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Czechs report bird flu (poultry, wild birds), June 27 +

Gert van der Hoek

Gert van der Hoek

In Memoriam - Editor, Senior Moderator
Czechs report bird flu in poultry at second farm

PRAGUE, June 27 (Reuters) - The Czech Agriculture Ministry reported a second outbreak of bird flu at a farm on Wednesday, about a week after tests confirmed the country's first case of a deadly form of the virus in poultry.

The Farm Ministry said the second farm was inside the surveillance zone just 4 km (2.5 miles) from a turkey farm where the lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu was found last week.

All 28,000 birds at the Norin farm, about 150 km (94 miles) east of capital Prague, as well as poultry bred by the local smallholders would be culled, the ministry said.

"Extraordinary veterinary measures will be extended immediately to prevent a further spread of the infection," said Farm Minister Petr Gandalovic.

Veterinary officials said tests were expected to confirm by Friday if the poultry at the second farm also contained the H5N1 avian flu virus that can be deadly to humans.

"Given that the second farm is just 4 km from the first one, it is highly likely that the outbreak of H5N1 would be confirmed there as well," said veterinary authority spokesman Josef Duben.

Russia and Ukraine have banned poultry imports from the Czech Republic after the confirmation of the highly infectious H5N1 strain of bird flu in the country.

Neighbouring Germany has identified nine cases of the lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu in wild birds.

Last year, some 13 European Union member states had confirmed cases of bird flu -- Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, Greece, Britain, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, France and Hungary.

Bird flu has been spreading across southeast Asia, killing two people in Vietnam this month, the first deaths there since 2005.

Globally, the H5N1 virus has killed nearly 200 people out of over 300 known cases, according to the World Health Organisation. None of the victims were from Europe.

http://wap.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L27247199.htm
 
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Bird flu revealed at another Czech farm

Prague- Bird flu was discovered at a broiler farm in Norin, east Bohemia, but the presence of the highly dangerous H5N1 strain has neither been confirmed nor disproved yet, Czech State Veterinary Administration spokesman Josef Duben told CTK today.

Norin is located four kilometres from Tisova where the first Czech case of the H5N1 strain of bird flu among bred poultry was revealed at a turkey farm last week.

Duben said that tests proved bird flu in 60 cases at the farm with 27,800 broilers. He said the broilers tested positive for the H5 strain and further tests are to show whether it is H5N1 or not.

The turkeys bred at Tisova got infected through hay litter, while the broilers allegedly got into indirect contact with a carrier of the virus, man or bird.

Same as in Tisova, the poultry at the Norin farm will be culled and liquidated, the area disinfected and strict measures applied in the vicinity.

The first bird flu case in the Czech Republic was discovered in March 2006. Since then another 13 cases of swans living in the wild have been registered.

http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/index_view.php?id=259552
 
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The Associated Press
Published: June 27, 2007
PRAGUE, Czech Republic: The H5 bird flu virus has been detected at a poultry farm in eastern Czech Republic, the second in a week, an official said Wednesday.
The country's veterinary authority spokesman Josef Duben said that 60 chickens tested positive at a farm in Norin, 140 kilometers (87 miles) east of Prague. He said further tests will be conducted to determine whether the birds have the deadly H5N1 strain.
All the 27,800 chickens at the farm, as well as poultry bred by local smallholders, will be slaughtered, Duben said.
The farm is just 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) from a turkey farm where an outbreak of the H5N1 strain was detected a week ago.
Last year, the H5N1 strain was found in 14 birds ? all wild swans ? in the Czech Republic.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/27/europe/EU-GEN-Czech-Bird-Flu.php
 
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Tests confirm swan in south Moravia had bird flu

Prague- Czech veterinaries revealed another case of bird flu as tests proved the virus in a swan that died in Lednice, south Moravia, public Czech Television (CT) and Aktualne.cz news server reported today.


Further tests have yet to confirm whether the virus is the deadly H5N1 strain, said Jaroslav Salava, who heads the veterinary administration in south Moravia.

He said that the result of the tests will be known on Thursday or later.

The Lednice water reservoirs are one of the most risky areas through which very many wild birds move, but from the veterinary point of view it is a rather good locality as there are no big bird farms around, Salava said.

Turkeys at a farm in Tisova, east Bohemia, were tested positive for H5N1 last week and those who did not die of bird flu had to be culled. Today, the deadly virus was confirmed at another farm near Tisova.

In 2006, 14 cases of bird flu were registered in the Czech Republic, all in swans living in the wild.

http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/index_view.php?id=259599
 
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Dutchy said:
Tests confirm swan in south Moravia had bird flu

Prague- Czech veterinaries revealed another case of bird flu as tests proved the virus in a swan that died in Lednice, south Moravia, public Czech Television (CT) and Aktualne.cz news server reported today.


Further tests have yet to confirm whether the virus is the deadly H5N1 strain, said Jaroslav Salava, who heads the veterinary administration in south Moravia.

He said that the result of the tests will be known on Thursday or later.

The Lednice water reservoirs are one of the most risky areas through which very many wild birds move, but from the veterinary point of view it is a rather good locality as there are no big bird farms around, Salava said.

Turkeys at a farm in Tisova, east Bohemia, were tested positive for H5N1 last week and those who did not die of bird flu had to be culled. Today, the deadly virus was confirmed at another farm near Tisova.

In 2006, 14 cases of bird flu were registered in the Czech Republic, all in swans living in the wild.

http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/index_view.php?id=259599
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This is the wild bird positive that seals the deal.
 
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Brussels (aho) - the H5N1 arisen in Tschechien in a PUT mast enterprise - Influenzavirus has very large genetic similarity (99.5 per cent) with the H5N1 - virus, which had arisen in the spring in Kuwait with poultry and hunt falcon. That now communicated the European commission with reference to analyses of the reference laboratory for Aviaere to influenza in Weybridge (Great Britain). To the Influenzavirus, which at the beginning of the yearly in Hungary and Great Britain had arisen, a smaller genetic similarity exists. The experts assume the H5N1 was registered again - virus independently of cases in Europe after Tschechien.
http://ticker-grosstiere.animal-health-online.de/20070626-00000/
 
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Another H5N1 case confirmed in poultry in the Czech Republic

Posted : Wed, 27 Jun 2007

Prague - Sixty broiler chickens at a commercial farm in a Czech village have tested positive for a potentially deadly H5N1 bird flu strain that can be transmitted to humans, the State Veterinarian Administration said on Wednesday. The birds from among a 27,800-head flock, were being bred at a farm in the Czech village of Norin, about four kilometres from Tisova in the country's eastern region where the first H5N1 outbreak in poultry was confirmed last Thursday.

Another case of bird flu was detected in a dead swan in a lake in the country's southern region. Tests are to reveal, which strain infected the animal on Thursday.

According to spokesman for the administration Josef Duben, wild birds passing through the region during the mild winter could have brought the virus to the area.

Reports also said, that people tending to the breed could have carried it in.

The whole chicken flock, currently cordoned off by the police, and birds raised by Norin inhabitants are to be culled as well, Duben said.

The Norin farm belongs to the same company, which owns the Tisova turkey farm, where the H5N1 strain was found last week after nearly one third of a 6,000 flock had perished. Remaining animals and all birds owned by Tisova villagers were culled.

According to Stanislav Kuthan, a mayor of a village of Zalsi which administers Norin, the hamlet's 50 residents have 331 birds, including 80 pet parrots raised by a hobbyist.

"I am leaving for Norin with a list of their poultry and small birds to inform the breeders what lies ahead," Kuthan told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

Security measures have been imposed in the village's vicinity, with restrictions on move, sales and the supply of poultry to stores.

Prior to the latest string of cases, 14 wild swans were found infected with the H5N1 virus in the country's southern regions last year.

Since Sunday bird flu has also detected in dead swans in German states of Bavaria and Saxony.

Some 190 people around the world have died of bird flu since 2003, mainly through coming into close contact with infected poultry, according to the World Health Organization.

Scientists fear the virus could mutate into a form easily transmissible between humans, which could touch off a global pandemic that would kill millions of people.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/76917.html
 
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the Kuwait sequences aren't public. Will the Czech and German
sequences be published ?

How did the Kuwait falcon catch it ? I don't remember.
Mysterious. Maybe we should consider terrorists as spreaders ?!?
 
Re: Czechs report bird flu (poultry, wild birds), June 27 +

gsgs said:
the Kuwait sequences aren't public. Will the Czech and German
sequences be published ?

How did the Kuwait falcon catch it ? I don't remember.
Mysterious. Maybe we should consider terrorists as spreaders ?!?
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Kuwait is in the Middle East. It is surrounded by countries reporting H5N1 in 2007 (Egypt, Turkey, Krosnodar, Afghanistan, Pakistan). It is the countriies NOT reporting H5N1 (Iraq, Iran, Israel), that are the problem.

The Kuwait falcon was infected the same way the birds of prey in Germany and Burkina Faso were infected - hint in Germany H5N1 was also in a cat and a stone martin.

The story on H5N1 migration really could not be clearer.
 
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99.5% identity. Hungary-UK was 99.96% AFAIR.

99.5% would be about 75 nucleotide changes in the genome. Quite a lot for Qinghai-H5N1.
And pretty useless information as long as the Kuwait-sequences are secret too.
 
Re: Czechs report bird flu (poultry, wild birds), June 27 +

gsgs said:
the Kuwait sequences aren't public. Will the Czech and German
sequences be published ?

How did the Kuwait falcon catch it ? I don't remember.
Mysterious. Maybe we should consider terrorists as spreaders ?!?
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I remember 2 stories about the falcons:

- the falcons could have been smuggled in, they caught H5N1 while being trained as a falcon for hunting in another country;

- People from Kuwait love to hunt with their falcons in Pakistan, the falcons have their own chair in the airplane. In Pakistan it is possible the falcons prey for birds with H5N1.
 
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Another H5N1 case confirmed in poultry in the Czech Republic
Wednesday 27 June 2007 14:02
Sixty broiler chickens at a commercial farm in a Czech village have tested positive for a potentially deadly H5N1 bird flu strain that can be transmitted to humans, the State Veterinarian Administration said on Wednesday.
The birds from among a 27,800-head flock, were being bred at a farm in the Czech village of Norin, about four kilometres from Tisova in the country's eastern region where the first H5N1 outbreak in poultry was confirmed last Thursday.

Another case of bird flu was detected in a dead swan in a lake in the country's southern region. Tests are to reveal, which strain infected the animal on Thursday.

According to spokesman for the administration Josef Duben, wild birds passing through the region during the mild winter could have brought the virus to the area. Reports also said, that people tending to the breed could have carried it in.

The whole chicken flock, currently cordoned off by the police, and birds raised by Norin inhabitants are to be culled as well, Duben said.

http://jurnalo.com/jurnalo/storyPage.do?story_id=44500
 
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Dutchy said:
I remember 2 stories about the falcons:

- the falcons could have been smuggled in, they caught H5N1 while being trained as a falcon for hunting in another country;

- People from Kuwait love to hunt with their falcons in Pakistan, the falcons have their own chair in the airplane. In Pakistan it is possible the falcons prey for birds with H5N1.
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Lots of stories. However, wild birds migrate through the Middle East and are major transmitters and transporters of Qinghai (Clade 2.2) H5N1.
 
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gsgs said:
99.5% identity. Hungary-UK was 99.96% AFAIR.

99.5% would be about 75 nucleotide changes in the genome. Quite a lot for Qinghai-H5N1.
And pretty useless information as long as the Kuwait-sequences are secret too.
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These are all Qinghai (Clade 2.2) and form multiple sub-clades introduced by wild birds.
 
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Bird flu detected in Czech Republic<TABLE style="WIDTH: 405px; HEIGHT: 44px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=caption style="WIDTH: 360px">
June 27 2007 at 01:07PM </TD></TR><TR><TD style="HEIGHT: 1px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #cccccc" colSpan=2></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=23 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=svarticletext>[SIZE=+1][/SIZE]Prague - The potentially lethal strain of H5N1 bird flu has been detected in chickens in the Czech Republic, authorities said on Wednesday, one week after the deadly virus was found in turkeys in the same region.

The announcement also came a day after German health officials confirmed that the H5N1 bird flu had been discovered in wild swans in the east of the country, the second such incident there in a week.

Zbynek Semerad, a spokesperson for the Czech veterinary services told AFP the virus had been confirmed by a national laboratory. He said it was "the most serious animal infection" in the country for five years.

The affected poultry farm in Norin is located about four kilometres from the Tisova farm where 6 000 turkeys were slaughtered last week.

Czech authorities attributed the presence of bird flu - the first time it had been detected in Czech domestic poultry - to litters contaminated by wild birds.

All previous cases of bird flu in the Czech Republic have only affected wild swans.

The 28 000 chickens at the site of the latest bird flu outbreak as well as all the poultry in the village of Norin will be destroyed, Czech officials said. - Sapa-AFP

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=nw20070627123918859C829716
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