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    Three cases of H5N1 strain of bird flu detected in Burkina Faso
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    LOME, April 3 (Xinhua) -- Burkina Faso has detected three casesof deadly H5N1 bird flu virus on a farm near its capital Ouagadougou, Burkinese Ministry of Animal Resources announced late Monday.
    Test in the Italian lab of the World Animal Health Organization(OIE) confirmed the presence of highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of the flu virus on three samples collected on a farm in Gampela, a suburb of Ouagadougou, said Tiemoko Konate, the Burkinese minister of animal resources.
    According to Konate, a total of 65 samples had been collected across the country.
    The Burkinese government has put the affected farm under quarantine and had all the poultry there culled, said the minister, noting that the public had been asked to report any suspected cases. With the confirmation of the three cases, Burkina Faso becomes the fifth African country hit by H5N1 bird flu after Nigeria, Niger, Egypt and Cameroon. Enditem
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    Three cases of H5N1 strain of bird flu detected in Burkina Faso

    LOME, April 3 (Xinhua) -- Burkina Faso has detected three casesof deadly H5N1 bird flu virus on a farm near its capital Ouagadougou, Burkinese Ministry of Animal Resources announced late Monday. Test in the Italian lab of the World Animal Health Organization(OIE) confirmed the presence of highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of the flu virus on three samples collected on a farm in Gampela, a suburb of Ouagadougou, said Tiemoko Konate, the Burkinese minister of animal resources.
    According to Konate, a total of 65 samples had been collected across the country.
    The Burkinese government has put the affected farm under quarantine and had all the poultry there culled, said the minister, noting that the public had been asked to report any suspected cases.
    With the confirmation of the three cases, Burkina Faso becomes the fifth African country hit by H5N1 bird flu after Nigeria, Niger, Egypt and Cameroon

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      Re: Three cases of H5N1 strain of bird flu detected in Burkina Faso

      (They are having a serious meningitis outbreak there too...)


      Niamey - An outbreak of meningitis in Burkina Faso and Niger has killed 668 people since the start of the year and infected 6 912, the United Nations said in a report published on Monday.

      In Burkina Faso, which has been hardest hit, 6 110 cases and 616 deaths had been recorded between the start of the year and March 18, a death rate per infection of 10.8 percent, said the report, published by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

      The report said the authorities, with the help of the World Health Organisation, had organised vaccination programmes and awareness campaigns in the infected areas and provided medicines.

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        Burkina becomes 5th African state with bird flu

        http://news.yahoo.com

        By Mathieu Bonkoungou 19 minutes ago



        OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Burkina Faso has detected the dangerous H5N1 strain of bird flu in poultry on the outskirts of its capital Ouagadougou, making the West African country the fifth nation on the continent to report the disease.



        Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and Egypt have already confirmed the virus in Africa, a continent which a top UN official said on Tuesday needed more funding to cope with a disease which has killed more than 100 people worldwide.


        Burkina Faso's Livestock Minister Tiemoko Konate said in a televised announcement late on Monday that the bird flu strain had been confirmed by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) in samples taken from poultry at a motel on the eastern outskirts of Ouagadougou.


        "Further to deaths noted in February among poultry and wild birds, 65 specimens from various regions of the country were sent to reference laboratories of the World Organization for Animal Health and the Food and Agriculture Organization," Konate said.


        The results, communicated to the former French colony's government on Monday, confirmed the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu strain only at the Ouagadougou motel.


        Konate said Burkinabe authorities would put up a 3 km (2 mile) wide safety perimeter around the site, slaughter poultry at the motel and vaccinate all poultry in the area to control the virus.


        "The situation is under control," he said, appealing for people to remain calm.
        Bird flu has spread rapidly since late 2003 from Asia to Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Since the beginning of the year alone, more than 30 new countries have reported outbreaks.


        AFRICA NEEDS HELP
        Burkina Faso's government has a bird flu response plan in place, for which it has already appealed for 1.3 billion CFA franc ($2.4 million) funding from international donors.


        Experts fear Africa's poor human and animal health services, large backyard poultry population and heavy burden of HIV/ AIDS,


        malaria and other deadly diseases would make it an easy target if bird flu mutated to a form that could spread among humans.


        UN bird flu coordinator David Nabarro said on Tuesday African countries must receive increased funds and support to combat bird flu as Asia braces itself for possible wider human outbreaks.


        "For certain countries, the resources available are very promising and have started to flow," Nabarro told Reuters during a visit to Beijing. However, he said much of the $1.9 billion of grants and loans pledged at an international bird flu summit there in January was directed at Asian countries.


        "For certain other countries, particularly those that are newly affected by avian influenza, particularly countries in Africa, the resources have not yet started to move in the amount that we want," Nabarro said.
        According to the most recent WHO figures, bird flu has killed at least 107 people worldwide since 2003.


        The only confirmed human cases in Africa are in Egypt where two people have died during a recent outbreak.


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            Commentary: H5N1 Bird Flu Confirmed in Burkina Faso

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            Recombinomics Commentary

            April 4, 2006

            Burkina Faso has detected the dangerous H5N1 strain of bird flu in poultry on the outskirts of its capital Ouagadougou, making the West African country the fifth nation on the continent to report the disease.

            "Further to deaths noted in February among poultry and wild birds, 65 specimens from various regions of the country were sent to reference laboratories of the World Organization for Animal Health and the Food and Agriculture Organization," Konate said.

            The results, communicated to the former French colony's government on Monday, confirmed the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu strain only at the Ouagadougou motel.

            The large number of bird deaths reported previously suggested H5N1 was in Burkino Faso. The large number of samples testing negative is cause for concern. Only five countries in Africa have confirmed H5N1, yet the birds deaths and migratory paths are widespread and the number of infected species is large.

            Detection of H5N1 is dependent both on surveillance as well as collection and testing methods. Although Europe has detected H5N1 in dead wild birds, they have yet to detect H5N1 in live wild birds. Other regions have detected H5N1 in dead or dying poultry, but have not detected H5N1 in wild birds.

            However, H5N1 is spreading world wide regardless of testing. The positive data in Burkingo Faso provides more data suggesting H5N1 is widespread in Africa and is migrating into western Europe and North America via the East Atlantic flyway which goes through western Africa and most of the countries reporting H5N1.

            Since Italy confirmed the H5N1, publication of the sequences are likely, although soon similar sequences will be detected in western Europe as the spring migration continues.

            More thorough and accurate testing in Africa would be useful to fill out the database of changes in the H5N1 Qinghai strain.

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              Re: Three cases of H5N1 strain of bird flu detected in Burkina Faso

              http://www.afrol.com/articles/18718

              Three bird flu cases confirmed in Burkina Faso
              afrol News, 4 April
              - The government of Burkina Faso has announced that three cases of the H5N1 bird flu virus have been detected at a poultry farm in Gamp?la, just outside the Burkinabe capital, Ouagadougou. The bird flu outbreak had been confirmed at a laboratory, Livestock Minister Toemoko Konat? stated yesterday.

              Burkinabe authorities had carried out 65 tests in different regions of the country after rumours of a bird flu outbreak in the country emerges last months. The tests had been sent to a laboratory run by the Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) in Rome.

              OIE on Monday had told Burkinabe authorities that three of the samples tested positive on the feared H5N1 virus, known to wipe out large bird populations in short time and with the potential of infecting humans. Today, the Ouagadougou government formally advised the World Health Organisation (WHO) of a bird flu outbreak in Burkina Faso.

              Meanwhile, Minister Konat? urged the Burkinabe population to maintain calm and not to overreact. Authorities had already ordered quarantine measures at the affected poultry farm and was organising the culling of all chicken at the site, he said. A three-kilometre "security belt" has been established around the site and all birds in that area were to be slaughtered and destructed.

              Experts disagree on whether Burkina Faso is well-prepared to meet the challenges it faces through the bird flu outbreak. Local sources claim the country is prepared, following recent outbreaks in neighbour countries and assistance from OIT and WHO. Two million doses of vaccines have been deposited in the country, being ready to immunise poultry in the Ouagadougou region.

              Other experts however fear that Burkina Faso - which is ranked as the world's third poorest country - would not have the resources to effectively control the spread of the dangerous animal disease and at the same time educate its population on how to avoid infections. The veterinary infrastructure of Burkina Faso was today described as "particularly weak".

              So far, there are however no indications that the avian flu may have spread outside the "security belt" that has already been established. Since early March, Burkinabe authorities have tested suspicious bird deaths regularly at foreign laboratories and no other region has so far delivered positive tests. With a little bit of luck, the first and only cases of the disease have been observed and isolated by vigilant citizens.

              The Burkinabe have been aware of a possible outbreak for more than a month and the sales and consumption of poultry and eggs has already dropped dramatically. Authorities have had to intervene, informing that the consumption of properly heated poultry is not dangerous if treated in a hygienic way. Public awareness of the disease seems great.

              Burkina Faso is the fifth African country to be affected by the dangerous H5N1 strain of bird flu. The Burkinabe outbreak is seen in connection to the outbreak that started in Nigeria in February and later has spread to neighbouring Niger - which also borders Burkina Faso - and has caused isolated cases in northern Cameroon. Nigerian authorities hold that the disease came to the country with illegally imported poultry, probably from China or Turkey. Illegal poultry trade is believed to have transported the disease to neighbour countries.

              Simultaneously, there is an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in Egypt, which is not seen in connection to the West African outbreak, but is believed to be have been introduced by poultry illegally imported from Turkey. Egypt is also the only African country where human have been affected by the disease. The Cairo Health Ministry has confirmed five human cases, of which two have died from the infection, while two have totally recovered from symptoms.

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