H5N2 in Portugal

[Gert van der Hoek]

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Publication: 14-09-2007 00:09 | Last update: 14-09-2007 07:18

H5N2 in Portugal

Variant of the grippe of the birds detected in two explorations in the Ribatejo

Two avícolas explorations of production of ducks, located in Vila Nova da Barquinha and Tomar, had been sequestradas and the abated animals, after the detention of virus H5N2 of the grippe of the birds, announced this thursday the Ministry of Agriculture.

Direcção-Generality de Veterinária, tutored person for the Ministry of Agriculture, You fish and Forests, you advance, in official notice, that the National Institute of Biological Resources - National Laboratory of Inquiry Veterinary medicine detected, in these two explorations of production of destined ducks the repovoamento of cinegetic species, the existence of “positive results of genoma of the virus of the aviária grippe of subtype H5N2 of low pathogenicity”.

These results had been gotten in the analyses the materials harvested in these two explorations, in the scope of shares of routine of the Plan of Monitoring of the Aviária Grippe.

Direcção-Generality de Veterinária still advances that the explorations had been citizens the sequestration, having been determined “abates it and destruction, under official supervision, of the staff of both the explorations”.

Source of Ministry of Agriculture clarified that it deals with explorations to outdoors, for what it is impossible to determine the number of ducks that integrate them, but explained that the birds that if to find in the local one go being abated.

Still quilómetro around the explorations was established a zone of restriction with the one ray.

Five explorations under monitoring

In this perimeter five avícolas explorations of production exist, that, in accordance with Direcção-Generality de Veterinária, “are citizens the measures of sanitary monitoring, serológico control and restriction of movement”.

The duration of these measures depends, advances the official notice, of the analysis epidemiologist of the gotten results.

According to communicated, the viruses of the aviária grippe of low pathogenicity circulate frequent enter the birds of free life, nominated the aquatic ones, “for what the measures now implemented aim at the fulfilment of the communitarian and national legislation in the direction to prevent the propagation of the virus in the avícolas species, nominated to the production birds”.

The lineage of virus H5N2 can highly be pathological for the birds, but the scientists consider that she cannot suffer so fast mutations as the variant from the H5N1.

http://sic.sapo.pt/online/noticias/vida/20070913+Gripe+das+Aves+em+Portugal.htm

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: H5N2 in Portugal

Earlyer this year there was an H5N2 outbreak in Italy and in South Africa if I remember well.

This outbreak looks like the outbreak in Italy: wild ducks can mingle with the free roaming ducks.

Edit: in Italy it was H5N1.

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: H5N2 in Portugal

Recent H5N2 in the USA:

Epidemiology

Source of infection Unknown or inconclusive

Epidemiological comments

• The LPAI detection event in Pendleton County, West Virginia was limited to one premises.
• All surveillance and epidemiology investigation activities have been completed.

Outbreak Summary:

• Sub-clinical LPAI H5N2 outbreak was confirmed on 31 March 2007.
• The West Virginia Department of Agriculture, in a joint effort with Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Industry officials, National Animal Health Laboratory Network (NAHLN) laboratory officials, and Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) officials, implemented State and industry response and containment plans.
• In West Virginia, in the 5 county-surrounding region, 343 farms and 904 poultry houses were tested at least twice. All commercial poultry farms in the 5 county area were included in the intensive surveillance activities. Commercial poultry farms are now in a scaled-down surveillance programme.
• Surveillance for backyard poultry within the six-mile radius of the index farm began on 5 April 2007 and was completed on 7 April 2007.
• All test results from samples obtained from both backyard and commercial poultry were negative.
• On 18 May 2007, the Pendleton County premises was officially determined to have been cleaned and disinfected, in accordance with State and APHIS guidelines.

• The LPAI H5N2 event is considered closed.

http://www.oie.int/wahid-prod/public.php?page=single_report&pop=1&reportid=5515

news story: http://wowktv.com/story.cfm?func=vie...&storyid=22125

[Gert van der Hoek]

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Regarding Italy:

Last years outbreak was LP H5N1 and recently:

Italy says Russian ban on poultry is ungrounded // 22 Aug 2007


Russia has placed a ban on poultry imports from Italy to prevent the spread of bird flu after an outbreaks in the EU member state. Italy says the ban impact was negligible.

This ban covers Italian imports of live poultry, eggs and all poultry products, as well as used equipment for keeping, slaughtering and processing poultry.

According to Italian Agriculture minister Paolo De Castro, Russia's ban on poultry imports from Italy is ungrounded. "Our poultry control is one of the strictest in Europe, and poultry deliveries to the domestic and foreign markets come exclusively from healthy birds," said the minister.

An outbreak of low pathogenic bird flu strain H5N2 and antibodies to the H7 strain had been detected in northern Italy, near Ravenna, earlier this month during regular bird flu checks on farms.

All affected birds (10,000-12,000 ducks and geese on an industrial farm and about 200 chicken and guinea-fowls on a small farm) have been culled and bird movements' monitoring had been tightened in 10-km areas around the farms.

http://www.worldpoultry.net/news/id2205-27522/italy_says_russian_ban_on_poultry_is_ungrounded.html

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: H5N2 in Portugal

Bird Flu: animals are outdoors

2007/09/14 |

Responsible they say that it can have had contact with migratory birds

The two explorations of ducks where cases of grippe of the birds, of lineage H5N2 had been detected, allow the free contact with migratory birds, since the animals are created to the outdoors, said a forest guard.

“Age dispatches by post food and all came to eat, were the ducks or other birds”, affirmed Manuel Dos Santos, a keep-forest one of the zone, that the company knows Brave Hunting since that it was created.

These ducks are created for the replacement of hunting in associative zones and therefore the sanitary control is faster, since the birds fly easily over the prohibitions and can cover quilómetros until other zones.

“But later they come back because they know that here it has food”, it affirmed the keep-forest one, considering that these animals if find in state half-savage.

The legislation for this type of explorations compels that the feeding is placed in covered spaces, what minimizes the contact with migratory birds, but does not eliminate the risk total.

According to source of the Division Veterinary medicine To take, this company fulfills the legislation in vigor.

In the six lagoons of the two explorations, located in the limit of Vila Nova da Barquinha and Tomar, great concentrations of animals are visible.

As the “migratory birds fly for where they want”, the contact with the ducks of these explorations is frequent, added this responsible one.

The two explorations, that already had been of the greaters of the Europe, but that now they count on only 90 a thousand animals, are the only ones of the zone that creates birds to the outdoors.

However, in the sequência of the first prohibitive proclamations due to grippe of the birds, the company collected the ducks for a covered space, diminishing the global cash.

After more flexible norms only to exist are that the company opened of new the creation to the outdoors, even because the type of animals if it destined the hunting.

In redor of the two explorations sets of ten of military of the GNR with a perimeter of one security meet quilómetro, forbidding any road circulation in the roads.

However, for Maria Amélia de Sousa, who lives to few quilómetros of the explorations, this perimeter is useless since it is normal to see “ducks to walk outside” of the sequestrados places.

To the end of the morning, a meeting of the intervention division had beginning veterinary medicine To take with commission agents of health, veterinarians and elements of the hierarchy to define the strategies of abate of the animals.

The announcement of the detention of virus H5N2 in the two explorations was made in the thursday night, for the Ministry of the Agriculture, that informed to be about “positive results of genoma of the virus of the aviária grippe of subtype H5N2 of low pathogenicity”.

These results had been gotten in the analyses the materials harvested in these two explorations, in the scope of shares of routine of the Plan of Monitoring of the Aviária Grippe.

Direcção-Generality de Veterinária still advanced that the explorations had been citizens the sequestration, having been determined “abates it and destruction, under official supervision, of the staff of both the explorations”.

http://www.portugaldiario.iol.pt/noticia.php?id=854125&div_id=291

[FrenchieGirl]

Re: H5N2 in Portugal

The Portuguese ducks will be culled - article dated 15 September 2007
Source (in Spanish): http://actualidad.terra.es/sociedad/...n2_1852534.htm
Translated with Google translate

Ducks of hunting destined to Spain sacrifice affected by virus H5N2

Near 25,000 ducks for hunting that were destined to Spain they will be sacrificed today after virus H5N2 of the bird influenza in two farms in the central region of Portugal detected itself.

According to a source of the ministry of Agriculture, altogether 90,000 ducks of the Brave Caza company will be sacrificed about, affected by this virus, although the sanitary authorities lusas informed into which he himself is not transmissible to the people.

The two farms where the ducks grow up find near the localities of Tomar and Vila Nova gives Barquiña, in the central region of Portugal.

After sacrificing them, the birds will be incinerated and the buried rest, according to a spokesman of the Main directorate of Veterinary medicine.

All the ducks already had been sold to diverse Spanish associations of hunters, at the cost of 7.5 euros by unit.

[FrenchieGirl]

Re: H5N2 in Portugal

It looks like it's going to be a logitic nightmare to catch 90.000 freerange ducks...

Source (in Portuguese): http://sic.sapo.pt/online/noticias/v...a+de+patos.htm
Translated with Google, article dated 17 September 2007

Ducks of forty days in one of the two explorations with close to 90 a thousand ducks that had been sequestrados due to detention of cases of ?Grippe of Birds? H5N2 in Taking and New Village of the Small boat
Publication: 17-09-2007 17:15 | Last update: 17-09-2007 18:16
New slaughter of ducks

Abated 25,600 birds in the end-of-week due the H5N2

A new abates of ducks becomes fullfilled this monday in the greater of the two sequestradas explorations, after the call for feeding, but ?many doubts exist? that if arrive at the announced number of 90.000 abated birds, said this monday source that folloies the process.

Infografias
Grippe of the Birds: migratory routes
Focos of infection and the regions in riscoA Grippe of the Birds

The illness and the perigos for the human beings This end-of-week had been abated 25,600 ducks in one of the two explorations sequestradas in the past 12 day after the detention of cases of virus H5N2 of the avi?ria grippe, advanced the same source.

When emphasizing the difficulties of one abate of this type, where the birds walk to the untied one, with trend movements to be moved away when they feel ?are of the normal one?, the source advanced that the capture of the birds if goes to draw out throughout the week, being been to be equated to leave the pateira biggest ?at rest? and to pass to the other.

?We have the advantage of being a situation of low risk?, said.

In the first one it abates, carried through friday to the end of the day, had been deceased 2,800 birds, having others 15,000 been abated Saturday and more 7,800 in the sunday.

The sequestradas explorations, one of them with about 200 hectares (the pateira greater of the Europe) belong to the company Brave Hunting and are placed in the concelhos To take and Village New of the Small boat, about one hundred meters of distance one of the other.

The birds, that they are to be abated with resource the solid Co2, that allows the adormecimento before being deceased, ?to prevent suffering to the animals?, are to be placed in bags, in which whitewash is put, and later embedded in ditches opened in the exploration, it said the source.

Embedded birds

In contrast of what initially it was divulged, the birds are not to be incineradas, only embedded together with whitewash, a time that the perigosidade degree is not raised, added.

The source advanced that the process is to be led by responsible by the accompaniment of the avi?ria grippe in the structure of Direc??o-Generality de Veterin?ria in the Ribatejo the North.

Compensated damages

As it said, all the abated birds are to be entered, of form the one that the proprietor can duly be repaid of the damages.

The company Brave Hunting dedicates the production to it of ducks for hunting reserves and, according to proprietor, 80 percent of the 90,000 birds of the two explorations were vendidas the Spanish associations of hunters for 7,5 euros each, for what its abates will represent a damage of 675 a thousand euros.

In accordance with the contingency plan, protected from the communitarian norms, the proprietor will be indemnizado through deep communitarian.

A norm of 16 of April of this year compels to it abates of all the animals of the explorations where they are detected variant of the avi?ria grippe, what until then he was not obligator.

It abates is writ of prevention

The variant now detected is not harmful it human being, for what it abates it if must the writs of prevention in the picture of the combat to the ?Grippe of the Birds? in the European Union.

The presence of the virus was detected in the analyses the materials harvested in these two explorations, in the scope of shares of routine of the Plan of Monitoring of the Avi?ria Grippe.

[HenryN]

H5N2 in Portugal

Immediate notification report

Report reference: 1/2007, Ref OIE: 6218, Report Date: 18/09/2007 , Country: Portugal

Report Summary

Disease

Low pathogenic avian influenza (poultry) Animal type Terrestrial

Causal Agent

Low pathogenic avian influenza virus Serotype(s) H5N2

Clinical Signs

No Reason First occurrence of a listed disease

Date of confirmation of Event

12/09/2007 Date of Start of Event 12/09/2007

Date of report

18/09/2007 Date Submitted To OIE 18/09/2007

Diagnosis

Laboratory (basic) Number of reported outbreaks Submitted= 1, Draft= 0

Name of Sender of the report

Dra Sofia Quintans Address Largo Academia das Belas Artes, 2 1249-105 LISBONNE

Position Telephone

00351213239772

Fax Email

squintans@dgv.min-agricultura.pt

Entered by

Dra Sofia Quintans

Outbreak (this report - submitted) ( 1/2007 )

Divis?o de Interven??o Veterin?ria Unit Type Location Latitude Longitude Start End

RIBATEJO NORTE Farm Tomar 39,5124 -8,4426 12/09/2007

Species Measuring units Susceptible Cases Deaths Destroyed Slaughtered

Birds Animals 68255 ... 0 ... 0

Affected Population

game birds (free-range ducks).
A main holding in Tomar and an annex in Vila Nova da Barquinha with 22,110 birds (Lat 39,50/Long -8,45).

Outbreak summary: Total outbreaks = 1 (Submitted)

Species Susceptible Cases Deaths Destroyed Slaughtered

Birds 68255 0 0

Epidemiology

Epidemiological comments

The flocks were sampled under the National Surveillance Plan for Avian Influenza 2007.
Stamping out procedures are ongoing in both flocks (provisional date of stamping out conclusion: 23 September 2007). Until 17 September 2007, 35,376 ducks were killed.

Source of Infection

? Unknown or inconclusive
Printed on: Tue Sep 18 17:05:31 Paris, Madrid (heure d'?t?) 2007 Page 1/3

Control Measures

? Movement control inside the country

Applied

? Screening
? Stamping out
? Zoning

To be applied

? Disinfection of infected premises/establishment(s)

Animals treated

No

Vaccination Prohibited

Yes

Country / Zone

Country or zone

a zone or compartment

Diagnostic test results

Laboratory Type Name of Laboratory Species Test Type Date Results Provided Result

National laboratory LABORAT?RIO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGA??O VETERIN?RIA Birds reverse transcription ? polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) 12/09/2007 Positive

Future Reporting

What further reports will be submitted in relation to this event?

There are 1outbreaks that are still recorded as unresolved. It is not possible to declare this event resolved until these individual outbreaks are resolved.
Immediate notification report. Report reference: 1/2007, Ref OIE: 6218, Report Date: 18/09/2007 , Country: Portugal

Printed on: Tue Sep 18 17:05:31 Paris, Madrid (heure d'?t?) 2007 Page 2/3

http://www.oie.int/wahid-prod/reports/en_imm_0000006218_20070918_170530.pdf