RUSSIA - H5N1 kills poultry in Moscow area Feb 16 - 22

[Theresa42]

Hat-tip, christian!

H5N1 kills poultry in Moscow area-RIA
Reuters AlertNet - 16 Feb 2007 18:42:41 GMT
(Adds details, people suspected of having bird flu, background)

MOSCOW, Feb 16 (Reuters) - The H5N1 strain of bird flu has killed poultry in the Moscow region for the first time, Russia's chief sanitary expert and head of a consumer watchdog was quoted by RIA news agency as saying on Friday.

"The pathogenicity of this virus for people has not been confirmed. Vets have detected it, they confirm it is the H5N1 strain," Gennady Onishchenko said.

Last month Russia recorded its first cases this year of the H5N1 strain in dead domestic birds, detected in the southern Krasnodar region.

Russia recorded more than 90 cases of bird flu last year. Most were in southern regions, particularly the North Caucasus area that borders Georgia and Azerbaijan. Several cases were also found in the Siberian regions of Novosibirsk and Omsk.

The virus was detected in a house in the Pavlovsky settlement of the Domodedovo area near Moscow. The house was being disinfected, Onishchenko said.

Workers on two farms near Moscow have been taken to hospital suspected of having the bird flu, Interfax agency cited the acting governor of the Moscow region, Alexei Pantelyeyev, as saying. He added that a few dozen birds had been culled.

Health experts fear the H5N1 virus could mutate into a form that passes easily from human to human, sparking a pandemic that could kill millions. The virus has killed 167 people worldwide since 2003, mainly in Asia.

No human cases have been recorded in Russia. Five people have died from eight cases in neighbouring Azerbaijan.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L16826822.htm

[yielddude]

H5N1 caused poultry deaths near Moscow - chief epidemiologist
21:55 | 16/ 02/ 2007



MOSCOW, February 16 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's chief epidemiologist and the head of the government's food security watchdog confirmed Friday that the H5N1 strain of bird flu was the cause of poultry deaths in the south of the Moscow Region.

"The pathogenicity of this virus for humans has not been confirmed," Gennady Onishchenko said.

Bird flu cases have been detected in a private farmstead in the Domodedovo District's town of Pavlovsky, where households have a total of about 700 birds, he said.

Onishchenko said it was highly unlikely that the virus will spread to commercial poultry producers.

"Poultry farms in the Domodedovo District are modern and self-contained operations," he said.

Acting Governor Alexei Panteleyev said bird flu cases have also been detected in the Odintsovo district, west of Moscow.

"The [sick] birds - fewer than a hundred in all - have been culled," he said.

He said that people who may have been in contact with the dead birds are now in hospital, undergoing medical tests.

Russia's most recent bird flu outbreak occurred in mid-January, in the southern region of Krasnodar, but it was contained by February.

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070216/60871292.html

[Theresa42]

babelfished from Russian:

"Bird influenza" in the Moscow area: two people are hospitalized with the suspicion to the virus, in birds it has already been confirmed
Feb 16, 2007

The colleagues of two farmer economies in the environments of Moscow Domodedovo and Zvenigorod are hospitalized with the suspicion to the "bird influenza". On this, as reports "Interfaks", Aleksey Pantelei stated acting of the governor of Moscow region. According to Panteleyeva, sick they delivered into the provincial hospitals Domodedovo and Zvenigorod. It is known that they contacted with the bird, but about the fact that they infected themselves precisely by "bird influenza", by one hundred percent cannot be said, stated i.o. of governor.

The strict quarantine is introduced at all poultry processing facilities of the Moscow area

Entire bird - and this several ten heads, find in the suspicious economies, it is destroyed. The specialists of provincial Ministry of Pub. Health and department of Rospotrebnadzora in Moscow region perform entire necessary work. Aleksey Pantelei also added that the specialists of the provincial Ministry of Agriculture and foodstuffs work on the spot. "In the given farmer economies is introduced quarantine", emphasized acting of governor, after adding, that entire situation find on its personal control.

Between those earlier entered the communications, that on particular Podvor'yakh of Moscow region, namely in the Domodedovo and Odintsovskeye region among the birds occurred the case. Chapter Gennadi Onishchenko's Rospotrebnadzora it confirmed that the precisely bird influenza became the reason for this, reports RIA of "news". "The pathogenicity of this virus for the people is not confirmed. It is isolated by veterinary surgeons, they confirm that this is strain H5N1", said Onishchenko on Friday. Specifically, strain H5N1 is most dangerous for the man.

Onishchenko it reported that the cases of the case of poultry were fixed in the settlement Pavlovsky the Domodedovo region of the Moscow area. "Now is conducted the disinfection of this house with the aid of the disinfection brigades", noted Onishchenko.

According to him, in the settlement live 1700 people. In all in the houses it is contained only more than 700 head of poultry. "According to the data of veterinary surgeons, bird was inculcated. We carry out now the circuits per farm, morbidity among the people ORVI by influenza is located on the doepidemicheskom [epidemic?] level", said Onishchenko. It also reported that occurs checking the bird market, on which owner and acquired the subsequently killed bird.

Special conference regarding the appearance of a "bird influenza" to the Moscow area on Saturday in the morning will take place in Rossel'khoznadzore, the press-secretary of this department reported. They there noted that the "case of birds insignificant, a total of several heads". Representative Rossel'khoznadzora did not name the reason for the loss of birds, after refusing to comment on the possibility of bird influenza.

The last time the cases of the appearance of bird influenza were fixed in the middle of January in a number of the populated areas seaside-Axtarskogo of the region of Krasnodar edge. Thus far the cases of the disease of birds by this virus were not observed from August of past year.

The strict quarantine is introduced at all poultry processing facilities of the Moscow area

At all poultry processing facilities of the Moscow area is introduced a strict quarantine in connection with the detection in two farmer economies of the region of the virus of bird influenza. On this, as transfers ITAR- TASS, reported acting of the governor of Moscow region Aleksey Pantelei.

According to him, quarantine measures at the poultry processing facilities imply the possibility of passage into the accomodation with the bird to the strictly limited number of people, after health of which is conducted a constant control. Furthermore, specialists deal with the shooting of all wild birds, that can prove to be in the zone of poultry processing facilities. "Also veterinary surgeons conduct a constant monitoring of the health of entire bird, which is contained at the factories", it said the Panteleis. It reminded one that similar quarantine measures earlier were conducted at the Moscow poultry processing facilities; however, in connection with the prevailing situation they are sharply intensified.

http://www.newsru.com/russia/16feb2007/h5n1.html

[Theresa42]

Map.

And, yes, that is a major, international airport in Domodedovo -- "At present (2006), Domodedovo is the main airport of Russia, surpassing Sheremetyevo in terms of international and domestic passenger traffic. It recorded 15.3 million passengers in 2006."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domoded...tional_Airport

[Theresa42]

babelfished from Russian:

The outbreak of bird influenza is fixed in the Moscow area
Feb 16, 2007

The main sanitary doctor of the country, Gennadi Onishchenko confirmed that the reason for the case of poultry in the Domodedovo region of Moscow region is the virus of the bird influenza H5N1. According to the data of veterinary surgeons, entire bird was previously inculcated from the bird influenza. Meanwhile became known about the hospitalization of workers two farmer the economy of the Moscow area. How many men they fell ill and than - thus far it does not communicate. It is known only that the symptoms resemble precisely bird influenza.

The outbreak of "bird influenza" in a number of the farmer economies of Moscow region cannot in the next months be extended to the poultry processing facilities this opinion in ether of the radio station of "Echo of Moscow" it expressed deputy Mosobldumy, the chairman of the "state farm of the name of Lenin" Pavel grudinin. It explained, that the migration of bird yet did not begin, furthermore, at the factories bird is completely isolated on external peace. As far as the possibility of the delivery of the infected production for the market is concerned, this also, according to him, it is highly improbable. "Hardly someone in the territory of region holds bird as meat species. Particular owners do not maintain competition from the side of broilers from the poultry processing facilities or legs of Bush", explained P.Grudinin. Chapter Rospotrebnadzora G. Onishchenko it today confirmed that the reason for the case of bird on particular Podvor'yakh in Moscow region became the "bird influenza". As it communicated earlier, the case of bird was fixed in the Domodedovo and Odintsovskeye regions of the Moscow area.

Is now a strict quarantine introduced at all poultry processing facilities of the Moscow area. Furthermore, specialists deal with the shooting of all wild birds, that occur in the zone of poultry processing facilities. On this OF ITAR- TASS Aleksey Pantelei reported acting of the governor of Moscow region. According to him, similar quarantine measures earlier were conducted at the Moscow factories; however, in connection with the prevailing situation they are sharply intensified.

http://echo.msk.ru/news/360236.html

[Theresa42]

babelfished from Spanish (si, Español!):

They confirm bud of bird influenza and hospitalization of employees of farms
Feb 16, 2007

The Russian sanitary authorities today confirmed the detection of a bud of bird influenza in the region of Moscow and the hospitalization of several employees of bird-raising farms with symptoms of pneumonía.

"The veterinarians have confirmed who the virus detected in the region of Moscow is stock H5N1', the only mortal them human beings, assured Guennadi Oníschenko, head of the Control service Fitosanitario and Veterinario of Russia.

The Russian sanitary head added that now "the agricultural operation is becoming disinfected where detected I appeared and denied that exists the possibility of propagation from the virus to the numerous existing bird-raising factories in the region of Moscow.

In reference to the hospitalized workers, the civil employee assured that "the pathogenic character of the virus for the people is not confirmadó."

On the other hand, the temporary governor of the region of Moscow, Alexéi Panteleev, assured that "it is not possible to be said to the 100 percent that the employees have contracted influenza aviar."

"The specialists of the ministry of Health and the service of epidemiología lead the examinations médicos," said.

The local authorities have started up an emergency device - group of forty and sacrifice of birds to avoid the propagation of the epidemic to other zones of the region.

The last bud of epizootia in Russian territory was detected in the middle of January in the southern region of Krasnodar, near the Black Sea.

The first case of bird influenza in Russia was detected in July of 2005 in Siberia and the epidemic later propagated to the European part three months, in concrete to the Buddhist republic of Kalmikia, bathed by the Caspian Sea.

Later, in the Russian norcaucásica republic of Daguestán were birds died by the virus in their version H5N1, stock that can be lethal for the humans.

According to the sanitary authorities, the bird influenza arrived at Russian territory through originating Kazajistán of the northwest of China.

http://actualidad.terra.es/sociedad/...on_1399572.htm

[Theresa42]

Bird flu discovered in Moscow region
Feb 16, 2007

MOSCOW (AFP) - Dozens of poultry have died in an outbreak of bird flu in the Moscow region and several farmers have been hospitalized with symptoms of the disease, officials said.

There were conflicting reports about whether the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus was responsible, with the state veterinary authority promising confirmation early Saturday.

"Dead poultry were discovered in the Odintsovo and Domodedovo areas close to Moscow. They died of avian influenza," a spokesman for Russian veterinary service Rosselkhoznadzor, Alexei Alexeyenko, told AFP.

The dead birds included "hens, turkeys [!] and guinea fowl raised on two private farms," he said.

"We are holding tests to check if the H5N1 virus was responsible. The results of the tests should be announced tomorrow morning (Saturday)," he said.

However, the country's top epidemiologist, Gennady Onischenko, citing "veterinarian services," told the Interfax news agency that the H5N1 strain was responsible.

Farmers working in the area "were hospitalised" with symptoms of the avian influenza, acting governor of the Moscow region Alexei Panteleyev told Interfax, adding that the diagnosis was yet to be confirmed.

The governor did not say how many people had been hospitalized.

In all "a few dozen birds" died on two farms and all poultry plants in the area have been quarantined, he said.

If tests confirm the H5N1 virus was responsible, it will be the first case so close to the Russian capital.

H5N1 was registered in late January in poultry plants in the Krasnodar region, just over 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) south of the capital.

The strain first emerged in Asia. Some 270 cases of humans being infected by the bird flu virus have been reported worldwide since 2003 with 164 deaths as of last month.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070216...u_070216202149

[HenryN]

Commentary at

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/02...N1_Moscow.html

[HenryN]

Bird flu detected near Moscow, strain yet unknown 16.02.2007, 22.23

MOSCOW, February 16 (Itar-Tass) -- All poultry farms in the Moscow region are under strict quarantine, as bird flu virus has been detected at two farmsteads, acting Moscow regional governor Alexei Panteleyev told Itar-Tass. He said the access to poultry farms will be limited, and local personnel will be under permanent medical surveillance. All wild birds that may appear within the poultry farms’ range will be shot down, eh said. The poultry farms near Moscow have had similar quarantines before, but precautious are tighter this time. Bird flu has been detected in the Moscow region, but the strain is yet unknown, Federal Veterinarian and Phytosanitary Control Service spokesman Alexei Alexeyenko told Itar-Tass. He said the service is testing blood samples of the birds that died at two farmsteads in the Domodedovo and Odintsovo districts.

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2....0638&PageNum=0

[AlaskaDenise]

Originally Posted by niman

Commentary at

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/02...N1_Moscow.html

Commentary

H5N1 Confirmed Near Moscow
Recombinomics Commentary
February 16, 2007

The H5N1 strain of bird flu has killed poultry in the Moscow region for the first time, Russia's chief sanitary expert and head of a consumer watchdog was quoted by RIA news agency as saying on Friday.

"The pathogenicity of this virus for people has not been confirmed. Vets have detected it, they confirm it is the H5N1 strain," Gennady Onishchenko said.

Workers on two farms near Moscow have been taken to hospital suspected of having the bird flu, Interfax agency cited the acting governor of the Moscow region, Alexei Pantelyeyev, as saying. He added that a few dozen birds had been culled.

The above comments describe confirmed H5N1 in a region just south of Moscow. H5N1 in this region has not been described previously. The confirmation provides additional evidence for widespread infections of Qinghai H5N1 in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, although most of the countries neighboring the confirmed regions have failed to report H5N1 this season.

Last year most countries in these regions did not report H5N1 until February or March, although H5N1 migrated into the region in the fall. Recently, H5N1 has been reported in Krasnodar, Hungary, England, Turkey, Pakistan, Egypt, Nigeria, and the Ivory Coast. Thus far only Egypt and Nigeria have reported confirmed human cases this season, although there have been suspect cases in Azerbaijan, Turkey, England, and Iraq.

More information on the sequences of the new isolates would be useful. The new isolates in two regions in southeast Hungary are said to be 99.4% identical to Qinghai isolates from 2006 in Europe, and 99.96% identical to the isolates from the Turkey farm in Suffolk, UK. Only Egypt has released sequences for the current season.


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[AlaskaDenise]

Domodedovo International Airport Announces Operating Results for First Month of 2007

According to the results of Domodedovo International Airport activities in January 2007, Domodedovo is maintaining its leading position among Moscow area airports in terms of passenger traffic.

Overall passenger throughput at Domodedovo in January 2007 reached 1,128,000 passengers, a 19.8% increase over the same period of 2006.

The highest growth was recorded to destinations such as Ekaterinburg, Hurghada, Bangkok, London, Tashkent, Utapao, Istanbul, Zurich, St Petersburg, Baku. Domodedovo handled over 252.5 thousand passengers on these routes, a 50% growth over January 2006.

Additional information:

Passenger throughput on international routes in January 2007 reached 679,000 passengers, a 25.4% increase over the same period of 2006.

Passenger traffic on domestic routes for the first month of 2007 reached 449,000, a 12.3% rise against the results for the comparable period of 2006.

http://www.domodedovo.ru/en/main/new...s_rel/?ID=1731

[HenryN]

Commentary at

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/02...w_Suspect.html

[AlaskaDenise]

Originally Posted by niman

Commentary at

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/02...w_Suspect.html

Commentary

Suspect H5N1 Cases Hospitalized Near Moscow
Recombinomics Commentary
February 16, 2007

Meanwhile became known about the hospitalization of workers two farmer the economy of the Moscow area. How many men they fell ill and than - thus far it does not communicate. It is known only that the symptoms resemble precisely bird influenza.

The above translation describes farm workers at two locations that have bird flu symptoms. English language media reports indicate H5N1 has been confirmed in the poultry and the workers have pneumonia. If there are several workers and/or workers at multiple locations with pneumonia and other bird flu symptoms, there is cause for concern.

The H5N1 is almost certainly the Qinghai strain, which has spread throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Africa this season and last season. Although the Qinghai isolates have regional markers, the number of countries with confirmed H5N1 is significant. Confirmed cases were first identified in Turkey at the beginning of 2006. These cases were quickly followed by cases in Iraq, Egypt, Djibouti, and Azerbaijan. This season there have been confirmed cases in Egypt and Nigeria. Although the H5N1 from the human cases have changes in the receptor binding domain (S227N in Turkey and Egypt, V223I in Egypt, M230I in Egypt, N186K in Azerbaijan, N186S and Q196R in Iraq.

However, not all human isolates have these changes, and the human cases involve a number of regional changes. Therefore, human cases near Moscow would not be a surprise.

More information on the number of hospitalized patients as well as sequence information would be useful.


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[unpathedhaunt]

H5N1 caused poultry deaths near Moscow: chief epidemiologist
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070216/60871292.html


Russia's chief epidemiologist and the head of the government's food security watchdog confirmed on Friday that the H5N1 strain of bird flu was the cause of poultry deaths in the south of the Moscow Region.

"The pathogenicity of this virus for humans has not been confirmed," Gennady Onishchenko was quoted by the RIA Novosti news agency as saying.

Bird flu cases have been detected in a private farmstead in the Domodedovo District's town of Pavlovsky, where households have a total of about 700 birds, he said.

Onishchenko said it was highly unlikely that the virus would spread to commercial poultry producers.

"Poultry farms in the Domodedovo District are modern and self- contained operations," he said.

Acting Governor Alexei Panteleyev said bird flu cases had also been detected in the Odintsovo district, west of Moscow.

"The (sick) birds -- fewer than a hundred in all -- have been culled," he said.

He said that people who may have been in contact with the dead birds are now in hospital, undergoing medical tests.

Russia's most recent bird flu outbreak occurred in mid-January, in the southern region of Krasnodar, but it was contained by February.

Source: Xinhua

[Mingus]

Could you put the link to the article please unpathedhaunt ?
Thank.

[Mingus]

http://www.kommersant.com/p-10133/r_530/bird_flu/

Feb. 17, 2007
Bird Flu in Moscow Region
// Two people put into hospital
The Russian Emergencies Ministry held exercises on fighting against bird flu in Pushkino village, Omsk Region. Infected poultry extermination.
Photo: Sergey Bykhovez



Two farmers of Moscow Region have been put into hospital on suspicion of being infected with bird flu virus strain deathly for humans, said Vesti 24 TV channel. According to Russia’s chief sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko, the discovered virus is the H5N1 strain, life-threatening for people.

Alexei Panteleev, acting governor of Moscow Region, said that strict quarantine is now imposed on all bird farms in the region.

It is the second case of avian flu in Russia in 2007. The first case was discovered in three farms of Krasnodar area in late January 2007.

The H5N1 strain of avian flu virus was first discovered in 2003 in South-East Asia, and was then carried by migrating birds to Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Nearly 150 people and over 200 million of birds have died of H5N1 virus.

Despite all efforts of doctors, the effective vaccine was not found yet. There still remains the risk of global epidemic. The World Bank estimated that should it happen, the world economy will lose about 3 percent of the gross national product (GNP), which is equal to $1 trillion of damages for global economy.

www.kommersant.com

[Theresa42]

babelfished from Russian:

Poultry-breeding production from the Moscow area is not dangerous for the health

MOSCOW, 17 Februay - RIA of news, Ekaterina Yefimova. Eggs and meat of the birds, that are produced in the enterprises of the Moscow area, are safe for the health, declares Rossel'khoznadzor. On Friday in the Odintsovskeye and Domodedovo regions of Moscow region were registered the cases of the case of bird from the influenza.

"The eggs, which are sold in the stores, this the production of poultry processing facilities. But we have three dead turkeys on one podvor'e. What connection? Let they buy even further", said RIA of news the chief for the administration of the veterinary supervision of Rossel'khoznadzora Nikolai Vlasov, after calming down the inhabitants of Moscow and region.

Vlasov reported that in the morning on Saturday in Rossel'khoznadzore took place the conference, dedicated to situation in the Moscow area in connection with the loss of several head of bird.

"We have several birds, to approximately tri-shest' heads in two particular podvor'yakh. The virus of the influenza of birds is selected from them. I emphasize - this is bird influenza. It will be accurately known that this for the strain, toward the evening of Sunday", said Vlasov.

He emphasized that it does not be worthwhile to force situation, since birds accurately unknown from what precisely perished.

According to the chapter for administration, Rossel'khoznadzor are carried out all necessary measures for the non-admission of the propagation of virus in order to prevent epizootic disease if this is the Chinese strain of influenza H5N1.

"Sick birds are destroyed and contacted with them also, the disinfection of house ownerships is carry ouied. We conduct monitoring, sample of material from the poultry in the adjacent houses. Material is sent for the central veterinary laboratory in order to determine, to eat other cases in these regions", said Vlasov.

He recalled that here already two years all poultry-breeding economies of Russia work in the regime of the increased safety.

"To workers it is forbidden to have poultry [i.e. at home] in order to minimize the risk of the drift of infection in enterprise. Naturally, now the measures of control will be still stiffened", said Vlasov.

He reminded Russians that the virus of the influenza of bird perishes at a temperature of 60 degrees.

"To cook bouillon there are eggs possible", said Vlasov.

http://www.rian.ru/society/20070217/60881232.html

[HenryN]

In the farmer economies of Moscow region the bird influenza is revealed

Several workers of the farmer economies of Moscow region are hospitalized with the suspicion to the bird influenza. As on 16 February reports "Echo of Moscow" with the reference to the data of i.o. of the governor of region Domodedovo and Zvenigorod. Entire bird in the economies is destroyed.
Specialists check, with what precisely strain of virus the discussion deals. The main sanitary doctor of Russia ");

http://world.altavista.com/babelfish...%2f784099.html

[Theresa42]

babelfished from Russian:

In the Moscow area - the bird influenza
Feb 16, 2007

Several workers of the farmer economies of the Moscow area are hospitalized with the suspicion to the bird influenza. As it stated in the interview for Interfaksu that acting of the governor of region Aleksey Panteleyev.lyudi they were hospitalized into the hospitals Domodedovo and Zvenigorod. Entire bird in the economies is destroyed. As it communicates, specialists check, with what precisely strain of virus the discussion deals. However, the main sanitary doctor of Russia Gennadi Onishchenko stated "RIA-news" that the variety of virus H5N1 extremely dangerous for the man became the reason for the case of bird in the Domodedovo region.

http://echo.msk.ru/news/360246.html

[Anne]

http://www.newsru.com/russia/17feb2007/kury.html

theresa, here you have something : I don't know if you have translate :

turkeys and hens bought to the same salesman on a market of mouscou

[HenryN]

Originally Posted by Anne

http://www.newsru.com/russia/17feb2007/kury.html

theresa, here you have something : I don't know if you have translate :

turkeys and hens bought to the same salesman on a market of mouscou

All patients ****yu the "ptichim influenza" of hen were purchased in Moscow in one and the same salesman Hens, dead persons from the "bird influenza" in two regions of the Moscow area, were purchased on the bird market in Moscow in one and the same salesman, stated the minister of agriculture and foodstuffs of Moscow region of Nikolai savenko, coming out at the special session of the commission for the extraordinary situations of region on Saturday. According to his data, on 11 February the inhabitant of the settlement Pavlovian, which is located within the boundaries of the urban district Domodedovo, purchased five hens and two turkeys on the bird market in Moscow. They fell into the same day of hen. A preliminary study of the central scientific methods veterinary laboratory of Moscow region showed the presence of "bird influenza". In the second case the inhabitant Of shikhovo settlement, entering the urban district Zvenigorod, on 9 February purchased hen in the same pavilion on the "bird market" in Moscow. Through several days this hen died, and seven additional hens fell together with it. The results of a study also gave preliminary diagnosis - "bird influenza", noted Savenko. 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.

[AlaskaDenise]

Moscow Reg bird flu under control, no ill people 17.02.2007, 13.29

MOSCOW, February 17 (Itar-Tass) -- The bird flu situation in the region around Moscow causes no serious concern. There are no ill people, Russian chief sanitary inspector Gennady Onishchenko said on Saturday. All the people are healthy, and medical and veterinary services' reaction is adequate, he said in a live news broadcast on Russian Television Channel One. The situation is not alarming at present, Onishchenko said, noting that no more outbreaks were reported. The Veterinary and Phytosanitary Control Service's spokesman Alexei Alexeyenko noted that the outbreaks at two private poultry yards were not large. The outbreaks are prevented from spreading, all the appropriate measures are taken, quarantine is imposed and disinfection is conducted, he said. Tests are being conducted now to establish what kind of the flu virus caused the disease, the spokesman added. Birds died in two private farms in the Domodedovo and Odintsovo districts of the Moscow region. The cases were reported on February 16. The Moscow Region's Acting Governor Alexei Panteleyev told Itar-Tass that all the poultry farms would be inspected during this Saturday. Veterinarians will continuously monitor the state of birds in farms, Panteleyev said. Quarantine measures were tightened up in farms on Friday evening. It means that only a strictly limited number of people can enter the farms, and their health will be monitored. All the people who could be near the infected birds will be also under monitoring, the spokesman said. Specialists shoot wild birds near poultry farms in the region. http://www.tass.ru/eng/level2.html?N...1618&PageNum=0

[AlaskaDenise]

Specialists shoot wild birds near poultry farms in the region.

I assume this is for the same reasons as before - for testing to find out which strains are nearby.

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[HenryN]

Bird flu identified on two farms near Moscow, strain unknown

MOSCOW - All poultry farms in the Moscow region have been put under under strict quarantine, following the identification of the bird flu virus at two farmsteads, acting Moscow regional governor Alexei Panteleyev told Itar-Tass.


He said the access to poultry farms will be limited, and local personnel will be under permanent medical surveillance.

All wild birds that may appear within the poultry farms’ range will be shot down, eh said.

The poultry farms near Moscow have had similar quarantines before, but precautious are tighter this time.

Bird flu has been detected in the Moscow region, but the strain is yet unknown, Federal Veterinarian and Phytosanitary Control Service spokesman Alexei Alexeyenko told Itar-Tass.

He said the service is testing blood samples of the birds that died at two farmsteads in the Domodedovo and Odintsovo districts.
ThePoultrySite News Desk

http://www.thepoultrysite.com/poultr...strain-unknown

[HenryN]

Russian experts quarantine Moscow suburb as experts check for possible deadly bird flu strain

The Associated Press Saturday, February 17, 2007

MOSCOW Experts quarantined parts of two suburban Moscow districts Saturday as they checked whether domestic poultry were killed by the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain.
Two dozens birds in total had died in the Odintsovo and Domodedovo districts, and officials were taking worst-case precautionary measures pending the outcome of further tests, senior veterinary official Nikolai Vlasov said in televised comments.
Tests to determine whether the virus was the H5N1 strain could be completed as early as Saturday evening, federal agricultural oversight agency Rosselkhoznadzor spokesman Alexei Alexeyenko told The Associated Press.
Russia saw its first cases of bird flu in Siberia in 2005, and outbreaks have since occurred further west, but mostly in southern areas distant from the capital. If confirmed as H5N1, the most recent bird deaths would be the first outbreaks recorded so close to Moscow.
No human cases of bird flu have been reported in Russia.
Bird flu cases were registered in 93 towns or settlements in Siberia and southern Russia last year, according to RIA-Novosti. The country's first outbreak this year was registered last month in the Krasnodar territory, an agricultural region near the Black Sea.
Since it began ravaging Asian poultry farms in late 2003, the H5N1 strain has killed at least 167 people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/...a-Bird-Flu.php

[Theresa42]

Thanks, Anne! And Doc Niman for the translation:

Originally Posted by Niman

In the second case the inhabitant Of shikhovo settlement, entering the urban district Zvenigorod, on 9 February purchased hen in the same pavilion on the "bird market" in Moscow.

[unpathedhaunt]

No threat to humans amid Russian bird flu scare
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070217...WGNN4BBTGKOrgF

A Russian veterinary official rejected reports that humans has been infected with bird flu in the Moscow region after an outbreak of the disease killed several birds and led to testing for the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus.
"Information about the infection of humans with bird flu is false," Nikolai Vlasov, director of veterinary inspection for agricultural agency Rosselkhoznadzor, told AFP on Saturday.
"We have detected the bird flu virus in several birds at two private farms in the Odintsovo and Domodedovo areas of Moscow region. Tests are being conducted as to the strain of the virus, though results will be available no earlier than Sunday evening," Vlasov said.
Vlasov also said the farms had been disinfected and quarantined, and that there was no danger in consuming eggs from local poultry producers.
The official's comments followed reports Saturday that dozens of poultry had died in a bird flu outbreak and that several farmers had been hospitalized with symptoms of the disease.
Regional health officials were taking blood samples from domestic birds within a three-kilometre (two-mile) radius of the two farms and maintaining visual observation of domestic birds within a 10 kilometre radius Saturday, Interfax news agency.
In an interview with Channel One television Saturday, chief Russian epidemiologist Gennady Onishchenko repeated previous comments that the H5N1 strain was responsible for the deaths, citing "veterinary services."
H5N1 was registered in late January in poultry plants in the Krasnodar region, just over 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) south of the capital.
The strain, which first emerged in Asia, has caused 270 reported human infections worldwide since 2003 and killed 164 as of last month.

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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.

Russia's chief epidemiologist, Gennady Onishchenko, on Friday confirmed bird flu as the cause of poultry deaths in two other households outside the capital - in the southern Domodedovo District and in Odintsovo, to the west.

The animal and plant health watchdog, Rosselkhoznadzor, said earlier Saturday the dead birds there have been traced to the same Moscow market and that they were presumably brought in from other regions.

Russia recorded its first cases of bird flu in August 2005, but until now, outbreaks have occurred only in southern provinces and in Siberia.

All pavilions that sell birds at Moscow's Ptichy market have been closed since Friday, and veterinary inspectors are now looking for any traces of the virus there.

A telephone hotline has been opened for residents of the Moscow Region who bought any birds on the Ptichy market after February 1.

It is yet unclear whether H5N1, a strain potentially lethal to humans, is responsible for the poultry deaths near Moscow, but strict security measures are now being taken all across the region to prevent the virus spreading to commercial farms.
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Specialists explain, is dangerous bird influenza in the Moscow area for the people

MOSCOW, 17 February - RIA of news. Bird influenza is discovered in three regions of the Moscow area - Odintsovskom, Domodedovo and Podolskiy. The authorities of Moscow region declare, that the bird killed from the disease was purchased on the bird market in the capital. The part of the pavilions of market is closed.

Specialists explain, is dangerous for the people the strain of the virus of the bird influenza, discovered in the region.

On the loss of bird in Podolskiy region on Saturday in the daytime OF RIA of news reported i.o.gubernatora of region Aleksey Pantelei.

"The inhabitant of Podolskiy of region acquired on the bird market in Moscow one hen. As a result in his economy perished 44 birds", it said the Panteleis.

According to the data of Moscow authorities, on this market was purchased the bird, that fell in the the Odintsovskom and the Domodedovo region.

"Entire bird, destroyed in the Moscow area because of the disease by bird influenza, was purchased by the inhabitants of regional urban districts Zvenigorod and Domodedovo in the beginning of February on the bird market in Moscow in one and the same pavilion", reported the minister of agriculture of Moscow region Nikolai Savenko on Saturday at the special session of the commission for extraordinary situations.

Minister reported that in the beginning of February on the bird market for the capital of five hens and two turkeys acquired the citizen Kim, registered in Nizhniy Novgorod and the removing house in the village Pavlovian of Domodedovo region. Through several days after the loss of this bird and veterinary checking, which revealed infection by bird influenza, was destroyed entire bird in the economy of Kim - 14 hens, three turkeys and 15 show blue.

Living in the settlement Shikhovo in the urban district Zvenigorod the citizen of Aleshin twice acquired on the same bird market for hens. In both cases the bird perished. Eight killed hens of Aleshin it returned to the pavilion for the market. "The salesman of their visors and, in our opinion, on the false documents, sent into the laboratory, where the specialists determined the presence of bird influenza", said Savenko.

According to him, entire infected bird is destroyed.

As reported to journalists the main sanitary doctor of Russia Gennadi Onishchenko, the reason for the loss of hens in the farmer economies in the Domodedovo and Odintsovskeye regions became the virus of the bird influenza H5N1.

The authorities of the Moscow area opened "hot line" for the inhabitants of region, who from 1 February of the present year acquired on the bird market in Moscow for any birds.

"By all facts, who from 1 February acquired on the bird market on the southeast of Moscow domestic or any other bird, it is necessary to ring on telephone (495) 699-91-02. According to this number all rung will obtain consultations on further actions, councils for rotation with this bird", said i.o.gubernator of the Moscow area the Panteleis.

All bells, which entered the "hot line", will leave both for the central staff of the ministry of agriculture of region and for territorial administration of Rospotrebnadzora on the region.

Ctolicnye authorities report that until on the bird market it is discovered the facts, which confirm, that the disease fell into the region precisely from there.

"No confirmation, what bird, dead [individual birds] from some infection, from the market gardener is not", reported RIA of news the representative of the press-service of the department of prodresursov of Moscow Leonid ivakin.

However, according to him, since the information such was, the part of the bird market, on which they deal in bird, from Friday it is closed.

On Saturday from eight mornings on this part of the market works the commission, into which enter the specialists of the capital committee of veterinary science, Rospotrebnadzora and other services. "On the statement of the representative of commission from Rospotrbenadzora on Moscow of Yevgeny Savicha, entire bird on the bird market is healthy", said Ivakin.

According to him, the results of analyses [i.e. tests on birds in the market] will be known on Monday-Tuesday.

The Press-secretary of the capital committee of veterinary science Olga Seregina it said to agency that until it is early to speak about any results of checking on the bird market.

"I can say only that entire domestic agricultural bird, that is sold in Moscow, is provaktsinirovana. We constantly gather tests and conduct monitoring", noted Seregina.

As transmits the correspondent of RIA of news, bird market at the given moment works in the normal mode, with exception of the pavilions, where bird was sold, they were closed.

In the territory of market it is possible to acquire cells, fodder and other equipment for the birds, however, feathered themselves are sold not in one pavilion.

Those arrived on Saturday for the bird market can purchase dogs, cats, decorative rodents, aquarium small fishes, any equipment for the content of these domestic animals.

In those regions of the Moscow area, where the cases of infecting the bird by influenza were fixed, quarantine was introduced, anti-epizootic measures for warning of the spread of disease are conducted.

"In the regions, where the infected hens were discovered, is conducted monitoring the status of the health of bird in a radius of three kilometers from the epicentre of infection", stated the head of the Minsel'khoz - Ministry of Agriculture of region Savenko.

According to him, from the zones, where was fixed infection by bird influenza, it was forbidden the removal of bird it is carried out dezobrabotka of the leaving motor transport. Furthermore, in a radius of 10 kilometers specialist-veterinary surgeons conduct visual observation of the state of poultry.

On the resolution of commission for warning and liquidation of extraordinary situation, on the debris ranges in the region will be carried out the inspection of the state of dead bird. "Entire killed and obtained on the ranges bird they will check against the object of possible infection", it added Savenko.

Also, on the solution of the authorities of region, in the Moscow area measures for control of the work of large poultry processing facilities are stiffened. Beginning from 19 February, the additional vaccination of bird in these zones will begin. "Indeed the motion of bird occurs constantly, there is not in the form its migration, they can sell birds on the markets; also it constantly is born", noted minister.

Are increased the measures of sanitary safety, also, in the enterprises of the food industry of the capital.

"At the poultry processing facilities is make rigde quarantine regime. Measures are taken, in order not to allow penetration to pishcheproizvodstvo of viruses", said RIA of news the first deputy chief of the department of prodresursov of Moscow Gennadi Lifintsev.

According to him, if necessary they will fire back wild birds near the poultry processing facilities.

Moscow bird influenza does not threaten people, count the specialists of Rospotrebnadzora.

"There were cases of infection by the bird influenza of people in the Moscow area not and it is not assumed", she stated the leader for territorial administration of Rospotrebnadzora on Moscow region Olga Gavrilenko.

"A quantity of sick people by usual influenza in the region now scarcely higher than it was in the past year. However, there are no fears relative to possible flash as yet", noted Gavrilenko, after adding, that the situation with the morbidity of the inhabitants of region by influenza is under the control.

The chief for the administration of the veterinary supervision of Rossel'khoznadzora Nikolai Vlasov calmed down the inhabitants of Moscow and region, after stating that the Moscow poultry-breeding production was safe for the health.

"The eggs, which are sold in the stores, this the production of poultry processing facilities. But we have three dead turkeys on one podvor'e. What connection? Let they buy even further ", he said RIA of news.

"We have several birds, to approximately tri-shest' heads in two particular podvor'yakh. The virus of the influenza of birds is selected from them. I emphasize - this is bird influenza (dangerous for the people). It will be accurately known that this for the strain, toward the evening of Sunday", said Vlasov.

He emphasized that he does not be worthwhile to force situation, since birds accurately unknown from what precisely perished.

According to the chapter for administration, Rossel'khoznadzor are carried out all necessary measures for the non-admission of the propagation of virus in order to prevent epizootic disease if this is the Chinese strain of influenza H5N1.

"Sick birds are destroyed and contacted with them also, the disinfection of house ownerships is carry ouied. We conduct monitoring, sample of material from the poultry in the adjacent houses. Material is sent for the central veterinary laboratory in order to determine, to eat other cases in these regions", said Vlasov.

He recalled that here already two years all poultry-breeding economies of Russia work in the regime of the increased safety.

In this case it reminded one that the virus of the influenza of bird perishes at a temperature of 60 degrees.

"To cook bouillon there are eggs possible", certified Vlasov.

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Russia to determine bird flu strain by Sunday
Sat Feb 17, 2007 8:42 AM ET

By Robin Paxton
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Poultry farms around Moscow were under tight control on Saturday as a third outbreak of bird flu was found and health officials investigated whether the deadly H5N1 strain had caused the Russian capital's first exposure to the virus.

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.


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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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