Pakistan - Bird Flu in Poultry/Animals Jan 23 - February 16th

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No bird flu in interior Sindh

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</TD></TR><TR><TD>ISLAMABAD: No more case of H5N1 has been detected from any poultry farm of 18 districts of interior Sindh as confirmed by survey conducted by various teams constituted at each district level, provincial surveillance officer Dr Aslam Jalali said Saturday.

Talking to a TV channel he said bird flu had been reported only from two poultry farms of Karachi.He said although chicken was safe for cooking however half boiled eggs and half cooked chicken should be avoided as a preventive measure. Before cooking chicken hands should be thoroughly washed for 20 seconds with warm water. Utensils should also be washed with warm water, he added.
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http://thepost.com.pk/NatNews.aspx?dtlid=143817&catid=2

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No bird flu in Sheikhupura district: DCO

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</TD></TR><TR><TD>JANDIALA SHER KHAN: District Coordination Officer Sheikhupura Salman Ejaz has directed the departments concerned to adopt all-out measures to check the outbreak of bird flu in the district and has made it clear that negligence in this regard will not be tolerated.

He was chairing a meeting to review bird flu situation in the district. Among other the meting was attended by EDO( R) Usman Ahmed Chaudhry, DOR Javed Iqbal, EDO (Agri) Maqbool Randhawa and representatives of livestock , health and other departments. Briefing the participants the DO Livestock informed that the district was 100 percent free from bird flu and the department is fully prepared to meet any emergency.
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http://thepost.com.pk/NatNews.aspx?dtlid=143805&catid=2

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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="96%" align=center border=0><TBODY><TR bgColor=#f4faff><TD class=small_txt height=20>Crows did not die from bird flu?</TD></TR><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#efefef></TD></TR><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD class=small_txt>Sunday, February 10, 2008
By our correspondent

Karachi

Provincial Surveillance Officer on Avian Influenza, Dr Aslam Jalali, said that a special team of poultry research officers found only two dead crows, which was a ?normal thing?. He said these crows died of ?new castle disease? not of bird flu. He claimed the dead crows have nothing to do with the virus.

Dr Jalali said the farm owners tended to spread poisonous substance in order to kill rats. He added that the crows get infected with poisonous substance when they eat the dead rats, which is why crows are usually found dead near poultry farms.

He said that, last year also, dead crows were found and later the laboratory test confirmed that they died of a poisonous substance. Nonetheless, he said, surveillance of the area continued. http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=95611</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="96%" align=center border=0><TBODY><TR bgColor=#f4faff><TD class=small_txt height=20>Don?t quote me?</TD></TR><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#efefef></TD></TR><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD class=small_txt>Sunday, February 10, 2008
? ?Reports about the outbreak of some deadly disease are rumours. There?s no truth in them?

?Faisal, 25 year-old worker at a slaughter house believes all the hue and cry about bird flu is mere hogwash. http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=95625
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<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="96&#37;"><tbody><tr bgcolor="#f4faff"><td class="small_txt" height="20">CDA suggests measures to check bird flu spread</td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#efefef"></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="small_txt"> Monday, February 11, 2008
Islamabad

Following the threat of bird flu in the country, the Capital Development Authority (CDA) has stepped up its efforts to avert its spread in the federal capital and has launched an awareness campaign in this regard.

Dr Saeed Ahmad, Senior Directorate of Health Services (DHS) said that the directorate has taken strict immediate precautionary measures against the spread of this deadly virus of avian influenza and has also advised the people to take possible steps to avert the spread of the disease.

A comprehensive awareness campaign has also been launched for the public, especially for the people attached with the poultry business and proper guideline have been provided to them to avoid the spread and to combat the disease efficiently.

The DHS has also displayed banners at different locations inscribed with various precautionary steps one should take to avoid the menace of this disease.

The residents have been advised to keep eggs at temperature below five degree centigrade and not to purchase broken or rotten eggs, which can cause the transmission of disease into human body as well. The experts have also advised the people to use eggs after washing them with antiseptic liquid.

People should avoid touching pets directly without wearing gloves. Chickens looking apparently sick should not be consumed.

According to the experts, the chicken should be cooked above 80 degrees Centigrade. “If properly cooked, there is no danger of contracting bird flu from poultry,” said the CDA health expert.

The DHS has also undertaken spray with special ant-viral chemical on different locations across the federal capital, particularly meat and chicken shops. The shopkeepers and poultry businessmen have been advised to cover the eatable items with fly nets and put the meat inside the shops.

People keeping pets have also been advised to get their birds vaccinated properly. The people concerned with poultry, meat and hotels/motels have been advised for proper vaccination from the Vaccination Section (DHS).

http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=95806

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<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="96&#37;"><tbody><tr bgcolor="#f4faff"><td class="small_txt" height="20"> No positive bird flu case in Hyderabad</td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#efefef"></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="small_txt"> Wednesday, February 13, 2008
By our correspondent

HYDERABAD: District Coordination Officer (DCO) Aftab Ahmed Khatri has said Hyderabad is free from Avian Influenza (bird flu) and no positive case of this virus has been reported from the blood samples of poultry taken from all the registered poultry farms in the district.

He stated this while presiding over a meeting on adopting preventive measures to prevent Avian Influenza in the district on Tuesday.


Addressing the meeting, he said during the visits by the members of the Monitoring Committee and experts, all poultry flocks were found healthy and free of fatal diseases.

He said on the instructions of the District Nazim, during January 2008, 125 poultry farms had been inspected from where 429 samples were collected and sent to the National Reference Laboratory for Poultry Diseases, Islamabad, for analysis of Avian Influenza but all results were negative.

He said a committee would also ensure checking the health of workers of the poultry farms.

The DCO also directed the managements of all the poultry farms to strictly follow the vaccination programme and adoption of other preventive measures, including proper disposal of dead birds, if any, by burying in pits, protection of poultry farms from wild birds, use of masks, hand gloves, caps and goggles, avoid visitors in poultry farms and to ensure that poultry workers were not below 16 and above 60 years of age.

He said several schemes had been chalked out as part of an awareness programme regarding bird flu.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=96117

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<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="96%"><tbody><tr bgcolor="#f4faff"><td class="small_txt" height="20">Soaring meat prices start to bite</td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#efefef"></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="small_txt"> Wednesday, February 13, 2008
By Xari Jalil

Karachi

Even before the high prices of flour, edible oil and other essential commodities could be brought down, the prices of meat have begun to sky-rocket, thus becoming a grave cause for concern for the consumers.

At present, the current rate of mutton is between Rs250/kg to Rs270/kg, while beef is between Rs160/kg to Rs170/kg. The price of chicken has gone down by 10-15 rupees, since the outbreak of bird flu was reported. In fact, a high alert against the epidemic was declared a week ago. An earlier outbreak of bird flu occurred in 2006 followed by several cases in 2007 and those being reported these days.

The problem is that as far as meat is concerned, the consumers are not left with many choices. Whereas many of the people cannot even afford to eat meat every day, the ones who can have been limited to buying the least expensive of them all, that is mutton,. However, many people continue to buy chicken also, given the fact that the prices of chicken have gone down.

Still, there are many who have been badly affected by these prices.

?How can we eat meat, when on the other hand, the prices of everything, starting from atta to oil are rising so fast that we can?t even cope?? said Hameeda from Orangi Town.

Her sister agrees. ?I live in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, and my husband works as a government servant, but believe me he is unable to make ends meet,? she fumed.

At the same time, there are others who are in two boats about the bird flu virus. ?It?s confusing, you know? We don?t know what to do at the end of the day. We have to eat something and I regularly read the papers, so I know about the flu. But even then how can we survive with red meat being this expensive?? asked Athar Husain, a resident of Rizvia Society.

Ali Kazmi, from the same area said that he has cut down on all meat, but ?it is impossible to eat vegetables every day.?

?Aren?t we human? We also have the urge to eat different things sometimes,? he added.

Rameez Raza became angry as he complained about the mismanagement and inefficiency of the establishment. ?I used to think that this government would make a difference. But here we are in a condition 10 times worse than we were in before. At least in other regimes, the prices of essential commodities didn?t reach the skies. At least we could survive,? he said.

The establishment does not seem to have done much lately to bring back stability and order in the commodity market. While the consumers are suffering, it seems that the government at the federal, provincial and city levels is taking its own time to deal with the crisis.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=96140

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KARACHI, Feb 12: Naib Nazim Nasreen Jalil has said that the city government has enacted the sub-sections of the Poultry Bylaws, Regulations and Registration in Karachi.

A notification in this regard would be issued soon, she said while addressing an awareness programme on ?Bird flu and polio?, organised jointly by the provincial health department, the city government, the World Health Organisation, and Unicef at the KMC Building on Tuesday. Over 600 women councillors and city council members attended the programme.

Emphasising regular medical check-ups of children after every three months, Ms Jalil said anti-polio vaccination card of every child should be available at home.

She stressed the need for spreading awareness about bird flu and polio through women councillors. She also said that the stipend of women health workers be increased so that they could perform well.

Sindh Caretaker Minister for Health Fauzia Lari, who was chief guest on the occasion, said that the media should confirm a news item before releasing it.

?Now there is no threat of bird flu in the city,? she said, adding that the government had culled all birds of the two poultry farms in Gadap where the avian influenza virus was detected.

According to WHO?s representative Dr Khalif Balay, Karachi is affected from any disease or virus more than other cities owing to its mammoth population.

Sindh PDEPI representative Dr Salma Kausar said that no polio case has been registered this year in Karachi. The two patients detected with polio virus last year belonged to other cities. ?PPI http://www.dawn.com/2008/02/13/local4.htm

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Pakistan confirms new bird flu outbreak in NWFP

16 Feb 2008 12:11:15 GMT
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<!-- AN5.0 article title end --><script language="JavaScript" src="http://www.alertnet.org/bin/js/article.js"></script><input value="13" name="CurrentSize" id="CurrentSize" type="hidden"><!-- Pakistan confirms new bird flu outbreak in NWFP --><!-- Reuters --> ISLAMABAD, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities have detected an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in chickens in a part of the northwest where the country recently had its first human death from the virus, a government official said on Saturday.

The new outbreak was found in North West Frontier Province (NWFP), the official said. "Samples from a poultry farm sent to us from Abbottabad have tested positive for the virus," Food and Agriculture Ministry official Rafiq-ul-Usmani said, referring to a town in the province.

"We have already started culling at the farm." Several outbreaks of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza in poultry and other birds have been found in NWFP and the capital, Islamabad, since it was first detected in Pakistan in early 2006. Pakistan confirmed its first human death from the virus in an area near Abbottabad in December. Authorities confirmed two outbreaks at separate poultry farms in Pakistan's biggest city Karachi, in the south, early this month. Health authorities tested 12 workers from the farms for the H5N1 virus, but all of them proved negative. The president of the Pakistan Poultry Association, Abdul Basit, said the outbreaks had badly hit the industry, which he estimated was worth 200 billion rupees (around $3.2 billion). "The industry employs about 1.5 million people and losses in February alone are close to 4 billion rupees." Some Pakistanis have stopped eating chicken but the bird flu outbreaks have not caused general public alarm.
(Reporting by Augustine Anthony, editing by Tim Pearce)

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ISL15514.htm

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