India: Nagaland H5N1 in Poultry and Wild Birds

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There also have been incidents in the State in which people have sought to slaughter wild birds believing them to carriers of the bird flu virus.

Ignorance!!

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http://www.recombinomics.com/News/12..._Nagaland.html

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H5N1 Migration To Nagaland India
Recombinomics Commentary 13:04
December 19, 2008


Official sources said besides poultry, wild birds like crows, doves, bulbuls, owls and kites were reportedly found dead in the jungles of Karbi Anglong district bordering Nagaland. Unofficial reports said some poultry and birds were found dead inside Nagaland.

The above comments strongly suggest H5N1 has migrated to Nagaland (see updated map). Nagaland has issued alerts based on suspected H5N1 outbreaks in adjacent Assam, but the above comments cite the death of multiple wild bird species in association with poultry deaths.

Although H5N1 has not yet been confirmed in Karbi Anglong, multiple outbreaks of unnatural poultry deaths have been cited, and Bhopal has requested additional samples.

Yesterday Bhopal confirmed H5N1 in dead crows in the city of Guwahati, where extensive culling is ongoing. Similarly, last season Bangladesh confirmed H5N1 in crows in multiple cities and this season hundreds of dead crows have been reported in association with the confirmed H5N1 in Malda, West Bengal.

Yesterday?s confirmation of H5N1 in crows was the first wild bird confirmation by India, but other countries have published H5N1 sequences from wild birds, including crows, since 2003.

Failures to detected H5N1 in wild birds is frequently linked to testing procedures which target cloacal swabs from live birds or test a limited number of dead birds after samples have degraded. The H5N1 assays are designed for dead or dying poultry, when multiple fresh samples are available.

The reports of dead wild birds in the jungles of Karbi Anglong in Assam suggest more outbreaks will be linked to further migration to the south, and wild bird alert levels have been raised across northern India.


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Re: India: Nagaland H5N1 in Poultry and Wild Birds

Commentary

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/12220805/H5N1_WB_Assam_Nagaland.html