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[HenryN]

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21.02.2007, 12.13


</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR class=news><TD></TD><TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"> MOSCOW, February 21 (Itar-Tass) - Two more incidents of bird flu have been reported in the Kaluga and Dmitrov regions, southwest and north of Moscow, respectively.
Judging by the symptoms it is most likely bird flu, although the exact diagnosis will be known after a virus disease test, said spokesman for Russia?s Federal Service for Veterinary Supervision Alexei Alexeyenko.
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[HenryN]

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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>Bird flu spreads beyond territory of Moscow region

21.02.2007, 14.55


</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR class=news><TD></TD><TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">MOSCOW, February 21 (Itar-Tass) -- Bird flu has spread beyond the territory of the Moscow region. Incidents of bird flu have been reported in the Borovskoi district in the Kaluga region, spokesman for the Federal Service for Veterinary Supervision Alexei Alexeyenko told Tass.
In a separate incident in the settlement of Ugino in the Dmitrov district north of Moscow, all the chicken died at a private farm two days after its owner bought a few chickens at the notorious Pet Market in Moscow.
Seven territories have been hit by bird flu in the Moscow region by Wednesday, including Domodedovo, Odintsovo, Podolsk, Naro-Fominsk, Taldom, Volokolamsk, Zelenograd.
No human cases of bird flu have been reported, Chief Sanitary Doctor Olga Gavrilenko told Tass earlier.
On Tuesday, the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosaniatry Supervision did not rule out a possibility of more incidents of bird flu in the Moscow and neighbouring regions.
Given the Pet Market's turnover, more incidents of bird flu are expected on the territory of the Moscow region in the next few days, the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Service said in a letter to the European Commission.
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http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=11273222&PageNum=0

[HenryN]

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MOSCOW, February 21 (Itar-Tass) -- Bird flu has spread beyond the territory of the Moscow region. Incidents of bird flu have been reported in the Borovskoi district in the Kaluga region, spokesman for the Federal Service for Veterinary Supervision Alexei Alexeyenko told Tass.
In a separate incident in the settlement of Ugino in the Dmitrov district north of Moscow, all the chicken died at a private farm two days after its owner bought a few chickens at the notorious Pet Market in Moscow.
Seven territories have been hit by bird flu in the Moscow region by Wednesday, including Domodedovo, Odintsovo, Podolsk, Naro-Fominsk, Taldom, Volokolamsk, Zelenograd.
No human cases of bird flu have been reported, Chief Sanitary Doctor Olga Gavrilenko told Tass earlier.
On Tuesday, the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosaniatry Supervision did not rule out a possibility of more incidents of bird flu in the Moscow and neighbouring regions.
Given the Pet Market's turnover, more incidents of bird flu are expected on the territory of the Moscow region in the next few days, the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Service said in a letter to the European Commission.

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=11273222&PageNum=0

[HenryN]

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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class="colored_in_333 boldWeight">Russia finds bird flu in new region, suspects more </TD></TR><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD background=Images/bg_line3.gif></TD></TR><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>21 February 2007 | 14:49 | FOCUS News Agency</TD></TR><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD background=Images/bg_line3.gif></TD></TR><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>Moscow. Russia confirmed another outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu, potentially dangerous to humans, on a farm in a southern region on Wednesday and suspects two more outbreaks on farms near Moscow, Reuters reported. Alexei Alexeyenko, spokesman for animal and plant health watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor, said the H5N1 strain was identified in the republic of Adygeya, a region in the North Caucasus.
Bird deaths also have been registered at farms in Dmitrov district, part of Moscow region, and Borovsk district in the Kaluga region, which borders the Moscow region to the south.
Alexeyenko said he expected confirmation of the presence of the virus in these regions within the next two days.

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n106268

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[HenryN]

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Commentary at

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[Theresa42]

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Russia suspects exotic birds caused bird flu outbreak
Wednesday February 21, 2007

MOSCOW (AFP) - Russian authorities said Wednesday they suspect illegally imported exotic birds are the source of bird flu cases detected in the Moscow region.

"The responsible agencies are looking at where the bird flu virus that showed up at the Moscow bird market could have come from," Nikolai Vlassov, head of Russia's veterinary services, was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency.

"We suspect that it was transported by exotic birds illegally brought in from Azerbaijan, Iran or from the Krasnodar region" in southern Russia.

Officials have said repeatedly that no human cases of bird flu had been detected in Russia.

However, the public health department said that anyone with heavy flu or a severe respiratory infection will be tested for the H5N1 virus.

Russia is also investigating whether bird flu has spread beyond the Moscow region following poultry deaths in the nearby area of Kaluga, the state veterinary service said.

"Pathological samples are being examined and we are trying to determine where the birds were purchased, but all cases are similar to those discovered earlier in the Moscow region," Russian veterinary services spokesman Alexei Alexeyenko told Interfax.

The H5N1 bird flu strain has already been confirmed in several districts in the Moscow region, where some 333 farm birds have died, according to the Russian emergencies ministry.

The most dangerous Asian strain of H5N1, potentially fatal to humans who come into contact with infected birds, has been confirmed at two sites in the Moscow area.

The authorities have determined that some of the contaminated birds were bought at Moscow's bird market.

H5N1 had killed 164 people worldwide as of last month. Scientists worry that the virus could mutate and spread among humans.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21022007/323/russia-suspects-exotic-birds-caused-bird-flu-outbreak.html

[Theresa42]

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babelfished from Russian:

The suspicions to the bird influenza of the Kashira region were not confirmed

MOSCOW, 21 Feb - RIA of news. The reason for the case of poultry in the city necklace the Kashira region of Moscow region became not bird influenza, reported RIA of news in the Ministry of Agriculture of Moscow region.

"The results of the analyses of the hen killed there showed that bird influenza it not had", specified the interlocutress of agency, without explaining that it precisely became the reason for its loss.

In the necklace in two-three weeks of 18 hens seven birds perished.

The first cases of the case of hens in Moscow region were fixed on 16 February in the urban district Zvenigorod and Domodedovo region.

Aleksey Pantelei reported that acting of the governor of Moscow region the third case of the loss of poultry in the Moscow area. This occurred in Podolskiy the region of region.

Next day they reported analogous situation in the Taldomskeye region and by Naro-Fominsk region. On Monday it became known about the loss of poultry in Volokolamsk and Odintsovskom the Moscow area regions. According to the communications of the Ministry of Agriculture of region, by the eighth point, where, supposedly because of the bird influenza, occurred the case of poultry it became Ramenskoye city.

By the eighth region and the ninth secondary economy with the loss of domestic feathered for the preliminary reason - bird influenza - became the Dmitrovskiy region of the Moscow area.

Thus, to the evening of medium, on 21 February, in Moscow region are revealed nine unhappy on the bird influenza points.

Examination established that in the infected birds - Asian version of bird influenza.

The specialists of Rossel'khoznadzora in Sunday conducted checking and established that the source of infection - bird, acquired on the bird market of Moscow.

http://www.rian.ru/society/20070221/61078828.html

[Mellie]

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Qinghai H5N1 Spread in Russia
Recombinomics Commentary
February 21, 2007

Alexei Alexeyenko, spokesman for animal and plant health watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor, said the H5N1 strain was identified in the republic of Adygeya, a region in the North Caucasus.

Bird deaths also have been registered at farms in Dmitrov district, part of Moscow region, and Borovsk district in the Kaluga region, which borders the Moscow region to the south.

The above comments describe further spread of H5N1 in Russia. The two new locations near Moscow are linked to the pet market in the suburbs southwest of Moscow. The number of locations is at least eight, which ring Moscow.

The first two outbreaks are confirmed in this week?s OIE report, which also provides additional information in the three locations in Krasnodar, reported last month. Now there are two more outbreaks in the adjacent Adygeya.

There are also dead and dying birds washing up on the adjacent shores of Abhkazia (see video), although H5N1 infections have been denied.

The expanding outbreaks of H5N1 in Moscow suburbs as well as five outbreaks in Krasnodor / Adygeya near the Black Sea as well as H5N1 outbreaks in southeastern Turkey indicate Qinghai H5N1 is widespread in the region, raising serious doubts about the Abkhazia denials, as well as reporting failures in neighboring countries in the Caucasus as well as the Middle East, where multiple human and poultry H5N1 infections in the Nile Delta have been reported.

[yielddude]

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6th Case of Bird Flu Found Near Moscow

By Kevin O'Flynn
Staff Writer
Authorities confirmed a new case of the deadly H5N1 strain of avian flu in the Moscow region Wednesday as environmental inspector Oleg Mitvol called for the source of the outbreak, the Sadovod pet market, to be closed down.

Cases of avian flu have been found in six locations in the Moscow region, and three more locations are under suspicion, said Alexei Alexeyenko, spokesman for the Federal Service for Veterinarian and Vegetation Sanitary Supervision.

Forty-three people who have had contact with the infected birds are now under medical observation, the agency said in a statement.

The outbreak of the deadly virus is the first to be recorded so close to the capital. No humans are known to have contracted the virus in Russia.

Nikolai Vlasov, head of the Federal Service for Veterinarian and Vegetation Sanitary Supervision, said all six cases had been linked to the pet market, located just outside Moscow's southwestern limits.

"We think that it arrived with the illegal transportation of exotic birds from Azerbaijan, Iran or the Krasnodar region," Vlasov said, Interfax reported.

Three Krasnodar villages saw an outbreak of bird flu in January. Five deaths in Azerbaijan have been linked to the virus.

Vlasov earlier this week suggested that birds migrating from Azerbaijan or Iran might have carried the virus to the Moscow region.

Another case of the H5N1 strain was confirmed Wednesday in the North Caucasus republic of Adygea, Interfax reported. Suspicious bird deaths also were reported in the Kaluga region, which is next to the Moscow region.

A total of 448 domestic fowl had been culled in the Moscow region to prevent the spread of the virus, the Agriculture Ministry said. Another 247 birds have died of the virus. In addition, nearly 2,000 birds have been culled at the pet market.

Mitvol, the deputy head of the Natural Resources Ministry's environmental agency, said an inspection of the Sadovod market had found violations of sanitary regulations and a lack of the proper documents to transport animals.

He said his agency had recommended to Mayor Yury Luzhkov that he break the city's lease with the market administration.

Meanwhile, State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov claimed unidentified foreign agents were behind the outbreak. "It is a deliberate project that has been directed against the production [of chickens] and the sale of expensive vaccines, and it was not invented in Russia," Gryzlov said, Interfax reported.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2007/02/22/011.html

[Theresa42]

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babelfished from Russian:

They declared bird influenza the bourgeois infection
Feb 22, 2007

Bird influenza continues to seize all new territories in the Moscow area: yesterday the loss of poultry is fixed in by Dmitrovsk region. Furthermore, bird fall in the adjacent Kaluga province. Rosprirodnadzor required from the city hall of Moscow to liquidate the market "Gardener", which became the source of infection, and the speaker of the State Duma Boris Gryzlov named bird influenza "project for the sale of the expensive foreign vaccines". There is no as yet reliable data about the fact that people infected themselves by mortally dangerous virus, but Moscow authorities already prepared about 300 cots in the infectious hospitals in this case.

The new focuies of bird influenza were discovered yesterday in the village Udino of the Dmitrovskeyeo region and in the adjacent with the Moscow area by Borovsk the region of the Kaluga province. Let us recall that from the Asian strain of the bird influenza H5N1 already perished the bird in the Domodedovo, Podolskiy, by Naro-Fominsk, the Taldomskeye and Odintsovskeye regions. The case of hens with the suspicion on H5N1 was also fixed in the the Ramenskom and by Volokolamsk the regions (results of analyses in these regions they will be finished to 23 February). Veterinary services continue to guess, from where on the capital market "Gardener", which became the source of infection, fell the infected bird. According to the chief for the administration of the veterinary supervision Of rossel'khoznadzora Nikolai Vlasov, H5N1 could "be brought with the exotic birds from Azerbaijan, Iran or Krasnodar edge illegally imported into Russia".

"Gardener" is closed to the quarantine, entire existing there bird is burnt. the Vice-mayor of Moscow Ludmila Shvetsova yesterday she stated that the city hall prepares document about the payment of compensation to the owners of the birds destroyed on the market; however, its size it did not refine. Meanwhile Rosprirodnadzor directed to the mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov letter with the requirement to shut market. "Rosprirodnadzor repeatedly conducted the testings, which showed that the bird market functions with the disturbance of sanitary standards and in the absence of the necessary documents to the import of animals, explained the Deputy Director of department Oleg Mitvol'. - The correctness of our conclusions proves present situation with the spread in the Moscow area of bird influenza". However, the Mrs. of Shvetsova gave to understand that the market was liquidated or transferred for the feature of city not will be transferred. "But there within the shortest periods must be induced order", she stated vice-mayor.

Meanwhile in Moscow and Moscow area doctors continue to take measures for averting of propagation H5N1. All killed in the centers detections of the virus of hen and turkey they are burnt by veterinary services, furthermore, in the three-kilometer zone around these centers will be destroyed entire poultry. The Mrs. of Shvetsova reported that in Moscow in the required order from the usual influenza will be inculcated the veterinary surgeons, the salesmen of food markets and stores, the colleagues of Moscow zoo, urban it is circus, zoougolkov, pet stores and All-Russian exhibition center, that work with the birds.

The problem of bird influenza did not leave indifferent and the Deputies of the Gosduma, who proposed to summon into the parliament for the dacha of explanations chapter Gennadi Onishchenko's Rospotrebnadzora. "The fatherland in the danger. Situation with the spread of bird influenza collects revolutions", stated at the yesterday's plenary meeting deputy from LDPR Sergey Ivanov. He recalled that the Ukraine and Belorussia already introduced prohibition to the deliveries of chicken from the Moscow area. "From where did arrive at us this infection, and is not this the planned shady transaction? I please Duma security committee to be dismantled with this question", summed up deputy. It supported associate from THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Nikolai Kondratenko, who completely named situation in the Moscow area the "smelling a little diversion".

Speaker Boris Gryzlov, who connected stir around the bird influenza with the "commercial interests of the producers of foreign vaccines", developed theme. "Bird influenza was always, it earlier 'chumkoy' was called, stated Mr. Gryzlov. - But this is the conscious project, directed toward production and sale of the expensive vaccines, and it was devised not in Russia". The industrial production of the vaccine, which protects people from the bird influenza, in Russia actually can be fixed not earlier than 2008, whereas Goszakaz to its production can be measured by sum of $1 billion (7 it reported about this on 20 February).

Let us note that yesterday appeared the communications about the hospitalization of the inhabitant of Ramenskogo with the high temperature and the suspicion to the infection by bird influenza; however, the main sanitary doctor of the Moscow area Olga Gavrilenko it refuted this information, after stating that in it was discovered the "hypertonic crisis, temperature normal and there are no occasions for the agitations". Nevertheless, authorities already expressed the readiness to isolate 281 cot in the hospitals in the case of the appearance of similar patients. "The patients with the influenza of this form will place into the 1st, 2nd, the 3rd infectious hospital", stated yesterday the leader of the department of public health of the capital Andrey Sel'tsovskiy.

http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.html?docId=744826

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