Russia - Suspected Human Case

[Theresa42]

Hat-tip, Nimbus!

Russian Man in Hospital With Suspected Bird Flu — Report
Created: 21.02.2007 11:56 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 12:15 MSK, 40 minutes ago

MosNews

A 43-year old Russian farmer has been taken to hospital after possibly contracting bird flu, Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda reported on Wednesday.

The newspaper said that the man together with his mother purchased a turkey at a Moscow market on February 13 and took it to his farm near the town of Ramenskoye, about 40 kilometers South-East of the Russian Capital. On February 17 the bird suddenly died and after that, other birds on the farm started dying every day.

On Tuesday morning, the farmer discovered that all his geese were dead and called the veterinarian service. Immediately after that he felt feverish and called an ambulance.

The doctors took the farmer and his mother to hospital and veterinarians sealed off and disinfected the farm and the surrounding area.

The farmer’s mother was released from hospital after tests and the man himself remains in contagious diseases section with suspected bird flu diagnosis.

On Tuesday, chief sanitary inspector for Moscow Region, Olga Gavrilenko, told the press that there were neither registered nor suspected cases of bird flu among humans in Moscow Region.

The highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu that can threaten humans has hit two more localities around Moscow after being confirmed in five other districts, a Russian veterinary official said Tuesday.

“We are as yet unable to confirm the strain (in the two new areas), but the pattern is the same as in the previous cases,” Nikolai Vlasov, head of veterinary surveillance at animal and plant health watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor, told a news briefing.

He did not name the localities. All fowl at the affected farms have been culled and the farms were isolated.

Russia’s Emergencies Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday that 190 domestic fowl had died between Feb. 10 and Feb. 19 in Moscow and six districts in the Moscow region —- Domodedovo, Odintsovo, Podolsk, Naro-Fominsk, Taldom and Volokolamsk.

http://mosnews.com/news/2007/02/21/humanbirdflu.shtml

 

[AlaskaDenise]

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Russia's veterinary service predicts more H5N1 bird flu cases in fowl around Moscow

MOSCOW: Russian authorities expect new outbreaks of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in the Moscow region and the surrounding provinces, the veterinary service said Wednesday in a statement sent to other governments.

The virus, which began killing domestic birds in the Moscow suburbs on Feb 9, has been traced to a single animal market just outside Moscow.

Given the large numbers of birds that had been sold at the market, the authorities "expect new outbreaks in the Moscow region" and the surrounding provinces in western Russia, according to the statement sent by the federal veterinary service to the European Union, the United States and other nations.

The veterinary service said the outbreak was contained at one private farm at each location affected. "Quick measures have allowed to contain the virus spread," it said. The service said poultry at locations affected by the outbreak had been culled and several areas had been put under quarantine.

Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said that at least 333 domestic birds have died since Feb. 9 and an additional 1,833 have been culled at eight locations on Moscow's outskirts.

Laboratory tests had identified the virus as similar to the one found in China's Qinghai province, the veterinary service said.

Poultry that died belonged to individuals who had bought birds recently.

Many people in the Moscow suburbs keep small numbers of chickens in their yards.

The veterinary service said it would vaccinate birds in towns and villages where the virus has been spotted.

Officials said several people who had been in close contact with the dead birds were under medical observation, but no one has been infected.

No human cases of bird flu have been reported in Russia, which had its first reported cases of the H5N1 strain in Siberia in 2005. Outbreaks have since occurred farther west, but mostly in southern areas far from the capital.

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.

Although it remains difficult for humans to catch, health authorities across the world are monitoring the strain out of concern it could mutate into a form that easily spreads from person to person and spark a pandemic.

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[AlaskaDenise]

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Moscow Region authorities dismiss rumors of bird flu among humans



MOSCOW, February 21 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow Region health authorities dismissed Wednesday rumors of the first human avian flu case in the wake of an outbreak that hit poultry farms in the region last week.

Several Internet sources reported Tuesday that a resident of Ramenskoye, near the Russian capital, who owned poultry contaminated with the deadly bird flu virus had been hospitalized with a high temperature.

"He [the resident of the Ramenskoye district] has been admitted to the infectious diseases ward at a local hospital, but his diagnosis is rhinitis, or simply a common cold," a local health official said.

She said the illness had probably been caused by excessive stress related to the bird flu outbreak, and that all lab tests showed the patient was not contaminated with the H5N1 virus.

Cases of avian flu were registered last Saturday in various districts in the Moscow Region, all of which were traced to a single market in southwest Moscow. The Russian agricultural watchdog confirmed Monday that the outbreak involved the deadly strain of the bird flu virus.

The Emergency Situations Ministry said 150 dead birds were found at private farms in the Domodedovo, the Odintsovo, the Podolsk, the Naro-Fominsk, and the Taldom districts last week, and another 75 were discovered in the Ramenskoye district this week, but that no cases of humans infected with the virus have been registered so far.

According to the World Health Organization, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has claimed 167 human lives globally since it first appeared in Asia in 2003. It has since spread worldwide, and scientists fear the virus could mutate into a form transmissible between humans, sparking a global pandemic.
Russia recorded its first cases of avian flu in August 2005, but until now outbreaks have occurred only in southern provinces and in Siberia. The most recent bird flu outbreak occurred in mid-January in the southern region of Krasnodar, but by February it had been contained.

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070221/61051684.html

 

[Theresa42]

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Re: RUSSIA - H5N1 kills poultry in Moscow area - spreading

A little more on Vasiliy...

babelfished from Russian:

The inhabitant of Moscow Ramenskogo they hospitalized with the suspicion to the "bird influenza"
Feb 21, 2007

In the district hospital of Moscow Ramenskogo they delivered the 43-summer local resident of Vasiliy Loginov. Physicians revealed in man the symptoms of the "bird influenza", whose epidemic began recently in the Moscow area. If diagnosis is confirmed, it will become the first struck by virus H5N1 Russian.

As he writes in the medium "Komsomol Truth", on 13 February Vasiliy with the mom by Emma by Alekseyevna they purchased on the Moscow bird market "Gardener" for very young turkey, and on 17 February new ward unexpectedly perished. But following it began day after the day to die other birds. Perished hen and the geese, which the owner in his time did not have time to inculcate from the "bird influenza". Despite the fact that entire all around they spoke about the outbreaks of dangerous disease in the Moscow area, Vasiliy to veterinary surgeons to ring did not hurry - were not given to rapid Moore the birds of special importance.

Culmination began on Tuesday in the morning. After visiting, as usual, to nourish feathered, the owner with the horror revealed into the poultry yard that entire floor of useyan by the small carcasses of dead hens and geese. In all fell 75 birds, about which it reported to veterinary surgeons. Doctors immediately reported CHP into all services of city. Thus far to the house of Loginovykh went militiamen and colleagues of sanepidnadzora, in Vasiliy the temperature unexpectedly ran up. The frightened man urgently caused "fast".

To doctors Loginov it reported that in it the "temperature is hearth forty, weakness terrible, although everything in the order was" from the morning. Physicians measured to man the temperature - it turned out that by the arrival of brigade it fell to 37,8 degrees. Nevertheless, Vasiliy they immediately drove away into the hospital. But its house and territory to 300 is meter all around they surrounded and they disinfected.

Together with Vasiliy into the hospital they drove away his mother. In the medical card of man so they indicated: "suspicion on" bird influenza". "Fast", which transported patients, they preliminarily processed by the special disinfectant solution.

They let go the mom of Vasiliy from the clinic immediately after inspection - no alarming symptoms in it they revealed. But they placed Vasiliy into the infectious department. Doctors took in it the blood for the analysis, the results of the studies, which accurately will show, is infected Vasiliy by "bird influenza" or no, they will be known within the next few days.

According to the colleagues of hospital, the temperature in Loginova so did not fall. Furthermore, in the perenervnichavshego man strongly rose pressure. Now Vasiliy find under the strictest observation of infektsionistov.

Let us recall that the main sanitary doctor of Moscow region Olga Gavrilenko she stated on Tuesday that there are no sick people by the "bird influenza" of people in the Moscow area, physicians fixed even not one suspicion to this virus.

http://www.newsru.com/russia/21feb2007/ramenskoe.html

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[Sharpe]

Russia - Suspected Human Case

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2007/02/21/humanbirdflu.shtml

Russian Man in Hospital With Suspected Bird Flu — Report

Created: 21.02.2007 11:56 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 12:15 MSK<SCRIPT> document.write(get_ago(1172049318)); </SCRIPT> , 12 hours 18 minutes ago

MosNews

A 43-year old Russian farmer has been taken to hospital after possibly contracting bird flu, Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda reported on Wednesday.

The newspaper said that the man together with his mother purchased a turkey at a Moscow market on February 13 and took it to his farm near the town of Ramenskoye, about 40 kilometers South-East of the Russian Capital. On February 17 the bird suddenly died and after that, other birds on the farm started dying every day.

On Tuesday morning, the farmer discovered that all his geese were dead and called the veterinarian service. Immediately after that he felt feverish and called an ambulance.
The doctors took the farmer and his mother to hospital and veterinarians sealed off and disinfected the farm and the surrounding area.

The farmer’s mother was released from hospital after tests and the man himself remains in contagious diseases section with suspected bird flu diagnosis.

On Tuesday, chief sanitary inspector for Moscow Region, Olga Gavrilenko, told the press that there were neither registered nor suspected cases of bird flu among humans in Moscow Region.

The highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu that can threaten humans has hit two more localities around Moscow after being confirmed in five other districts, a Russian veterinary official said Tuesday.

“We are as yet unable to confirm the strain (in the two new areas), but the pattern is the same as in the previous cases,” Nikolai Vlasov, head of veterinary surveillance at animal and plant health watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor, told a news briefing.

He did not name the localities. All fowl at the affected farms have been culled and the farms were isolated.

Russia’s Emergencies Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday that 190 domestic fowl had died between Feb. 10 and Feb. 19 in Moscow and six districts in the Moscow region —- Domodedovo, Odintsovo, Podolsk, Naro-Fominsk, Taldom and Volokolamsk.

 

[Theresa42]

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babelfished from Russian:

They declared bird influenza the bourgeois infection
Feb 22, 2007

Bird influenza continues to seize all new territories in the Moscow area: yesterday the loss of poultry is fixed in by Dmitrovsk region. Furthermore, bird fall in the adjacent Kaluga province. Rosprirodnadzor required from the city hall of Moscow to liquidate the market "Gardener", which became the source of infection, and the speaker of the State Duma Boris Gryzlov named bird influenza "project for the sale of the expensive foreign vaccines". There is no as yet reliable data about the fact that people infected themselves by mortally dangerous virus, but Moscow authorities already prepared about 300 cots in the infectious hospitals in this case.

The new focuies of bird influenza were discovered yesterday in the village Udino of the Dmitrovskeyeo region and in the adjacent with the Moscow area by Borovsk the region of the Kaluga province. Let us recall that from the Asian strain of the bird influenza H5N1 already perished the bird in the Domodedovo, Podolskiy, by Naro-Fominsk, the Taldomskeye and Odintsovskeye regions. The case of hens with the suspicion on H5N1 was also fixed in the the Ramenskom and by Volokolamsk the regions (results of analyses in these regions they will be finished to 23 February). Veterinary services continue to guess, from where on the capital market "Gardener", which became the source of infection, fell the infected bird. According to the chief for the administration of the veterinary supervision Of rossel'khoznadzora Nikolai Vlasov, H5N1 could "be brought with the exotic birds from Azerbaijan, Iran or Krasnodar edge illegally imported into Russia".

"Gardener" is closed to the quarantine, entire existing there bird is burnt. the Vice-mayor of Moscow Ludmila Shvetsova yesterday she stated that the city hall prepares document about the payment of compensation to the owners of the birds destroyed on the market; however, its size it did not refine. Meanwhile Rosprirodnadzor directed to the mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov letter with the requirement to shut market. "Rosprirodnadzor repeatedly conducted the testings, which showed that the bird market functions with the disturbance of sanitary standards and in the absence of the necessary documents to the import of animals, explained the Deputy Director of department Oleg Mitvol'. - The correctness of our conclusions proves present situation with the spread in the Moscow area of bird influenza". However, the Mrs. of Shvetsova gave to understand that the market was liquidated or transferred for the feature of city not will be transferred. "But there within the shortest periods must be induced order", she stated vice-mayor.

Meanwhile in Moscow and Moscow area doctors continue to take measures for averting of propagation H5N1. All killed in the centers detections of the virus of hen and turkey they are burnt by veterinary services, furthermore, in the three-kilometer zone around these centers will be destroyed entire poultry. The Mrs. of Shvetsova reported that in Moscow in the required order from the usual influenza will be inculcated the veterinary surgeons, the salesmen of food markets and stores, the colleagues of Moscow zoo, urban it is circus, zoougolkov, pet stores and All-Russian exhibition center, that work with the birds.

The problem of bird influenza did not leave indifferent and the Deputies of the Gosduma, who proposed to summon into the parliament for the dacha of explanations chapter Gennadi Onishchenko's Rospotrebnadzora. "The fatherland in the danger. Situation with the spread of bird influenza collects revolutions", stated at the yesterday's plenary meeting deputy from LDPR Sergey Ivanov. He recalled that the Ukraine and Belorussia already introduced prohibition to the deliveries of chicken from the Moscow area. "From where did arrive at us this infection, and is not this the planned shady transaction? I please Duma security committee to be dismantled with this question", summed up deputy. It supported associate from THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Nikolai Kondratenko, who completely named situation in the Moscow area the "smelling a little diversion".

Speaker Boris Gryzlov, who connected stir around the bird influenza with the "commercial interests of the producers of foreign vaccines", developed theme. "Bird influenza was always, it earlier 'chumkoy' was called, stated Mr. Gryzlov. - But this is the conscious project, directed toward production and sale of the expensive vaccines, and it was devised not in Russia". The industrial production of the vaccine, which protects people from the bird influenza, in Russia actually can be fixed not earlier than 2008, whereas Goszakaz to its production can be measured by sum of $1 billion (7 it reported about this on 20 February).

Let us note that yesterday appeared the communications about the hospitalization of the inhabitant of Ramenskogo with the high temperature and the suspicion to the infection by bird influenza; however, the main sanitary doctor of the Moscow area Olga Gavrilenko it refuted this information, after stating that in it was discovered the "hypertonic crisis, temperature normal and there are no occasions for the agitations". Nevertheless, authorities already expressed the readiness to isolate 281 cot in the hospitals in the case of the appearance of similar patients. "The patients with the influenza of this form will place into the 1st, 2nd, the 3rd infectious hospital", stated yesterday the leader of the department of public health of the capital Andrey Sel'tsovskiy.

http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.html?docId=744826

 

[sharon sanders]

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Thanks Nimbus.

 

[Theresa42]

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BF sus in Moscow showing no symptoms, discharged from hospital -- tests due back in a couple of days....

babelfished from Russian:

Procuratorship: The birds, infected by "influenza", we could sell in the stores of Moscow
Feb 22, 2007

The inter-district nature-conservation procuratorship of Moscow region considers that the hens, infected by 'bird influenza', we could sell in the stores of Moscow. Consequence left to the merchants, who left sick birds for the market "Gardener", writes in Thursday the newspaper "Komsomol Truth", and it explained that the dangerous virus could penetrate to the counters of Moscow stores.

The consequence of the inter-district nature-conservation procuratorship of Moscow region (it is occupied by investigation, from where in the capital region it appeared disease) left to the important suppliers of market "Gardener", from whom began the propagation of infection. "It was explained that realizatory on the market were connected with two important suppliers of bird - by certain Edward and its assistant Fazidinom. Those left bird into Russia from abroad, described the source, close to the consequence. - I is all foundations for assuming that the infected feathered were set by precisely these traders".

Consequence also confirmed that the important version is checked: some of the wholesale clients of Edward and Fazidina completely could supply this bird to Moscow stores to sale. "But there is no as yet precise confirmation of this", reported the colleagues of law-enforcement agencies.

In the Moscow Ramenskom of Sanepidsluzhba it burnt hens, soliciting the masters have gasoline and firewood

Furthermore, correspondent KP visited the hospital, where with the suspicion to the infection they held the inhabitant of Ramenskogo Vasiliy Loginov. Panic, which sowed on Tuesday in the the Ramenskom people in the white dressing gowns, already toward the evening of the same day of utikhla. From the entrance to the [*snip*] (it here stands that chicken coop itself) disappeared the tent OF MCHS [EMERGENCY AND DISASTER RELIEF MINISTRY], and from under the table "quarantine" - militia "uazik". Of the invasion of provincial sanepidsluzhby reminded one only the leaflets on the wickets of particular houses, the control strip of sawdust on the snow-covered road yes it smelled to barbekyu, newspaper writes.

"Themselves you see - neither police to you nor doctors, separates by hands the mother of the owner of podvor'ya Emma of Loginova. - A generally to speak it does not be desirable. To all hens of the head of pootvorachivali, son they planted into the "fast" [ambulance] and drove away into the hospital. A good show they arranged, to hens for a joke!"

"Loginovy always here lived, say neighbors. - when in Emma of Alekseyevnas died husband, hens became main breadwinners. But only son (Vasiliy) literally grew among the laying hens. Today 44-summer Vasiliy Loginov knows about the poultry not less than any veterinary surgeon. But these knowledge on that Tuesday did not prove useful to it: doctors about them did not ask".

"Dekulakization this was, this is what! - said Emma Alekseyevna. - the corpses of birds fell down into the barrel for the rain water directly in the section, then burnt and left".

Vasiliy himself it was possible to find in the Ramenskeye hospital. "They in me gasoline asked, liters 25. They splashed it to the small carcasses... and zapolykhalo. Yes, I do not argue, the turkey, which 4 on the "Gardener" it purchased, he proved to be by patient. And case on my economy was, 75 hens of sdokhli. But such frequently is also without any influenza. 3x... - sighs Vasiliy. - it is pitiful! Hen - that not simple were, elite! 4 them still by chickens on 2500 rubles for the head it bought. It entreated the veterinary surgeons: "do not touch half, healthy they! Your them during November from the 'bird influenza' inoculated". Where there! All - into the fire".

It reported that it they took away not at all because it feared to fall ill with 'bird influenza'. "A you yourselves as felt at my place?! Chiefs came in large numbers, they request your firewood and gasoline in order the same hens to burn. They on top of that tell that 4 not kopeck compensation I will obtain, but on the contrary, in them it must! It is said, be glad, peasant, life to you they saved! Well when bonfire they set fire to, 4 from the grief the container of vodka flapped. But they "fast" caused. Those give pressure to measure, temperature. They slapped on the arm. "You have all symptoms, milok, it is present", they say. And they drove away", described victim.

"In patient even symptoms of a usual cold be absent, not the fact that 'bird influenza', it described the head physician of the Ramenskeye Infectious Hospital Angelica Kostereva. - If not circumstance, we it accepted never. They brought him with the temperature 37 degrees and the elevated pressure - 160 on 100. They asked to assume, although for the person, who tested stress, these are normal indices. But so absolutely healthy man, who was accustomed to work in fresh air. Already in the morning its temperature was 36,6 degrees, and pressure - 130 on 80. Analyses we sent into the laboratory of sanepidnadzora of Moscow region. Results will in two or three days hold under the lock of the healthy person of 4 bases I do not have. Indeed we have here infectious patients".

In the evening, without having waited for the results of analyses, doctors nevertheless let go Vasiliy Loginova home in the medium.

http://www.newsru.com/russia/22feb2007/barbeku.html

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[hawkeye]

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I've got a question. If an individual is suspected of having BF, why would that individual be sent home, why take the chance?

 

[colormyquilt]

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I am wondering if he was sent home with "medical monitoring"- with medications. It is unclear in previous reports whether all those being "medically monitored" have meds/ or are just having to be checked/ and/ or are tests are being conducted also.