Bird Flu (H5N?) reported in Nogales, Mexico

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I am not sure of the reliability of this news source, but thought I'd post it just in case:

Enviado por An?nimo em Qua, 03/22/2006 - 17:53. R?dio Livre
Ciudad de Mexico - M?xico confirmed today its first case of avian flu in a duck found dead in the heart of Nogales, near the US border.

Mexican officials said it was not yet clear if the wild bird, found on Monday, was infected with the H5N1 strain of the virus which can infect humans.

?We have a first case of bird flu. It?s H5,? Federal Veterinary Office spokeswoman Margarita Cruz said.

A sample has been sent to a European reference laboratory in Britain to test for the H5N1 strain and results are expected by the end of the week, she said.

The country this month ordered all poultry be kept indoors for an indefinite period to lessen the risk from the fast-spreading H5N1 virus that has killed millions of birds.

It remains difficult for humans to catch but the strain has killed more than 90 people worldwide since late 2003.

So far most human victims of the virus have had direct or indirect contact with infected birds but there are fears the virus will mutate into a strain easily passed among people, causing a pandemic in which millions could die.

Little human risk
The Mexican Federal Veterinary Office said that in addition to the Nogales case.

http://www.radiolivre.org/node/2116

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Mexico ministry denies bird flu found at US border

Mexico ministry denies bird flu found at US border
Thu Mar 23, 2006 11:09 AM ET

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's agriculture ministry denied rumors in U.S. commodities markets on Thursday that a case of H5N1 bird flu had been found near the U.S. border.

"We are free of highly-pathogenic bird flu," Jose Angel del Valle, the ministry's animal health director, told Reuters.

U.S. grain prices were lower early on Thursday amid talk of the deadly bird flu in neighboring Mexico, but livestock markets -- which stand to benefit -- were treating it as a hoax, traders said.

The rumors apparently began on a Brazilian web site which reported that a duck found dead in the town of Nogales, near Arizona, had died of bird flu.

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsAr...archived=False

[DB]

Re: Bird Flu (H5N?) reported in Nogales, Mexico

It is most likely not a hoax.

Bird Flu is all over the United States. Just a matter of reporting the truth.

[sara.smiles]

Re: Bird Flu (H5N?) reported in Nogales, Mexico

Mexico ministry denies bird flu case on US border
1 hour, 9 minutes ago

Mexico's agriculture ministry denied rumors in U.S. commodities markets on Thursday that a case of H5N1 bird flu had been found near the U.S. border.

"We are free of highly pathogenic bird flu," Jose Angel del Valle, the ministry's animal health director, told Reuters.

U.S. grain prices were lower early on Thursday amid talk of the deadly bird flu in neighboring Mexico, but livestock markets -- which stand to benefit -- were treating it as a hoax, traders said.

The rumors apparently began on a Brazilian Web site, which reported that a duck found dead in the town of Nogales, near Arizona, had died of bird flu.

The Western Hemisphere so far has had no confirmed cases of the deadly version of bird flu, which has killed more than 100 people in seven countries: Turkey, Iraq, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, China and Cambodia.

Mexican authorities killed some 300 birds after detecting low pathogenic bird flu on homesteads in the southern state of Chiapas last December.

Del Valle said the agriculture ministry had a strict system of monitoring chicken farms and that other government bodies were closely watching wild bird populations for any sign of the virus.


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[myredchinablues]

Re: Bird Flu (H5N?) reported in Nogales, Mexico

It is most likely not a hoax.

Bird Flu is all over the United States. Just a matter of reporting the truth.

I agree. Too much smoke, and same ole, same ole story.

[Sally Furniss]

Re: Bird Flu (H5N?) reported in Nogales, Mexico

MEXICO CITY ? Mexico's Agriculture Department on Thursday denied rumors that a case of high-pathogenic avian flu had been found in a town on the U.S. border. ?Mexico is totally free of bird flu,? Jose Angel del Valle, the department's head of animal health, said in a telephone interview.
A supposed news item posted on the Web site radiolivre.org on Wednesday said there had been a case of H5 bird flu in a duck found dead in the town of Nogales, on the U.S. border.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said earlier Thursday that the report was a complete hoax, but the rumor affected Chicago Board of Trade grain prices overnight Wednesday.
Last year, Mexico reported several isolated cases of low-pathogenic bird flu, which doesn't affect humans. The most recent case was in the southern state of Chiapas, near the Guatemalan border.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/20060323-1127-mexico-birdflu.html

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Re: Bird Flu (H5N?) reported in Nogales, Mexico

MEXICO CITY – Mexico's Agriculture Department on Thursday denied rumors that a case of high-pathogenic avian flu had been found in a town on the U.S. border. “Mexico is totally free of bird flu,” Jose Angel del Valle, the department's head of animal health, said in a telephone interview.
A supposed news item posted on the Web site radiolivre.org on Wednesday said there had been a case of H5 bird flu in a duck found dead in the town of Nogales, on the U.S. border.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said earlier Thursday that the report was a complete hoax, but the rumor affected Chicago Board of Trade grain prices overnight Wednesday.
Last year, Mexico reported several isolated cases of low-pathogenic bird flu, which doesn't affect humans. The most recent case was in the southern state of Chiapas, near the Guatemalan border.




http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/m...o-birdflu.html

Actually Southeastern Mexico announced Low Pathogenic Bird Flu in January so the statement about them being totally free from Bird Flu is a bunch of hooey. (Hooey is a bad thing).

[Mellie]

Re: Bird Flu (H5N?) reported in Nogales, Mexico

(Hooey is a bad thing).

Cracks up!