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    Indonesia 2009 update

    Date: Wed 2 Sep 2009

    Source: FAOAIDE news Animal Influenza Disease Emergency Situation
    Update No 61, 31 Aug 2009 [edited]


    Indonesia continues to report a high number of H5N1 HPAI outbreaks in
    poultry, as it has for the past 3 years. HPAI is endemic on Java,
    Sumatra, Sulawesi and probably Bali islands, with sporadic outbreaks
    reported elsewhere.

    Village prevalence varies widely
    . Only 2 of its 33
    provinces have not reported the occurrence of H5N1 HPAI.

    The high
    number of reported outbreaks each month is partially explained by the
    implementation of the participatory disease surveillance and response
    (PDSR) [see footnote*] programme that targets village-type poultry
    production systems (mainly backyard) and reports evidence of virus
    circulation in the village environment.

    The programme is financially
    supported by FAO with USAID and AusAID, and is operating in 331/448
    (74 percent) districts through 31 Local Disease Control Centres
    (LDCCs) in 27 out of 33 provinces in Java, Sumatra, Bali, Sulawesi and
    Kalimantan, including all known endemically infected areas. Larger and
    less densely-populated provinces!report HPAI outbreaks less often than
    more densely populated
    provinces.

    During June [2009], PDSR officers visited 2112 villages, of
    which 193 (7.1 percent) were infected (187 were newly found, while the
    remaining 6 carried over the infection status from the previous
    month). This was lower than the May 2009 infection rate of 9.1
    percent. During the previous 6 months, PDSR officers visited 10 667
    villages (16.5 percent) in the 331 Districts under PDSR surveillance.
    Since May 2008, they have visited about 34 percent of villages under
    coverage of the program. An average of 14.3 percent of the villages
    visited during the previous 3 months were classified as infected at
    the time of visit. Bali continued to have infected villages. Cases
    over the last 6 months were concentrated in provinces on Java and
    Sulawesi islands other than Gorontalo and North Sulawesi Provinces.

    * PDSR case definition in Indonesia: When poultry mortality events are
    encountered in which more than one bird died suddenly, with or without
    clinical signs, Participatory Disease Surveillance and Response (PDSR)
    teams carry out an influenza type A rapid test. A mortality event
    consistent with clinical HPAI and a positive rapid test in affected
    poultry is considered a confirmed detection of HPAI in areas where
    HPAI has previously been confirmed by laboratory testing.

    --



    [The FAOAIDEnews issue 61 of 31 Aug 2009 (13 pages) includes
    additional information
    , such as a comprehensive report on the Central
    Asia Regional Network for the Prevention and Control of Avian
    Influenza, information on other infected countries, maps and tables.
    It is expected to become available soon on FAO's website at
    <http://www.fao.org/eims/secretariat/empres/eims_search/simple_s_result.asp?topic_docrep=172>. -
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