India (incl. West Bengal) - Poultry (December 2008 -)

[HenryN]

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<TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=4 width="100&#37;"><TBODY><TR><TD class=articleheader>5000 birds dead in one week, claim villagers
- Blood samples of chickens sent to Bhopal for tests
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Malda, Dec. 14: Over 500 chickens have died since yesterday morning in Budhia village of Malda, even as the district administration has sent blood samples of dead birds to the High Security Animal Disease Laboratory in Bhopal for tests.

Hasnara Begum, the Narhatta gram panchayat member, said the chicken deaths have created panic among the villagers. “Over 5,000 birds died in Satghoria, Budhia, Sabji Para, Sadhya Para and adjoining areas during the past one week,” she said.

On Friday, residents of Satghoria had reported that at least 250 chickens had died.
District magistrate Sridhar Ghosh has convened an emergency meeting tomorrow to take stock of the situation.
“No one has reported to me about the mass death of chickens. I have, however, asked the animal resources department to file a report. We have also kept a watch over the situation so that no chickens or eggs from the affected areas are sold outside,” Ghosh said.
Journalists had shown the district magistrate the video clippings of dead chickens strewn over Budia village, 12km from here.
According to Ghosh, the department officials have collected blood samples from three dead chickens in Satghoria. “We are not yet sure about the cause of the death. We will come to know about it after blood test reports come from Bhopal.”
The reports from Bhopal are expected in two-three days, said Nikhil Sit, the deputy director of the animal resources department of the district.

Idani Bibi of Budhia said she had lost 110 chickens last night. “We have dumped them in a field half-a-kilometre away.” The Narhatta gram panchayat member, who lives in Budhia, said eight chickens died in her house today. “We suspect that the birds are dying because of flu. We have informed the block administration about this.”
In Budhia, the dead chickens included nearly 200 birds of a women-run self-help group, Bandhu. “The birds turn drowsy all of a sudden and die instantly, giving us no time to take them to vets,” Saifun Bibi, a member of the group, said.
The dead birds are being dumped in an open space and the stench is pervading the air. The dogs and cats are feasting on them. Many fear that the villagers may get affected.
Sit said his department did not have the figures of dead chickens. “Our team had visited Satghoria to collect blood samples but we are not aware of the deaths in Budhia.”

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http://www.telegraphindia.com/1081215/jsp/siliguri/story_10253312.jsp

[Shiloh]

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Source: http://www.expressindia.com/latest-n...-again/398601/

5,000 chicken die in Malda, fear of bird flu grips Bengal again

Kolkata Within a year, the fear of bird flu has returned to stalk West Bengal. The death of over 5,000 poultry in Narhatta under English Bazar police station area in Malda in the last few weeks has alarmed the authorities.

Teams from the state Health and Animal Husbandry departments have collected blood samples and sent them to High Security Disease Diagnostic Laboratory at Bhopal for tests. ?We are awaiting the results,? said Anisur Rehman, state Minister for Animal Resource Development (ARD). ?There is no cause for panic. We are doing the needful,? he added.

Learning from the past, when the state government had come under severe criticism for the delay in containing the spread of the virus, the administration is cautious this time. Moreover, the outbreak of the disease in neighbouring Assam has kept the administration on alert.

?We are yet to declare an outbreak since a confirmation is awaited, but as a precaution our teams are ready for an operation,? said Nikhil Kumar Sit, deputy director of Animal Husbandry in Malda. For the last four days, reports of abnormal death of a large number of poultry have started pouring in from the Narhatta Gram Panchayat area. ?I woke up on Saturday to find all my 110 birds dead. I do not know what happened to them,? said Edani Bibi, a resident of Narhata.

Meanwhile, the gram panchayat members have already written to the district administration regarding the situation. Husanara Begum, a member of the panchayat said, ?We have written to the district administration to take immediate steps. We are sure it is bird flu.?

In January this year, when bird flu broke out in Birbhum district and quickly spread to almost all districts of both north and south Bengal, over two lakh birds were culled in Malda alone.

Apart from initiating culling operations, the state government had ordered a blanket ban of the sale and movement of poultry in the affected districts. It was estimated that the state lost Rs 500 crore due to the outbreak of the disease.

[HenryN]

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Malda weather

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[HenryN]

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Commentary at

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/12150801/H5N1_Malda_Panic.html

[Gert van der Hoek]

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More chickens die, flu panic spreads in Malda

15 Dec 2008,

Malda: Fresh poultry deaths were reported from the Englishbazar area of Malda, sparking fears that it was a bird flu attack. But the district animal
resources department (ARD) refused to confirm the deaths.

At least 200 chickens reportedly died over the past 24 hours at Budhia village in the Englishbazar block. The district administration has already sent samples from the dead birds from Satgharia village - where birds had died on Saturday - to the Bhopal laboratory to check for the H5N1 virus.

A high-level meeting will be held on Monday to prepare for a possible avian influenza outbreak. However, even before a battle plan to tackle the possible viral attack has been chalked out, the number game is already on in full swing. The animal resources department did not confirm if chickens had actually died at Budhia . Deputy director of ARD N K **** said, "We have sent two birds from Satgharia tests, but our team has not got any report of abnormal bird death from elsewhere."

District magistrate Sridhar Ghosh said, "ARD has collected the samples of dead birds and sent these to Bhopal. We hope to get the report by Tuesday." He conceded that ADR was not being able to confirm if many birds had died. It was learnt that the additional district magistrate had himself visited the affected villages to confirm the deaths.

At Budhia, villagers like Bahadur Munshi, Firoz Sultan and Yakub Ali have reported the deaths of chickens in last 48 hours. Kayema Biwi claimed, "About 27 chickens have died in the last 24 hours." Gram panchayat member Hasnara herself is one of the worst sufferers , as she lost 22 birds overnight.

True to their claims, the villagers were seen burying dead birds, while remains of dead birds were scattered here and there. Hasnara said, "On Saturday, about 250 birds died, while at least 100 died in our panchayat area alone. I've informed the block officials repeatedly, but to no avail."

Although official confirmation is awaited, there is every chance it is a bird flu outbreak, said locals. ARD experts said that a place that had witnessed a bird flu outbreak had a high chance of seeing another viral attack in a year. Earlier this year, about 23,500 birds were culled in Englishbazar after a bird flu outbreak, while about 87,000 were culled in Chanchol subdivision.

On Saturday, Satgharia villagers had complained that 200-odd birds had died over the three previous days. Among other symptoms, villagers reported that the birds were becoming drowsy before dying . A villager said that the poultry-owners had first suspected it to be Ranikhet disease (Newcastle Disease,ed) , which attacks at the beginning of winter. But when reports of bird deaths started trickling in from other villages, they suspected it was bird flu.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Kolkata_/More_chickens_die_flu_panic_spreads_in_Malda_/articleshow/3837783.cms

[HenryN]

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KOLKATA - The death of nearly 5,000 chickens over the past week has sparked fears of another bird flu outbreak in India's West Bengal state, officials said on Monday.
The latest deaths come months after health authorities in the eastern state had to kill five million poultry to control the disease.
The chickens died in Budhia village in Malda district, about 200km north of the state capital Kolkata, said N.K. ****, the local director of animal resources development.
'Two blood samples of the dead poultry have been sent to laboratory to confirm the cause of the death,' he said.
'The report is likely to come in a day or two.' Early in 2008, bird flu spread to 14 of the 19 districts in West Bengal, which has a population of more than 80 million. However, no human case was reported. -- AFP

http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_314734.html

[HenryN]

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Tests prove bird flu in east India poultry-official

Mon Dec 15, 2008 7:43pm IST

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"The laboratory test in Bhopal has confirmed the presence of the H5N1 virus in the dead birds," Sridhar Ghosh, the senior official in West Bengal's Malda district where the outbreak was found, told Reuters. (Reporting by Sujoy Dhar, Editing by Dean Yates)

http://in.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idINSP42405320081215

[HenryN]

Re: West Bengal - Poultry (December 2008 -)

Commentary at

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/12150806/H5N1_Malda_Confirmed.html

[HenryN]

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UPDATE 1-Tests prove new bird flu cases in east India state

Mon Dec 15, 2008 8:11pm IST

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KOLKATA, India, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Laboratory tests have proven a new outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus in dead birds in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, a state government official said on Monday.
"The laboratory test in Bhopal has confirmed the presence of the H5N1 virus in the dead birds," Sridhar Ghosh, the senior official in West Bengal's Malda district, told Reuters.
Ghosh said the virus had been found in three dead birds tested in a laboratory in the central Indian city of Bhopal.
Indian authorities are already culling hundreds of thousands of birds in the northeastern state of Assam, where health authorities are also monitoring about 100 people who had shown signs of the virus.
Those patients in Assam's Guwahati, the main city in the region, were suffering from fever and respiratory infections, symptoms of the H5N1 bird flu virus in humans.
There have been no confirmed human cases of H5N1 among those patients being monitored.
Ghosh said state officials in West Bengal were told of the latest positive tests on Monday.
West Bengal officials said several hundred birds could have been found dead but disputed local media reports that as many as 5,000 birds were dead.
"We could start culling from tomorrow to contain the outbreak," Ghosh said by telephone from Malda, 350 km (220 miles) north of Kolkata.
Culling operations which began in Guwahati in Assam had been expanded to nearby Meghalaya state as a precaution, authorities said on Sunday.
While no human cases have been reported in India, experts fear the H5N1 virus might mutate or combine with the highly contagious seasonal influenza virus and spark a pandemic that could kill millions of people. (Reporting by Sujoy Dhar; Editing by Paul Tait and Dean Yates)

http://in.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idINSP42137920081215?rpc=401&=undefined&sp=true

[HenryN]

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Bird flu confirmed in eastern India

The Associated Press
Monday, December 15, 2008
CALCUTTA, India: The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been found in samples taken from dead chickens in eastern India, authorities said Monday.
It was the second outbreak of bird flu in India's West Bengal state and came as several thousand birds have been slaughtered in the neighboring state of Assam, where authorities have been battling an outbreak for several weeks.
Tests from samples taken from the village of Lorhata, some 220 miles (354 kilometers) northeast of Calcutta, the capital of West Bengal, showed the presence of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, said Sirthar Kumar Ghosh, a local official.
Ghosh said authorities would begin slaughtering birds Tuesday. Some 3,500 birds have died in Lorhata in recent days.
India has contained several previous outbreaks of the disease, including in West Bengal in January, when they slaughtered some 4 million birds.
No humans in India are known to have caught the disease, which has killed at least 246 people worldwide according to the World Health Organization. Bird flu remains difficult for humans to catch, but experts fear the virus might mutate into a new form that spreads easily among people, potentially sparking a pandemic.

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[HenryN]

Re: West Bengal - Poultry (December 2008 -)

Bird flu confirmed in eastern India

The Associated Press
Monday, December 15, 2008
CALCUTTA, India: The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been found in samples taken from dead chickens in eastern India, authorities said Monday.
It was the second outbreak of bird flu in India's West Bengal state and came as several thousand birds have been slaughtered in the neighboring state of Assam, where authorities have been battling an outbreak for several weeks.
Tests from samples taken from the village of Lorhata, some 220 miles (354 kilometers) northeast of Calcutta, the capital of West Bengal, showed the presence of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, said Sirthar Kumar Ghosh, a local official.
Ghosh said authorities would begin slaughtering birds Tuesday. Some 3,500 birds have died in Lorhata in recent days.
India has contained several previous outbreaks of the disease, including in West Bengal in January, when they slaughtered some 4 million birds.
No humans in India are known to have caught the disease, which has killed at least 246 people worldwide according to the World Health Organization. Bird flu remains difficult for humans to catch, but experts fear the virus might mutate into a new form that spreads easily among people, potentially sparking a pandemic.

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Lorhata is almost certainly Narhatta.

[Shiloh]

Re: West Bengal - Poultry (December 2008 -)

Source: http://in.reuters.com/article/domest...081215?sp=true

UPDATE 2-Tests prove new bird flu cases in east India state
Mon Dec 15, 2008 8:36pm IST

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KOLKATA, India, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Laboratory tests on dead birds have proven a new outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, a state government official said on Monday.

"The laboratory test in Bhopal has confirmed the presence of the H5N1 virus in the dead birds," Sridhar Ghosh, the senior official in West Bengal's Malda district, told Reuters.

Ghosh said the virus had been found in three dead birds tested in a laboratory in the central Indian city of Bhopal.

Indian authorities are already culling hundreds of thousands of birds in the northeastern state of Assam, where health authorities are also monitoring about 100 people who had shown signs of the virus.

Those patients in Assam's Guwahati, the main city in the region, were suffering from fever and respiratory infections, symptoms of the H5N1 bird flu virus in humans.

There have been no confirmed human cases of H5N1 among those patients being monitored nor at any other time in India.

But experts fear the H5N1 virus might mutate or combine with the highly contagious seasonal influenza virus and spark a pandemic that could kill millions of people.

Since the virus resurfaced in Asia in 2003, it has killed more than 200 people in a dozen countries, the World Health Organisation (WHO) says.

Ghosh said state officials in West Bengal were told of the latest positive tests on Monday.

West Bengal officials said several hundred birds could have been found dead but disputed local media reports that as many as 5,000 birds were dead.

"We could start culling from tomorrow to contain the outbreak," Ghosh said by telephone from Malda, 350 km (220 miles) north of Kolkata.

The WHO has described an outbreak of bird flu in communist-ruled West Bengal last January, when more than 4 million birds were culled, as the worst ever in India.

An outbreak of bird flu in poultry was also detected in Malda district in March, resulting in the culling of more than 50,000 birds. Authorities later said in May that the virus had been stamped out in the area.

Culling operations which began in Guwahati in Assam last month had been expanded to nearby Meghalaya state as a precaution, authorities said on Sunday.

(Additional reporting by Bappa Majumdar in NEW DELHI) (Writing by Paul Tait; Editing by Dean Yates)

[HenryN]

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Malda samples test positive for bird flu


15 December, 2008 10:06:09

Samples of birds from West Bengal's Malda district have tested positive for bird flu, according to District Magistrate Sreedhar Ghosh.

The authorities have also asked people to refrain from sale, purchase and eating of poultry products after over 1,000 chickens perished in five villages under Narhatta gram panchayat of Malda district on Monday.

Narhatta gram panchayat pradhan Bishan Chowdhury said 3,500 chickens died in five affected villages - Budhia-Kola, Anandipur, Nagrai, Sabjipara and Satgharia - in a week.

"Budhia-Kola is the worst affected with 1,500 birds dying today. Over 2,000 perished there since Saturday," Chowdhury told PTI.

Narhatta gram panchayat falls under Englishbazar block and the BDO concerned announced that no chicken should be sold or eaten in the affected area.

http://howrah.org/india_news/37057.html

[HenryN]

Re: West Bengal - Poultry (December 2008 -)

Fresh Bird Flu Fear In Eastern India - Official




KOLKATA, India (AFP)--The death of nearly 5,000 chickens over the past week has sparked fears of another bird flu outbreak in India's West Bengal state, officials said Monday.
The latest deaths come months after health authorities in the eastern state had to kill five million poultry to control the disease.
The chickens died in Budhia village in Malda district, about 200 kilometers ( 130 miles) north of the state capital Kolkata, said N.K. ****, the local director of animal resources development.
"Two blood samples of the dead poultry have been sent to laboratory to confirm the cause of the death," he said. "The report is likely to come in a day or two." Early in 2008, bird flu spread to 14 of the 19 districts in West Bengal, which has a population of more than 80 million. However, no human case was reported.

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[HenryN]

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No update yet at WHO site

http://www.searo.who.int/en/Section10/Section1027.htm

http://www.searo.who.int/en/Section10/Section1027/Section2095/Section2462_13929.asp

or India site

http://dahd.nic.in/birdflue.htm