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Bird flu (H5N1) in Norfolk Confirmed, November 12 +

Re: Bird flu (H5N1) in Norfolk Confirmed, November 12 +

Last Modified: 14 Nov 2007
Source: ITN


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</a--><!--googleon: index--><!--/c:if-->The decision was made after the four sites were identified as having "dangerous contact" with the infected farm at Redgrave, Suffolk.
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</a--><!--googleon: index--><!--/c:if-->The Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said the birds had been assessed as being at risk of exposure to the highly pathogenic virus as a result of the movement of people from the initial case but no disease had been detected at the new sites
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</a--><!--googleon: index--><!--/c:if-->The operations director of Redgrave Poultry, Geoffrey Buchanan, confirmed that all four new cull sites were run by the company.
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</a--><!--googleon: index--><!--/c:if-->They are Stone House Farm in West Harling, Norfolk; Bridge Farm in Pulham, Norfolk; Grove Farm in Botesdale, Suffolk; and Hill Meadow in Knetishall, Suffolk.
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</a--><!--googleon: index--><!--/c:if-->The 22,000 free range turkeys will be killed in addition to the 6,500 already destroyed at Redgrave Park farm.
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</a--><!--googleon: index--><!--/c:if-->Mr Buchanan said: "There is a direct link between Redgrave Park and these four other farms as they share the same farming staff.
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</a--><!--googleon: index--><!--/c:if-->"Each farm is too small for a dedicated staff, so a small team of people runs this cluster of farms.
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</a--><!--googleon: index--><!--/c:if-->"Despite biosecurity measures when entering and leaving the farms and the fact that there are no results to indicate the presence of avian influenza at these farms, Defra has decided that there is a possibility of a direct link.
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</a--><!--googleon: index--><!--/c:if-->"While naturally saddened to see so many birds culled, we fully agree that the primary concern has to be the containment of the outbreak."

<A href="http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/uk/bird+flu+22000+turkeys+to+be+culled/1047857">http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/uk/bird+flu+22000+turkeys+to+be+culled/1047857

Locations of culling

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?f=q&...52.423779,1.001129&spn=0.188008,0.727158&z=11
 
Re: Bird flu (H5N1) in Norfolk Confirmed, November 12 +

snip from Guardian:

Reports that Gressingham Foods, based in Woodbridge, Suffolk, had been buying in poults, or day old chicks, from the Czech Republic - where there had been H5N1 outbreak earlier this year - were also being investigated.

"There is no indication yet that this is the case. We will be investigating imports and possible movements," said Landeg.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/birdflu/story/0,,2210517,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront

Similarly, we do not import turkey poults and the feed is produced in the UK. All of our poults are from hatcheries in the UK.

http://www.farminguk.com/index.asp?show=newsArticle&id=4784&country=
 
Re: Bird flu (H5N1) in Norfolk Confirmed, November 12 +

Dutch duckling imports are at centre of bird flu inquiry

Valerie Elliott, Countryside Editor

Imports of day-old ducklings from the Netherlands are now being investigated as a possible route for the H5N1 avian flu virus arriving in Britain.

The Times has learnt that Gressingham Foods received regular supplies of ducklings delivered by a Dutch exporter. The focus of inquiries is on the vehicle and driver, whether there are any links with previous outbreaks of the virus in mainland Europe and whether there was any opportunity for the disease to be spread through the Gressingham company via vehicles, equipment or staff.

The strain of virus in Suffolk is almost identical to one that infected ducks on a farm outside Munich in southern Germany in September. The same virus was also seen in outbreaks in the Czech Republic in August.

Ducks have shown no symptoms of disease in Suffolk but some can act as carriers without showing symptoms. Blood samples are being taken to see if they could have transmitted the virus to turkeys.

Imports of speciality poultry meats by Gressingham Foods are also part of the official inquiry. This meat is frequently processed or packed at the company’s plant less than 750 yards from Redgrave Park Farm, near Diss, which is at the centre of the alert.

Gressingham regularly imports guinea fowl, poussin, barbary duck breasts and legs and smoked duck breast.

An audit trail is being conducted to see whether any imported meat came from European farms near recent outbreaks of bird flu.

The virus can live in poultry faeces which can be transferred by vehicles, drivers, farm staff, bird crates, packaging, feathers or live birds. It can travel on footwear and on tyres. The virus in faeces can survive for several weeks, depending on conditions such as temperature and humidity.

A cull of 5,000 turkeys, 1,200 ducks and 500 geese is still under way at Redgrave Park Farm and a further 22,000 turkeys on four other farms in the area are to be slaughtered as “dangerous contacts”.

The four new premises are Stone House Farm in West Harling and Bridge Farm, Pulham, both in Norfolk, Grove Farm, in Botesdale, and Hill Meadow, in Knettishall, both in Suffolk. No disease has been identified in these birds but there is concern about possible spread of the virus by five poultry workers who operated between these five premises, all run by Gressingham.

In East Anglia, 25 million turkeys are farmed. Many are for export but more than three million are destined for the £400 million domestic Christmas market. Many are breeding birds.

An air exclusion order has been made above the infected farms to prevent broadcast companies hiring helicopters to film the scene.

Fred Landeg, the Government’s acting chief veterinary officer, was concerned that helicopters would delay the cull and spread the disease.

Britain’s emergency stockpile of flu drugs must be doubled or even tripled to give the country the best chance of containing a pandemic, the Government’s own scientific advisory panel has recommended.

The supply of 14.6 million doses of the antiviral drug Tamiflu, enough for a quarter of the population, is too small to ensure that the maximum number of lives would be saved, an official report has concluded.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article2872793.ece
 
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A: The farm is free-range and its owners did not import feed from abroad. That suggests the virus was brought to Britain by a migratory bird. Similarities to a strain that caused outbreaks in eastern Bohemia and Germany this summer suggest the bird came from there.
Q: Is H5N1 now endemic in Britain?
<!--MPU BLOCKED BY PAGECLASS-->A: If a migratory bird was responsible then wild British birds may already be infected. Some scientists now believe the disease is endemic in the wild bird population. Each outbreak also increases the chance of the virus mutating into a form that can be spread between humans.
Q: Will there be enough turkeys for Christmas?
East Anglia supplies a third of home-grown turkeys but most of them cannot now be moved. If there are further outbreaks near Redgrave Park Farm the movement restrictions will stay in place and farmers are running out of time to get their birds to the shops. It is predicted an organic turkey for Christmas dinner could cost more than ?100.
Q: What is the effect on the farming industry?
A: It is yet another disaster. There are 90 poultry farmers keeping four million turkeys, chickens, ducks and geese within six miles (10km) of the outbreak which must be kept locked up. Another 25 million birds within a wider restriction zone covering Suffolk and much of Norfolk cannot be moved outside the zone until further notice.
Q: How will turkey farmers cope?
A: The outbreak happened at the worst possible moment for turkey farmers as they prepared for the annual Christmas rush. Those within the restricted zone are now watching their flocks for signs of disease while those outside the zone fear consumer confidence and sales will dive.
Q: Is biosecurity to blame?
A: The free-range birds at the infected farm had not been kept away from wild birds on a nearby lake. Government vets are also investigating whether proper disinfection procedures were used by workers who moved between the infected farm and two other holdings nearby.
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Re: Bird flu (H5N1) in Norfolk Confirmed, November 12 +

Commentary

Phylogenetic Analysis of H5N1 in Suffolk England

Recombinomics Commentary
November 14, 2007

The origins of the recent H5N1 outbreak in Suffolk, England has attracted considerable interest. The outbreak provides additional evidence for the involvement of wild birds in the spread of H5N1 in Europe. The affected population is free-range turkeys which mingle with wild birds on a large ornamental lake on the farm. The recently released OIE report describes the death of 200 turkeys prior to the start of the ongoing cull, indicating the infections were recent since most of the birds died three days ago. The farm has not introduced birds in the past four weeks, further implicating the wild birds that intermingle with the domestic poultry.

However, the most compelling data comes from the sequences of isolates from the farm. Officials from the Department from Environment Food and Rural Affairs have indicated that the H5N1 is most closely related to clade 2.2 isolates from summer outbreaks in wild birds in the Czech Republic and Germany. The German sequences have been described by reports from the Friederich-Loefler Institute. These reports indicate the German isolates are most closely related to isolates from Tyva/Mongolia, which were collected from wild birds (grebes and whooper swans) dying in a massive H5N1 outbreak in the spring of 2006. Although these isolates are part of a larger group that includes isolates from Afghanistan, which is part of a larger group that includes isolates from Russia, Azerbaijan, India, Italy, Iran, the Tyva/Mongolia isolates are clustered on a distinct branch of hemagglutinin or neuraminidase (NA) phylogenetic trees.


As noted earlier, a recent isolate from Krasnodar also maps to the Tyva/Mongolis branch, and that isolate also has NA G743A, although this polymorphism was not present in the 2006 isolates from Tyva/Mongolia, or any of the more distantly related isolates from 2006.


The presence of the Tyva/Mongolia clade 2.2 sub-clade in the turkeys in England therefore adds addition support implicating wild birds in the spread of H5N1 in Europe because the vast majority of isolates in this group were from wild birds in Russia, Mongolia, Germany, and the Czech Republic.



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Re: Bird flu (H5N1) in Norfolk Confirmed, November 12 +

Rumours are flying like wildfowl as cull restarts



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There was as yet no sign of the highly pathogenic avian influenza strain H5N1 among the flocks. Instead these birds had been condemned by the movements of a handful of workers between the farms and Redgrave Park Farm, the site of the original outbreak.

Fred Landeg, the acting chief veterinary officer, described the cull as a precautionary measure. Nevertheless, in villages on the Norfolk-Suffolk border the news provoked disquiet.

?If other farms are involved it?s very worrying,? said a farmer based just outside Redgrave, who did not wish to be named. ?Christmas is a huge market round here and if we can?t move the birds, how are we going to get them to the table? They need to be slaughtered a week before Christmas at the latest.?

<!--#include file="m63-article-related-attachements.html"-->Rumours were running through the villages. The farmer said he?d heard that all the chickens born on Tuesday at a large commercial hatchery were gassed after news broke of the outbreak of H5N1. The hatchery denied this.

While officials sought the source of the outbreak, locals in the White Hart pub reached their own conclusions. ?It?s all the wild birds that come here,? said David Bryan, 64, a retired builder from Redgrave.

Local ornithologists leapt to the wild birds? defence. Paul Stancliffe, from the British Trust for Ornithology, which has its headquarters nearby in Thetford, said it could not be the wigeons because ?they have been here since September?, and the swans on the lake appeared to be of British origin.

Smallholders were watching their flocks nervously. Jenny Francis, a retired school teacher, had lately designed a Christmas card based on three of her husband?s beloved flock of geese, standing barely visible in the snow. The message inside was: ?Now you see us, now you don?t.? ?It seems rather unfortunate now,? she said.

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...ornithologists .......said it could not be the wigeons because ?they have been here since September...
They obviously aren't aware of the time lag during which LPAI converts to HPAI.:rolleyes:

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Re: Bird flu (H5N1) in Norfolk Confirmed, November 12 +

Bird flu suspicion falls on Dutch duck imports

By Valerie Elliott in Suffolk

Thursday November 15 2007

IMPORTS of day-old Dutch ducklings are being investigated as the source of the H5N1 avian flu virus in Britain where a bird cull was extended to four more farms yesterday.


After confirmation that the virus responsible for killing at least 60 turkeys on Redgrave Park Farm was the deadly H5N1 strain, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said that the additional culls would be carried out as a precautionary measure.

Gressingham Foods in Suffolk received regular supplies of ducklings from a Dutch exporter.

The focus of inquiries is on the vehicle and driver, whether there are any links with previous outbreaks of the virus and whether there was any opportunity for the disease to spread through the Gressingham company via vehicles, equipment or staff.

Ducks have shown no symptoms of disease in Suffolk but some can act as carriers without showing symptoms.

Blood samples are being taken to see if they could have transmitted the virus to turkeys.

Imports of speciality poultry meats by Gressingham Foods are also part of the official inquiry.

This meat is frequently processed or packed at the company's plant less than 750 yards from Redgrave Park Farm, near Diss, which is at the centre of the alert.

The virus can live in poultry faeces which can be transferred by vehicles, drivers, farm staff, bird crates, packaging, feathers or live birds.

A cull of 5,000 turkeys, 1,200 ducks and 500 geese is still under way at Redgrave Park Farm and a further 22,000 turkeys on four other farms in the area are to be slaughtered as "dangerous contacts".

The four new premises are Stone House Farm in West Harling and Bridge Farm, Pulham, both in Norfolk; Grove Farm in Botesdale and Hill Meadow in Knettishall, both in Suffolk.

No disease has been identified in these birds but there is concern about possible spread of the virus by five poultry workers who operated between these five premises, all run by Gressingham.

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/bird-flu-suspicion-falls-on-dutch-duck-imports-1219427.html
 
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Dutch ducks checked for bird flu

15 November 2007

LONDON ? A Dutch transport of day-old duck chicks has been stopped and is being investigated because the truck may have brought bird flu to a farm in eastern England.

The Dutch transport company reportedly made regular shipments to the farm in Suffolk, the British newspaper The Times reports on Thursday.

The investigation focuses primarily on the truck and the driver of the transport. Authorities suspect there may have been some connection with the bird flu outbreaks in Germany and the Czech republic. The same dangerous strain of the flu ? H5N1 ? was found in these countries and at the farm in Suffolk.

Thousands of turkeys have been culled at the farm near the town of Diss and a security zone has been set up around the location.


The H5N1 strain of the virus has claimed more than 200 human lives worldwide since 2003, especially in Asia. Millions of animals have died of the disease or culled as a precaution.

http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=1&story_id=45984
 
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More culls as precaution over disease

MICHAEL POLLITT, EDP RURAL AFFAIRS EDITOR

15 November 2007 08:23

By MICHAEL POLLITT

Rural affairs editor

Turkey flocks at three farms in Norfolk will be culled later today as a precaution to prevent the possible spread of the deadly H5N1 bird flu from the Suffolk centre of infection.

Defra's acting chief vet, Dr Fred Landeg, said that 22,000 free-range turkeys on three farms and another flock close to Park Farm, Redgrave - where the disease was found on Sunday - will be slaughtered.

The four flocks were deemed as ?dangerous contacts? because staff running the free-range organic farm could have been exposed to the highly-pathogenic strain of bird flu.

While birds have shown no signs of disease, Defra will cull flocks at Stone House Farm, West Harling; Bridge Farm, Pulham Market; Hill Meadow, Knettishall and Grove Farm, Botesdale.

Geoffrey Buchanan, operations director of Gressingham Foods' subsidiary, Redgrave Poultry, said: ?There is a direct link between Redgrave Park farm and these four other farms as they share the same farming staff.?

?Despite biosecurity measures when entering and leaving the farms and the fact that there are no results to indicate the presence of avian influenza at these farms, Defra has decided that there is a possibility of a direct link,? he added.

This follows the cull of 6,500 turkeys, ducks and geese at Park Farm, where the firm's own vet raised the alarm when 60 turkeys in a flock of 1,000 were found dead. Defra's Animal Health officials took samples and bird flu was confirmed on Monday and identified as H5N1 the next day.

Mr Buchanan, who runs the Woodbridge-based poultry firm with his brother, William, said: ?While naturally saddened to see so many birds culled, we fully agree that the primary concern has to be the containment of the outbreak.?

The free-range flocks at Redgrave had been reared in grass paddocks during the day and housed at night to reduce contact with wild birds on a nearby lake. All feed and water was provided indoors to discourage wild birds and the 5,000 turkeys were kept from the lake by electric fencing, empty ground and a farm road.

The last H5N1 outbreak in February, which saw 159,000 birds culled at the Bernard Matthews' turkey farm at Holton, near Halesworth, was blamed on wild birds but Defra later concluded that imported meat from Hungary was the most likely source of infection.

Mr Buchanan said that no turkey poults were imported and all were produced from hatcheries in the UK.

And the Pekin ducks were all hatched and reared in Britain, he added.

Pamela Forbes, regional director of the National Farmers' Union, said: ?Poultry farming is a major contributor to the region's economy and everything must be done to protect it and the 15,000 jobs that depend on it.?

East Anglia has more than 900 poultry farms, producing about 2.2 million eggs every day and a quarter of England's table chicken.

The Food Standards Agency says there are no risks from eating poultry meat and eggs provided they are cooked properly.

As the EDP reported yesterday, there are 4.01 million poultry within a six-mile radius of the Redgrave farm. A further 25 million are in the wider restricted area.

Dr Landeg has said the disease in the latest outbreak is closely related to one found in birds in the Czech Republic and Germany in the summer but that officials were keeping an open mind about the possible spread.

Heather Peck, Defra's regional operations director, said that sampling had been carried out on the first of the four farms ahead of the cull expected to start today.

http://new.edp24.co.uk/content/News...gory=news&itemid=NOED15 Nov 2007 08:24:14:680
 
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Has anyone read any aritlces about any plans to test the wild birds in the lake?

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Re: Bird flu (H5N1) in Norfolk Confirmed, November 12 +

Has anyone read any aritlces about any plans to test the wild birds in the lake?

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"A full epidemiological investigation into the source of the outbreak is underway."

http://www.defra.gov.uk/news/2007/071114b.htm

Did not read about sampling the birds, however this "full investigation" should include all possible sources, including the wild birds in the pond.(If there were any, ed). We will possibly hear the testresults.

Edit: the thing about wild birds is: they come and go. Could well be all the birds in the pond are gone. You cannot test a wild bird which left a week ago...

Edit 2: Fears have been raised that turkeys at the farm may have become infected with the disease after being allowed to mingle with wild birds that gather at an ornamental lake which is part of the infected farm premises. However, Mr Nelson said that he understood the birds at the lake were not migratory and stayed at the location all year round.

http://new.edp24.co.uk/content/News...gory=news&itemid=NOED15 Nov 2007 08:44:27:500

So we should expect to hear testresults from swaps of these birds?
 
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Laboratory where deadly bird flu samples tested is safe say officials
By Peter Truman
http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/...ested_is_safe_say_officials.php#comments_form
Samples of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu are being tested in Weybridge, but officials have assured the public are safe.

Following the latest outbreak of bird flu in Suffolk, samples from culled animals are being transported to the Veterinary Laboratories Agency building in Weybridge.

But the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has played down fears of a leak like that seen with foot and mouth disease in Pirbright, Surrey.

A spokesperson for Defra said: "The birds on the infected premises are being culled on the site under strict biosecurity conditions, and samples from them are then taken to the Veterinary Laboratories Agency in Weybridge.

"The carcasses will be transported in securely covered, leakproof vehicles and each load will be escorted at all times."

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H5N1 spread already to other farm?

Turkeys Slaughtered At Second Farm

Thursday November 15, 2007

Vets who fear the deadly bird flu virus has spread have begun a second slaughter of turkeys at a farm in Suffolk.

Some 30 dead birds were found at Grove Farm, which is one of the farms closest to Sunday's H5N1 outbreak.

More turkeys are being culledThere are around 5,500 turkeys at the farm, where tests are currently being carried out for the H5N1 strain.

If results prove positive, a 3km protection zone and 10km surveillance zone will be placed around the premises.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1292970,00.html?f=rss
 
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Second farm suspected of H5N1 infection

News | 15 November, 2007

By Jack Davies

DEFRA has confirmed that birds have been slaughtered on suspicion of infection at one of the farms identified yesterday (Wednesday) as a ?dangerous contact? for bird flu.

Four farms close to the infected premises were identified as dangerous contacts and all birds were already being slaughtered.

But the farm closest to the infected premises is now suspected of H5N1 infection, opening up the possibility that the virus has spread beyond the initial outbreak.

Tests are currently underway to determine if birds on the second premises are in fact infected, and results of these will be confirmed later today.

http://www.farmersguardian.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=14374
 
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H5N1 spread already to other farm?

Turkeys Slaughtered At Second Farm

Thursday November 15, 2007

Vets who fear the deadly bird flu virus has spread have begun a second slaughter of turkeys at a farm in Suffolk.

Some 30 dead birds were found at Grove Farm, which is one of the farms closest to Sunday's H5N1 outbreak.

More turkeys are being culledThere are around 5,500 turkeys at the farm, where tests are currently being carried out for the H5N1 strain.

If results prove positive, a 3km protection zone and 10km surveillance zone will be placed around the premises.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1292970,00.html?f=rss

The Grove Farm is also adjacent to the lake

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=U...296685271.00043ee5a39d1c6a88577&t=h&z=11&om=1
 
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