Bird flu threat hits Russia; April 11+; mass poultry death

[Giuseppe]

Re: Bird flu threat hits Russia; april 11

[OIE - Follow-up Report no. 7]

Highly pathogenic avian influenza, Russia

Information received on 11/04/2008 from Dr Evgueny A. Nepoklonov, Deputy Head, Orlikov per., 1/11, Ministry of Agriculture and Food, MOSCOW, Russia

? Summary
Report type Follow-up report No. 7
Start date 12/01/2007
Date of first confirmation of the event 26/01/2007
Report date 11/04/2008
Date submitted to OIE 11/04/2008
Reason for notification Reoccurrence of a listed disease
Date of previous occurrence 08/2006
Causal agent Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus Serotype H5N1
Nature of diagnosis Clinical, Laboratory (advanced), Necropsy
This event pertains to the whole country
Related reports Immediate notification (09/02/2007)
Follow-up report No. 1 (19/02/2007)
Follow-up report No. 2 (26/02/2007)
Follow-up report No. 3 (19/03/2007)
Follow-up report No. 4 (07/09/2007)
Follow-up report No. 5 (12/12/2007)
Follow-up report No. 6 (24/12/2007)
Follow-up report No. 7 (11/04/2008)

? New outbreaks
* Outbreak 1 - Vozdvizhenka, Ussuriysk, PRIMORSKIY KRAY
Date of start of the outbreak 08/04/2008
Outbreak status Continuing (or date resolved not provided)
Epidemiological unit Village
Affected animals: Species - Susceptible - Cases - Deaths - Destroyed - Slaughtered
* Birds - 42 - 28 - 28 - 14 - 0
Affected population:
*28 susceptible chickens (21 cases),
*8 susceptible guinea fowls (7 cases),
*3 susceptible muscovy ducks (no cases) and
*3 susceptible ducks (no cases) in a backyard.
Poultry in the village were not vaccinated.

? Summary of outbreaks
Total outbreaks: 1
Outbreak statistics: Species - Apparent morbidity rate - Apparent mortality rate - Apparent case fatality rate - Proportion susceptible animals lost*
*Birds - 66.67% - 66.67% - 100.00% - 100.00%
* Removed from the susceptible population through death, destruction and/or slaughter

? Epidemiology
Source of the outbreak(s) or origin of infection Probably, hunted wild ducks and geese

? Control measures
Measures applied Control of wildlife reservoirs
Stamping out
Quarantine
Screening
Zoning
Vaccination in response to the outbreak (s): Administrative division - Species - Total Vaccinated - Details
*KRASNODARSKIY KRAY - Birds - 32000 - inactivated vaccine
Disinfection of infected premises/establishment(s)
No vaccination
No treatment of affected animals

Measures to be applied No other measures

? Diagnostic test results
Laboratory name and type Primorye Interregional Veterinary Laboratory (National laboratory)
Tests and results: Species - Test - Test date - Result
*Birds - polymerase chain reaction (PCR) - 11/04/2008 - Positive

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http://www.oie.int/wahid-prod/public.php?page=single_report&pop=1&reportid=6957

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[HenryN]

Re: Bird flu threat hits Russia; april 11

Commentary

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/04110803/H5N1_Primorsky_Confirmed.html

[Oracle]

Re: Bird flu threat hits Russia; april 11

I wonder if this same practice (hunting/selling infected migratory waterfowl) has caused outbreaks in other parts of Asia, Egypt, Africa.

The migratory bird list, locale description, OIE report, and news reports finally present a coherent image of human-catalyzed disease dispersal.

Impressive teamwork sleuthing.

[HenryN]

Re: Bird flu threat hits Russia; april 11

I wonder if this same practice (hunting/selling infected migratory waterfowl) has caused outbreaks in other parts of Asia, Egypt, Africa.

The migratory bird list, locale description, OIE report, and news reports finally present a coherent image of human-catalyzed disease dispersal.

Impressive teamwork sleuthing.

Recent outbreaks in northern Turkey are due to feeding wild bird entrails to domestic chickens.

[Shiloh]

Re: Bird flu threat hits Russia; april 11

It will be interesting to see if they track down the hunter and he tests positive. Which begs the question, is anyone in those areas doing studies of hunters? Also, it would not be unusual for the waterfowl discards to be given to pets as a food additives. Wonder if anyone's retriever or pets in general have died?

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Bird flu threat hits Russia; april 11

It will be interesting to see if they track down the hunter and he tests positive. Which begs the question, is anyone in those areas doing studies of hunters? Also, it would not be unusual for the waterfowl discards to be given to pets as a food additives. Wonder if anyone's retriever or pets in general have died?

Several recent reports on house cats dying from bird flu in Indonesia. For instance: http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/sho...6&postcount=53

[Giuseppe]

Re: Bird flu threat hits Russia; april 11

It will be interesting to see if they track down the hunter and he tests positive. Which begs the question, is anyone in those areas doing studies of hunters? Also, it would not be unusual for the waterfowl discards to be given to pets as a food additives. Wonder if anyone's retriever or pets in general have died?

A piece of news from above:

(...) It is expected that poultry can become infected through feed, which consisted of strips of wild waterfowl. (...)
Post #8 (http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/sho...94&postcount=8)

[Oracle]

Re: Bird flu threat hits Russia; april 11

Recent outbreaks in northern Turkey are due to feeding wild bird entrails to domestic chickens.

Yes, that was evident from the news article phrase, above:

the owner of podvor'ya (property) produced the shooting of the wild planktonic birds. "their plucks he used as the fodder for the poultry".

That was how the hunted birds infected the unhappy owner of the small holding that lost its chickens overnight.

Its not like they didn't know!

See Theresa42s babelfished Russian post, #5- dated two years ago.

Specifically warns against contact from hunted birds, in Primorsky.

So this infection cycle occurs repeatedly in the same locations, year after year.

Maybe for the same reasons.

[HenryN]

Re: Bird flu threat hits Russia; april 11

It will be interesting to see if they track down the hunter and he tests positive. Which begs the question, is anyone in those areas doing studies of hunters? Also, it would not be unusual for the waterfowl discards to be given to pets as a food additives. Wonder if anyone's retriever or pets in general have died?

The hunter owns the farm.

[Giuseppe]

Re: Bird flu threat hits Russia; april 11

The cause of the outbreak of avian flu could become strips of wild birds
17:47 | 11 04 2008


MOSCOW, April 11 - RIA Novosti.

The outbreak of avian influenza virus in one of the private farms in the seaside village of Vozdvizhenka, which was recorded on Thursday, remains an isolated case in the region.

Nonetheless, the local emergency services have shifted to work in the face of disaster.

In neighbouring Khabarovsk territory are reinforced preventive measures and promised to provide a whole bird to the end of April.

Declension ten chickens in a private farmstead in the village of Vozdvizhenka Ussuriyskom occurred on Thursday.

Samples taken from the fallen birds showed strain of avian influenza.

Now materials sent to a laboratory in the city of Vladimir for additional review.

The rest of birds farmstead (42 heads) had to score and burn.

Sanitary Barriers
And although new cases of these deaths of chickens in Vozdvizhenke specialists have not revealed all emergency Ussuri region where the village is located, shifted to a regime of CHS.

Villagers barred release of birds from farms due to the introduction of quarantine, veterinarians conducted at the hands disinfection and vaccination of livestock.

In addition, the boundary commission decision on emergency stand GIBDD posts restricting entry to the village and prohibiting exit.

Friday veterinarians checked all Vozdvizhenki yards, but the new hotbeds of "bird flu" is not found.

According to the veterinary service edge, in the Primorye enough vaccine against the dangerous virus.

Owners of birds did not pay for inoculations: vaccine paid from the federal budget, while veterinarians - from the boundary value.

In turn, prosecutors Primorsky Region beginning on Friday tested in regard to the measures taken to eliminate the district administration outbreak of the viral disease.

U residents no flu
Medical increased its monitoring of the health of residents Vozdvizhenki. To provide necessary assistance ready clinic, Emergency Medical Services, specialists Krai Medical Center disasters.

It is not recorded a single treatment of people with respiratory symptoms.

Nevertheless, in addition to the area will be directed doctors and veterinarians.

Cour giblets fed wild birds
Experts cited a possible cause of the outbreak of avian influenza. It could become carriers of wild waterfowl, which had acquired the landowner farmstead hunting.

According to the boundary-value management Rosselhoznadzora owner farmstead Kirsanow, he otstrelival wild waterfowl, which strips then used as feed for poultry.

Primorye authorities temporarily banned the spring hunt waterfowl and other wild birds migrating now from the southern Asia to Russia.

Khabarovsk establish cordon
In Khabarovsk territory actively inculcate, poultry, contained in private hands to keep her from this dangerous virus. Vaccination should end before the end of April.

According to the management of the Ministry of Agriculture veterinary region on personal plots containing about 180 thousand birds. Currently, about 90% of vaccine, all poultry farms in the province are working in a closed mode.

In Khabarovsk territory vaccine against avian influenza virus is also sufficient.

Residents of the province containing homes and kanareek parrots, also will be able to make their pets vaccinated. To do this, they need to contact the district or city department to combat animal diseases.

No cases of avian influenza in the region is not recorded.

On the border of Primorye and Khabarovsk Territory plan to install disinfection cordon.

The territory of Khabarovsk Territory is located in an area where the potential risk of infection is high. It offers the path of migratory birds from South-East Asia, where in recent years there were cases of avian influenza. In Khabarovsk Territory 145 settlements are located close to nesting migratory birds.

Hunting of waterfowl game in the province over the past three years is not repealed, this year's hunting season begins in the southern region since 12 April. Hunter issued a memo to explain how spared from the bird flu.

The southern regions are also vulnerable
Vulnerable territories in terms of the spread of avian influenza are considered and southern regions of the country.

"Gripp birds, in the form in which it now exists on the territory of the Russian Federation - N5 N1, it is objective, an existing threat. Primarily, it is present in the Southern Federal District, and part of the Siberian Federal District" -- April 9, told journalists Director of the Department of the Ministry of Agriculture veterinary RF Ivan Rozhdestvensky.

He added that in fact the regions in which the avian flu virus could not penetrate, Russia does not.
"The influenza virus H5 N1 present on the territory of the Russian Federation in the population of wild migratory birds. They nest in the north and flew over the entire country, referring to the accommodation" - he said.

According to Christmas, a strategy to combat influenza, which has been implemented in Russia since 2005, allows the virus to contain the threat of N5 N1. The mix includes vaccination seriously the health Poultry, limiting presence in the poultry farms and wild birds ism, the restriction on the possession of personal subsidiary poultry farms Poultry workers.

In turn, Russian President Vladimir Fisinin poultry Union said that the problem of avian influenza occurs in Russia again and again, because, after reducing the threat of contracting the virus comes to rest and make elementary mistakes. "
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http://www.rian.ru/society/20080411/104868682.html

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[Shiloh]

Re: Bird flu threat hits Russia; april 11

From post #15:

"The alarm was raised after 10 chickens died unexpectedly.

They had belonged to a local, Anatoly Kirsanov, who believes the infection spread from dead wild geese and ducks which he?d bought."

If I am reading the above correctly the owner bought the dead wild waterfowl and is NOT the owner of the farm.

But now I read above,
" According to the boundary-value management Rosselhoznadzora owner farmstead Kirsanow, he otstrelival wild waterfowl, which strips then used as feed for poultry."
So it looks like farm owner/hunter is the same individual.

Also, if a farm has a AI outbreak and has both pigs and birds, are the pigs slaughtered/tested as well?

[Shiloh]

Re: Bird flu threat hits Russia; april 11

Here is some video about the outbreak:

http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/23343/video

[Snowy Owl]

Bird flu strikes Russia - from Russia Today

April 11, 2008, 19:58
Bird flu strikes Russia

Initial tests show the deadly bird flu virus has been found in a village in Russia?s Far East, now under quarantine.

Doctors fear villagers in Vozdvizhenka in the Primorsky region may have been exposed to the virus.

Local authorities are sending more medical personnel and vets to the area.

The alarm was raised after 10 chickens died unexpectedly.

They had belonged to a local, Anatoly Kirsanov, who believes the infection spread from dead wild geese and ducks which he?d bought.

?I woke up in the morning, looked inside my chicken coop, and saw all my chickens were lying around dead. It was absolutely unexpected,? he said.

Anatoly was instructed to kill and burn the remaining forty birds in his hen house.

Although no new cases of dead poultry have been reported, vets are visiting every house in the village to make sure fowl is isolated.

They are also disinfecting property and vaccinating fowl in nearby villages.

Police have set up roadblocks around the village and doctors are monitoring the health of residents who may have been exposed to the virus. At the moment no humans have been found affected by the respiratory diseases.

The quarantine will last for at least three weeks.

?The avian flu is dangerous to humans. Maybe, we?re too cautious but we just have to make sure no local residents are affected,? explained Anatoly Semyonov, Deputy Chief Inspector.

Meanwhile, Russia's Chief Medical Officer, Gennady Onishchenko, says health officials are poised for further outbreaks.

?This is the first incidence during the period in spring, when birds migrate from various regions around the world to the Russian territory. So we can say it?s only the beginning and we expect further outbreaks in Siberia, the Urals and in the European part of Russia.

But we are prepared for this,? he stressed.

So far more than 150 people around the world have died from bird flu.

The disease is highly contagious for humans. The first deaths were reported in Hong Kong in 1997, where 6 people died.

In 2003, bird flu became an international threat when thousands of birds throughout Eastern Asia were infected. Two years later the virus spread through Kazakhstan and Russia to Europe.

http://russiatoday.ru/news/news/23343

[HenryN]

Re: Bird flu threat hits Russia; april 11

AVIAN INFLUENZA (61): RUSSIA (PRIMORSKIY)
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Date: Sat 12 Apr 2008
Source: India Times [edited]
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Russia ministry confirms bird flu outbreak in Far East region of Primorye
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Russia's agriculture ministry confirmed a bird flu outbreak in a
village in the Far East region of Primorye which was quarantined
after scores of chickens died.

"In 2 days, 28 out of 42 hens and guinea fowl died on a farm" in the
village of Vozdvizhenka, 110 km [68.3 miles] north of Vladivostok,
the ministry's veterinary control unit said in a statement on
Thursday [10 Apr 2008].

The dead birds had been incinerated, it added. A regional laboratory
made the discovery after testing samples taken from sick birds, and a
national laboratory was due to determine if it was the deadly H5N1
strain of the virus.

Authorities cordoned off the village, killed all other fowl on the
farm and vaccinated birds in the village and nearby areas, the ministry said.

--
Communicated by:
ProMED-mail Rapporteur Mary Marshall

[According to Russia's follow-up report No 7, submitted to the OIE on
11 Apr 2008, the probable source of the above outbreak or origin of
infection are hunted wild ducks and geese. The report further
describes the affected population as comprised of 28 susceptible
chickens (21 cases), 8 susceptible guinea fowls (7 cases), 3
susceptible muscovy ducks (no cases) and 3 susceptible ducks (no
cases) in a backyard. Poultry in the village were not vaccinated.

The report, including a map, is available at
<http://www.oie.int/wahid-prod/public.php?page=single_report&pop=1&reportid=6957>.
- Mod.AS]

[see also:
2007
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Avian influenza (194): Germany (BR), Russia (KRR), FAO 20071226.4140
Avian influenza (192): Germany (BR), Russia (KRR) 20071222.4109
Avian influenza (186): Poland, Russia (Krasnodar) 20071212.4002
Avian influenza (161): Russia (Krasnodar), Bangladesh (Rajshahi) 20070927.3206
Avian influenza (153): Russia (Krasnodar), swan 20070911.3009
Avian influenza (150): Russia, Ghana, OIE 20070906.2938
Avian influenza (104): Russia (Siberia), wild ducks 20070620.1983
Avian influenza (51): Russia, Viet Nam, China 20070309.0844
Avian influenza (40): Pakistan, China (Hong Kong), Russia 20070222.0658
Avian influenza (39): Russia, Pakistan, Afghanistan 20070221.0646
Avian influenza (37): Russia, prevention 20070220.0634]
....................arn/ejp/dk

[Giuseppe]

Re: Bird flu threat hits Russia; April 11+

[Google Machine Translation - IOH]

Lawmakers: avian flu in migratory birds entered Primorye

At the exit of Vozdvizhenki installed disinfection barriers exposed positions militia restricted free access to the village

MOSCOW, April 13, PrimaMedia.

The cause of the outbreak of avian flu in the village of Vozdvizhenka could be the hunting of wild birds, the owner of a farmstead, a citizen Kirsanova.

This RIA PrimaMedia said Assistant Chief of the Press Krai Administration Rosselhoznadzora Vitaly Salenko.

As Kirsanow said himself, he otstrelival wild waterfowl, which strips he used as feed for poultry.

In the village of Vozdvizhenka Ussuri region of Primorye Territory in a private farms registered outbreak of bird flu. All available on the farmstead livestock birds destroyed. In the village put under quarantine.

The clinical signs of avian influenza disease manifested April 6 this year at the farmstead Kirsanova.

At that moment, on a farmstead ducks were 6, 8 and 28 ostriches chickens. Seventh case began April poultry.

On the same day veterinary service has been selected pathologic material for laboratory research.

According to the results of the Primorsky Rosselhoznadzora interregional veterinary laboratory studies, selected from 10 April pathologic material isolated bird flu virus type A subtype "N5".

Currently, in order to identify the strain of the virus entire sample material sent in All-Russian Research Institute for Animal Welfare.

Currently on the entry and exit of the Vozdvizhenki installed disinfection barriers exposed positions militia restricted free access to the village.

In the settlement activities are held in quarantine.

In the threatened zone, and it Ussurisky Mikhailovsky areas veterinary service selected additional samples for research, increase shooting wild migratory birds.

At dangerous territory on avian influenza specialists Rosselhoznadzora, Primorsky Veterinary Service, Albany, Emergency Management of Primorsky Kray, ATC Primorsky Krai Administration and the Department of Health of Primorsky Krai.
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