South Korea: Suspected H5N1 Human Cases in Seoul

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'AI stand chickens' naolkka nongjincheong? "resistance genes determine possibilities"
Input: May 7, 2008 00:30:07

"AI mulrichineun genes to find it."

Avian Influenza (AI) has spread nationwide in 1944 and began to search the RDA is AI spur resistance genes. AI virus can survive even sinpumjong chicken for his development as soon as possible.

AI-related genetic research since last year, navigating the RDA jinhaenghaeon dielectric livestock animals from six days of Sciences and treatment of chickens infected with the virus involved in the process of genetic mutation, eight of gene sequences of bases investigate the possibility of AI securing resistance genes to determine said.

Livestock-related genes of eight survey of Sciences' Mx 'chickens infected with the virus gene is named after a role in suppressing the virus to proliferate. However, the Livestock Sciences "Mx more than 150. Byeonyiche accurately determine whether any of byeonyiche suppressing the virus," he said. Among the AI virus to chickens with Mx genes that suppress, with some unusual Mx genes could survive.

Accordingly, especially in the livestock Sciences Mx candidate genes cheoe cell culture and the way black jeungsikhae whether to suppress the virus. Navigation through genetic research and Livestock Sciences AI resistance genotype with final selection object to chickens, chickens directly to breed resistance to AI infection after tests yukseonghal plans.

The UN-affiliated International Livestock Research Institute in maengdokseong AI virus in poultry in charge of the Belgian resistance-Rivieres hanote Dr. Ollie's invitation comes on the 13th, decided to exchange information related research.

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Even the traditional markets' infection '? conflict farmers do dansoktim
Input: May 7, 2008 23:14:11

Seoul originate from avian influenza (AI) in the previous case of local infection as the main traditional markets paakdwae emergency management markets.

Gwangjin a joint task force in the city of Seoul on April 24, Seongnam 2 pheasant was first purchased from the market Moran pyesahan circumstances to push traditional markets estimated to be the most viable path to the 6th contamination.

July 28, [April,?] moved from the marketplaces in Chuncheon Hwacheon dealer buhwahan 20 through 60 yeoildoen chickens and ducks have purchased 10 percent. Accordingly, the national anti-epidemic authorities last one day jochihan traditional markets and small and 5 iljang restrict sales of chickens and ducks, poultry transport vehicles for inspection disinfection measures and further strengthen the country.

However, the strengthening of the crackdown on traditional markets selling chickens and ducks in the market jangnal yujihaeon livelihood of rural farmers, which suddenly lost its way and eat to live.

"She's fine, why can not paneunya chickens," he protested the crackdown by government officials, farmers and the traditional markets in the country between seunggangyi said.

That afternoon, three earthen pot Cheongju yukgeorisijangeseo aged 70 to sell him out, "It did not sell any money not be better how are you talking about," he protested. Officials have spent quite some time to persuade the elderly to jinttam heulryeotgo "just ease up on sugar," he said as a matter shall beg.

Officials have long to persuade the farmers went off to a crackdown hagoseoya hand tteumhaejija again all day and catching up in marketplaces and government officials went to hide and seek. Farmers are "breeding farms are small, wants to give a purchase price, as you have got a secure way, since some markets," the voice said.

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(2nd LD) No one in Seoul infected with bird flu: gov't

SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korean health officials said Wednesday that all people who have been checked for possible human bird flu infections have tested negative for the avian influenza virus.

The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said five people checked in the Gwangjin ward of eastern Seoul for symptoms similar to bird flu were found to have the common cold.

The ward had asked people to report any suspicious symptoms like coughing, fever and shivers after the agriculture minister said on Tuesday that birds grown in the ward died from a virulent form of the H5N1 avian influenza.

The KCDC said blood serum tests showed conclusively that none were affected.

"Actual examinations of symptoms showed considerable difference from bird flu infections," said a health official. He added that it is not easy to catch bird flu, and past infections were limited to people who culled and buried sick birds.

No South Korean has gotten sick from avian influenza, but a few have shown antibodies in blood tests. Antibodies are a telltale sign that the virus has affected the body.

KCDC said that a soldier who has been quarantined since last month for possible bird flu infection actually had a severe case of pneumonia. Detailed blood tests were negative for avian influenza.

However, health officials ordered parks and educational institutions to limit public access to birds to prevent possible contamination.

Reflecting this, all birds raised in the Gwangjin ward and the nearby Children's Grand Park and Seoul Grand Park, located in Gwacheon, south of Seoul, have been culled or quarantined in their zoos.

Quarantine officials said that the confirmation of the bird flu in Seoul brings the total number of outbreaks to 34 confirmed cases out of the 60 reported since April 1.

The outbreak, which was first centered around the Jeolla region of southwestern South Korea, has been reported in all provinces, with the exception of North Chungcheong Province and Jeju Island.

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AI? the citizens of the 25 people suspected contact patients' anxiety Kwangjin-gu in the center AI five to inquire increases rapidly the resident,
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The public health center persons concerned?, ??the consultation resultant most was confirmed as the simple cold patient but AI infection conditions said the cold and similar but the heat generation happening continuously feature ". http://209.85.171.104/translate_c?hl...3Fidx%3D821510

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AI Seoul metropolitan threat' party and government emergency meeting on the 9th
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The Grand National Party government and the avian influenza (AI) with regard to spread the 9th Key ministers are attending the relationship among party members and party and government emergency measures to prepare to open the council decided.

The Grand National Party Congress on November 8, held in Seoul, the Supreme Council of the AI is the nature of the problem hwaksandoen hakseupjang even aware of the seriousness of the emergency meeting of party and government had decided to prepare measures to joyunseon spokesman said.

The spokesman, briefing on "The AI is the day hundreds of thousands of children are infected with the avian crowd near a public health approach in the sense that it is highly likely that a problem occurs, it is highly likely," he said. http://209.85.171.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=ko&tl=en&u=http://www.cbs.co.kr/nocut/list_news.asp

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SEOUL (AFP) - The first bird flu outbreak in South Korea's capital Seoul was caused by the virulent H5N1 strain, the agriculture ministry said Wednesday, as residents in the affected district scrambled for medical checks.

The case at an aviary in the eastern district of Gwangjin brings to 34 the number of bird flu cases nationwide since April. Not all have been confirmed to be H5N1, which is potentially deadly to humans.

Quarantine officials have slaughtered all 53 chickens, turkeys and pheasants at the aviary, and also poultry at a nearby public park in the same district and at an amusement park in southern Seoul.

No outbreak has been reported except in Gwangjin.

The Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention said it asked all hospitals in Seoul to keep a close eye on their patients and immediately report any suspected cases of human bird flu.

The public health clinic in Gwangjin said Wednesday it had been swamped with inquiry calls or visits by residents, some with a high fever and headache, for medical checks. No bird flu infections were reported.

"They all turned out to be completely irrelevant to bird flu," Mo Hyun-Hee, head of the clinic, told AFP.

South Korea has not recorded any human cases of bird flu. A soldier taken to hospital last month was found not to have the disease.

The agriculture ministry said quarantine authorities were continuing to decontaminate all aviaries and poultry farms in the city. Public access has been limited to those areas.

It was also trying to trace poultry dealers and farms which had sold birds to a market at Seongnam south of Seoul, which was the suspected supplier of infected pheasants to the Gwangjin aviary.

More than six million chickens and ducks have been slaughtered since the country's latest bird flu outbreak was reported on April 1. The previous outbreak was between November 2006 and March last year.

The H5N1 strain has killed more than 240 people worldwide since late 2003.

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Seoul hospitals on alert for bird flu

Hospitals in Seoul were put on alert for bird flu after health officials issued emergency warnings to all hospitals in the capital city to watch out possible bird flu symptoms, the Korea Herald reported on Thursday.

The Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention has urged medical institutes in the capital to make immediate reports of any patients who have symptoms of the H5 avian influenza virus, such as a high fever, severe coughing, a sore throat and difficulty in breathing, the daily newspaper said.

"Detailed examinations of patients will be conducted and cooperation measures between government branches will be strengthened," Lee Jong-ku, head of the KCDCP said Wednesday.

"We will also distribute the antiviral drug Tamiflu to regional offices and make efforts to secure the necessary budget to deal with the matter," he said.

Blood tests will be done on patients who may have been infected by the virus, the official said.

The measures came after the government confirmed an outbreak of deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in eastern Seoul on Monday. It is the first time that bird flu has been discovered in the capital city.

According to the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, a total of 34 cases of the highly pathogenic avian influenza, which could lead to disease in people, have been confirmed nationwide.

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Hospitals to watch for bird flu
May 08, 2008

A government body Wednesday urgently asked all the medical institutions in the Seoul area to be on the lookout for any cases of bird flu in humans.
The action comes one day after authorities announced that the disease had been detected in two chickens in the city.

Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said medical institutions should carefully monitor any patients with bird flu symptoms: sore throat, high fever and cough.

So far, no Koreans are known to have been infected with the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus. However it has infected people in other countries and has a very high mortality rate.

The center also asked visitors who had any contact with birds in Gwangjin District Office, the Children??s Grand Park and Seoul Grand Park, to keep an eye on their physical condition.

About 30 people have contacted doctors at the Gwangjin Public Health Center, but all were told they had the common cold, health center officials said.

Government officials say more than 500,000 people visited the Children??s Grand Park on Monday. The park is only 1.1 kilometers (0.68 miles) away from the infected aviary.

Meanwhile, the national center announced that a 22-year-old soldier suspected of being infected with a form of bird flu did not carry the H5N1 strain. Center officials said that the soldier had suffered from bacterial pneumonia.

As Seoul went on high-alert, further quarantines were implemented.
A quarantine team captured about 20 ducks at Konkuk University in Gwangjin District. They will be tested to see if they are infected with H5N1 and will be culled.

The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education also said yesterday that it decided to cull all birds raised in kindergartens and schools in the Seoul area and advised students not to purchase chicks near schools.

On Tuesday authorities slaughtered about 60 birds in kindergartens and schools that were within a 500-meter-radius of the infected aviary in Gwangjin District Office.

A total of 34 confirmed bird flu outbreaks have so far been found in 13 cities and counties: Seoul; Daegu; Ulsan; Pyeongtaek and Anseong in Gyeonggi; Nonsan in South Chungcheong; Gimje, Iksan, Jeongeup, and Sunchang in North Jeolla; Naju and Yeongam in South Jeolla, and Yeongcheon in North Gyeongsang.

To prevent the spread of the disease to humans, over 6.4 million birds have been killed since the outbreak began in early April.

By Park Sang-woo Staff Reporter/ Min Dong-ki JoongAng Ilbo
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Dr. Niman, what do you think of this?

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The KCDC said blood serum tests showed conclusively that none were affected.

"Actual examinations of symptoms showed considerable difference from bird flu infections," said a health official. He added that it is not easy to catch bird flu, and past infections were limited to people who culled and buried sick birds.

No South Korean has gotten sick from avian influenza, but a few have shown antibodies in blood tests. Antibodies are a telltale sign that the virus has affected the body.

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South Koreans assumed to have detected in at least nine people antibodies anti-H5 in the past years after poultry epizootics. None of the patients suffered for typical bf clinical signs (eg: high fever, cough, x-ray confirmed pneumonia, multi-organ failures) but only mild symptoms or asymptomatic at all. WHO didn't confirmed any of these cases.
IOH

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South Koreans assumed to have detected in at least nine people antibodies anti-H5 in the past years after poultry epizootics. None of the patients suffered for typical bf clinical signs (eg: high fever, cough, x-ray confirmed pneumonia, multi-organ failures) but only mild symptoms or asymptomatic at all. WHO didn't confirmed any of these cases.
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Thanks IOH. I'm assuming it was low path.

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'AI proliferation of' do Goyang choginjang

Tickets positive ohrideung 500 books yeomari imports Agriculture authorities confirmed defenses, such as farm access control checks after picking gageommul
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Avian Influenza (AI) is spreading nationwide as a duck-breeding farms in the middle of Goyang AI defenses authorities suspected the duck found to be imported and then examining the tension in this courtroom.
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Accordingly, the poetry of water, livestock farms and livestock hygiene institute gageommul examine evidence and closed the entrances to the farm to control naseoteumyeo.
City officials are "imported ducks and other strange symptoms do not appear in AI positive panjeongdoen imported livestock farms in as many checks," he said.
Earlier, Mr. Y geoncheonri gongdoeup farm in Anseong, ducks, chickens and AI was confirmed as the cause of our farm was to remain ssiohri, 14,850 chickens and 20,000 al salcheobun both measures.
However, whether AI is 9 am gobyeongwonseong of the National Science geomyeokwon inspection of the final results to come through.
This farm is AI gobyeongwonseong past five days as a farm in hwakjindoen ANSUNG miyang fell 4.8 ㎞ ssiohri where 14,850 chickens and 502 are from 6 to 7 marijung our collective assume that Mr. Y was reported.
Happened in the last six days per inspection report AI liver tested negative for the disease in chickens, but the next day, 6 am to liver scan showed positive reaction.
Authorities raised the defenses around the farm to install and control patrol vehicles transporting poultry and animal feed, as well as entrances to and control of the vehicle while bunnyo the farm chuliphan buhwajang, bunnyo, feed farm-related vehicles and these vehicles are moved about the precise mechanics investigation In the West Bank.
AI also raised miyang you're running a control post inside the 10 ㎞ radius of the farm where 13 farms raised gongdoeup together control around expanding operations began installing two guardhouse.

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Thanks IOH. I'm assuming it was low path.

Forgive my ignorance; would a person infected with low path H5 be (totally, partially) protected from high path H5? Thanks.

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<TABLE id=tbl_article cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 20px"><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>Hospitals to watch for bird flu
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</TD></TR><TR><TD class=actxt id=articleBody style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 18px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 20px; LINE-HEIGHT: 27px; PADDING-TOP: 0px"><TABLE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 10px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=10 align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD width=15></TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD width=18></TD><TD style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">A quarantine team yesterday tries to capture ducks raised in the lake on the campus of Konkuk University, only 1.6 kilometers (1 mile) away from the area where the first confirmed outbreak of bird flu was found in Seoul. [YONHAP]</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>A government body Wednesday urgently asked all the medical institutions in the Seoul area to be on the lookout for any cases of bird flu in humans.
The action comes one day after authorities announced that the disease had been detected in two chickens in the city.
Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said medical institutions should carefully monitor any patients with bird flu symptoms: sore throat, high fever and cough.
So far, no Koreans are known to have been infected with the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus. However it has infected people in other countries and has a very high mortality rate.
The center also asked visitors who had any contact with birds in Gwangjin District Office, the Children??s Grand Park and Seoul Grand Park, to keep an eye on their physical condition.
About 30 people have contacted doctors at the Gwangjin Public Health Center, but all were told they had the common cold, health center officials said.
Government officials say more than 500,000 people visited the Children??s Grand Park on Monday. The park is only 1.1 kilometers (0.68 miles) away from the infected aviary.
Meanwhile, the national center announced that a 22-year-old soldier suspected of being infected with a form of bird flu did not carry the H5N1 strain. Center officials said that the soldier had suffered from bacterial pneumonia.
As Seoul went on high-alert, further quarantines were implemented.
A quarantine team captured about 20 ducks at Konkuk University in Gwangjin District. They will be tested to see if they are infected with H5N1 and will be culled.
The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education also said yesterday that it decided to cull all birds raised in kindergartens and schools in the Seoul area and advised students not to purchase chicks near schools.
On Tuesday authorities slaughtered about 60 birds in kindergartens and schools that were within a 500-meter-radius of the infected aviary in Gwangjin District Office.
A total of 34 confirmed bird flu outbreaks have so far been found in 13 cities and counties: Seoul; Daegu; Ulsan; Pyeongtaek and Anseong in Gyeonggi; Nonsan in South Chungcheong; Gimje, Iksan, Jeongeup, and Sunchang in North Jeolla; Naju and Yeongam in South Jeolla, and Yeongcheon in North Gyeongsang.
To prevent the spread of the disease to humans, over 6.4 million birds have been killed since the outbreak began in early April.
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