India: Assam, AVIAN INFLUENZA A/H5N1 IN POULTRY (December 2008+)

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INDIA: AVIAN INFLUENZA H5N1 POULTRY EPIZOOTICS IN ASSAM, UPDATE (12/12/2008) [GOVT OF INDIA]

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Govt steps to tackle bird flu
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GUWAHATI, Dec 12 ? The Chief Minster today directed the departments concerned to take all necessary measures to bring bird flu under control and to prevent its transmission to humans. The Chief Minister who was reviewing the bird flu-related situation with his Ministerial colleagues and senior officials at Dispur, also directed the Veterinary and Health Departments to work together to prevent a disaster.

Disclosing this, official sources here said that the Chief Minister has also directed administration to prohibit forthwith inter-district transportation of poultry and poultry products and made an appeal to the people to cooperate with the authorities in the culling operations. The meeting also decided to enhance the compensation rates of poultry to Rs 80 for each of the broiler variety of fowls, Rs 90 for each of the local variety of fowls, Rs 125 for each of the ducks and Rs 15 for each of the chicks and ducklings.

Culling of poultry in the bird flu affected areas of the State is going in the State, barring the Hajo Revenue Circle areas, where the drive against the disease has already come to conclusion.

The Veterinary Department has been preparing to send more serum and floacal samples from other areas of the State to the Bhopal-based High Security Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (HSADL) and the Pune-based National Institute of Virology (NIV).

Meanwhile, sale, purchase and transportation of poultry and cooked and raw poultry products are prohibited in the Kamrup and Kamrup (Metro) districts. Similar prohibitory orders on sale and transportation of poultry and poultry products have also been promulgated in the other districts from where reports of bird flu prevalence have been reported.

The Basistha Police in the city arrested last night four persons while they were trying to transport 470 poultry to Meghalaya. The persons identified to be Nazir Ali and Muquddar Ali?both owners of the birds and abdur Rahim and Zehirul Islam respectively driver and handyman of the vehicle used in the case, brought the poultry from Barpeta and were heading to Meghalaya. A case has been registered against them (617/08) in the police station.

The Basistha Police also arrested two persons Rafique Ali and Md Sahidul Ali from near the Beltola Social Service Office while they were carrying 84 poultry in gunny bags today. A case (618/08) has been registered against them by the police station, said official sources here.

The Goalpara district administration has also promulgated a similar order prohibiting sale and transportation of poultry and poultry products from and to the district. The measure has been initiated as a preventive step, said official sources in Goalpara.

Official sources in Goalpara told this newspaper that the Veterinary Department in association with the district administration of Goalpara seized today two cartons of eggs at Dudhnoi while the eggs were carried to Meghalaya.

The Goalpara District Veterinary Office today sent 19 sera and floacal samples of poultry to the North East Regional Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (NERDDL) for forwarding them to Bhopal HSADL and Pune NIV. Earlier, the District Veterinary Office had sent 171 sera and floacal samples to the NERDDL for the same purpose.

Collection of sera and floacal samples of poultry in the district is on, said the sources.

Our Correspondents add:

Mangaldoi: There is no report of occurrence of bird flu from any part of Darrang District. However, sale of poultry and poultry products is prohibited in the district for an indefinite period.

Bongaigaon: Culling of poultry started in the Dagtola, Kakragaon and Simalaguri areas of Chirang District today, along with the Tengaigaon area of Bongaigaon District.

The owners of the poultry are unhappy with the compensation amount and they are resenting it to be meagre compared to the market value of the poultry. They have another reason to resent the culling of their birds, as, to them, their birds are healthy apparently. The resentment of the villagers has caused delay in the culling operations.

http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=dec1308/at03

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Bird flu alert in north Bengal district








Cooch Behar (WB): An alert for bird flu was sounded on Friday in north Bengal?s Cooch Behar district.
Samples of blood have been sent for the test following the outbreak in the neighbouring districts of Assam. Additional District
Magistrate (D), Cooch Behar, Pannalal Mahapatra, said though there was no report of poultry death, arrangements had been made to disinfect vehicles coming from Assam. Officials of the Animal Resource Development department have sent samples of blood collected from different areas for laboratory tests ? PTI

http://www.hindu.com/2008/12/13/stories/2008121350560100.htm

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Bird flu detected in Dibrugarh, alert sounded
STAFF CORRESPONDENT
DIBRUGARH, Dec 12 ? The Health Ministry confirmed the outbreak of bird flu in Dibrugarh on Wednesday evening after laboratory tests detected strains of the deadly H5N1 avian influenza in the samples sent by veterinary officials of Dibrugarh. The samples were collected from a poultry farm in Chiring Chapori here, after the reported death of more than 120 birds.

The district Veterinary and Animal husbandry department sounded an alert on Wednesday evening and the district administration was quick to respond by banning sale and purchase of poultry including ducks and eggs in the area.

About 30,000 poultry and nearly 1100 ducks are expected to be killed within a three kilometer radius from the detected poultry farm. ?The entire culling process is expected to be completed in seven to ten days as RRT are expected to visit farms as well as each and every household in the area,? veterinary officials said. Although, fifty per cent of the cost of birds would be paid to the farmers after culling, it is learned that unscrupulous farmers were either engaged in hiding the birds or shifting them to other areas.

Protective gears like aprons, hand gloves, masks, antiseptic and antiviral medicines etc. reached Dibrugarh on Thursday morning. However, medical examinations of the members of the RRT could not be conducted on Thursday for want of antiviral drug (Tami Flu). This has clearly exposed the unpreparedness of the district administration.

In another incident, town veterinary officer, Dr R B Pradhan on Thursday seized about 30 kilograms of tapeworm-infected carcass of pig from a roadside bazaar near the Doordarshan Staff Colony gate. The farmer, an old man selling the visible unhygienic pork was reprimanded for evading ante mortem of the carcass and selling it for public consumption illegally.

http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=dec1308/State

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More from West Bengal

Bird flu scare

Malda, Dec. 12: The government has sounded a north Bengal alert following a bird flu outbreak in Assam, but at least 250 chickens have died in a Malda village in two days and no sample has been sent for tests.

A panchayat leader said the ?chickens got drowsy and died?. Villagers complained of dead birds being dumped all over. ?Children are playing with them.?

Over 30,000 chickens had died in Malda in January and nearly two lakh were culled. The flu struck Assam less than a month after India declared itself free of the disease. Two teams from Delhi will join three already in that state to assist in human surveillance.

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1081213/jsp/bengal/story_10246730.jsp

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Dec. 12: Dispur today moved the Meghalaya government to take steps to prevent the sale of poultry and poultry products in Ri Bhoi district bordering bird flu-affected Kamrup (metro).

The Assam government also arrested six persons in Guwahati for smuggling birds out of the district in violation of Section 144 CrPC that banned the sale and movement of poultry and poultry-related products.
Meghalaya was alerted after reports came in that shops along National Highway 37 on the inter-state border were selling chicken even after bird flu was confirmed in the Central Chick Rearing Farm in Khanapara on Wednesday evening.
The department of animal husbandry, dairy and fisheries under the Union ministry of agriculture also wrote to the Meghalaya government yesterday, saying culling operations within the 3-km radius from the epicentre of flu outbreak at Khanapara extended to certain areas in Meghalaya.
Kamrup (metro) deputy commissioner Prateek Hajela said the state government had taken up the matter at the highest level with its Meghalaya counterpart.
In Guwahati, the four persons — Nizam Ali, Muqadar Ali, Abdul Rahim and Jehirul Islam — were arrested for allegedly trying to transport 470 birds from Barpeta to Shillong. Two more men, Rafiq Ali and Sahidul Ali, were arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle out 84 birds in a gunny bag. The cases against the six of them under Section 140 have been registered at Basistha police station.
Besides the arrests, both chief minister Tarun Gogoi and chief secretary P.C. Sharma held separate meetings to review the situation. The high-level meeting chaired by Gogoi this evening decided to hike compensation for culled birds. According to the new rates, a culled full-grown duck will fetch Rs 125, a local chicken Rs 90, a brolier Rs 80.
Ri Bhoi deputy commissioner S.F. Khongwir admitted that some people were still selling chicken in the bordering areas of the district with Assam, including Guwahati.
He said soon after receiving the information, policemen were sent to areas where poultry is being sold.
Hajela said till last night, a total of 3,900 birds were culled against a target of about 50,000 in Guwahati. “At Patgaon — another avian flu-hit area of Kamrup (metro) — 16,600 birds have been culled. The culling operation at Patgaon is on its last leg and likely to end by tomorrow evening.”
Two additional central health teams will fly to Assam tomorrow to conduct surveillance of people in areas affected by the flu. The teams from the National Institute of Communicable Diseases in New Delhi will join three others already in the state to assist in human surveillance.
The health ministry has already sent 10,000 capsules of Tamiflu, an anti-viral drug, 6,000 surgical masks, 600 personal protective equipment, and two ventilators to the state.
Additional stocks of drugs and masks will be sent in the coming days.

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Assam steps up flu surveillance
13 Dec 2008, 0239 hrs IST, Naresh Mitra & Rishu Kalantry, TNN

GUWAHATI/TINSUKIA: The Assam health department has stepped up surveillance on human beings in the bird flu-hit districts. Health officials said
about 300,000 people were under strict surveillance in the six districts where avian influenza was reported. National Rural Health Mission (Assam) director Partha Gogoi said no case of human infection has been reported so far.
Gogoi added that at least 150 people, who were found suffering from fever in the affected districts, were actually suffering from common cold. "We are keeping a close watch on the health of these people at places where bird flu has been detected. So far, no human infection has been reported. We are also ready with medical teams and necessary drugs in case any human infection is found,'' Gogoi said.
Sufficient quantity of Tamiflu, the drug that is used to treat avian influenza, has been stocked in adequate quantity to treat people if they get infected with bird flu. Five medical teams, comprising medicine specialists, epidemiologists and microbiologists, are monitoring the situation in the affected districts.
On Friday, culling operations continued at a government farm in the city's Khanapara area, Jalah in Kamrup district's Bejera area and ward no 6 in Dibrugarh. Altogether 1,343 fowls were culled by Rapid Response Team personnel at the Central Chicks Rearing farm of the veterinary and animal husbandry department in the Khanapara area on Thursday. Bird flu was confirmed in the government farm after 30 birds died there a few days ago.
Hours before the culling operations started in Dibrugarh, a Central official arrived here on Friday to oversee the process. According to sources, observer Dipankar Biswas, regional officer of the central veterinary department's eastern region, will prepare a report on the culling process. Culling started at the shop of Biswajit Roy in the town's Ward No 6. On Wednesday, the first case of bird flu was detected in this shop. Culling will be getting over in three to four days.
"On the first day, five teams of four members each were pressed into action. Several birds were culled by the end of the day,'' said R Das, district veterinary officer (Dibrugarh).
"Culling started in Chiring Sapori of Ward Number 6 and will be carried out within a radius of three km,'' Das said. "It is a door-to-door operation and will take three-four days to cull all birds in the marked area. A map has been prepared to facilitate members of the culling team. Members of these teams have also received the anti-virus injection to prevent any infection to them.''
"An estimated 40,000 birds, including ducks, are likely to be culled,'' Das added. Earlier, the Dibrugarh district administration had prohibited sale and import of poultry and poultry products to the district after detection of bird flu. A similar ban has been imposed in Tinsukia district.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Assam_steps_up_flu_surveillance/articleshow/3830075.cms

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Medical workers were going door-to-door to look for people with symptoms of avian influenza in northeast India Friday as the infection in birds spread further, officials said.

So far, no human cases of infection of the deadly H5N1 virus have been reported in the affected Assam state, but authorities stepped up a health drive after 150 people developed some symptoms of the infection.

"About 150 people were treated for fever and upper respiratory tract infections in bird flu-hit areas. We have put the patients in isolation," senior health official Parthajyoti Gogoi told AFP.

Bird flu was ruled out in all cases, the official said.

The virus has spread in the past two weeks across six Assam districts, where an estimated 300,000 people live in the affected areas.

Health scare in Indian state as bird flu spreads


More than 250,000 poultry have been slaughtered so far and an estimated 150,000 more have been ordered to be killed.

The government was "worried" about the infection spreading to humans, as authorities may not be able to cope, local health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.

The sale of poultry and poultry products has been banned in most parts of the state.

India reported its worst outbreak of bird flu early this year in the eastern state of West Bengal.

The WHO says the deadly H5N1 strain has killed nearly 250 people, mostly in Southeast Asia, since 2003.

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Bird flu out of control in Assam

UNI

Saturday, December 13th, 2008


GUWAHATI: Bird flu is out of control in Assam and the state has sent an urgent SOS to the Centre for help in terms of finance, technology and manpower to stop further spread of almost pandemic avian flu putting human beings to high risk of acquiring the virus.

Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi late on Friday night summoned an emergency meeting of his crack team of bureaucrats and reviewed the whole situation as almost the entire Brahmaputra valley was in the grip of the avian flu.

?It is getting very serious. We have gone all out but the way it was spreading, it will be very difficult to manage,? the Chief Minister said to his top bureaucrats, who were summoned to his residence to formulate a combat strategy.

Union Agriculture Secretary J Gopalkumaran has flown in to oversee the culling operation as the state machinery was racing against time to fight the disease.

More than 2.5 lakh chickens were already culled but it was decided at the meeting to cull the entire bird stock of the Brahmaputra valley to get rid of the crisis as the H5N1 virus was notorious to spread under 20 degrees Centigrade.

?With temperature continuing to be lower for the month or so, it has become more important to see that bird flu is stopped now? said state Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sharma, who also attended the crucial meeting.

The possibility of human infection in any of the North East states could also not be ruled out as the bird flu virus was reportedly brought in by migratory birds, which seek home all over the region.

The government had proved ill-equipped to check its further spread and is now alarmed at any possibility of human infection, with Dr Sharma admitting, ?If it transmits to human beings, we don't have infrastructure to meet the crisis.?

So far more than 250 patients were treated for upper respiratory infection which has close symptoms like avian flu but fortunately none of them had been transmitted bird flu. Dr Sharma maintained that few patients could be treated but contamination would jump upwards fast and then the state would be faced with a great problem.

The Minister claimed that the state has stocked medicines for treating affected people but only in about 50 per cent cases, the patients respond to the medications.

As many as nine districts have been confirmed of the outbreak of bird flu, including Guwahati, with all other districts also highly exposed to the possibility of being affected.

?We are working hard but due to low temperature, it is spreading fast,? Veterinary department Director Dr A K Kotoky said.

The state has sought additional Rs three crore as compensation package to the owners of birds, which are to be culled.

Sale and export of poultry has already been banned, but imposition of ban was proving to be a problem due to low awareness level and casual attitude of consumers.

Price of red meat has skyrocketed as that of fish with fast-food business also severely hit.

?Local people are not cooperating with us and it will have a catastrophic effect, far more than any other calamity,? Mr Kotoky warned.

http://www.sakaaltimes.com/2008/12/13131303/Bird-flu-out-of-control-in-Ass.html

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Dec 13, 2008
Bird flu scare in India

GUWAHATI (India) - INIDA rushed two more teams of bird flu experts to the northeastern state of Assam to step up surveillance after nearly 100 people showed signs of the virus, health officials said on Saturday.
Health workers have yet to confirm any human cases of H5N1, but they said patients in six districts were suffering from fever and respiratory infections, which are symptoms of the virus in humans.
'No human cases of H5N1 have been confirmed in the state. But we are on maximum alert,' Himanta Biswa Sarma, Assam's Health minister, said.
Three teams of federal medical experts, including epidemiologists and microbiologists, are keeping a close watch on humans in affected areas of the oil- and tea-producing state.
The medical teams brought supplies of equipment as a preventative measure in case the virus spreads to humans, including 10,000 Tamiflu capsules, 6,000 surgical masks and two ventilators.
'More medicines and equipment will reach here in the next two days to cope up with the situation,' Mr Sarma said.
Veterinary officials have slaughtered more than 300,000 chickens and ducks since late November, after the virus was detected in poultry last month in a village close to Guwahati, the region's main city.
More than 400 rapid response teams have been formed for culling operations in areas affected by the disease, which experts suspect was carried by migratory birds.
'By December 16, all culling operations will be completed,' said N. Gokul Ram, a top federal health official told reporters in Guwahati.
Police arrested six people in Guwahati on charges of smuggling more than 500 chickens out of the city, violating the ban on sale and transportation of the poultry products in the state.
Samples of dead chickens have been sent for testing in two more districts of Assam.
While no human cases have been reported in India, experts fear the H5N1 virus might mutate or combine with the highly contagious seasonal influenza virus and spark a pandemic that could kill millions of people. Since the virus resurfaced in Asia in 2003, it has killed more than 200 people in a dozen countries, the World Health Organisation says. -- REUTERShttp://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking...ry_313945.html

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Bird flu out of control in Assam

UNI

Saturday, December 13th, 2008


GUWAHATI: Bird flu is out of control in Assam and the state has sent an urgent SOS to the Centre for help in terms of finance, technology and manpower to stop further spread of almost pandemic avian flu putting human beings to high risk of acquiring the virus.



More than 2.5 lakh chickens were already culled but it was decided at the meeting to cull the entire bird stock of the Brahmaputra valley to get rid of the crisis as the H5N1 virus was notorious to spread under 20 degrees Centigrade.

http://www.sakaaltimes.com/2008/12/1...ol-in-Ass.html

The Brahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of eastern India. The ecoregion covers 56,700 square kilometers (21,900 square miles), which encompasses the alluvial plain of the Brahmaputra River in India's Assam state.

20 C = 68 F

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Experts sent to India's Assam on bird flu scare
13 Dec 2008 09:42:02 GMT
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GUWAHATI, India, Dec 13 (Reuters) - India rushed two more teams of bird flu experts to the northeastern state of Assam to step up surveillance after nearly 100 people showed signs of the virus, health officials said on Saturday.
Health workers have yet to confirm any human cases of H5N1, but they said patients in six districts were suffering from fever and respiratory infections, which are symptoms of the virus in humans.
"No human cases of H5N1 have been confirmed in the state. But we are on maximum alert," Himanta Biswa Sarma, Assam's Health minister, said.
Three teams of federal medical experts, including epidemiologists and microbiologists, are keeping a close watch on humans in affected areas of the oil- and tea-producing state.
The medical teams brought supplies of equipment as a preventative measure in case the virus spreads to humans, including 10,000 Tamiflu capsules, 6,000 surgical masks and two ventilators.
"More medicines and equipment will reach here in the next two days to cope up with the situation," Sarma said.
Veterinary officials have slaughtered more than 300,000 chickens and ducks since late November, after the virus was detected in poultry last month in a village close to Guwahati, the region's main city.
More than 400 rapid response teams have been formed for culling operations in areas affected by the disease, which experts suspect was carried by migratory birds.
"By December 16, all culling operations will be completed," said N. Gokul Ram, a top federal health official told reporters in Guwahati.
Police arrested six people in Guwahati on charges of smuggling more than 500 chickens out of the city, violating the ban on sale and transportation of the poultry products in the state.
Samples of dead chickens have been sent for testing in two more districts of Assam.
While no human cases have been reported in India, experts fear the H5N1 virus might mutate or combine with the highly contagious seasonal influenza virus and spark a pandemic that could kill millions of people.
Since the virus resurfaced in Asia in 2003, it has killed more than 200 people in a dozen countries, the World Health Organisation says.
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Bird flu suspected to spread in two more districts


Tags: Assam , Guwahati , Bird flu


<SUP>Published: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 at 17:15 IST</SUP>

<SCRIPT type=text/javascript> var newscripts=new virtualpaginate("virtualpage", 1, "p") //Let script know you're using "p" tags as separator (instead of default "div") newscripts.buildpagination("scriptspaginate") </SCRIPT>Guwahati, Dec 13: Two more districts in Assam were suspected to have been affected by bird flu with poultry deaths reported from Sibsagar and North Lakhimpur.

Blood samples of the birds from the two districts were sent for tests to laboratories in Pune and Bhopal, Union Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Secretary N Gokulram told reporters here.

While Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said earlier that nine districts were affected, Gokulram, who arrived here from Delhi yesterday, said that they numbered six.

Sibsagar and North Lakhimpur districts, however, were fresh areas where the avian influenza was suspected to have spread.

Appropriate action would be taken in the two districts, Gokulram said, after receiving reports from the Bhopal-based High Security Disease Diagnostic Laboratory and the National Institute of Virology, Pune.

The official said he had met the state chief secretary last evening and Assam government had geared up to tackle the situation.

"Cordoning of infected areas was enforced, culling speeded up and sanitation done so that nothing is left for a fresh outbreak of the disease," he said.

Purchase and movement of poultry products were banned within a radius of three km off the affected areas, Gokulram said. So far 93 rapid response teams were working in affected Kamrup (Rural), Kamrup (Metro) where Guwahati is located, Nalbari, Barpeta, Chirang and Dibrugarh districts.

3.18 lakh poultry birds were culled so far with 1.8 lakh eggs and 11,000 kg of feed destroyed.

http://www.samaylive.com/news/bird-flu-suspected-to-spread-in-two-more-districts/601306.html

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