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[Theresa42]

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Third bird flu site detected in Moscow Region - acting governor
17:11 | 17/ 02/ 2007

MOSCOW, February 17 (RIA Novosti) - A third avian flu outbreak has been detected at a private farm in the Moscow Region, the acting governor said Saturday.

"A resident of the Podolsk District [south of Moscow] bought a chicken on Moscow's Ptichy pet market, and forty-four birds at his farmstead died as a result," Alexei Panteleyev said.

Map updated...

[MHSC]

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Bird Flu Confirmed In Moscow Region
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</td></tr><tr><td class="caption">(RFE/RL)</td></tr></tbody></table> February 17, 2007 -- Russian health authorities have confirmed an outbreak of bird flu in the Moscow region.


Several dead birds found in the village of Pavlovsky tested positive for the disease.

Russia's top veterinary official, Nikolai Vlasov, said further tests are being conducted to see if the birds died of the H5N1 strain, which is potentially lethal to humans.


Poultry farms in the area have been placed under special quarantine as a preventive measure.

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/02/B8BD7BF0-DCAD-4ADE-98FE-1437F58DB4D7.html

[MHSC]

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Bird-flu in capital of Russia February 17, 2007, 01:19 PM

H5 N1 virus has been revealed in two farms located in Moscow suburb.


Russian State Sanitary surgeon - Gennadiy Onishchenko also proved the information of virus existing.


Several people showing flu symptoms are collaborators of Domodedovo and Zvenigorod farms.

Infected men have been taken to hospital. Quarantine has been imposed in poultry farms of Moscow. Infected birds will be killed by special groups.

http://www.imedinews.ge/en/news_read/21700

(Short video available at link. - MHSC)

[HenryN]

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Bird Flu Confirmed In Moscow Region
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</TD></TR><TR><TD class=caption>(RFE/RL)</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>February 17, 2007 -- Russian health authorities have confirmed an outbreak of bird flu in the Moscow region.


Several dead birds found in the village of Pavlovsky tested positive for the disease.

Russia's top veterinary official, Nikolai Vlasov, said further tests are being conducted to see if the birds died of the H5N1 strain, which is potentially lethal to humans.


Poultry farms in the area have been placed under special quarantine as a preventive measure.

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle...7F58DB4D7.html

Is Pavlovsky yet another village near Moscow (just east of the city)?

[HenryN]

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Russia to determine bird flu strain by Sunday

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top align=left width="100%" colSpan=2><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=20 align=left border=0><TBODY><TR><TD align=left colSpan=2> </TD><TD align=left width=5></TD></TR><TR><TD class=cap align=left colSpan=2>A tractor builds a ditch for the disinfection of cars that are leaving a quarantine zone near the bird flu affected village of Pavlovskoye</TD><TD align=left width=5></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Poultry farms around Moscow were under tight control Saturday as a third outbreak of bird flu was found and health officials investigated whether the deadly H5N1 strain had caused Moscow's first exposure to the virus. </TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top align=left>Russia's animal and plant health watchdog, Rosselkhoznadzor, expected results by Sunday evening from tests on dead birds found in two villages near Moscow, said Nikolai Vlasov, the agency's head of veterinary surveillance. More than 30 dead birds were involved in the two cases.
"We are now carrying out tests to determine the nature of the bird flu virus. We don't yet know what type it is and will find out no earlier than Sunday evening," Vlasov told Reuters.
People who had been in contact with the dead birds were taken to hospital as a precautionary measure, but showed no signs of any illness, he said.
Russia's latest bird flu outbreak is its second this year and the first ever recorded close to the capital. The highly pathogenic H5N1 strain killed poultry in three settlements in the southern region of Krasnodar last month.
Alexei Alexeyenko, press secretary for Rosselkhoznadzor, said the dead birds had been traced to a market on the outskirts of Moscow and had been brought there from other Russian regions.
Nevertheless, poultry which had been in contact with the dead birds had been culled and strict sanitary measures were in place in the two affected villages ? Pavlovskoye, south of Moscow, and Shikhovo, to the west, Vlasov said.
Moscow Region Vice-Governor Alexei Panteleyev was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying a third case had been found on a private farm near Podolsk, south of Moscow, where 44 birds had died. He said the owner had bought the birds at the same market, which has been closed since Saturday morning.
"We are taking very strict measures in case this outbreak was caused by the H5N1 virus," Vlasov said.
Russian news agencies on Friday quoted chief sanitary expert and head of Russia's consumer rights watchdog, Gennady Onishchenko, as saying H5N1 was responsible for the deaths.
Strict measures
The H5N1 strain of bird flu has killed 167 people worldwide since 2003, mostly in Asia. Many of the victims had been in direct contact with infected birds.
Health experts fear the virus could mutate into a form that passes easily from human to human, sparking a pandemic that could kill millions.
No human cases have been recorded in Russia. Five people have died from eight cases in neighboring Azerbaijan.
Interfax news agency quoted Nikolai Savenko, the Moscow region's minister of food and agriculture, as saying strict measures were in place at all major poultry plants in the area.
"We have tightened control on access to the main poultry plants. At every poultry plant, we will introduce daily monitoring of the condition of birds and the people working with them," the regional minister was quoted by Interfax as saying.
Mosselprom, the Moscow region's largest poultry producer, welcomed the tightened security.
"We always have strict measures in place," Mosselprom's deputy general director, Vadim Kamashev, told Reuters.
"In principle, the strict measures will help everyone. We hope that it will limit uncontrolled poultry breeding," he said.
Russia recorded more than 90 bird flu cases in chickens and other birds last year, mostly in the North Caucasus region that borders Georgia and Azerbaijan and also in Siberia's Novosibirsk and Omsk regions.
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[Theresa42]

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Is Pavlovsky yet another village near Moscow (just east of the city)?

Sure sounds like it (unless someone's mixed up Podolsk and Pavlovsky...). Pavlovsky was cut off on my other map...

[colormyquilt]

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In Dr. Niman's post above, another town west of Moscow is identified- Shikhovo.
I cannot locate on your map, Theresa42.

[Theresa42]

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In Dr. Niman's post above, another town west of Moscow is identified- Shikhovo.
I cannot locate on your map, Theresa42.

I can't find Shikhovo on Encarta either. Here it is on FallingRain.com:

http://www.fallingrain.com/world/RS/47/Shikhovo.html

The latitude & longtitude are there if you've got a good map you can look it up on.

From what I can tell, I think it's pretty close to Zvenigorod which is mentioned somewhere in an earlier post. I thought that's where the market where the infected birds were purchased was located.

Thanks, colormyquilt! Well spotted.

[colormyquilt]

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In this case he emphasized that the final results of examination will be declared by the specialists of the central scientific methods veterinary laboratory of the Moscow Minsel'khoz - Ministry of Agriculture on Monday. Savenko it at the same time added that all preventive measures in the villages Pavlovian and Shikhovo were undertaken in time - livestock of yard bird is destroyed, people, which contacted with the bird, were undertaken for the observation of doctors. "now our associates from Moscow conduct our own investigation, explaining as the bird, infected" by bird influenza ", I could fall on market", noted Savenko.

I found it in Dr. Niman's earlier post. Google search gives two lat/ long- one placing it near Zvenigorod, one placing it nearer Pavlovskoye. Google identifies the Biological Station for Moscow State University is in Shikhovo. It may be a small village/ suburb/ development.

Thanks, Theresa42

[AlaskaDenise]

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Two Russian bird flu cases confirmed as H5N1



MOSCOW (Reuters) - Two cases of bird flu in Russia have been confirmed as being the deadly H5N1 strain, Russia's animal and plant health watchdog said on Saturday.

"It was confirmed as H5N1," said Alexei Alexeyenko, press secretary for Rosselkhoznadzor.

The positive tests refer to the first two cases found on Friday night. "Tomorrow we will do more tests and be able to determine how dangerous the virus is," Alexeyenko said.

No human cases of bird flu have been recorded in Russia.


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[AlaskaDenise]

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Sat 17 Feb 2007

A health worker pours disinfectant for cars that leave the quarantine zone near the bird flu-affected village of Pavlovskoye, some 20 km (12.4 miles) from Moscow February 17, 2007. Poultry farms around Moscow were under tight control on Saturday when two cases of bird flu near the capital were confirmed as being the deadly H5N1 strain. REUTERS/Alexander Natruskin

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=263652007

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(I noticed in this an other photos of the biosecurity around the villages, that there is still some snow on the ground. This means the temperatures are ideal for 30+ day preservation of the H5N1 virus.)

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[HenryN]

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Deadly bird flu strain strikes Moscow region

02-17-2007, 23h10
MOSCOW (AFP)

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Local policemen talks to residents in the village of Shikhkovo, some 60 kms west from Moscow, where the H5N1 virus has been registered. The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been confirmed at one of three farms under investigation on the outskirts of Moscow, a veterinary source said in the first outbreak of the disease to threaten the Russian capital.
(AFP)


</TD><TR><TD><SCRIPT language=javascript type=text/javascript><!--google_ad_client = "pub-7556461815428755";google_ad_width = 250;google_ad_height = 250;google_ad_format = "250x250_as";google_ad_type = "text_image";google_ad_channel ="4335879823";google_color_border = "FFFFFF";google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";google_color_link = "990000";google_color_text = "000000";google_color_url = "990000";--></SCRIPT><SCRIPT src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" type=text/javascript></SCRIPT></TD></TR></TR></TBODY></TABLE>The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been confirmed at one of three farms under investigation on the outskirts of Moscow, a veterinary source said in the first outbreak of the disease to threaten the Russian capital.


"We have just received the laboratory results" from the first of the farms, Russian veterinary authority spokesman Alexei Alexeyenko told AFP, "the precise subtype of the H5N1 virus (will be known) by Sunday evening."

"It could be similar to the virus that was seen in Asia," or it could be a less dangerous strain, he said.

Potentially fatal to humans who come into contact with infected poultry, the H5N1 virus was recorded in southern Russia in late January, but the current outbreak is the first near Moscow, home to more than 10 million people.

Tests have been carried out on people who came into contact with the dead birds but no human cases have been detected, the country's top epidemiologist, Gennady Onischenko said in an interview with the Russia Today news channel broadcast early Sunday.

"No illness or traces of the virus have been reported among humans. Everything is under control," he said, denying earlier reports that farmers had been hospitalized with symptoms of the disease.

The Russian find follows recent outbreaks of the potentially lethal strain of the virus in Britain and Turkey, while Hungary reported the first detected case of the strain last month, the first such outbreak in the European Union since mid-2006.

Reports suggested the source of the Moscow outbreak could be the capital's main poultry market on the southeast fringe of the city, which has since been closed.

TV stations provided a phone number for people who may have bought birds there.

Regional health officials were taking blood samples from domestic birds within a three-kilometre (1.9 mile) radius of the first two farms and maintaining visual observation of domestic birds within a 10-kilometre (6.2 mile) radius Saturday, the Interfax news agency reported.

Russian television showed images of cars being inspected and disinfected at road blocks close to the farms.

Locals interviewed on Russian television did not appear particularly concerned, however.

"I have not heard anything about bird flu in our village. I think I would have heard something if it was really here," a local woman told NTV television.

A shop assistant at a Moscow supermarket told the channel that there had been no fall in sales of chicken since news of the outbreak broke.

Suspected bird flu was first reported Friday near two towns in the Moscow region, Odintsovo and Domodedovo.

On Saturday, 44 birds were found dead at a third farm 40 kilometres (25 miles) south of the capital, prompting fears that it too had been hit.

The three affected farms have since been disinfected and quarantined, and there is no danger in consuming eggs from local poultry producers, Nikolai Vlasov, director of the agricultural inspection agency Rosselkhoznadzor told AFP.

He later told the Interfax news agency tests had confirmed poultry from the Odintsovo farm had also tested positive for the H5N1 strain following earlier confirmation at a small household operation near Domodedovo.

"We do not have yet the results of analysis (at the third farm) and we can not thus say with precision which virus made the birds sick," Rosselkhoznadzor spokesman Alexei Alexeyenko said Saturday.

The H5N1 strain was registered in Russia in late January in poultry plants in the Krasnodar region, just over 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) south of the capital, but no human infections were found.

The strain, which first emerged in Asia, has caused 270 reported human infections worldwide since 2003 and killed 164 as of last month.

An outbreak of bird flu in 2006 killed four people in Turkey and five in Azerbaijan, a former Soviet state located in the Caucasus mountains region between Russia and Turkey.

Experts fear the virus could cause a pandemic by mutating into a form that is transmissible between humans.



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[unpathedhaunt]

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Last Updated 18/02/2007, 12:07:21

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Tests in Russia have confirmed the presence of the deadly H-5-N-1 bird flu strain in poultry found dead in two districts in Moscow.

It's the first such outbreak to be recorded so close to the Russian capital.

Officials are also waiting on results of tests taken in a third suburban district.
Last Updated 18/02/2007, 12:07:21 Select text size:

Tests in Russia have confirmed the presence of the deadly H-5-N-1 bird flu strain in poultry found dead in two districts in Moscow.

It's the first such outbreak to be recorded so close to the Russian capital.

Officials are also waiting on results of tests taken in a third suburban district.

[Theresa42]

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babelfished from Russian:

The case of hens is fixed in the fourth region of the Moscow area
Feb 18, 2007

The veterinary services of the Moscow area fixed the case of hens in one of the economies of the Taldomskeyeo region of Moscow region. One of the versions of that happening - "bird influenza", stated "Interfaksu" in Sunday the main state veterinarian of Moscow region Valerie Sitnikov.

"Now we do not possess full weight of information on this case, but it cannot be excluded that we encountered the same by the 'bird influenza', which was previously revealed in the the Odintsovskom and Podolskiy regions and urban district Domodedovo", it stated Sitnikov.

In the cases with the infection of hens on the Moscow bird market it is not possible to exclude the version also of bioterrorism; however, the federal security service and other law-enforcement agencies must be occupied by this, it added Sitnikov.

According to Sitnikova, the veterinary services of Moscow region practically do not have doubts about the fact that the basic source of the propagation of the virus of "bird influenza" became the Moscow bird market.

"Possibly, bird, after infecting once on the bird market they began to infect each other. The incubative period of "bird influenza" is one-two days, that confirm the real facts. Thus, the first decorative hen was purchased on 9 February, and 11 it fall, in the second case several hens were purchased on 11 February, and on 13 February they fell", it described Sitnikov.

"Probably, the management of bird market on some reasons could not stop the penetration of the birds, infected by virus, for the market, however 4 I do not exclude the version of bioterrorism; however, in this case their word must say the federal security service and other law-enforcement agencies", it noted Sitnikov.

Meanwhile the influenza of birds revealed in three regions of the Moscow area relates to subtype H5N1. They are such laboratory findings, carry ouied [out] in the All-Russian scientific research institute of the protection of animals (G. Vladimir).

"The loss of poultry on personal podvor'yakh of the Odintsovskeyeo and Domodedovo regions of the Moscow area is caused by the virus of the influenza of birds H5N1, the degree of its pathogenicity (high or low) at the given moment is refined", reported ITAR-TASS the chief for the administration of the veterinary supervision of Rossel'khoznadzora Nikolai Vlasov.

According to him, the precise strain of virus will be known not on 18 February, as it was assumed earlier, but on 19 February in first half of day.

The previously main sanitary doctor RF of Gennadi Onishchenko stated that the situation on the "bird influenza" in the Moscow area does not cause in it fears. The obtained from the places of the outbreaks of the influenza of birds information "gives grounds to report to today's evening, that the situation is satisfactory. Diseases and there are no suspicions to the diseases of people", he said in straight ether of the subbotnego news issue of television channel NTV.

According to Nikolai Vlasov, "the situation completely is under the control, flashes are haveed sleeping compartments, introduced quarantine and it is carry ouied [out] disinfection".

That acting of the governor of Moscow region Aleksey Pantelei reported today about the third case of the disease of poultry by "bird influenza" in the Moscow area - this time on one of particular podvoriy in Podolskiy region. The previously facts of the infection of bird by "bird influenza" were fixed in the Domodedovo region and the urban district Zvenigorod.

The epidemic of "bird influenza" the inhabitants of the region and capital does not threaten - "at all Moscow poultry processing facilities is make rigde quarantine regime, and are also accepted all measures for the non-admission of penetration into the economies of dangerous virus". In Rospotrebnadzore they emphasize that "are conducted the circuits per farm, the cases of infecting the people it is not fixed".

http://www.newsru.com/russia/18feb2007/chetr.html

[Theresa42]

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Taldomskeyeo region...

The Russian authorities are now talking about a fourth confirmed/likely(?) outbreak in Taldom, which is north of Moscow.

The three previously confirmed locations are (correct me if I'm wrong!) Odintsovo, Podol'sk and Domodedovo. There's also been mention in some reports of Zvenigorod (& Shikhovo) and Pavlovskiy, but the authorities don't seem to be mentioning these places in their list of locales with outbreaks.