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Eventually they will acknowledge that this is the Qinghai strain.
Eventually they will acknowledge that this is the Qinghai strain.
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Re: Suspected Poultry Outbreak - Japan
The obvious has been announced.
Japan's bird flu virus determined as H5N1 strain
www.chinaview.cn 2007-01-16 21:20:15
Special report: Global fight against bird flu
TOKYO, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- The bird flu virus that killed about 3,500 chickens in southwestern Japan last week was determined as the highly contagious and lethal H5N1 strain, Japan's farm ministry said in a statement Tuesday.
According to National Institute of Animal Health which conducted the test, the H5N1 detected in the poultry farm in Miyazaki prefecture was very infectious and virulent.
The Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry confirmed the cause of the chicken death as avian influenza on Saturday and had the rest several thousands of chickens in the farm culled during the weekend.
In an effort to find the infection routes, the ministry will examine possible genetic similarity of the H5N1 virus detected in this case to those found in other parts of the world, Kyodo News quoted ministry officials as saying
The H5N1 strain is a subtype of the influenza A virus that can cause illness in humans and many other animal species. Since the first case of the virus' human infection confirmed in Hong Kong in 1997, the strain has infected 265 people in 10 countries and led to death of 159 as of last Friday, statistics from the World Health Organization showed.
It is feared that the bird-to-bird disease of avian flu currently spread around the globe could mutate into a virus transmissible between humans and led to a pandemic.Comment
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Re: Suspected Poultry Outbreak - Japan
The obvious will be announced when they say Qinghai.Originally posted by SharpeComment
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Re: Suspected Poultry Outbreak - Japan
New Outbreak Of Bird Flu In Southern Japan
TOKYO (AP)-A new outbreak of bird flu was found at a poultry farm in southern Japan on Tuesday, raising fears a virulent flu virus that stuck the region earlier this month has spread.
Authorities were checking whether 500 chickens found dead over the last two days died from the H5N1 bird flu virus, which killed 4,000 chickens in the area this month, according to Agriculture Ministry official Yasushi Yamaguchi.
Of 11 birds tested so far, one has tested positive for bird flu - though it wasn?t clear whether the virus was of the virulent kind, Miyazaki Gov. Hideo Higashikokubaru told a press conference late Tuesday.
Authorities have banned the shipment of the farm?s remaining 40,000 live chickens and their eggs, according to Miyazaki official Fumihito Shimbaru. The HN51 virus has ravaged Asia since 2003 and has killed at least 163 people around the world, according to the World Health Organization.
There has been one confirmed human H5N1 infection in Japan, but no reported human deaths. Bird flu remains hard for humans to catch.
But international experts fear it may mutate into a form that could spread easily between humans and potentially kill millions around the world Miyazaki, about 900 kilometers south-west of Tokyo, is Japan?s main chicken-producing region.
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Thanks Mamabird.Originally posted by Mamabird View Post
Another outbreak of bird flu suspected in Japan
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Japanese authorities have found a suspected fresh case of bird flu in the same province where an outbreak of the virulent virus was reported earlier this month.
A total of 569 chickens were reported dead as of Tuesday at a poultry farm in the city of Hyuga, said a government official for Miyazaki prefecture on the southern island of Kyushu Tuesday.
"We examined 11 of the dead birds and one of them tested positive for avian influenza," the prefecture's agricultural division said in a statement.
The farm with some 50,000 broilers was in a different location from the last outbreak of the virus that was confirmed in the province on January 13, and was later found to be an especially toxic H5N1 strain.
"We are separating the viruses and will ship samples to a national laboratory for further tests in a few days," Mamoru Tsuneyoshi, an official of the veterinary division, said by telephone.
It is not confirmed yet whether the new case of bird flu involves the virulent H5N1 strain.
In the earlier case, some 3,900 chickens were found dead on a farm, prompting local authorities to slaughter the remaining 8,100 birds to contain the deadly virus.
The Japanese farm ministry announced Tuesday that the virus detected in the earlier outbreak was the same strain as that sampled near Qinghai Lake in western China in 2005.
The same strain of bird flu also has been detected in Mongolia, South Korea and Russia, the ministry said.
The virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu has killed about 160 people worldwide since late 2003 and one of the ways it is transmitted is through contact with infected birds' waste.
Health officials have warned that if the disease mutated into a form easily transmissible by humans, it could cause a pandemic with the potential to kill millions of people.
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Bird flu is suspected in the deaths of 17 chickens at a farm in western Japan, the agriculture ministry said Saturday, just hours after it confirmed an earlier outbreak of bird flu was caused by the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus. Authorities were investigating a possible outbreak at a poultry farm in Takahashi, western Okayama prefecture (state), where 17 birds had died since Friday, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said in a statement. "The number of deaths is small, but we decided it was better to announce the possibility of an outbreak sooner rather than later," ministry official Yasushi Yamaguchi said. The dead birds would be checked at an animal health facility in the state for the bird flu virus, he said. In the meantime, the remaining 12,000 birds at the farm would be quarantined, while neighboring farms asked to keep a watch on their own poultry stocks, the statement said. akahashi is about 560 kilometers (347 miles) west of Tokyo. The news came hours after the ministry reported that tests had confirmed the deadly H5N1 virus killed 3,000 chickens at a poultry farm in southern Japan earlier this week.
A state laboratory had analyzed samples taken from the dead birds from a farm in Hyuga in Miyazaki prefecture, Japan's main chicken-producing region, and found they had been infected with H5N1, the ministry said in a statement. Earlier this month, some 4,000 chickens died from H5N1 in another town in Miyazaki, about 900 kilometers (560 miles) southwest of Tokyo. Authorities began slaughtering the remaining 49,000 chickens at the Hyuga farm on Friday, prefectural official Hisao Takase said. About 21,000 birds had been destroyed by Saturday afternoon, Takase said. Another 50,000 chickens at a neighboring farm will also be killed as a precaution, Takase said. The H5N1 virus has killed or forced the slaughter of millions of birds across Asia since late 2003, and caused the deaths of at least 163 people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. Japan has confirmed only one human H5N1 infection, and no human deaths. The bird flu virus remains hard for humans to catch, but international experts fear it may mutate into a form that could spread easily among humans and possibly kill millions around the world.
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Japan confirms year's 4th deadly H5N1 bird flu outbreak
Published: Friday, February 2, 2007 | 11:26 PM ET
Canadian Press
TOKYO (AP) - Japanese authorities confirmed the country's fourth outbreak of the virulent H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus Saturday at a poultry farm in the country's south.
About two-dozen chickens were found dead at the farm in Shintomi, southwestern Miyazaki prefecture, last month. The birds had been infected with the H5N1 strain deadly to humans, the Agricultural Ministry said Saturday.
The case marks Japan's fourth H5N1 outbreak incident this year and the third to hit poultry farms in Miyazaki, Japan's largest chicken-producing region.
Authorities have already culled thousands of birds to try and stop the spread of the virus. Officials have begun slaughtering the approximately 93,000 chickens at the Shintomi farm and are sterilizing the site, the ministry said.
The H5N1 virus has killed or prompted the slaughter of millions of birds across Asia since late 2003, and caused the deaths of at least 164 people worldwide, the World Health Organization said.
Japan has confirmed only one human H5N1 infection and no human deaths.
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