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"no contact with game water birds!" At the border between Saxonia-Anhalt and Thuringia 28 further dead animals were found. Thus the number of the game birds ended increases to 218. How many died at the bird flu, is still unclear. In the bird flu area at artificial lake the Kelbra at the border of Saxonia-Anhalt and Thuringia were found further 28 dead game birds, under it to three wildenten. The veterinary centre of the district one field south resin expects the test results of the national office for consumer protection in Stendal for center of this week. Thus the number of the dead game birds rose to 218. It concerned black neck and hood divers. With 38 in the past week also the virus H5N1 Asia dangerous for humans had been determined. As the authority continued to communicate on Monday, standing waters of the district one field south resin are searched further for dead animals. more to the topic H5N1 Bird flu with utilizable animal determined H5N1 Return of the bird flu Bird flu Between panic and boredom The veterinary centre appealed at poultry owners to absolutely keep because of the very high infection risk for utilizable poultry existence the arranged measures. "concerns in particular: no contact with game water birds!" Also poultry outside of the restriction areas should be accommodated if possible in volieren or against the penetration of game birds secured areas. In addition no feeding should take place in the free one. Referring to the occurrence of the bird flu or also poultry plague mentioned are Mattigkeit and lack of appetite with the animals, breath way illnesses as well as lodgements of water (edemas) or bleedings at head, neck or legs. As reaction to that country widely first occurrence of the H5N1-Virus with utilizable poultry since more than one year, on weekend in Thuringia 1200 chickens, geese and ducks were killed. Schnelltests with samples of the killed birds no signs for a further infection resulted in on Sunday. The virus was proven before with a dead house goose by the yard of a home for the disabled in Wickersdorf. Because of the close contact of the inhabitants to the goose also they were examined. According to Ministry of Health this however no referring to an illness resulted in. In order to contain the epidemic risk for utilizable poultry, the veterinary centre expanded the stable obligation on the entire district Saalfeld Rudolstadt. Thirteen kilometers approximately around Wickersdorf may be brought 21 days long neither poultry nor poultry products into that or from the observation area. The three kilometers large restricted area concerns further eight localities beside the outbreak place.
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IP/07/1013Avian Influenza confirmed in wild birds in another region in Germany and suspected in France and Austria
Brussels, 04 July 2007
The Commission has been informed by the French and the Austrian authorities of new suspected cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza in wild birds in their territories. Germany has also confirmed the occurrence of disease in Thuringia. All three Member States are applying the precautionary measures set out under EU legislation. National laboratories are also working intensively to determine whether the outbreaks were caused by the H5N1 virus, and are keeping close contact with the Community Reference Laboratory for Avian Influenza in Weybridge, UK. These latest wild bird cases follow the confirmation of H5N1 avian influenza on two poultry farms and in a wild swan in the Czech Republic, as well as cases of the disease in wild birds in Bavaria and Saxony over the last two weeks (see IP/07/878). The H5N1 virus was responsible for over 700 reported cases of avian influenza in wild birds in the EU last year.
In Germany, the national reference laboratory has now confirmed the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus in a black-necked grebe (Podiceps nigricollis) in Thuringia, close to the border with Saxony.
The French authorities have reported a suspicion of the H5 virus in 3 wild swans found dead in the Moselle department, and are carrying out further tests in the national reference laboratory to confirm the exact strain of the disease.
A suspicion of highly pathogenic avian influenza has also been reported in the district of Gmunden, Upper Austria, based on clinical signs of the disease in a number of wild birds. The Austrian national authorities have sent samples from these birds to the national reference laboratory and expect results on the strain of the virus in the coming days.
Germany, France and Austria have all responded rapidly to the suspected and confirmed findings of highly pathogenic avian influenza in wild birds, and are applying the measures set out in Commission Decision 2006/563/EC on protection measures in relation to highly pathogenic avian influenza of subtype H5N1 in wild birds in the Community. These measures consist of the establishment of a control area and a surrounding monitoring area around the positive finding. This zoning takes into the geographical, ecological and epidemiological factors of the area. In the control area, on-farm biosecurity measures must be strengthened, hunting of wild birds is banned, disease awareness of poultry owners must be enhanced, movement of poultry is banned except directly to the slaughterhouse and the dispatch of meat outside the zone is forbidden except where products have undergone the controls provided for in EU food controls legislation. These measures are aimed at preventing the spread of avian influenza from wild birds to poultry or other captive birds, as well as avoiding the contamination of products.
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Fachbereich 4
Veterin?runtersuchungen und -epidemiologie
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Further 28 birds in the bird flu area ends 09.07.2007 | 11:01:30 SANGERHAUSEN (D) - In the bird flu area at artificial lake the Kelbra at the border of Saxonia-Anhalt and Thuringia were found further 28 dead game birds, under it to three wildenten. The veterinary centre of the district one field south resin expects the test results of the national office for consumer protection in Stendal for center of this week. Thus the number of the dead game birds rose to 218. With 38 in the past week also the virus H5N1 Asia dangerous for humans had been determined. As the authority continued to communicate today, standing waters of the district one field south resin are searched further for dead animals. A boy in Indonesia died after infection with the dangerous bird flu virus. The six-year one is approximately one week ago gets sick and on Sunday in the hospital died, communicated the authorities today. Thus the number of the bird-flu-dead rose in Indonesia to 81. World-wide since 2003 approximately 190 humans succumbed to the epidemic. (AP)
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Search since further waters expanded in artificial lake Kelbra further 28 dead game birds found In artificial lake Kelbra further 28 dead game birds found ?ddp (PR inside.com 09.07.2007 12:12:19) - coworkers of the district one field south resin found 28 further dead game birds in artificial lake the Kelbra on weekend. The animals were sent to the national office for consumer protection after Stendal for investigation. The results are expected in the middle of the week, how the district communicated on Monday. Sangerhausen recommend to expressions by E-Mail (strip packing lsa). Coworkers of the district one field south resin found 28 further dead game birds in artificial lake the Kelbra on weekend. The animals were sent to the national office for consumer protection after Stendal for investigation. The results are expected in the middle of the week, how the district communicated on Monday. Coworkers of the veterinary centre and the biosphere reservation would search now further waters of the district one field south resin for dead animals. Altogether according to data of the district so far 209 dead game birds were found in artificial lake, determined with some by them also the H5N1-Virus dangerous for humans. The risk of transferring the virus the game birds into the poultry existence in the district estimates the veterinary centre as very high. Therefore the preventive measures would have to be kept strictly. The virus was determined for the first time in this year in the middle of June in Bavaria. Since then the exciter beside Saxonia-Anhalt and Thuringia still arose in Saxonia. In Thuringia the virus was proven with a house goose ended. Altogether 1200 poultry animals thereupon killed (strip packing)
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On weekend it had given new proofs for bird flu in Saxonia-Anhalt as well as Bavaria and France. At the border to Thuringia at artificial lake the Kelbra so far scarcely 250 dead game birds were in-collected. The type of virus H5N1 was determined so far with 153 animals. In Thuringia meanwhile 1200 chickens, geese and ducks were killed. With it the authorities reacted to that country widely first occurrence of the H5N1-Virus with utilizable poultry since the past year (dpa)http://www.sz-online.de/nachrichten/...asp?id=1542489Comment
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District calls with bird flu to caution Protection devices like the stable obligation are to be absolutely kept provide 09.07.07, 17:28h In Saxonia-Anhalt the dangerous variant of the bird flu at game birds was proven. (photo: dpa) Sangerhausen/dpa. After the find of further dead game birds at artificial lake the Kelbra called the district one field south resin the population for keeping the precautionary measures against the bird flu. The protection devices like the stable obligation in the municipalities approximately around the lake at the national border to Thuringia are to be kept absolutely, communicated the district administration on Monday in Sangerhausen. It is feared that the dangerous of type of virus H5N1 spreads to utilizable animals; like already in Thuringia. At artificial lake the Kelbra in the past days approximately 250 dead birds were found. In the coming days further test results are expected. On Monday at the lake again ten dead black neck divers were discovered, who are ended according to veterinary centre with large probability at the bird flu. The dangerous type of virus H5N1 was proven according to national office for consumer protection in Stendal so far with 153 game birds. Around the discovery site a restricted area with a three-kilometer radius was furnished, in which among other things stable obligation applies to poultry. In the radius of ten kilometers besides an observation area was furnished. In Thuringia the bird flu had been proven in the past week also with a house goose. Therefore 1200 geese, chickens and ducks in the periphery the farmstead in Wickersdorf (circle Saalfeld Rudolstadt), concerned by three kilometers around, were gekeult.
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At artificial lake the Kelbra in the past days approximately 250 dead birds were found. In the coming days further test results are expected. On Monday at the lake again ten dead black neck divers were discovered, who are ended according to veterinary centre with large probability at the bird flu. The dangerous type of virus H5N1 was proven according to national office for consumer protection in Stendal so far with 153 game birds.
The above translation indicates the number of dead wild birds at Kelbra Lake continues to rise. German media reports had indicated an additional 28 dead birds had ben collected over the weekend, raising the total to 209. However, the above translation indicates the number has grown to approximately 250, including ten more Black-neck grebes (Podiceps nigricollis) collected today.
The above translation also confirms the 153 H5N1 positives described over the weekend. These numbers indicate the H5N1 infected birds at Kelbra Lake will set a record for H5N1 infections of wild birds in Europe.
Last year over 700 wild birds were H5N1 positive. These were collected throughout Europe, but the majority was in Germany. There were 343 positives in Germany, and most were at the northern or southern borders. In the north, there were 194 positives in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, including 158 positives on the Rugen Island. In the south there were 73 positives in Bavaria.
In Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt, there were no reported cases, and there were only two in Saxony, including one at the Dresden zoo in August. Few of the cases last winter were grebes.
In contrast, this year most of the positives have been grebes on Kelbra Lake, which span Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt. These recent isolates have been collected in June and July, when long range migration is minimal, as it was in February, 2006 when most countries in Europe, including Germany reported the first Clade 2.2 H5N1 cases.
These data strongly suggest that H5N1 is endemic in western Europe, and surveillance should be significantly increased in Germany and throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.Comment
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So far 43 cases of bird flu in Germany two new cases in Saxonia - further ones of 28 dead game birds in Saxonia-Anhalt AP 09.07.2007 22:49
Sangerhausen - the bird flu continues to spread: In Saxonia with a swan in Torgau Oschatz and with a hood diver in the hollow talc rice potenziell also the virus H5N1 Asia dangerous for humans was confirmed, how the Saxonian Social Department said on Monday in Dresden on AP inquiry. In the bird flu area at artificial lake the Kelbra at the border of Saxonia-Anhalt and Thuringia were found further 28 dead game birds. In this year Friedrich Loeffler Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI) confirmed altogether 43 cases of bird flu in Germany. The epidemic had been determined first at the end of of June in Nuernberg. Why the virus is active now straight in the Federal Republic, in Tschechien and in France, one could clarify not yet finally, said FLI spokeswoman Elke Reinking on request. Generally one always assumed the virus is present still in game birds. Particularly under the water birds give it to kinds, which infected themselves, but ended not at the illness. These animals would continue to give the virus to empfaenglichere kinds such as peak swans or hood divers. "we cannot measure yet whether a larger epidemic disease becomes", stressed Reinking. Poultry owners were urgently referred to it, their utilizable poultry against contact with game birds to protect. The Lands of the Federal Republic should look at and examine very exactly their risk areas existing at present whether if necessary here and there another evaluation must be met. For the population in Germany exist however absolutely no increased risk. Humans should be watchful, but purge in no case into panic. Generally apply: Dead game animals with bare hands do not touch. At artificial lake the Kelbra rose the number of the dead game birds to 218, as the veterinary centre communicated one field south resin. It concerns black neck and hood divers. With 38 in the past week H5N1 one had determined. Standing waters were constantly searched for dead animals. After the outbreak of the bird flu with a house goose in the Thuringian Wickersdorf intensive protection devices were met. The district administration office of the circle concerned Saalfeld Rudolstadt called the poultry owners, their existence, to announce in addition, dead animals to the responsible veterinary centre. It would be better, if in the country all owners would announce themselves, whose animals were not yet registered, said the speaker of the Thuringian Ministry of Health, Thomas Schulz. Approximately around Wickersdorf approximately 1,200 animals had been killed. The inhabitants of an obstruction mechanism, that had close contact for therapeutic purposes to the animals, were brought immediately into a hospital. So far all test results are negative. Also the first findings with the examined animals are negative. (AP)
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Bird flu: Stable obligation in two further places NORTHLIVE (jr). The bird flu still employs north houses the veterinary centre. Its coworkers observe the development, in order to be able to react if necessary. Few dead animals were only found. The Aufstallungspflicht was extended however for safety reasons. In the remainder of the circle the animals run freely. Two dead black neck divers were found still on the bank of the artificial lake in Kelbra. In the Kyffhaeuserkreis yesterday five birds were added and into Kelbra of one. At the end of the past week were in the three circles concerned altogether approximately 200 animals of this kind, which one had sent for investigation. While the dead animals may be in-collected by Thueringern in the one field south resin circle, they must for investigation on a possible epidemic after Stendal. The birds found in the two Thueringer circles however in bath Langensalza are examined. According to data of Ornithologen in June 480 black neck divers were counted. On the other hand however there is hardly still animal of this kind on the banks. Experts assume this animal species becomes extinct here in the largest breeding area of Europe. The director/conductor north houses of the veterinary centre, Dr. Uwe landsettle, feared that the virus jumps over now on other animals. One found, however still waits already dead wildenten for the test result. Also sea gulls and fischreiher participate always once. Some would die natural death, mean landsettle. In the meantime the circle extended the risk area. That is, also in Bielen and Sundhausen the pinnated animals must remain in the stable. Included one also removes lying Schiedunger sea. "there the risk is, and we must accordingly act", justified let us landsettle the unpopular measure. 10.07.2007
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Further dead game birds from artificial lake Kelbra saved Still spreading the epidemic to utilizable animals feared provides 11.07.07, 17:16h A coworker of the biosphere reservation pulls bird ended from the reed on the north bank of the artificial lake Kelbra. (MZ photo: Heinz Noack) Sangerhausen/dpa. In Saxonia-Anhalt there is still no bird flu 'all-clear' signal. At artificial lake the Kelbra on Tuesday further 16 dead game birds were saved, said larva line hearing old, spokeswoman of the district one field south resin, on Wednesday. These were likewise examined now in the national office for consumer protection in Stendal. "at present all standing waters in the circle are searched for further dead birds, but except in artificial lake the Kelbra still nowhere which were found", said hearing old. At the waters, which partly partly lies in Saxonia-Anhalt and in Thuringia, in the past days nearly 300 Vogelkadaver were discovered; above all black neck divers. For the predominant part the proof for the dangerous type of virus H5N1 is present. The national office for consumer protection last diagnosed the virus with 26 black neck divers, a Blessralle and a board duck. Still spreading the dangerous bird flu to utilizable animals is feared. As long as further dead birds at the lake are found, one field south resin, exists Bernd Kubisiak, this danger according to estimate of the office veterinary surgeon in the district. In Thuringian Wickersdorf (circle Saalfeld Rudolstadt) the virus had been proven with a house goose on the yard of a home for the disabled, ended. To humans the risk of a H5N1-Uebertragung applies as extraordinarily small. In Europe so far no infection is with humans admits become.
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