Cambodia - H5N1 confirmed - District of Ponhea Kreakin

[Snowy Owl]

Local media reports bird flu may not yet be contained in Cambodia

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Phnom Penh - Two siblings of Cambodia's seventh human bird-flu fatality victim who had initially reported symptoms were improving, but the sudden deaths of chickens in a neighbouring province raised new concerns, local media reported Sunday.

Rasmei Kampuchea newspaper quoted local health officials as saying two children aged 8 and 11, believed to be siblings of a 13-year-old girl who died of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza, had earlier been feared to contracted the disease but now appeared to be improving.

The dead school girl, named by local hospital staff as Cheat Nha Phany, had tended her family's small flock of chickens in the Ponhea Kret district of eastern Kampong Cham province, according to local residents.

Rasmei quoted local officials as saying that several were under observation in the area surrounding Phany's home, and that 68 ducks and nearly 300 chickens had died in the vicinity before and after the girl fell ill last Monday.

Health Ministry official Ly Sovann told Radio Free Asia that authorities were investigating reports of mass deaths of chickens in neighbouring Kratie Province.

Phany was the first confirmed human death from the disease since April 2006.

 

[Marcheurderue]

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Babelfish & personnal translation of http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21713


Vis-a-vis with the threat of virus H5N1, the authorities invite to change the Grippe practices aviary: the authorities carry out selective cullings with Kompong Cham

One week after the death of a teenager contaminated by the aviary flu virus, the seventh human case in Kampuchea, the authorities carried out the culling of a hundred poultries in its village, in the province of Kompong Cham.
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The analyses of the samples taken on poultries of the district of Ponhea Kreak, province of Kompong Cham, confirmed the presence of virus H5N1, according to the director of the department of animal production and health of the ministry for Agriculture Kao Phal.

Since the advertisement of the contamination by the aviary influenza of a teenager in a village of this district, deceased Phnom Penh on April 5, the authorities had still carried out no culling. The respite granted to the birds will have been of short duration. Once the results of the known tests, the authorities carried out the systematic culling of any poultry in a radius of 3 kilometers around the identified hearth is, accordingto Kao Phal, a hundred heads.

A medical cordon was reinforced in a perimeter of 10 km around the village, zone in which the veterinary services carry out disinfections, supervise the health of the animals of farmyard and prohibit any exchange of poultries and avicolous products.

According to Kao Phal, the investigation veterinary surgeon made it possible to establish that, on 425 chickens and ducks raised in the village, more than 200 died since March 30.

The authorities however waited to know the results of the analyses before ordering preventive cullings as it was the case at the time of discovered preceding hearths of aviary influenza in Kampuchea.

"We wanted to be sure of these results, explained Kao Phal. For cutting down the poultries, it is necessary to explain to the villagers the consequences of the aviary influenza. We asked them to think so that new human losses compared to the animal losses would represent.

The effectiveness of measurements depends on the comprehension of the inhabitants ", it justified.

Until now, no compensation is envisaged. According to the director of the department of animal production and health, this new hearth of aviary influenza would not have been caused by the importation of contaminated animals.

"It is possible that the virus was introduced by wild birds. It is worrying, because these birds can be carrying the virus without having the symptoms of them.

And they are likely to contaminate the animals of farmyard ", it underlined.

Parallel to measurements of culling, a walk of sensitizing to the risks related to the aviary influenza gathered 200 people in the district of Ponhea Kreak.

Identical steps were organized this week in the provinces of Kompong Thom, Kompong Speu, Battambang, Siem Reap, Kampot, Svay Rieng, Kompong Chhnang and Stung Treng. Duong Sokha
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[Snowy Owl]

Re: District of Ponhea Kreakin Cambodia - H5N1 confirmed

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Bird flu turns up in Cambodia

13 Apr 2007

http://www.worldpoultry.net/ts_wo/wo..._news_content/

Sen Sovann, deputy director of the animal health department of the Cambodian Ministry of Agriculture in Phnom Penh has reported the outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 in a chicken flock.


<SCRIPT type=text/javascript> ImageUtils.showImage("", "", 146, 146); </SCRIPT>The chickens were found ill on April 6 and H5N1 was confirmed on April 12. Bird flu was not reported in Cambodia since September 2006.

The outbreak was reported in the Cham area in a flock of 1,086 birds of which suddenly 300 birds died. The rest of the flock has been destroyed.

The stamping out procedure was undertaken on 11 April 2007. Surveillance in the villages around the outbreak is ongoing.

 

[AlaskaDenise]

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......."It is possible that the virus was introduced by wild birds. It is worrying, because these birds can be carrying the virus without having the symptoms of them.

And they are likely to contaminate the animals of farmyard ", it underlined. ..........


I'm glad to see they have this important detail.

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[AlaskaDenise]

Re: Cambodia - H5N1 confirmed - District of Ponhea Kreakin

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PHNOM PENH, April 14 (Xinhua) -- Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries has killed over 100 poultry in Ponhea Kreak district in Kampong Cham province, where a 13-year-old girl died of bird flu on April 5, local media said on Saturday.

The mass killing was conducted within a radius of three km around the death location of the girl, while an investigation was being carried out within a radius of 10 km in order to contain the possible spread of the disease, the Commercial Daily reported.

The action was taken, after the government found some poultry in the area was H5N1-positive, it quoted officials as saying.

So far, no other human being in the district were found H5N1-positive, it added.

Earlier this month, official resources confirmed that the girl's death was an isolated case.

The girl was the seventh victim of the epidemic for the kingdom. She was known to have prepared and eaten a sick chicken from near her house before her death. Kampong Cham borders Vietnam, where H5N1 has been re-surging in recent months.

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