Nepal - bird flu in poultry/animals/wild birds

[Laidback Al]

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Map showing the location of the Sindhuli District in relation to Jhapa District where the first outbreak of H5N1 occurred in Nepal.

 

[HenryN]

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Map updated

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[Gert van der Hoek]

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Sindhuli villagers terror-stricken after flocks of chicken die of unknown disease

Even as the government has been trying to dispel rumours about the spread of bird-flu virus in the country, a report from Sindhuli says more than 1,000 chickens have died of unknown disease in a remote village of the district.

The state-owned National News Agency quoted a local poultry farmer as saying that the chicken died from the disease that has spread for the past few days.

The chicken had died with "swollen throat and accumulation of water", something not seen before, the agency said.

The news about deaths of chicken from unknown disease has terrorized the whole village as they suspect it could be an outbreak of bird-flu virus, according to the report.

Technical team from the District Livestock Office is on its way to the village.

Technician of the office, Tika Shrestha, said the outbreak was because no medicines were given to the chickens in time.

On Sunday, the government said that apart from eastern Nepal district of Jhapa no case of bird- flu was reported in other parts of the country. Spokesperson at the ministry of agriculture and cooperatives, Hari Dahal said that no person has been infected with the bird flu virus in Kathmandu or elsewhere in the country, and that the mass media has tried to create panic among valley denizens by claiming that bird flu has entered the valley.

nepalnews.com ag Jan 28 09.

http://www.nepalnews.com/archive/2009/jan/jan28/news09.php

 

[HenryN]

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Kathmandu: More than 1,000 chickens have died from a mysterious disease in a Nepalese village with symptoms like swollen throat, as the government is trying to dispel fears about the spread of bird-flu in the area.
The incident took place at Sindhuli district in central Nepal causing panic in the area, according to the National News Agency, RSS. The chickens died with "swollen throat and accumulation of water," something not seen before. The news report about the death of chickens comes at a time when Avian flu has caught the eastern Nepal's Mechinag Municipality last week. The chickens died from the mysterious disease, that has spread for the past few days, said a local. Some 75 chickens had died in a house alone.
The disease is not identified and the whole village which is about 50 km southeast of Kathmandu, is panicked. Technical team from the District Livestock Office has not reached so far, whereas technician of the office, Tika Shrestha said the outbreak was due to lack of medicines. Nepalese authorities have culled at least 24,000 birds in eastern Nepal.

Source : PTI

http://news.indiainfo.com/2009/01/28/0901281659_1000_birds_die_in_central_nepal.html

 

[Shiloh]

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Source: http://mathaba.net/news/?x=616405

More than 1,000 chickens die from unknown disease in central Nepal
Posted: 2009/01/29
From: MNN

KATHMANDU, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- More than 1,000 local chickens have died from unknown disease in a village in Sindhuli district in central Nepal, the National News Agency RSS reported on Wednesday.

According to the RSS, the chickens died from the disease, that has spread for the past few days, said a local.

She said 75 local chickens died in her house alone. They died with swollen throat and accumulation of water. The disease is not identified and the whole village, some 40 km southeast of Kathmandu, is in terror, the RSS said.

Technical team from the District Livestock Office has not reached so far, whereas technician of the office Tika Shrestha said the outbreak was because no medicines were given to the chickens in time.

Earlier, Nepal started culling birds from Jan. 16 in Kakarvittaof Jhapa District, which is a bird flu emergency area. It was the first time to detect the disease in Nepal. #

 

[Giuseppe]

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Highly pathogenic avian influenza, Nepal (1/29/2009) [WAHID Interface - OIE]

Highly pathogenic avian influenza, Nepal

Information received on 28/01/2009 from Dr Mainali Purushottam Prasad, Joint Secretary, OIE Delegate, Ministry of Agriculture and Co-operatives , Kathmandu, Nepal

-- Summary
Report type Follow-up report No. 1
Start date 08/01/2009
Date of first confirmation of the event 16/01/2009
Report date 28/01/2009
Date submitted to OIE 28/01/2009
Reason for notification Reoccurrence of a listed disease
Date of previous occurrence 12/1996
Manifestation of disease Clinical disease
Causal agent Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus Serotype H5N1
Nature of diagnosis Laboratory (advanced)
This event pertains to the whole country
Related reports
* Immediate notification (16/01/2009)
* Follow-up report No. 1 (28/01/2009)

-- Outbreaks
There are no new outbreaks in this report

-- Epidemiology
Source of the outbreak(s) or origin of infection
* Unknown or inconclusive

-- Epidemiological comments
Intensive surveillance is on-going in the 3-10-km-radius area around the infected zone (0-3km).
Moping and destruction of birds (if any) in the infected zone (0-3km radius from the epicentre of the outbreak).

-- Control measures
Measures applied
* Stamping out
* Quarantine
* Movement control inside the country
* Screening
* Zoning
* Disinfection of infected premises/establishment(s)
* Dipping / Spraying
* Vaccination prohibited
* No treatment of affected animals

Measures to be applied
* No other measures

-- Future Reporting
The event is continuing. Weekly follow-up reports will be submitted.
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<cite cite="http://www.oie.int/wahis/public.php?page=single_report&pop=1&reportid=7729">WAHID Interface - OIE World Animal Health Information Database</cite>

 

[HenryN]

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<TABLE class=txt cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="95%" align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=txtheading>Bird flu almost under control, says official</TD></TR><TR><TD> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=news>Himalayan News Service</TD></TR><TR><TD class=news>Kathmandu, January 29:

Chief of the Department of Livestock Services Pravakar Pathak today said the department was preparing to establish a sophisticated laboratory to examine diseases like bird flu in Nepal within the next two years.
?We have already signed an ?Avian Influenza Control Project? with the World Bank
and the department has also a tie-up with the Food and Agriculture Organisation,? Pathak said. He said the lab would be bio-secure.
After the establishment of the lab, Nepal would not need to send samples of diseases
to abroad and will have faster results of the tests, he said.
Pathak said the bird flu in Mechinagar Municipality has almost come under control. ?We are now conducting cleaning and disinfection operation an area within 10-km radius of the municipality,? he said. He said sanitary certificates were issued to poultry farms within 3-km radius of the first detection of flu case but the farms would not be allowed to rear chicken for the next three months.
Chicken in farms within a 10-km radius would be examined time and again during the next three months.
He also said the samples of the dead chicken brought from Surkhet, Sankhuwasabha and Pokhara were tested negative.</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fu...Name=City&sImageFileName=&dtSiteDate=20090130

 

[Shiloh]

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Source: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...dian_poultry_business/articleshow/4049845.cms

Bird flu in Nepal hits Indian poultry business
30 Jan 2009, 0234 hrs IST, Debasis Sarkar, ET Bureau

SILIGURI: The bird flu menace in Nepal has once again hit the poultry and poultry products industry of the border districts in India. The Nepal
government and a large section of its poultry industry have officially denied media reports on the widespread outbreak of H5N1 infection in Nepal.

But the government has indeed accepted presence of the disease in Jhapa district of eastern Nepal. A senior member of National Poultry Farmers Association (NPFA), Nepal, said: ?The market has already gone down by over 40%, causing a daily loss of over NPR 5 million (Rs 35 lakh).

?We are concerned with the developments in Nepal. Indian traders of poultry as well as poultry products, especially in the international borderadjoining places, are largely dependent on sales in Nepal,? said SA Khan, secretary, Poultry Federation of India.

According to NPFA statistics, about Rs 1,150 crore has been invested in the Nepal poultry industry and nearly 150,000 kg of poultry is produced every day. Over 60% of feed and chicks required for this production comes to Nepal from Indian manufacturers and hatcheries. This trade is now in disarray. In addition, a huge volume of Nepal poultry production comes to border markets of India, especially those adjoining eastern Nepal. As the outbreak has originated in eastern Nepal, Indian buyers have stopped buying from farmers there.

However, the Nepal government has already started taking preventive measures, including culling, mopping and vaccination. On the other side, Nepal poultry entrepreneurs have placed a seven-point demand, including that of compensation and other rehabilitation schemes for the troubled industry.

 

[Shiloh]

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Source: http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=178666

Govt tightens bird flu watch
Kantipur Report

KATHMANDU, Feb 4 - With the aim of declaring ?Bird Flu Free Area? after 90 days of bird flu outbreak in the 10 km area from Kakarbhitta, the entry point of Eastern Nepal, the government has intensified surveillance from Tuesday.

Nepal government announced the first outbreak of bird flu in the country on January 16 and declared emergency in areas that lie within a radius of ten kilometres from the quarantine office in Kakarbhitta of Jhapa district.

The Department of Livestock Services has deployed three mobile surveillance teams in the ten-kilometre area.

On the initiative of Department of Livestock Services and Avian Influenza control project under the Health Ministry and Ministry of Home Affairs, the government has brought bird flu in the region under control.

According to International Health Regulations 2005, no remnant of bird flu virus should be seen in the area within 90 days of the outbreak.

?Experts involved in the first phase of the operation are now under medical supervision and till now they have not shown any symptom,? said Director at Animal Health Directorate Dr. Baikuntha Parajuli.

The government had sent 13 Rapid Response teams with 65 experts to the area on Jan. 18 to cull infected birds. Experts culled some 25,000 chicken in the area within two weeks.

The experts will leave but the surveillance team will actively monitor if operations in the region have been successful. ?We will launch the second phase of the operation, which includes rehabilitation of poultry farmers and others as soon as we finish field investigation.?

A team of surveillance experts headed by Parajuli will take charge from tomorrow.

Even though no case of bird flu has been reported in humans so far, the Ministry of Health is not taking chances.

?It has been controlled so far but we have intensified active and passive surveillance among the public,? said Dr. Manas Banerjee, coordinator-director at the Avian Influenza Control Project under the Ministry of Health. The active surveillance team will visit patients if suspected cases are reported while the medical team is in the district and Zonal hospitals will closely monitor suspect cases.
Posted on: 2009-02-03 20:44:47 (Server Time)

 

[Sally Furniss]

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175 Blood samples of birds taken for scanning

11 Mar 2009,

LUCKNOW: The scanning of water birds for possible strains of bird flu virus is going on at a fast pace. The blood samples from at least 175 birds
have been collected so far. The effort began in January with an aim to trapping the winter birds.

The samples have been collected from both the resident and migratory birds.

The same will now be sent to a laboratory to come up with the final findings, said sources. The project will continue for a three-year period to cover maximum birds that visit the state or are already existing here.

The sampling in Terai areas of Bahraich, Lakhimpur and Sandi has almost been completed. Since most of the winter birds have flown back by now the trackers will be after the local resident birds.

The forest department has roped in Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) for the work. The entire project is expected to cost about Rs 70 lakh. There are also few volunteers who have associated with the project and are helping in identifying the local bodies other than Important Bird Areas (IBAs). These could be the potential sites where water birds can be trapped and tagged.

Since water birds, especially ducks, are said to be the potential carriers of the bird flu (H5N1) virus, they will be monitored for three-year period. Tagging, which assigns them a unique identification number, will help in keeping watch on the birds from whom samples of blood and mucous have already been collected.

There are at least 20 species of ducks that visit the state each year. Hence the data so prepared after the exercise gets over will be complete record on the resident and visiting birds of the state. It will also be of help for other states.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...ds-taken-for-scanning/articleshow/4251247.cms