Pakistan: outbreak in poultry, June 2008

[Sally Furniss]

Re: Pakistan: outbreak in poultry, June 2008

hat-tip Treyfish,
Thanks to Commonground - copied from H5N1Experts.org

Pakistan outbreak of avian flu
2008-06-23
巴基斯坦《新聞報》報道，西北地區一家養雞場被確認發生H5N1型高致病性禽流感疫情。 Pakistan, "Business News" reported that the NT was confirmed in a poultry farm of highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu.

據報道，發生疫情的這家養雞場位於西北邊境省的斯瓦比地區。 According to reports, this outbreak occurred in poultry farms in North West Frontier Province of Swabi district. 養雞場管理人員說，近幾天來，這家養雞場有4000多隻雞相繼死亡。 Farm management staff said that in recent days, this farm has more than 4,000 chickens have died. 當地農業部門和世界衛生組織隨後進行的檢驗證實，死雞感染了H5N1型高致病性禽流感病毒。 The local agricultural sector and the World Health Organization subsequent tests confirmed that the dead chickens infected with the H5N1 strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus.

為了控制疫情，這家養雞場剩餘的2000多隻雞已被全部撲殺。 In order to control the epidemic, this farm the remaining over 2,000 chickens have been culled all. 世衛組織還對巴基斯坦另外6家養雞場進行了取樣檢驗。 WHO also to Pakistan six other poultry farms were tested samples. 不過，有關方面目前尚未確定疫情的蔓延程度。 However, it has not yet determined the extent of the epidemic.

巴基斯坦於2006年首次發現禽流感疫情，其後又發現了多起家禽和鳥類感染禽流感病毒的病例。 Pakistan in 2006, the first time that bird flu, and then found that the number of poultry and birds infected with avian influenza virus. 去年12月，世衛組織確認，巴基斯坦出現了禽流感人際傳播的病例。 Last December, the WHO confirmed that Pakistan has moving-to-human transmission of avian cases.
http://66.102.9.104/translate_c?hl=e.../782045/1.html
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[Sally Furniss]

Re: Pakistan: outbreak in poultry, June 2008

hat-tip Treyfish,
Thanks to Commonground - copied from H5N1Experts.org

June 23, 2008
Bird flu found on Pakistani poultry farm
ISLAMABAD - AN OUTBREAK of the H5N1 bird flu virus has been found in chickens on a farm in Pakistan and about 25 people had been quarantined but no human cases had been discovered, government officials said on Monday.

The outbreak, at least the fifth in birds in Pakistan this year, was confirmed on Saturday at a poultry farm in Swabi town, about 60 km northwest of the capital Islamabad, the officials said.

'It was confirmed as H5N1 and thank God, no case of human infection has been reported,' said a senior Agriculture Ministry official, who declined to be identified.

About 4,500 birds on the farm had been culled and the area disinfected, he said.

A Health Ministry official, who also declined to be identified, said about 25 people including farm workers and their close contacts were being monitored in quarantine.

Pakistan confirmed its first human death from the virus in a northwestern town in December.

Several outbreaks of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza in poultry and other birds have occurred in Pakistan, most in the country's northwest, since it was first detected in early 2006. -- REUTERS


http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2...ry_250812.html

[Sally Furniss]

Re: Pakistan: outbreak in poultry, June 2008

Thanks to Sharon - copied from H5N1Experts.org

Islamabad (Reuters) - government officials said on Monday that it had been monitoring the virus (Watch 5 to 1) that causes bird flu among chickens at a farm in Pakistan and it was developed some 25 people in quarantine but have not detected any human infection.

وأضاف المسؤولون انه تأكد يوم السبت الماضي وجود الفيروس في مزرعة للطيور الداجنة في بلدة سوابي على بعد نحو 60 كيلومترا شمال غربي العاصمة اسلام اباد. The officials added that last Saturday confirmed the presence of the virus in domestic farm birds in the town of SWAPO only around 60 kilometres north-west of the capital, Islamabad.

وهذه هي البؤرة الخامسة على الاقل التي يظهر فيها المرض بين طيور في باكستان هذا العام. This is the focus of at least five of your disease among birds in Pakistan this year.

وقال مسؤول كبير بوزارة الزراعة طلب عدم نشر اسمه "تأكد أن الفيروس هو فيروس (اتش5 ان1). والحمد لله لم تظهر أي اصابة بشرية." He said the Agriculture Ministry's senior official asked not to named "Make sure that the virus is HIV (Watch 5 to 1). Thank God did not show any injury mankind."

وأضاف أنه تم اعدام نحو 4500 طائر في المزرعة وتطهير المنطقة. He was executed about 4500 birds on the farm and purge the region.

وقال مسؤول بوزارة الصحة انه يجري فحص نحو 25 شخصا هم العاملون بالمزرعة ومن يتعاملون معهم عن قرب. He said Health Ministry official was being examined about 25 people are farm workers are dealing with them closely.

وكانت باكستان قد أكدت أول وفاة بشرية ناجمة عن الاصابة بالمرض في بلدة بشمال غرب البلاد في ديسمبر كانون الاول الماضي. And Pakistan had confirmed the first human death caused by disease in the northern town west of the country in December last December.

http://ara.reuters.com/article/inter...33468220080623

[HenryN]

Re: Pakistan: outbreak in poultry, June 2008

AVIAN INFLUENZA (82): PAKISTAN (NORTH WEST FRONTIER PROVINCE)
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Date: Mon 23 Jun 2008
Source: The Post, Agence France-Presse (AFP) report [edited]
<http://thepost.com.pk/MainNewsT.aspx?bdtl_id=11429&fb_id=2&catid=14>


New bird flu outbreak in Swabi
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Pakistani authorities Sunday [22 Jun 2008] reported a new outbreak of
avian flu at a commercial poultry farm in the country's north west,
killing thousands of birds, officials said.

Tests conducted at a government-run laboratory in Islamabad confirmed
the presence of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu at a farm in Swabi
district, local livestock department chief Ibrahim Khan told AFP.
"The virus was detected after the owner of the farm informed us on
Friday [20 Jun 2008] that some 4000 birds had died within the past
few days," he said.

"We got the confirmation on Saturday [21 Jun 2008], sealed the farm
and culled around 2000 birds," he said. All workers on the affected
farm were examined by the ministry of health but none was found to
have been affected by the virus, he added. Local health officials are
monitoring surrounding farms and advised them to take precautionary
measures including vaccination of birds, he said.

Pakistan's 1st H5N1 cases were detected in March 2006 at 2 chicken
farms in North West Frontier Province, prompting consumer panic and a
mass slaughter of birds at several sites.

The virus resurfaced in early February last year [2007] among
chickens in Rawalpindi, adjoining Islamabad, and in peacocks in the
north western city of Mansehra. In February this year [2008]
Pakistani officials sealed off several farms and culled around 10 000
chickens after an outbreak in the southern port city of Karachi.

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Date: Mon 23 Jun 2008
Source: Monsters and Critics, Deutsche Presse-Agentur report [edited]
<http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/health/news/article_1412745.php/Bird_flu_prompts_cull_in_north-west_Pakistan>


Bird flu prompts cull in north west Pakistan
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Authorities have culled nearly 2000 broiler chickens following
confirmation of a fresh outbreak of avian influenza in Pakistan's
North West Frontier Province (NWFP), media reports said Monday [23 Jun 2008].

The culling was carried out in the Swabi district on Sunday [22 Jun
2008] after samples taken at a poultry farm tested positive for
deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu at a laboratory in the capital
Islamabad, English-language The News daily said.

Two-third of the birds at the farm, which had more than 6000
chickens, died during the last few days while the rest were killed
and buried under the supervision of local authorities and UN's World
Health Organization (WHO) staff.

According to the newspaper, people settled within a 3-km (2 mi)
radius of the farm had been put under observation to monitor possible
bird-to-human transmission.

The News said another farm in the proximity of the infected facility
had also been sealed off, and health officials posted at various
checkpoints were examining birds being transported out of Swabi district.

Pakistan's poultry population has seen multiple outbreaks of the H5N1
strain since 2006, with almost 80 outbreaks taking place last year [2007].

The 1st human-to-human transmission of bird flu in Pakistan was
reported last November [2007] in the NWFP capital Peshawar, where a
man passed on the deadly virus to 2 of his brothers, one of whom died.

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[Pakistan submitted on 16 Jun 2008 its 13th and "final" report on
HPAI (highly pathogenic avian influenza) H5N1 to the OIE (World
Organisation for Animal Health); it included the following
epidemiological comments:

"The 1st outbreak of highly pathogenic notifiable avian influenza
(HPNAI) was reported in February 2007 while the last one was observed
on 3 Mar 2008. The event involved a total of 225 238 commercial
poultry of various categories. Stamping out policy was adopted. All
poultry on the index farms were culled and disinfection operations
were completed as per OIE guidelines. All culling and disinfection
operations in the last reported outbreak were completed on 4 Mar
2008. All sero-surveillance results obtained within a 10-km (6 mi)
radius zone around the outbreak were negative. Monitoring and
sero-surveillance will continue.

Therefore, since no further outbreaks of HPNAI have been observed in
the country since 3 Mar 2008, Pakistan declares itself free of HPNAI
with effect from 4 Jun 2008".

The event summary, including a map, is available at
<http://www.oie.int/wahid-prod/public.php?page=event_summary&reportid=4758>.

If the current outbreaks are officially confirmed -- as they appear
to be -- this is disappointing and a blow to the Pakistani poultry
industry and indeed to the veterinary services which have,
reportedly, invested considerable efforts and skill to control and
eradicate the epizootic; the declaration of freedom above may have to
be reconsidered. Possibly, the current event is due to the unstable
situation along the borders with Afghanistan, allowing introduction
of infected animals and their products, contaminated feed, etc.

Swabi District in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan
bordering Afghanistan and can be located on the map at
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Swabi_NWFP.svg>. - Mod.AS]

[see also:
Avian influenza, human (41): Indonesia, Pakistan, WHO 20080404.1235
Avian influenza (38): China (Guizhou), Pakistan 20080227.0801
Avian influenza (29): Pakistan (NWFP, Sindh) 20080205.0468
Avian influenza (26): Pakistan (Sindh), UK (England), swan 20080202.0420
Avian influenza, human (05): China, Pakistan 20080110.0134
Avian influenza, human (03): Egypt, Pakistan, WHO 20080104.0038]
...................................arn/mj/dk

[HenryN]

Re: Pakistan: outbreak in poultry, June 2008

AVIAN INFLUENZA (82): PAKISTAN (NORTH WEST FRONTIER PROVINCE)


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If the current outbreaks are officially confirmed -- as they appear
to be -- this is disappointing and a blow to the Pakistani poultry
industry and indeed to the veterinary services which have,
reportedly, invested considerable efforts and skill to control and
eradicate the epizootic; the declaration of freedom above may have to
be reconsidered. Possibly, the current event is due to the unstable
situation along the borders with Afghanistan, allowing introduction
of infected animals and their products, contaminated feed, etc.

Swabi District in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan
bordering Afghanistan and can be located on the map at
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Swabi_NWFP.svg>. - Mod.AS]

[see also:
Avian influenza, human (41): Indonesia, Pakistan, WHO 20080404.1235
Avian influenza (38): China (Guizhou), Pakistan 20080227.0801
Avian influenza (29): Pakistan (NWFP, Sindh) 20080205.0468
Avian influenza (26): Pakistan (Sindh), UK (England), swan 20080202.0420
Avian influenza, human (05): China, Pakistan 20080110.0134
Avian influenza, human (03): Egypt, Pakistan, WHO 20080104.0038]
...................................arn/mj/dk

Wild birds have wings and neither the birds nor H5N1 read ProMED commentaries.

[Oracle]

Re: Pakistan: outbreak in poultry, June 2008

"Possibly, the current event is due to the unstable
situation along the borders with Afghanistan, allowing introduction
of infected animals and their products, contaminated feed, etc."

Nope. Bad guess. NOT EVEN CLOSE.

[HenryN]

Re: Pakistan: outbreak in poultry, June 2008

"Possibly, the current event is due to the unstable
situation along the borders with Afghanistan, allowing introduction
of infected animals and their products, contaminated feed, etc."

Nope. Bad guess. NOT EVEN CLOSE.

But ProMED SOP

[HenryN]

Re: Pakistan: outbreak in poultry, June 2008

H5N1 virus resurfaces in Pakistan

Lisa Schnirring Staff Writer

Jun 23, 2008 (CIDRAP News) – A livestock official in Pakistan today confirmed that the H5N1 avian influenza virus has struck again in the country's North-West Frontier province, killing thousands of chickens at a commercial farm.
Ibrahim Kahn, a livestock department chief in Swabi district, where the outbreak occurred, said confirmatory tests were performed at a government laboratory in Islamabad, according to a report today from Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Kahn told AFP that the farm's owner notified authorities on Jun 20 about the suspicious deaths of about 4,000 birds. After a laboratory confirmed the H5N1 virus in samples from the birds the next day, authorities sealed the farm and destroyed about 2,000 birds, he said.
Pakistan's health ministry examined workers on the farm, but none appear to be infected with the virus, Kahn told AFP.
Last December, H5N1 outbreaks in North-West Frontier province contributed to suspected human-to-human transmission of the virus.
A few days before the new outbreak, Pakistan had filed a final report with the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) on outbreaks that occurred sporadically throughout 2007 and into early 2008. The country's last outbreak, which occurred in early March, also hit a commercial chicken farm in North-West Frontier province, near Abbottabad, according to a previous report from the OIE.
The report said wild birds were the probable source of the H5N1 virus in the previous 2007 and 2008 outbreaks.
Hong Kong farmers angry
Elsewhere, chicken farmers in Hong Kong threatened to release their chickens to protest what they see as an unfair compensation offer from government officials who, after recent H5N1 outbreaks in the city's live poultry markets, are exploring the possibility of phasing out live chicken trading, according to a Jun 20 AFP report.
The government has offered farmers and traders compensation totaling $163.9 million to give up their sales licenses, according to AFP. Chicken stall owners would receive between $600,000 and $1.5 million, depending on the size of the stall and product turnover, the report said.
York Chow, Hong Kong's health minister, said in a statement that the offer was "very reasonable," but a representative from the farmer's group that is threatening to release chickens said the government's offer was too low, according to AFP.
In early June, Hong Kong's government announced that animal health officials had found the H5N1 virus in five chicken-dropping samples from three poultry market stalls. The officials did not say if the testing was prompted by reports of sick or dead birds.
After the virus was found in chicken droppings at four more poultry markets, authorities on Jun 11 announced that all market poultry would be culled and that they were considering extending a 3-week ban on all live poultry from local farms and mainland China.
Less than a week later, authorities in Guangdong province, on Hong Kong's northern border, announced that the virus had struck a duck farm in Yashan Village.
FAO: Vietnam should keep vaccinating
In other avian influenza developments, experts from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recently said Vietnam will probably need to continue vaccinating poultry for at least the next 3 to 5 years, according to a Jun 19 statement from the FAO. The experts made the statement in a report on a recent avian flu conference that was held in Vietnam, sponsored by the country's agriculture ministry, the FAO, and two US government agencies.
Jeff Gilbert, the FAO's avian influenza team leader in Vietnam, said in the statement that given farmers' lack of knowledge about biosecurity, Vietnam is at risk for significant outbreaks, like those that occurred in 2004 and 2005, unless vaccination continues.
After those widespread outbreaks, which led to the destruction of 66 million birds, Vietnam in 2005 became the first country to institute mandatory poultry vaccination against the H5N1 virus. However, over the past year, the country has suffered recurring smaller outbreaks, often among unvaccinated birds.
Bui Ba Bong, Vietnam's deputy agriculture minister, said further study of H5N1 virus transmission should be combined with restructuring of the country's poultry sector to boost biosecurity and strengthen educational messages about the disease.
Andrew Speedy, an FAO representative in Vietnam, praised Vietnam's government for acknowledging avian influenza risks, maintaining transparency, and taking a scientific approach to battling the virus. He said the country should "reconsider" vaccination, calling it effective but costly.
Gilbert said that changing Vietnam's traditional farming systems to incorporate better biosecurity and surveillance measures will require a careful approach. "So there is a push and pull. They (the farmers) will be pushed by legislation, but they will be pulled by giving them access to markets," he said.
Anni McLeod, a senior official with the FAO's livestock division, told meeting participants that a recent study indicated that mass media messages about avian influenza are losing their effectiveness in Vietnam.
She suggested a more personal, interactive approach to communities. "For many people in Vietnam, avian influenza is a part of life, it's not unusual, so we have to think about more direct ways to communicate with people, ways that are more related to their lives," McLeod said in the statement.
See also:
Mar 10 OIE report
Jun 11 CIDRAP News story "Hong Kong finds more H5N1, culls all market poultry"
Jun 19 FAO statement
http://www.fao.org/avianflu/news/vietnam_230608.html
Oct 25, 2006, CIDRAP News story "Special report: Vietnam's success against avian flu may offer blueprint for others"

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/avianflu/news/jun2308avian-br.html

[HenryN]

Re: Pakistan: outbreak in poultry, June 2008

From final report

Epidemiology
Epidemiological comments

The first outbreak of highly pathogenic notifiable avian influenza (HPNAI) was reported in February 2007 while the last one was observed on 3 March 2008. The event involved a total of 225,238 commercial poultry of various categories. Stamping out policy was adopted. All poultry on the index
farms were culled and disinfection operations were completed as per OIE guidelines. All culling and disinfection operations in the last reported outbreak were completed on 4 March 2008. All sero-surveillance results obtained within a 10-km-radius zone around the outbreak were negative.
Monitoring and sero-surveillance will continue.

Therefore, since no further outbreaks of HPNAI have been observed in the country since 3 March 2008; Pakistan declares itself free of HPNAI with effect from 4 June 2008.

Source of the outbreak(s) or origin of infection ? Contact with wild species

http://www.oie.int/wahid-prod/reports/en_fup_0000007125_20080617_121359.pdf

[HenryN]

Re: Pakistan: outbreak in poultry, June 2008

From final report

Epidemiology
Epidemiological comments

The first outbreak of highly pathogenic notifiable avian influenza (HPNAI) was reported in February 2007 while the last one was observed on 3 March 2008. The event involved a total of 225,238 commercial poultry of various categories. Stamping out policy was adopted. All poultry on the index
farms were culled and disinfection operations were completed as per OIE guidelines. All culling and disinfection operations in the last reported outbreak were completed on 4 March 2008. All sero-surveillance results obtained within a 10-km-radius zone around the outbreak were negative.
Monitoring and sero-surveillance will continue.

Therefore, since no further outbreaks of HPNAI have been observed in the country since 3 March 2008; Pakistan declares itself free of HPNAI with effect from 4 June 2008.

Source of the outbreak(s) or origin of infection • Contact with wild species


http://www.oie.int/wahid-prod/report...617_121359.pdf

The above epidemiology was conspicuously absent from the ProMED commentary (which included long excerpts from the final report).

The time to halt the ProMED propaganda campaign has long since passed.

[Shiloh]

Re: Pakistan: outbreak in poultry, June 2008

Source: http://www.freshnews.in/new-bird-flu...kistan-3-29879

New bird flu outbreak in Pakistan
By Indo-Asian News Service on Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Pakistan has confirmed a new outbreak of avian flu in a poultry farm in the country?s northwest, The News daily reported Monday.

The virus was detected in Hamid farm in Swabi district of North West Frontier Province (NWFP) after its owner informed that 4,000 chickens died in the past days, the newspaper said.

The province?s livestock and dairy development department and the World Health Organization (WHO) officials said tests conducted in Islamabad laboratory on the tissues of the dead birds proved the presence of deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu.

The remaining 2,000 chickens were culled after the confirmation of bird flu outbreak. Another poultry farm was also sealed, the newspaper said.

[Treyfish]

Re: Pakistan: outbreak in poultry, June 2008

Pakistan poultry farms to confirm the outbreak of the H5N1 avian flu epidemic, about 25 people have been isolated
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Pakistan government officials said Monday in a poultry farm in the country found that the outbreak of the H5N1 avian flu, has isolated about 25 people, but found no infection.
This is the year in Pakistan for at least the fifth outbreak of bird flu, the official said the outbreak was confirmed Saturday in the town of Swabi a poultry farms in the capital, Islamabad, about 60 kilometers northwest.

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"Has been identified as H5N1, thank God has not found someone infected," the Ministry of Agriculture who asked to remain anonymous senior official said.

He said that the region has about 4,500 poultry were culled, disinfected and have been.

The Ministry of Health is also an official said on condition of anonymity, including poultry farm workers and their closest staff, about 25 people are under quarantine surveillance. < http://209.85.171.104/translate_c?hl...N%26start%3D30

[HenryN]

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Commentary

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/06240801/H5N1_NW_Pakistan_Migration.html

[HenryN]

Re: Pakistan: outbreak in poultry, June 2008

Swabi Poultry Association says H5N9 mistaken for H5N1
Staff Report

SWABI: Swabi Poultry Association (SPA) on Wednesday staged a protest demonstration against District Livestock and Dairy Development Department and National Research Institute (NRI), Islamabad, for what they called ?mistaking an H5N9 strain for H5N1? that caused bird flu. The authorities had detected H5N1 strain at a poultry farm in Swabi three days ago and ordered immediate closure of the farm and culling of 2,000 birds. The association?s office-bearers said that they had conducted their own test at the Poultry Research Institute (PRI), Rawalpindi, where the strain was identified as H5N9. The association?s president, Zabiullah, demanded that the government constitute an impartial committee that should take samples for fresh tests. He warned that if the government failed to listen to their demand till June 30, they would hold a hunger strike camp in front of the NWFP Assembly.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\06\26\story_26-6-2008_pg7_53

[HenryN]

Re: Pakistan: outbreak in poultry, June 2008

Swabi Poultry Association says H5N9 mistaken for H5N1
Staff Report

SWABI: Swabi Poultry Association (SPA) on Wednesday staged a protest demonstration against District Livestock and Dairy Development Department and National Research Institute (NRI), Islamabad, for what they called ‘mistaking an H5N9 strain for H5N1’ that caused bird flu. The authorities had detected H5N1 strain at a poultry farm in Swabi three days ago and ordered immediate closure of the farm and culling of 2,000 birds. The association’s office-bearers said that they had conducted their own test at the Poultry Research Institute (PRI), Rawalpindi, where the strain was identified as H5N9. The association’s president, Zabiullah, demanded that the government constitute an impartial committee that should take samples for fresh tests. He warned that if the government failed to listen to their demand till June 30, they would hold a hunger strike camp in front of the NWFP Assembly.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default...-6-2008_pg7_53

Trying to pin 4000 (out of 6000) poultry deaths in a couple of days on H5N9 seems to be a stretch.