPAI (highly pathogenic avian influenza) in wild birds, as
obtained during 2007, are presented in graphs, available at
<http://ec.europa.eu/food/animal/diseases/adns/adns_wildbirds2007.pdf>. The
page includes 3 graphs: overview of the number of cases per week; overview
of the number cases per bird species; and overview of the number of cases
per country.

According to the current information (update of 27 Jun 2007), the 1st
positive cases in 2007 have been recorded during the last 2 weeks of June
(weeks 25 and 26), in Germany, involving a total of 9 birds -- 8 ducks and
one goose. The data do not include the number of investigated (dead) birds.
- Mod.AS

Moravia occupies most of the eastern third of the Czech Republic
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravia>. A map of the country is available
at <http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/czech.pdf>. - CopyEd.MJ]

[see also:
Avian influenza (114): Viet Nam, Pakistan, Czech Republic 20070627.2069
Avian influenza (110): Togo, Ghana, OIE 20070626.2054
Avian influenza (109): Germany (Bavaria), wild birds 20070624.2040,
20070624.2041
Avian influenza (107): Togo, confirmed 20070623.2029
Avian influenza (106): Czech Republic, turkeys, DEFRA 20070622.2018
Avian influenza (105) - Czech Republic, turkeys 20070621.1999
Avian influenza (103): Bangladesh 20070617.1969
Avian influenza (102): Togo, susp., RFI 20070617.1968]