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**HenryN** · July 3, 2007, 11:59 AM

Re: H5N1 bird flu found in dead wild bird in Germany

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**HenryN** · July 3, 2007, 12:10 PM

Re: H5N1 bird flu found in dead wild bird in Germany

Thuringen is located between Bavaria and Saxony.

**HenryN** · July 3, 2007, 01:47 PM

Re: H5N1 bird flu found in dead wild bird in Germany

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Qinghai H5N1 Spread into Thuringen Germany

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/07030703/Qinghai_H5N1_Thuringen.html

Recombinomics Commentary

**HenryN** · July 3, 2007, 03:30 PM

Re: H5N1 bird flu found in dead wild bird in Germany

German state says deadly flu found in wild bird
BERLIN, July 3 (Reuters) - The health ministry in the German state of Thuringia said on Tuesday the lethal H5N1 strain of avian flu had been confirmed in a wild bird.
The Friedrich Loeffler Institute had identified the H5N1 strain in a black-throated diver, the ministry said in a statement, adding that a suspect swan was also being tested, with results expected on Wednesday.
A three-km (two-mile) restricted zone had been set up around the area where the infected diver was found and all poultry within the zone would have to be confined to stalls, it said.
An observation zone with a 10-km (six-mile) radius had also been established, it added.
Germany has found the virus in several wild birds in the eastern state of Saxony and southern state of Bavaria, while the Czech Republic has reported finding it at two poultry farms and in a dead swan.
Officials at Germany's top state veterinary laboratory said last week the strains were similar in the two countries and probably had a common source.
Last year, about 13 European Union member states confirmed cases of bird flu. The virus has been spreading across southeast Asia, killing two people in Vietnam last month, the first deaths there since 2005.
Globally, the H5N1 virus has killed nearly 200 people out of over 300 known cases, according to the World Health Organisation. None of the victims were from Europe.

Thomson Reuters: Clarifying the complex

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**HenryN** · July 3, 2007, 03:35 PM

Re: H5N1 bird flu found in dead wild bird in Germany

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**HenryN** · July 3, 2007, 03:38 PM

Re: H5N1 bird flu found in dead wild bird in Germany

Originally posted by niman View Post

H5N1 bird flu found in dead wild bird in Germany

07.03.07, 1:20 PM ET
http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2007/07/03/afx3881561.html

BERLIN (Thomson Financial) - The Thuringian health ministry said a black-necked grebe found dead in Kelbra near Erfurt was infected with the H5N1 strain of aviation influenza, which is potentially lethal to humans.
A three-kilometre security cordon has been installed around the site where the bird was found. Poultry must remain confined within that area and cats and dogs must be kept on leashes.

This brings the number of dead wild birds found to be carrying the virus in Germany to 13 since last week.

Just a moment...

http://www.birdguides.com/html/vidlib/species/Podiceps_nigricollis.htm

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</TD></TR><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>Breeds at scattered sites in Europe, becoming much commoner further east. Les Dombes in France and the Laguna de Tarelo in Spain provide great views. Lakes such as Techirghiol in Romania and Burdur in Turkey support literally thousands of birds in autumn and winter (186,000 at Lake Burdur) and the waters around Formentera (Balearics) have a wintering population of about 4000 birds.
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**HenryN** · July 3, 2007, 03:41 PM

Re: H5N1 bird flu found in dead wild bird in Germany

Originally posted by niman View Post

German state says deadly flu found in wild bird
BERLIN, July 3 (Reuters) -
Germany has found the virus in several wild birds in the eastern state of Saxony and southern state of Bavaria, while the Czech Republic has reported finding it at two poultry farms and in a dead swan.
Officials at Germany's top state veterinary laboratory said last week the strains were similar in the two countries and probably had a common source.

http://wap.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L03389600.htm

Media myths have a very long life. The common source is wild birds (introduced independently).

Wild Birds Are the H5N1 Common Source in Europe

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/06300701/H5N1_WB_Europe_Common.html

Recombinomics Commentary

**AlaskaDenise** · July 3, 2007, 04:31 PM

Re: H5N1 bird flu found in dead wild bird in Germany

Originally posted by niman View Post

Commentary

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/07...Thuringen.html

Commentary

Qinghai H5N1 Spread into Thuringen Germany
Recombinomics Commentary
July 3, 2007

The Thuringian health ministry said a black-necked grebe found dead in Kelbra near Erfurt was infected with the H5N1 strain of aviation influenza, which is potentially lethal to humans.

The above comments described another confirmed H5N1 positive in a third region in Germany. Thuringian is located between the two other confirmed outbreaks in Bavaria and Saxony. It is also located between the suspect outbreak in Assenoncourt, France and the confirmed outbreaks on two farms in Northwesten Czech Republic and a nature reserve near Lednice.

The multiple outbreaks in the heart of Western Europe in June and July indicate H5N1 is endemic in Europe, and has gone undetected for the past 12 months. This surveillance failure is similar to the failure to detect H5N1 in wild birds in the fall of 2005.

Moreover, to date no country in Western Europe has detected H5N1 in a live wild bird, further highlighting a surveillance system needs a serious ungrade.

When H5N1 was widely detected in dead resident wild birds throughout western Europe, the detection outbreak was said to be linked to a harsh winter that caused H5N1 infected birds to migrate to the west in the dead of winter. However, the massive outbreaks in Siberia in the spring predicted H5N1 would migrate throughout Europe in the fall and then through the Middle East and into Africa in the winter. H5N1 followed this route precisely.

The latest detection outbreak has been in the heart of Western Europe, largely in resident birds, in June and July, when there is minimal migration.

It is time for a robust and sensitive surveillance program. The recent sequences from wild birds infected in the spring of 2006 in Qinghai province have been released. These sequences had obvious recombination and polymorphisms that traced the movement of H5N1 to Astrakhan, Germany, and Western Africa. The sequences contain compelling data supporting recombination and polymorphism tracing. The polymorphism acquisitions were also demonstrated by the concurrent detection of the same polymorphism onto six different clade 2.2 genetic backbones in three countries, Russia, Egypt, and Ghana.

The spread and evolution of H5N1 demand a scientific analysis and serious surveillance.

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**AlaskaDenise** · July 3, 2007, 04:35 PM

Re: H5N1 bird flu found in dead wild bird in Germany

Originally posted by niman View Post

Media myths have a very long life. The common source is wild birds (introduced independently).

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/06...pe_Common.html

Commentary

Wild Birds Are the H5N1 Common Source in Europe
Recombinomics Commentary
June 30, 2007

A comparison of parts of the hereditary property of the bird flu viruses of the type H5N1 Asia from Saxonia, Bavaria and the Czech republic at the reference laboratory for aviaere influenza of the Friedrich Loeffler institute resulted in a high similarity. Thus it is certain that all three outbreaks decrease/go back to a common origin.

Common molecular-biological analyses of the European Union reference laboratory (VLA Weybridge) and the national reference laboratory for aviaere influenza at the FLI, island Riems, show besides a high relationship (99,2% for the first section of the H5-Gens) between one the Virus isolate from Nuernberg and a H5N1-Isolat from the current happening in the Czech republic. The high degree at agreement refers to of common, so far not identified origin both viruses.

The above statements from the Friedlich Loeffler Institute (FLI) have created considerable confusion in the media and Promed commentaries, which assumed that a common source referred to a close linkage, as had been seen recently when sequences from H5N1 infected turkeys in England were compared to H5N1 isolates from Hungary. Those isolates had an identity of 99.96% across all eight gene segments, demonstrating that they recently originated from a common source.

However, the FLI comments above indicate that the identity between HA sequences from turkeys in the Czech Republic and wild birds in Nuremberg was 99.2%, which is much lower than the England / Hungary linkage, and is similar to identities between various Qinghai clade 2.2 sub-clades.

Last year, clade 2.2 was widespread in Europe, including three distinct sub-clades in Germany. Distinct sub-clades was a characteristic of H5N1 from wild birds. Last season, over 700 H5N1 isolates were collected from wild birds in Europe. All were clade 2.2, as expected for H5N1 transported and transmitted by migratory birds. Clade 2.2 was first reported in dead bar-headed geese at Qinghai Lake in May, 2005. Additional long range migratory bird species were subsequently identified. The spring outbreak at Qinghai Lake was followed by summer outbreaks in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia. These outbreaks also involved clade 2.2 and signaled a spread into Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

As expected, H5N1 was subsequently found in these locations. In all cases, the ?Asian? version of H5N1 was detected for the first time, and in all cases the H5N1 identified was clade 2.2. Moreover, in many countries the H5N1 in the wild birds were the only reported outbreaks. In Western Europe, some poultry on farms were infected, but those infections were after wild bird infections were found.

Although no country in western Europe reported H5N1 infections in 2005, the sequence of H5N1 from a cloacal swab from a healthy teal in the Nile Delta collected in December, 2005 strongly suggested that H5N1 was in western Europe in the fall of 2005, because the sequences were very similar to isolates from Austria. Moreover, the 2006 isolates in Western Europe were widespread, further suggesting that the H5N1 migrated into Western Europe in the fall of 2005, when it migrated into Eastern Europe.
The isolation of H5N1 in Germany and the Czech Republic this month followed a 12 month hiatus in the detection of H5N1 in Western Europe. Last week Ilaria Capua, at the Options VI influenza meeting in Toronto presented an update of H5N1 infections in Europe and Africa. She noted the large number of live wild birds that were negative for H5N1, and said that the wild bird infections were limited to the 2005/2006 season.

However, dead wild birds in western Europe and western Africa were positive for H5N1 in early 2006, but H5N1 in live wild birds has never been reported in those regions, indicating that the surveillance in those regions lacked the sensitivity to identify H5N1 in live wild birds. Ian Brown followed Ilaria Capua, and he noted that there were only two outbreaks in Western Europe. The outbreaks in Hungary and England were tightly linked suggesting a common source. He noted that 2007 outbreaks outside of Western Europe were largely limited to countries that had outbreaks in 2006, suggesting those countries had endemic populations.

Within minutes of the presentations, H5N1 infections were reported on a turkey farm in the Czech Republic. That report was followed by an outbreak on a nearby farm, but H5N1 was also found in wild birds in Bavaria and Saxony in Germany, as well as Lednice in southern Czech Republic, raising concerns that H5N1 was also endemic in wild bird populations throughout Western Europe. The H5N1 was once again found in dead wild birds, suggesting that the surveillance program still lacked the sensitivity to detect H5N1 in live wild birds and likely also missed H5N1 in dead wild birds since there were no positives in the prior 12 months. Moreover, the H5N1 positive birds died in June, when migration in Europe was minimal, and the dead birds were largely not migratory.

The HA phylogenetic tree of public sequences clearly demonstrated the segregation of last years isolates into three sub-clades, 2.2.2.1, 2.2.2.2, and 2.2.2.3. The public isolates are bolded below. However, most of the sequences from the 2005/2006 outbreak in Europe still have not been published. Over a year ago, Ian Brown presented data on almost 80 of the 700 European isolates and that data strongly suggests that the sub-clades defined by the German isolates represented sequences that were widely detected in Europe.

For clade 2.2.2.1, the public sequences were limited to northern Germany and Denmark. However, the sequences on the phylogentic presented over a year ago indicated clade 2.2.2.1 was also in Azerbaijan, Greece, Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia, Romania, Poland, Greece, and Scotland (see unbolded list below).

Similarly, the public sequences indicated clade 2.2.2.2 was in Germany, Austria, Egypt, Slovenia, Italy, and the Czech Republic. However, the withheld sequences indicated clade 2.2.2.2 was also in Slovakia, Ukraine, Greece, France, Bulgaria, Romania, Azerbaijan, and Turkey.

These data leave little doubt that the common source for the recent outbreaks in Germany and the Czech Republic is wild birds. More the H5N1 is endemic in the region, and the infections in the wild birds have been largely undected throughout western Europe, as also happened in the fall of 2005.

The endemic nature of H5N1 in Europe extends well beyond the countries reporting H5N1 infections this year, and an increased surveillance, with improved sensitivity, is indicated for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Clade 2.2.2.1
A/stork/Germany/R1239/06
A/cormorant/Germany/R292/06
A/duck/Germany/R751/06
A/goose/Germany/R696/06
A/duck/Germany/R338/06
A/coot/Germany/R655/06
A/buzzard/Denmark/8370/06
A/whooper swan/Germany/R88/06
A/stone marten/Germany/R747/2006
A/Canada goose/Germany/R1207/06
A/cat/Germany/R606/06
A/turkey/Germany/R1077/06
A/Canada goose/Germany/R71/06
A/swan/Germany/R65/2006
A/mute swan/Germany/R854/06
A/dog/Azerbaijan/1413-06-(6)
A/fox/Azerbaijan/1413-06-(7)
A/ck/Azerbaijan/Av107-06-K7-2
A/swan/Greece/Av119-06-106
A/swan/Bosnia/Av265-2
A/peacock/Denmark/Av6014-06
A/swan/Serbia/Av1077-06-1155(1)
A/ck/Serbia/Av1077-06-1307(2)
A/swan/Croatia/1265-05T
A/swan/Germany/Av159-2
A/swan/Romania/Av1496-05-1
A/swan/Poland/Av709-4
A/buzzard/Denmark/Av1075-06
A/ck/Romania/Av/170-06-2
A/swan/Greece/Av119-06-1
A/ck/Albania/Av1079-06-1
A/swan/Bosnia/Av265-1
A/swan/Scotland/1430-06A
A/turkey/Germany/Av3603-06

Clade 2.2.2.2
A/cat/Austria/649/2006
A/teal/Egypt/14051-NAMRU3/2005
A/swan/Slovenia/760/2006
A/swan/Austria/216/2006
A/mute swan/Bavaria/12/2006
A/great crested grebe/Bavaria/22/2006
A/common bussard/Bavaria/2/2006
A/Cygnus olor/Czech Republic/5170/2006
A/mallard/Italy/835/2006
A/falcon/Slovakia/AV305-246
A/pheasant/Ukraine/Av598-2
A/smew/Slovakia/Av305-212
A/ck/Ukraine/Av598-3
A/pigeon/Ukraine/Av598-4
A/swan/Austria/Av917-06(P4227)-7
A.swan/Czech Rep/Av1324-06
A/falcon/Ukraine/Av598-6
A/go/Greece/Av128-06-167-1
A/go/Greece/Av128-06-167-2
A/ck/Ukraune/Av27-06B
A/ck/Ukraine/Av27-06L
A/common pochard/France/Av1142-06 06167
A/swan/Bulgaria/Av118-06
A/he/Romania/1266-05
A/ck-ty/Romania/Av266-06-1
A/swan/Azerbaijan/Av160/216B
A/swanAustria/Av160-216B
A/cat/Austria/Av917-06'K3.2
A/ck/Turkey/Av73-06-2
A/ck/Romania/1210-05
A/swan/Slovenia/Av136-06
A/swan/Romania/1212-05
A/ck/Romania/1212-05
A/turkey/France/Av1142-06-1

Clade 2.2.2.3
A/swan/Bavaria/14/2006
A/goosander/Switzerland/V82/06
A/falcon/Germany/R899/06
A/gull/Germany/R882/06
A/falcon/Bavaria/15/2006
A/tufted duck/Bavaria/4/2006
A/buzzard/Bavaria/5/2006
A/swan/Bavaria/17/2006
A/mallard/Bavaria/1/2006
A/goosander/Bavaria/20/2006
A/goosander/Bavaria/18/2006
A/duck/Germany/R603/06
A/duck/Germany/R592/06
A/buzzard/Bavaria/13/2006
A/swan/Bavaria/6/2006
A/swan/Bavaria/16/2006
A/eagle owl/Bavaria/10/2006
A/eagle owl/Germany/R1166/06
A/pochard/Germany/R348/06
A/great crested grebe/Germany/R1226/06
A/common coot/Switzerland/V544/06
A/common buzzard/Bavaria/11/2006
A/swan/Bavaria/21/2006
A/tufted duck/Germany/R1240/06
A/tufted duck/Bavaria/8/2006

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**kent nickell** · July 3, 2007, 06:57 PM

Re: H5N1 bird flu found in dead wild bird in Germany

The Black-throated Diver known in North America as the Arctic Loon also breeds in western Alaska. http://www.enature.com/flashcard/sho...dNumber=BD0603 Is this the 1st time H5N1 has been found in a diver (loon) species? The Black-necked Grebe is also closely related to the North American Eared Grebe.

**AlaskaDenise** · July 3, 2007, 08:41 PM

Re: H5N1 bird flu found in dead wild bird in Germany

North American distribution map......

source: http://whatbird.wildbird.com/obj/399/_/target.aspx

Arctic Pacific Ocean breeding grounds.....

source: http://content.ornith.cornell.edu/UE...loon-map_6.gif

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**HenryN** · July 3, 2007, 09:37 PM

Re: H5N1 bird flu found in dead wild bird in Germany

Originally posted by kent nickell View Post

The Black-throated Diver known in North America as the Arctic Loon also breeds in western Alaska. http://www.enature.com/flashcard/sho...dNumber=BD0603 Is this the 1st time H5N1 has been found in a diver (loon) species? The Black-necked Grebe is also closely related to the North American Eared Grebe.

The first healthy wild bird positive for Qinghai H5N1 was in a great crest grebe in Novosibirsk in August, 2005. However, Russia identified over 25 species that were H5N1 positive (described in the "Mission Report"

H5N1 Wild Bird Flu Detected in Bulgaria?

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/10160502/H5N1_Species_Russia.html

Recombinomics Commentary

The positives included wild duck, laughing gull, rook, northern stover, crow, pigeon, sandpiper, oyster catcher, little grebe. black-winged stilt, phalatrope, little tern, pied wagtail, green sandpiper, white headed plover, starling, coot, mallard sparrow hawk, buzzard, turtle dove, garganey. teal.

**HenryN** · July 4, 2007, 05:44 AM

Re: H5N1 bird flu found in dead wild bird in Germany

Germany Finds Another Bird With Avian Flu; France Tests Fowl

By Eva von Schaper
July 4 (Bloomberg) -- German authorities confirmed that a wild bird was found carrying the H5N1 strain of bird flu in the central state of Thuringia.
An additional bird is being tested for avian influenza, the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut in Riems said. Officials sealed off an area within 3 kilometers (2 miles) of where the bird was found, Thuringia officials said in a release yesterday.
German authorities last month tested carcasses of four birds to determine whether they carried the H5N1 strain of avian flu after the virus was found in nine fowl in the country in three days. Six birds infected with the virus were found dead in the southern state of Bavaria and three in the eastern state of Saxony.
France is testing three young swans, found dead on a lake in Moselle near the German border, for avian flu. The Agriculture Ministry said it expects to have test results tomorrow and in the meantime, it's increased surveillance in the area, banned bird hunting and asked for the confinement of domestic birds.
To contact the reporter on this story: Eva von Schaper in Munich at evonschaper@bloomberg.net .
Last Updated: July 4, 2007 04:05 EDT

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601100&sid=atlET_TlqiO4&refer=germany

**HenryN** · July 4, 2007, 12:19 PM

Re: H5N1 bird flu found in dead wild bird in Germany

Germany finds bird flu cases in wild birds
Wed 4 Jul 2007 17:13:58 BST
HAMBURG, July 4 (Reuters) - More wild birds have tested positive in Germany for the lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu, German authorities said on Wednesday.

Two wild birds tested positive for H5N1 in the eastern state of Thueringen. About 100 birds of various types were found dead in the state and about 40 were being tested for bird flu, Germany's Friedrich-Loeffler national animal diseases institute said.

Last week, Germany discovered H5N1 in Leipzig in the eastern state of Saxony and in the southern city of Nuremberg in cases involving a total of nine wild birds.

The source of the outbreaks, the first in Germany in 2007, was unclear.

French authorities also said on Tuesday they were investigating possible cases of bird flu in wild birds.

Last year, 13 European Union member states had confirmed cases of bird flu -- Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, Greece, Britain, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, France and Hungary.

Bird flu has been spreading across southeast Asia and killed two people in Vietnam this month, the first deaths there since 2005.

Globally, H5N1 has killed nearly 200 people out of over 300 known cases, according to the World Health Organisation. None of the victims was from Europe.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/CrisesArticle.aspx?rpc=401&storyId=L04829148