South Korea: Suspected H5N1 Human Cases in Seoul

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Five suspected H5N1 human cases reported in Seoul

May 07, 2008


At least five suspected H5N1 human cases have been reported to local authorities as of Wednesday morning in Seoul after the outbreak of the fatal disease was confirmed in Seoul earlier, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported.

The health authorities said five people have reported symptoms of fever or cough since Tuesday.

The authorities have conducted blood tests on the five people to confirm whether they are positive to the deadly H5N1 strain, Yonhap said.

The Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries announced Tuesday that quarantine officials detected the highly virulent H5N1 strain in dead chickens from a bird vivarium located at the Gwangjin ward office in eastern Seoul.

It was the first time that the highly virulent H5N1 strain hits Seoul since a new round of spread of bird flu was confirmed in late March in the country.

The outbreak in the capital city has added worries that authorities are unable to contain the spread of the disease that has caused about 6 million birds to be culled so far.

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Suspected bird flu cases reported in Seoul
SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) --

Local health officials said Wednesday that seven people are being examined after reporting symptoms similar to those of human bird flu.

Health inspectors from Gwangjin ward said the people were sent to a local clinic for close examination after reporting acute colds and fever.

"There have been sporadic reports of people complaining of fever after the bird flu outbreak was confirmed, but most were sent home since the symptoms were mild," said a ward official.

He also said quarantine and decontamination efforts have been stepped up in the ward to prevent any spread of the bird flu.

All 57 chickens, ducks, pheasants and turkeys that had been kept at the ward office as well as all of the ones at nearby Children's Grand Park have been culled and buried, the official said.

Regarding the bird flu outbreak, the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said it has strengthened quarantine inspections and began decontamination of traditional markets that have been blamed for the spread of bird flu in recent weeks.

The ministry said the confirmation of bird flu in Seoul brings the total number of outbreaks to 34 out of 60 reported since April 1.

The outbreak, which was first centered around Jeolla region of southwestern South Korea, has been reported in all provinces with the exception of North Chungcheong Province and Jeju Island.
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Residents seek check-ups after Seoul's first bird flu case
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The first bird flu outbreak in South Korea's capital Seoul was caused by the virulent H5N1 strain, the agriculture ministry said Wednesday, as residents in the affected district scrambled for medical checks.

The case at an aviary in the eastern district of Gwangjin brings to 34 the number of bird flu cases nationwide since April.

Not all have been confirmed to be H5N1, which is potentially deadly to humans.

Quarantine officials have slaughtered all 53 chickens, turkeys and pheasants at the aviary, and also poultry at a nearby public park in the same district and at an amusement park in southern Seoul.

No outbreak has been reported except in Gwangjin.

The Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention said it asked all hospitals in Seoul to keep a close eye on their patients and immediately report any suspected cases of human bird flu.

The public health clinic in Gwangjin said Wednesday it had been swamped with inquiry calls or visits by residents, some with a high fever and headache, for medical checks. No bird flu infections were reported.

"They all turned out to be completely irrelevant to bird flu," Mo Hyun-Hee, head of the clinic, told AFP.

South Korea has not recorded any human cases of bird flu.

A soldier taken to hospital last month was found not to have the disease.

The agriculture ministry said quarantine authorities were continuing to decontaminate all aviaries and poultry farms in the city. Public access has been limited to those areas.

It was also trying to trace poultry dealers and farms which had sold birds to a market at Seongnam south of Seoul, which was the suspected supplier of infected pheasants to the Gwangjin aviary.

More than six million chickens and ducks have been slaughtered since the country's latest bird flu outbreak was reported on April 1. The previous outbreak was between November 2006 and March last year.

The H5N1 strain has killed more than 240 people worldwide since late 2003.
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Authorities Issue Bird Flu Alert to Seoul Hospitals
Wednesday, May 7, 2008 17:50:22

The nation's health authorities have issued an emergency alert to all medical institutions in Seoul over avian influenza.

The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday it's told all hospitals and clinics in Seoul to report any patient showing symptoms similar to those of human bird flu, including high fever, coughs and sore throat.

In particular, the center asked medical institutions to pay special attention to those who have had contact with chickens, ducks, pheasants and turkeys that had been kept at a facility in Gwangjin-gu, eastern Seoul.

Also on the watchlist are people with symptoms who'd visited the nearby Children's Grand Park.

The measures came after health authorities confirmed a bird flu outbreak in the heart of the heavily populated capital.
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Bird Flu Scare Heightening in Seoul

caption: Quarantine officials from Gwangjin ward office in eastern Seoul disinfect streets to prevent avian flu from spreading further. Birds at the aviary of the office died of the virulent bird flu on April 28. / Korea Times Photo by Cho Young-ho

By Kim Tae-jong
Staff Reporter

Authorities have issued the highest level of alert for avian influenza after the virulent bird flu hit Seoul, with six people being examined after reporting symptoms similar to those of human bird flu.

The move came as the virus found at an aviary in Gwangjin, eastern Seoul, was confirmed to be the H5N1 strain that can be deadly to humans, with six people being examined after reporting symptoms similar to those of human bird flu.

It is the first case of the flu in the capital since an outbreak April 1 in southwestern Jeolla Province. At the aviary, two pheasants were found dead on April 28 and later one turkey and two chickens. All other birds in the aviary were culled.

Health inspectors from Gwangjin ward said that about six residents are under medical examination after they reported symptoms similar to those of human bird flu, such as high fever. They received basic treatment and their blood is being tested to see if they have been infected.

``There have been a number of people complaining of fever after the news of the bird flu. But most were sent home as the symptoms were modest,'' a ward official said.

The Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised citizens with typical symptoms of the disease such as high fever, difficulty in breathing and headaches to have a medical checkup at a hospital or public health center.

South Korea has stocks of the bird flu vaccine, Tamiflu, for 1.4 million people, or 2.6 percent of the population, but no preventive vaccine.

For its part, the Seoul Metropolitan Government said that it has taken precautionary quarantine measures to prevent the flu from spreading further.

With the cooperation of other quarantine authorities, the city government has shut down the aviary and limited access to a nearby children's park and traditional open market where the dead pheasants were purchased by the aviary.

But the city government admitted that quarantine measures in a big city are more complicated than those in rural areas where poultry farms are concentrated.

``It's almost impossible for us to close a certain area or road as we do in a rural areas,'' a city official said. ``But as Seoul has no poultry farms, we believe it is highly unlikely that the avian flu will spread further.''

The ministry said the confirmation of bird flu in Seoul brings the total number of outbreaks to 34 out of 60 reported since April 1.

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05-07-2008 18:01

Quarantine Quandary

Seoul Stunned by Double Blows from Cows and Birds

While the whole nation was gripped with the presumptive risk of mad cow disease, bird flu has emerged as a real danger.

Various signs show that avian influenza is becoming increasingly hard to contain. Unlike the previous two occurrences in 2003 and 2006, the latest strike of avian influenza has spread even to Seoul and in a surprisingly short period of a month or so. Before, the disease broke out in winter but disappeared when the weather got warmer. The current one, however, occurred in spring and is continuing through early summer. People used to link avian influenza to wild migrant birds in the past, but now urban resident birds like pigeons may have to be added to the list.

This notwithstanding, officials can hardly avoid blame for their laxity and incompetence. It was Saturday, five days after some birds died, that a district office in eastern Seoul sent them to a medical examiner, to have the cause of death confirmed. On Monday, Children's Day, half a million people visited a nearby zoo and spent time with animals, including birds.

The central government was a little better. The loose response by the agriculture ministry failed to block the outflow of some poultry from the affected areas in the initial stage. Seoul issued a national alarm only Wednesday.

This makes a poor comparison with the Japanese officials, who set off a state of emergency upon the news of the outbreak in a neighboring country. Japan has reportedly succeeded in the development of an inhalation-type preventive as well as an avian flu vaccine, called Tami flu, sufficient to treat 30 million people. Korea's can only treat 1.4 million people, way below the 10 million, or 20 percent of its population, as recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO).

In short, Seoul has a long way to go before properly dealing with this potential pandemic, from preventing to identifying and treating it. This is especially worrisome, as the WHO is warning against the increasing possibility of avian influenza infecting humans as well as the current bird flu sweeping the country has been confirmed as the highly contagious H5N1 strain.

A WHO official said Tuesday, ``If the governments fail to properly control the spread of virus through birds, the chance of human infection still remains and will grow further." Already, 382 people have contracted avian influenza throughout the world since 2003 and 241 have died.

Although it is hoped that no Koreans fell prey to the disease, the first victim of the bird flu may likely come from the poultry industry ― farmers of chickens and ducks or restaurant owners who sell them. Because of massive culling of affected flocks, the industry has already suffered losses of 240 billion won, which will likely rise.

Aside from quarantine efforts, the government needs to prop up the poultry business to prevent any further destruction of the production and distribution system.

Last but not least, it should go all out to dissolve unfounded fears among consumers, which are driving a number of poultry farmers and restaurants to near bankruptcy. Officials need to step up public campaigns directed at the dangers of contact with affected birds, not their consumption, as infection is killed when poultry is cooked at 75 degrees Celsius or higher.

Looking at how the government has handled this problem so far, however, all these orders appear to be too tall.
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Authorities Issue Bird Flu Alert to Seoul Hospitals
Wednesday, May 7, 2008 17:50:22

The nation's health authorities have issued an emergency alert to all medical institutions in Seoul over avian influenza.

The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday it's told all hospitals and clinics in Seoul to report any patient showing symptoms similar to those of human bird flu, including high fever, coughs and sore throat.

In particular, the center asked medical institutions to pay special attention to those who have had contact with chickens, ducks, pheasants and turkeys that had been kept at a facility in Gwangjin-gu, eastern Seoul. Also on the watchlist are people with symptoms who'd visited the nearby Children's Grand Park.

The measures came after health authorities confirmed a bird flu outbreak in the heart of the heavily populated capital.

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Suspected bird flu cases reported in Seoul

SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- Local health officials said Wednesday that nine people have been examined after reporting symptoms similar to those of human bird flu.

Health inspectors from Gwangjin ward in eastern Seoul said these people were sent to a local clinic for initial examinations after reporting suffering from coughs, shivers and fever, but stressed that none have been classified as suspected bird flu patients.

"If doctors judge there is a chance that people may have been been infected, they plan to conduct blood serum tests to check for possible infection," Mo Hyun-hee, a health worker said. The expert said that besides these people there have been sporadic telephone reports of people complaining of fever after the bird flu outbreak was confirmed Tuesday, but none of these people have actually come to clinics or visited the ward office.

Other officials said quarantine and decontamination efforts have been stepped up in the ward to prevent any spread of the bird flu.
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<Emergency diagnostic> AI nationwide spread of 'emergency'
Seoul Grand Park, 221 poultry 'Children's Day' salcheobun neukjang advised visitors to the possibility of infection
[2008-5-7 game Ilbo]

Avian Influenza (AI) has spread nationwide health authorities chobisangin AI is proactive in Seoul Grand Park in Gwacheon, ducks and chickens in poultry salcheobunhamyeonseodo 221 visitors to conceal the fact that such claims are exposed to water.

Seoul Grand Park in Gwacheon, the Seoul district office buildings Gwangjin AI's premises in farm animals, killing four of dead chickens and ducks to make sure that that day from 7:00 pm until midnight on 17 kinds of Seoul Grand Park in the 221 breeds of poultry from the daegongwon sogakjang Incineration.

The 157 salcheobundoen 14 kinds of poultry are chickens, 32 ducks two kinds, one kind of goose reportedly mariin 32.
AI did not occur in the city of Seoul daegongwon Gwangjin outbreak of AI in the councils of the most vulnerable poultry hwakindwae precaution to salcheobunhaetdago AI said.
That afternoon, said National sikke daegongwon 9, but the science geomyeokwon Prior to the official announcement from 7:00 pm salcheobune went in, he added.
But day after day, 4:00 p.m. daegongwon said 30 children who died in a poultry farm animals Gwangjin district office building is a high possibility gobyeongwonseongil 'H5' AI virus was confirmed in remarks to the news and visitors engaged, do not tell you.
Moreover, some of the visitors are sent off to the side daegongwon without vehicles and motorcycles, even though the zoo to watch and using them to move poultry salcheobunhan measures to protect visitors found to be pointed out that being turned away.

1,000 of 40,007 at Seoul Grand Park in Gwacheon, visitors were seen, 3 to 5 million visitors this holiday three days Seoul Grand Park is found, 12 were confirmed.

In particular, the Children's Day holiday belongs to the child's immune system is weak, even though they found a lot of publicity about the possibility of AI infection did not place at all, salcheobun 6, the day after the front gate every daegongwon to buy poultry because of bird flu balsodokgwa that the temporary closure of the signposts As well have installed properly for the possibility that poultry raised salcheobungwa AI has not been made public, revealing.

The daegongwon said, "AI occurred in the Pyongtaek area daegongwon July 16, the zoo's birds and shut down all measures, including disinfection of the zoo daily to determine whether the outbreak of AI," "AI daegongwon from the disease in poultry breeding and Visitors who did not notice it because it does not, "he said.

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Residents seek check-ups after Seoul's first bird flu case
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A soldier taken to hospital last month was found not to have the disease.

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'I Do' AI fears that the country should be reported immediately, whenever I'm? flu symptoms
Input: May 7, 2008 18:06:36
Avian Influenza (AI) dakchyeotda fear the sight of reality. AI was first confirmed in Seoul gobyeongwonseong public anxiety and confusion as I fell.

Health authorities have seven days in all medical institutions in the Seoul area to watch alert AI naerimyeo emergency post-trial began. The authorities, however, insufficient to cope with AI already due to unprotected exposure to AI infection have been concerns here and throughout the civil unrest in tteoleotda. AI AI infection has occurred, especially areas Gwangjin worried about the health center patients are rushing Consultation checkup.

The emergency headquarters for Disease Control = ◇ watch alert was a little AI symptoms such as fever and cough inhutong shown symptoms similar to health authorities immediately when the patient is found in the report that all medical institutions to notify the Seoul area. Fever patients, especially among farm animals in cheongnae gobyeongwonseong Gwangjin gireudeon AI occurred at a nearby chicken kkwongeun children as well as a variety of bird breeding daegongwon in contact with such symptoms, patients should take extra caution when observing the AI doubt that he could quickly report said.

The health authorities have already choginjanghan AI control is out of range may be possible to judge the situation is serious. After verification measures, right before the past five days AI salcheobun daegongwon to 50 million children all day, the visitors took the bird with a jerk yeolryeotgi taking photos of the event.

Since that day ◇ neodonado Public Health and Health Center = Gwangjin installed minwonsil 'AI Consultation suspected patients' medical inquiries have led to the residents of the consultation. High fever and cold symptoms, and appealed to residents to receive a phone call about 30 people to 10 people dalhaetgo visitor directly to the health center. These consultations will focus on targeting Gwangjin fought possibility of AI infection primarily a result both have identified common colds, and the patient 'AI suspected patients' showed up, he said that this is not.

Mohyeonhui Chapter of the Public Health "Consultation 'suspected patients' report is received, but residents still did not appear suspicious cases". "Scan serum from the current residents do not have one," he said.

Ward also AI-related civil Gwangjin Comprehensive Situation Room for hundreds of incoming telephone from the previous day without rest, a new bottleneck. The residents received a checkup from a health center next to the phrase AI patients with serum tests if the suspect planned to investigate whether the infection do it.

◇ on the fire dropped to the foot of the previous day = Gwangjin bansanghoe to gaechoehae urgent 'actions and measures on avian influenza occurring' manbu Instructions have been deployed to 15 additional defenses in the day to hurry up and then trying hard to prevent the spread of AI wrote. The emergency meeting Tuesday morning to open the phrase yugwangigwan AI AI to find the cause of pollutant postmark Ward house and surrounding roads, such as natural hakseupjang core area within a radius of 100m for the day, decided to conduct two defenses. The area is within a radius of 500m times a day, in addition to the premises once a week for a global anti-epidemic work plans, respectively.

Along with the Gwangjin district office in the 450m away from the birds to salcheobunhagi ilgamho Konkuk University for a Wednesday afternoon between 5:00 and firefighting personnel and equipment to take action by mobilizing a broad lake beolyeotjiman failed to take a deep depths. 119 Marines and other rescue teams from the afternoon on the 7th and support to take it decided to resume operations. The format is a wild duck in Gwangjin ilgamho through the feces of infected AI is also a possibility to trace the path reported. Another phrase in 55 chickens in a nearby school and kindergarten through elementary school boards around the salcheobunhago Seongdong also conduct intensive crackdown decided to sell chickens.

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'Children daegongwon 500,000 people' measures are not
Input: May 7, 2008 18:05:42

Impossible to rely only on the visitor tracking and reporting?

Avian influenza occurred in the city (AI) plan is insufficient for the government's response was revealed.

Because of this nature, Seoul, Gwangjin Ward AI hakseupjang occurred in the last five days yihuin crowd of 500,000 people found that children daegongwon truth was revealed, but a Food and Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Seoul has systematically failed in a countersuit.

According to Seoul Metropolitan Government and seven days to find children daegongwon citizens AI doubt if there is a symptom of a nearby health center and report to urge the level of publicity daechaekman. AI 1.2 ㎞ occurred just outside off Gwangjin fruits and vegetables that are not found to Seoul Grand Park gave up and even make a list of 500,000 people.

Department of Food and Agriculture, forestry and fisheries, especially the National Science last October geomyeokwon emergency action guidelines prepared by the AI to raise poultry on a farm AI has occurred in the middle of the city just in case one of the measures jeonmuhan AI teams.

In downtown Seoul, 25 health centers in China, according to AI-known fact that occur after "AI think flu is not" one after another, including calls for AI. Gwangjin occurred in the nearby health center, as well as AI Gangdong Jungnang is at stake, Seongdong Health Center also calls coming.

The Seoul city government and control over passage of vehicles daegongwon children twice a day to conduct defenses. And inevitably the wheel of the vehicle entrances and visitors to clean their shoes and focusing on infection prevention.

Meanwhile, Incheon and Gyeonggi Province, Seoul and adjacent to the health center also went to Seoul Grand Park residents for their calls and instructions on how to counsel sent down.

Yuseongbo gyeongtaeyoung reporters gimgibeom

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Contact only safe to eat infected birds learn?
Input: May 7, 2008 18:05:19

Avian Influenza (AI) has spread all over the country for being amplified questions about AI. Infection concrete path, as well as the symptoms of human infection of whether chomi attention is being paid. Overseas experts "continue to enlarge the risk of being infected with the human body" is introduced to the analysis.

◇ direct contact with infected birds = AI is an acute infectious disease of poultry such as chickens and ducks, turkey mainly viral disease that appears. Direct contact or through contact with infected feces, and the infection does not include air. According to the AP on the 6th World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva to organise an international conference held in AI-related supamit chunsutiwat, "said Dr. birds infected with the virus infecting humans if not properly controlled dangerous expected to expand further," he warned. . WHO is "382 people were infected worldwide since 2003, killing 241 of them," he said.

◇ AI = AI avoid infection and flu infected at least 38 similarly high fever and cough, shortness of breath and other symptoms appear. Until now people are infected with AI yanggyeeop workers, including those who frequent contact with chickens and ducks. However, no cases of infected poultry to meokeoseo. And people who were not among the reported cases omeun.

The AI virus is more than five minutes in more than 75 degrees when he died due to heat up enough to learn to eat the duck dalyina is no chance of infection. Should not eat raw meat of ducks and chickens naldalgyalyina poultry dung touched on the possibility of avoiding contact the sparrows and pigeons best thing to do.

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Seoul 'AI suspected patients' reported five people do bitbal calls?

Avian Influenza (AI) hwaksandoen until the middle of Seoul, Seoul on the morning of October 7 [?] AI currently has five suspected cases occurred, according to a survey.

According to the Gwangjin suspected AI patients in the last six minwonsil Consultation on Public Health was established residents to receive their results reported symptoms such as fever and colds appeal has been received, five were reported.

Accordingly, these phrases from the health center to treat patients with suspect cases conducted after the AI serum testing, plans to investigate whether the infection.

Gwangjin health center official said, " 'but then I went to daegongwon children are getting a cold, AI in it' a lot of inquiries," "describes the symptoms and signs are detected, at least I still recommend a thorough examination Inspections There is no case received, "he said.

Along with this is to prevent the spread of AI Gwangjin for pursuing the various anti-epidemic measures. AI breeding chickens that were found within a 500m radius hakseupjang cheongsanae natural areas three times a day for survival or to conduct cleaning and disinfection, and a radius of 500m outside the premises throughout the day for a one-time cleaning plans could survive.

Meanwhile, local medical institutions for Disease Control headquarters in Seoul AI emergency occurs, patients suspected of giving watch alert health authorities to report immediately if they need advice.

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Seoul shuts park, probes open market for avian flu



Stars and Stripes Korea bureau
Pacific edition, Thursday, May 8, 2008



SEOUL ? Seoul officials have closed a children?s park and are investigating an open-air market after four birds were discovered to have been contaminated with avian flu, according to South Korean news reports.
South Korean officials have struggled to contain outbreaks at poultry farms in recent weeks. Nearly 4 million poultry and 30 million eggs have been destroyed.
It?s the first time avian flu has reached Seoul, according to a Korea Times report, and authorities closed Children?s Grand Park, about a half-mile from where the birds died.
Migrating water fowl typically spread the disease to domestic chickens, ducks and other fowl. Birds carry the virus in their saliva and feces, spread it easily to each other and die rapidly, usually within 48 hours of contracting the disease.
U.S. military medical officials have said that anyone who has been around dead or live birds, or someone with avian flu, should visit a doctor.
Symptoms of bird flu include fever, cough, sore throat, muscle aches, eye infections, trouble breathing or expanding lungs, and pneumonia.

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