Ukraine, Over 1,500 dead birds found on Azov sea island - Not H5N1

[Giuseppe]

Ukraine, Over 1,500 dead birds found on Azov sea island


[Source: RIA/Novosti, View Original Article. 10/23/10.]

Around 1,500 dead birds have been found on Ukraine's Bolshoi Dzendzik Island near the Berdyansk spit on the Azov Sea, the Ukrainian emergencies ministry said on Saturday.
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[Giuseppe]

Re: Ukraine, Over 1,500 dead birds found on Azov sea island

1,500 birds found dead in Ukraine


[Source: Thaindian, View Original Article. 10/23/10.]

Kiev, Oct 23 (IANS/RIA Novosti) About 1,500 birds have been found dead on an Ukraine island, authorities said Saturday. Most of the birds were cormorants, but a large number of herring gulls were also found on Ukraine?s Bolshoi Dzendzik Island, the emergencies ministry said. Specialists from the local veterinary office have taken samples for laboratory testing to [...]
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[AlaskaDenise]

Re: Ukraine, Over 1,500 dead birds found on Azov sea island

Paper on H5N1/2007 on birds in the Azov Sea area:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18450104

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[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Ukraine, Over 1,500 dead birds found on Azov sea island

Veterinarians found the cause of mass deaths of birds in the Sea of Azov

Berdyansk, October 24. Veterinarians denied rumors that the cause of mass mortality of gulls and cormorants in the Azov Sea has bird flu.

According to the press service of the Veterinary Service of Berdyansk, cause of death for more than fifteen hundred birds established. This is how transfers website "News", a fungal disease aspergillosis.

"He is prone youngsters, who have a weak immune system", - noted in the veterinary services of the city.

Read more:

http://www.rosbalt.ru/2010/10/24/783...B0%D0%BB%D1%82)


Fungus has caused mass mortality of sea gulls and cormorants on the Azov

Veterinarians denied rumors that the cause of mass mortality of gulls and cormorants in the Azov Sea has bird flu. "The cause of death of over fifteen hundred birds found - a fungal disease aspergillosis. He is prone to youngsters, who have a weak immune system" - the press service of the Veterinary Service of Berdyansk.

Last Saturday on the island of Grand Dzendzik was discovered massive plague of cormorants and herring gull. Ministry of Emergency Situations and veterinary services have collected the dead birds from the coast, took and burned.

Selected materials tested at a local clinic and in the center of Azov national park, and also sent for further analysis to the central veterinary laboratory in Kiev. New cases of mass plague other animals and birds in the area of the Azov Sea environmentalists are not confirmed.

http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=402010

[Giuseppe]

Re: Ukraine, Over 1,500 dead birds found on Azov sea island - Not H5N1

Ukraine, Unexplained die-off, wild birds, Highly Pathogenich Avian Influenza A(H5N1), negative (10/26/10, extracts, edited)


[Source: FAO/Empres, full page: (LINK). Extracts, edited.]

Ukraine, Unexplained die-off, wild birds, Highly Pathogenich Avian Influenza A(H5N1), negative

Disease Event Detail

• General Info
  • Disease Event ID 157031
  • Reporting date 24/10/2010
  • Observation date 24/10/2010

• Location
  • Region Europe
  • Admin 1 (Country) Krym (Ukraine)
  • Locality Bolshoi Dzendzik Island
  • Lat/Long 45.1 / 36.45
  • Coords quality Centroid Locality

• Diagnosis
  • Status Denied
  • Disease Highly pathogenic avian influenza
  • Serotype H5N1
  • Source Media

• Species affected
  • An.Type / An.Class / Species / Deaths
    • Wild / Birds / cormorant / ...
    • Wild / Birds / gull / ...
    • Wild / Birds / unspecified bird / 1500

• Laboratory Tests
  • Disease Tested Highly pathogenic avian influenza
  • Species cormorant,unspecified bird
  • Result Negative

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