Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1, Egypt (FAO, December 26 2012): 1 New Poultry Outbreak, Qena

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Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1, Egypt, poultry



GENERAL INFO

• Disease Event ID 174132
• Reporting date 14/12/2012
• Observation date 13/12/2012

LOCATION

• Region Africa
• Admin 1 (Country) Qina (Egypt)
• Locality Luxor
• Lat/Long 25.683/32.65
• Quality of Coordinates Centroid Admin2

DISEASE

• Status Confirmed
• DISEASE Highly pathogenic avian influenza
• Serotype H5
• Source National authorities

SPECIES AFFECTED

• An.Type Domestic
• An.Class Birds
• Species chicken
• At Risk ?
• Cases 1000
• Deaths ?
• Destroyed 1000
• Slaughtered ?

LABORATORIES

• Disease Tested Highly pathogenic avian influenza
• Species chicken
• Test RRT-PCR (real-time reverse transcriptase PCR)
• Result Positive
• Result Date 14/12/2012
• Reference Laboratory ?

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