Bangladesh March 30 - April 7

[hawkeye]

Bangladesh says bird flu spreads to more farms
30 Mar 2007 14:02:10 GMT
Source: Reuters


DHAKA, March 30 (Reuters) - Bird flu has spread to five more farms in central and northern districts, Bangladesh said on Friday.

"The avian flu has now spread to 16 farms in five districts so far. But no humans have been confirmed infected," an official of the fisheries and livestock ministry said.

Bangladesh has culled about 60,000 birds since confirming the outbreak of the H5N1 flu virus simultaneously on six farms near the capital, Dhaka, on March 22.

All the culled birds belonged to the 16 affected farms. So far, 30 workers in the five newly affected farms were being monitored after they were given health checks.

Earlier, 100 poultry workers were released after no H5N1 infection was detected by a local laboratory, which tested their blood and other samples days after the initial outbreak was detected.

Movement of chickens has been banned outside a 10 sq km (3.9 sq miles) area around the affected farms, officials said.

Livestock officials said after the outbreak of the virus they had inspected about 10,000 farms containing nearly 1.1 million birds.

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Prices of poultry birds, eggs decline
FE Report
3/31/2007


Prices of vegetables, potato, onion, poultry birds, lentil, ginger, garlic and eggs declined and the prices of beef increased while the prices of other essential commodities remained unchanged in the city markets over the past week, traders said.
Traders said prices of the essential commodities registered a declining trends in the city markets mainly due to strengthening of the market monitoring by the members of the law enforcing agencies and selling of goods by the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) in the city at reasonable prices.
The traders said the supply chain of the essential commodities is also being restored as the panicky situation in the markets has gone following confidence-building measures among the businessmen by the members of the law enforcing agencies.
The businessmen started their normal activities after announcement by the government that the genuine businessmen would not be harassed during the drive against the corrupt people.
"As a result, the opening of letters of credit (LCs) for importing essential commodities increased significantly in recent times," said a wholesale trader at the city's Moulvi Bazar while talking to the FE Friday.
During the last week in the vegetable markets brinjal was selling at Tk 14-Tk 16 per kg compared with its previous rates at Tk 18-Tk 24 per kg. Bean was selling at Tk 14-Tk 16 per kg compared with its previous rates at Tk 18-Tk 22 per kg, traders said.
Traders said bitter gourd was selling at Tk 16-Tk 18 per kg compared with its previous rates at Tk 22-Tk 24 per kg. Tomato was selling at Tk 12-Tk 14 per kg compared with its previous rates at Tk 14-Tk 16 per kg.
Traders said green chilli was selling at Tk 32-Tk 36 per kg compared with its previous rates at Tk 44-Tk 48 per kg,. Carrot prices remained unchanged at Tk 16-Tk 18 per kg.
Traders said prices of potato declined to Tk 14 per kg compared with its previous rates at Tk 15-Tk 16 per kg.
During the last week onion was selling at Tk 18-Tk 20 per kg compared with its previous rates at Tk 20-Tk 24 per kg.
Medium-size cabbage and cauliflower were selling at Tk 12-Tk 15 each, at the city's kitchen markets, unchanged from the previous week.
Traders said poultry bird (broiler) was selling at Tk 80-Tk 90 per kg compared with its previous rates at Tk 100-Tk 110 per kg.
Traders said prices of poultry birds declined in the local markets due to detection of bird flu in the country.
At the retail level, lentil was selling at Tk 64 per kg compared with its previous rates at Tk 68-Tk 72 per kg, traders said.
Traders said ginger was selling at Tk 26-Tk 30 per kg compared with its previous rates at Tk 35-Tk 40 per kg. During the last week at the retail level egg was selling Tk 48 per dozen compared with its previous rate at Tk 60 per dozen.
Traders said garlic was selling at Tk 40-Tk 60 per kg compared with its previous rates at Tk 90-Tk 100 per kg.
Traders said beef was selling at Tk 170-Tk 180 per kg compared with its previous rate at Tk 160 per kg.
Market operators said beef prices increased in the markets mainly due to increase in consumption following detection of bird flu in poultry birds.
During the last week at the wholesale level prices of Indian variety of Swarna remained unchanged at Tk 700-Tk 710 per maund, Paari at Tk 750-Tk 760 per maund and Lata at Tk 880 per maund.
Prices of IRRI variety of rice remained unchanged at Tk 720 per maund, Nazirshail from Savar at Tk 820 per maund, Nazirshail from North Bengal at Tk 900 per maund at wholesale level over the past week.
Minicate variety of rice was selling at Tk 980-Tk 1000 per maund, unchanged from the previous week.
During the last week at the retail level packaged coarse flour was selling at Tk 27-Tk 28 per kg, unchanged from the previous week in the city markets.
Traders said during the last week the prices of edible oil declined slightly at wholesale level mainly due to increase in supply of the item in the local markets.
At the wholesale level prices of soybean oil remained unchanged at Tk 2420-Tk 2430 per maund, super palm oil at Tk 2000-Tk 2010 per maund and palm oil at Tk 1980-Tk 1990 per maund, traders said.
At the retail level, the prices of five-litre containers of edible oil of different brands remained unchanged at their previous high at Tk 340-Tk 350 during the past week.
During the last week, at the wholesale level sugar was selling at Tk 1090 per maund, unchanged from the previous week. At the retail level sugar was selling at Tk 34-Tk 36 per kg, unchanged from the previous week.
Traders said prices of refined salt remained unchanged at Tk 18 per kg.

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<TABLE style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" borderColor=#111111 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD width="100%"><TABLE style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" borderColor=#111111 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top width="55%"><TABLE style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" borderColor=#111111 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD width="100%">LETTER TO EDITOR </TD></TR><TR><TD width="100%"></TD></TR><TR><TD width="100%"></TD></TR><TR><TD width="100%">Beef price at record high </TD></TR><TR><TD width="100%"></TD></TR><TR><TD width="100%">4/1/2007 </TD></TR><TR><TD width="100%"></TD></TR><TR><TD width="100%"> BEEF is lately dearer and being sold in some markets of Dhaka city for Tk 180 per kg--the highest price ever known. As one who bought a sacrificial cow for Eid-ul-Azha in 1964 for less than Tk 90, which weighed well over 80 kg, I find this price astronomical and appallingly high. Apparently, butchers are mercilessly taking the full advantage of bird flue that has hit the country and induced many people to switch over, as their source for animal protein, from chicken to beef.
The price of beef has registered more than two folds increase in the last five years. On the occasion of each Eid and the Ramadan, butchers raised its price and never reduced it to the former level. The city corporation fixed its maximum price on each occasion and never sincerely enforced it.
Butcher in Bangla is a slang, which is used to describe a heartless person. Most local butchers are now proving that the use of the slang is not improper and they are indeed merciless. As it is the time when the government talks seriously about framing a consumer protection law shortly, the authorities should immediately fix the maximum price of beef and enforce the decision sternly.
Abul Ehsan
North Road,Dhanmondi, Dhaka.
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http://www.newstoday-bd.com/metropolis.asp?newsdate=#1758

Call for stopping contacts between local and guest birds









Speakers at a discussion on bird-flu Saturday recommended a number of preventive measures, including checking contacts between local birds and migratory ones, and impose restriction over import of poultry products from the countries already declared as ?restricted? to check the disease, reports BSS.
The discussion titled ?Spread of Bird Flu in Bangladesh :
Prevention and Resistance? organised by Bangladesh Paribesh Andolon (BAPA) at its office.
With senior scientist of ICDDRB Dr SK Roy in the chair, the discussion was addressed, among others, by professor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Agriculture University Dr Mahbubur Rahman, national coordinator of Avian Influenza Programme Prof. Dr Mohammad Mizanur Rahman, technical adviser of the Poultry Industries Association DR MM Khan and associate scientist of ICDDRB Dr Jahangir Hossain.
The speakers recommended nine-point preventive and resistance measures to check spreading of bird flu in the country.

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Bird FluSun. April 01, 2007
1,500 more chickens culled
Staff Correspondent
Sunday April 1 2007
Around 1,500 chickens were culled at two farms in Dhaka and Jessore yesterday, central bird flu control room sources said.

With the detection of the viral infection at a Jessore farm, the number of districts that have the poultry disease now rose to six.

The five other districts are Dhaka, Gazipur, Tangail, Jamalpur and Narayanganj.

The highly infectious viral disease was first officially detected at Biman Poultry Complex less than a month ago.

The authorities yesterday culled 1,400 chicken at a farm at Dosair village in Ashulia on the outskirts of the capital following confirmation of bird flu. The chickens were culled under the supervision of livestock officials.
In Jessore, livestock officials culled 73 chickens at a farm in Sharsha upazila. Our Gazipur correspondent reports that Rapid Response Team in the district yesterday conducted search at 70 poultry farms with 1,28,750 layers and 25,910 broilers. Sixty-four chickens were found dead at the farms, and this was quite normal, team sources said. http://www.thedailystar.net/2007/04/01/d70401013120.htm

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No bird flu in B'baria
Bss, Brahmanbari

All poultry farms in the district were found free from avian influenza virus (bird flu).


District Avian Influenza Protection and Coordination Committee informed this at a meeting held at the Deputy Commissioner's conference room here on Wednesday.

The meeting was also informed that various measures were taken to protect the three lakh poultry farms in the district from bird flue.
The measures include setting up of a control room in the region, formation a rapid response team and engaging a veterinary team to prevent the spread of the virus. The team will visit the poultry farms in the area and give the farmers advice on farm and bio security management. They will also regularly report to District Livestock Office about their test results, official sources said. http://www.thedailystar.net/2007/04/01/d70401070389.htm

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Update on contingency plan to avert devastation of avian influenza stressed
Staff Correspondent
Speakers at a discussion meeting on Saturday emphasised the importance of instant update on a contingency plan to avert the widespread devastation of the avian influenza in the country.
The government will always have to keep on its preparations to successfully control the bird flu epidemic as the viruses change their strain continuously, they said at the discussion on ?Bird flu in Bangladesh: Mitigation and Prevention? organised by Bangladesh Paribesh Andolan in the city.
Under the new contingency plan, the government has to stockpile new drugs for at least three months, they added, saying that otherwise it would not be possible to prevent the deadly disease.
Dr SK Roy, senior scientist of International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh, chaired the programme while entomologist Dr Md Mahbubar Rahman of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University read out a keynote paper.
Quoting the recommendation of the Food and Agricultural Organisation, they said the possibility of the contamination of avian influenza is likely to be lessened while production of different species of poultry chicks in a certain place.
The FAO also stressed on the rearing of local chicks along with the farm chickens to reduce the risk of avian influenza.
The country is following a technique to detect the avian influenza virus which is time-consuming and risky for the country, Dr Mahbub said, adding that the FAO and International Atomic Energy Commission have recently developed a laboratory to do tests on the virus quickly.
Professor Md Mizanur Rahman, national coordinator of avian influenza programme, claimed the country is now free from bird flu. Avian influenza breaks out in a certain place, he said.
The avian influenza had so far been detected in 14 farms in Gazipur, Narayanganj, Jamalpur, Tangail and Bagerhat and 56,198 poultry chicks culled till March 29.
Technical advisor of the Bangladesh Poultry Industries Association Dr MM Khan, associate scientist of ICDDR,B Dr Jahangir Hossain, research officer Farzana Yasmin, government officials and representatives from different non-governmental organisations also addressed the discussion. http://www.newagebd.com/nat.html

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No fresh bird flu detected in Gazipur
Our Correspondent . Gazipur
The Rapid Response Team has been working in Gazipur round the clock to create awareness among the people, especially the poultry farm owners, about bird flu preventive measures.
On Saturday, the team examined 1.54 lakh poultry birds in 70 farms. The team also examined 64 dead birds, but found no trace of the avian influenza.
The team examined 75,050 birds in 23 farms under the sadar upazila, 8,260 birds in 12 farms of Kaliakoir upazila, 30,100 birds in 15 farms of Sreepur upazila, 17,200 birds in 10 farms of Kapasia upazila, 24,050 birds in Kaliganj upazila.
With Saturday?s 1.54 lakh, the team has so far examined 12.97 lakh chickens in 688 farms, the district livestock officer, Kafil Uddin, said.
The continued effort of the Rapid Response Team has reduced people?s panick about the avian influenza strain among the people and farm owners of the district. http://www.newagebd.com/met.html

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<TABLE width="100%" align=left border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top><!--?--></TD><TD class=linksubarticle>No bird flu detected in Cox's Bazar poultry farms </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>HAS BEEN REMOVED.It takes you to this page. http://www.thebangladeshtoday.com/pe...0&%20place.htm Maybe Hawkeye or Blue can locate it?

[hawkeye]

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Do you have the original link? Was it the same as the link you just listed?

[hawkeye]

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Out of Google's Cache:

"No bird flu detected in Cox's Bazar poultry farms Mohammad Hashem No bird flu has been detected in any of the poultry farms in Cox's Bazar during a recent ..."

However the cached page doesn't contain any of the above statement. I don't know the date of the cache either.

A link to the same story appears here: http://www.bangladesh-web.com/ (Local And District News). But the their link is to the same page that is no longer found.

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Bird flu is under control: Matiur
BSS, Dhaka

Adviser for Health and Family Welfare Maj. Gen. (retd) Dr ASM Matiur Rahman on Monday said the bird-flu has remained under control of the government except a few places of the country.
"Despite that, the government is not sitting idle with satisfaction," he said adding the government has already taken all precautionary measures to face any situation.
The adviser said this while addressing a seminar on 'Avian Influenza' at Square Hospital here on Monday, an official handout said. Adviser for Agriculture, Fisheries and Livestock Dr CS Karim attended the seminar as special guest. The health adviser laid importance on the role of media in creating awareness about the virus and said people should be given the right information.
"Any news that may spread panic among the people may cause huge damage to the country," he said. He said there is no record of any person being infected with the virus in South Asia. Chairman of the Square Group Samson H Chowdhury distributed bird-flu medicine among 200 persons. Square is marketing the medicine with the brand name 'Aviflu'.

http://www.thebangladeshtoday.com/capital.htm

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Myanmar, Bangladesh report new bird flu virus outbreaks


2007/4/3
YANGON/DHAKA, AP & Reuters



Myanmar reported a new outbreak of bird flu on Monday, the country's fifth bout with the deadly virus strain in as many weeks.
About 1,000 chickens died at a poultry farm in the town of Htaukkyant, north of Yangon, between Wednesday and Friday of last week, said Than Hla, the Livestock Ministry's director of disease control.
Laboratory tests confirmed the H5N1 virus in some of the nearly 1,000 chickens that died," he said. He did not specify the number of birds that tested positive for the disease.
It was the fifth reported outbreak since Feb. 28, all in areas outside of Yangon, the largest city in Myanmar. Since then, authorities have slaughtered nearly 60,000 chickens and other birds, Than Hla said.
Separately, the Bangladesh health ministry said Monday that bird flu had spread to five more farms over the weekend despite culling of thousands of chickens to control the outbreak.
The H5N1 virus was found in poultry in farms near Dhaka, where it was first detected, and in the north, taking the total number of affected farms to 21 in six districts.
Authorities have culled about 62,000 birds since confirming the outbreak in six farms on March 22.
Nearly 400 workers at the infected farms have been given a local version of the Tamiflu drug as a precaution, a health ministry official said.
No humans have tested positive for the disease in the country. "We have given a dose of Oseflu to each of the workers who culled virus affected chickens in all the farms," said a director of the government's health directorate.

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6,000 chickens culled in N''ganj










NARAYANGANJ, Apr 2: Around 6,000 chickens of two poultry farms in Sadar upazila were culled on Sunday night following the detection of bird flu.The chickens of Chistia Poultry Farm and Mukta Poultry Farm were buried in presence of Upazila Nirbahi Officer Ehsan Elahi, Livestock officer and officials of local administration, reports UNB.
UNO Ehsan Elahi said that infection of Avian Influenza virus was confirmed after the poultry birds of the two farms were tested in savar few days ago.Local administration imposed ban on carrying chickens and eggs within one kilometer area of the two farms.Earlier, bird flu was detected in some poultry farms in Bandar and Sonargaon upazilas of the district. Some 10,000 chickens were culled so far in Bandar upazila. http://www.newstoday-bd.com/frontpag...newsdate=#5052

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Bird flu spreads in Bangladesh despite efforts to contain <!--Thursday, April 05, 2007-->
Web posted at: 4/5/2007 8:22:41
Source ::: Agencies

dhaka ? Bangladesh said yesterday that bird flu had spread to a new poultry farm despite the best efforts of struggling veterinary and health workers.
?The latest farm confirmed to have H5N1 virus is in northern Jamalpur 200 km from the capital Dhaka,? an official of the Fisheries and Livestock ministry said. Some 72,000 chickens have been culled so far from 26 farms since the avian influenza was detected in six farms at Savar near the capital March 22.
More than 500 workers at the infected farms have been given a local version of the Tamiflu anti-viral drug as a precaution, health ministry officials said.
No humans have tested positive for the disease in the country.
Bangladesh says it has sufficient Oseflu, a local version of Tamiflu, produced and marketed by a local firm since last year.
At least 170 people have died of bird flu in 11 countries, mostly in Asia, since 2003.
Health experts fear the virus could trigger a pandemic if it mutates to form a strain that can transmit between humans.
Bangladesh has 125,000 small and large poultry firms producing 250 million broilers and 6 billion eggs annually. About four million Bangladeshis are directly or indirectly associated with poultry farming.
Meanwhile, preliminary tests for bird flu were positive on four Bangladeshi workers who had been culling infected chickens in Kuwait, a medical source said yesterday, but they have not been officially confirmed.

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