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H5N1 in Domestic Ducks in Bavaria

Re: H5N1 in Domestic Ducks in Bavaria

Preparations to the emergency slaughtering because of bird flu run After emerging the bird flu in two duck mast enterprises close Nittenau at present still the preparations for the emergency slaughtering run from 205,000 ducks. With the yard in the village Trumling close Nittenau in the Upper Palatinate is begun. Here approximately 25,000 animals are to be killed with an electrical shock plant, like the speaker of the district swan village, Franz pepper, on Saturday morning on strip packing-inquire said. Only after it then the 180,000 ducks come in the likewise infected enterprise in the village Hofing to the row. It is the largest emergency slaughtering in the history of the Federal Republic. Nittenau (strip packing bay). After emerging the bird flu in two duck mast enterprises close Nittenau at present still the preparations for the emergency slaughtering run from 205,000 ducks. With the yard in the village Trumling close Nittenau in the Upper Palatinate is begun. Here approximately 25,000 animals are to be killed with an electrical shock plant, like the speaker of the district swan village, Franz pepper, on Saturday morning on strip packing-inquire said. Only after it then the 180,000 ducks come in the likewise infected enterprise in the village Hofing to the row. It is the largest emergency slaughtering in the history of the Federal Republic. Approximately 40 coworkers of the poultry enterprise and official veterinarians will kill and in containers will ship the animals, which are then brought with trucks to an animal body removal plant. When leaving the yards the vehicles and the workers go through strict disinfection measures. But approximately 80 members of technical welfare organization, fire-brigade and red cross are in the use. On Friday the Bavarian Department of the Environment had communicated that in samples from the two enterprises also the bird flu virus dangerous for humans was found of the type H5N1. The samples had been taken, since the authorities from contacts knew to the bird flu yard in Wachenroth in middle Franconia. There two weeks ago ago over 160,000 animals had been emergency-slaughtered. According to estimate of experts the actionaction action in the two new enterprises concerned will take one week approximately (message feature to 15,00 o'clock follows) ddp/ume/pon
http://www.ad-hoc-news.de/Politik-N...n-zur-Notschlachtung-wegen-Vogelgrippe-laufen
 
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Re: H5N1 in Domestic Ducks in Bavaria

it's the same company, though.
They were examing all contacts of Wachenroth
 
Re: H5N1 in Domestic Ducks in Bavaria

Swan village: Preparations for Keulung run on after emerging the bird flu in two duck mast enterprises close Nittenau in the district swan village run at present still the preparations for the emergency slaughtering from 205,000 ducks. With the yard in the village Trumling close Nittenau in the Upper Palatinate is begun. Here approximately 25,000 animals with an electrical shock plant are to be killed, said the speaker of the district swan village, Franz pepper. Only after it the 180,000 ducks of the enterprise come in the village Hofing to the row. It is the largest emergency slaughtering in the history of the Federal Republic.
http://www.ramasuri.de/(aeafmq45lqeszfipgenhxnjx)/reference.aspx?ref_ID=42768&f_k_=820079
 
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Authorities prepare Germany largest Keulungsaktion before Nittenau (dpa) - after the outbreak of the bird flu in two Oberpfaelzer enterprises the authorities prepare the so far largest Keulungsaktion in Germany. With the toetung that approximately 205,000 animals is to be begun still in the morning, communicated the district administration office swan village. Two duck mast enterprises are concerned in Nittenau and Bruck. It concerns thereby subsidiary companies of a mast enterprise in Wachenroth. There two weeks ago ago the bird flu had been already determined.
http://www.morgenpost.de/appl/newsticker2/index.php?channel=new&module=dpa&id=15568350
 
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Nittenau (Reuters) - after the bird flu suspicion in two Oberpfaelzer duck mast enterprises the authorities began on Saturday with the largest Keulungsaktion in the history of the Bundesrepbulik. In the enterprises in the places Trumling and Hofing should be killed according to data of the Spreches of the district administration office swan village, franc pepper, 205,000 animals. The Keulung will probably drag on into the next week. With the two yards it acts the authority according to around contact contacts of the poultry mast enterprise in the proximity of attaining, where the bird flu had broken out two weeks ago ago. There 166,000 ducks had been killed. Because of the business relations the ducks in the Oberpfaelzer enterprises had been examined as a precaution. Anti-body tests would have furnished, said a clear reference to also the exciter H5N1 dangerous for humans in the blood pepper. Of an outbreak of the epidemic cannot be spoken however, since so far no animal was obviously gotten sick. The references are however sufficient, in order to justify the Keulung of the animals.

http://de.today.reuters.com/news/ne..._0_DEUTSCHLAND-VOGELGRIPPE.xml&archived=False
 
Re: H5N1 in Domestic Ducks in Bavaria

"if all goes well the cullings will be finished this evening"
said a spokeman of the state-councel-office of Schwandorf
on Saturday
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the cullings are expected to take 5 days
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the cullings will be continued during next week
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about 40men of the poultry-company and official veterinaries
will cull the animals and put them into containers which are then
transported with trucks to a animal-body-removal-facility.
There are strict disinfection measures.
80 men from technical-help-organization,fireworkers and red cross
are involved....experts estimate that the culling action in the 2 farms
will take about one week.
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apparantly these are larger animals, not the ducklings as in
Warmersdorf, that were culled in two days.
 
Re: H5N1 in Domestic Ducks in Bavaria

Bird cull begins in Germany


Reuters
September 8, 2007 at 12:18 PM EDT

<!-- dateline -->BERLIN<!-- /dateline --> ? German authorities started culling tens of thousands of birds at two farms in the Bavarian towns of Trumling and Hofing as a protective measure over fears of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu.
An outbreak of bird flu was identified in the nearby Bavarian town of Wachenroth on Aug. 25 after dead ducks found in a poultry farm tested positive for the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of the virus.
Frank Pfeffer, a spokesman for the state office in Schwandorf, said 205,000 birds will be culled in a drive that is expected to run into next week.
The farm in Wachenroth in Bavaria's Erlangen-Hoechstadt area was sealed off and all 160,000 birds there were culled. Officials discovered the infection after more than 400 ducks at the farm died over a short period of time.
The two farms in Trumling and Hofing had business ties with the farm in Wachenroth. Tests conducted on the birds in Trumling and Hofing found that they had antibodies that indicated the presence of H5N1, Mr. Pfeffer said.
He said there was no outbreak of bird flu in Trumling or Hofing and that none of the birds showed signs of illness. But he added the blood tests were enough to justify the culling action.
Germany identified several cases of the deadly H5N1 strain in wild birds in Bavaria in June. Several bird flu infections were also registered in Germany last year.
Globally, the H5N1 virus has killed 195 people out of 322 known cases, according to the World Health Organization. Hundreds of millions of birds have died or been slaughtered.
The vast majority of bird flu deaths have been in Asia. No deaths have yet been registered in the European Union. deaths have been registered in the European Union.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/serv...onal/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20070908.wbirdflu0908
 
Re: H5N1 in Domestic Ducks in Bavaria

AVIAN INFLUENZA (152): GERMANY (BAVARIA)
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Date: Fri 7 Sep 2007
Source: International Herald Tribune, Associated Press report [edited]
<http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/07/europe/EU-GEN-Germany-Bird-Flu.php>


German authorities said Friday [7 Sep 2007] that more than 200 000
ducks would be slaughtered at 2 farms in Bavaria after tests
indicated the presence of the H5N1 strain of bird flu.

The head of Bavaria's state office for health and food safety, Volker
Hingst, said the slaughter was "a purely precautionary measure,"
taken after "laboratory indications of H5N1" were found. The birds
were not visibly sick, he said.

The 2 farms are located near Schwandorf, east of Nuremberg, and have
a total of 205 000 ducks. It was not immediately clear how the virus
might have gotten there.

Last month [August 2007], more than 160 000 ducks were slaughtered at
another Bavarian poultry farm following an outbreak of the disease.
Officials have said that contaminated straw was the likely source in that case.

The 2 businesses affected Friday [7 Sep 2007] are subsidiaries of
that farm, authorities said.

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[It will be interesting to know what kind of diagnostic tests were
performed on what kind of samples, and their results, all of which I
am sure will be forthcoming. A map of the farm location can be found at
<http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Schwandorf,+Germany&sa=X&oi=map&ct=title>.
- Mod.PC]
 
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niman said:
AVIAN INFLUENZA (152): GERMANY (BAVARIA)
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[It will be interesting to know what kind of diagnostic tests were
performed on what kind of samples, and their results, all of which I
am sure will be forthcoming. A map of the farm location can be found at
<http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Schwandorf,+Germany&sa=X&oi=map&ct=title>.
- Mod.PC]
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It would be even more intersting to know why the conservation groups, which claim to have over 300,000 H5N1 negatives in live wild birds don't say anything about H5N1 antibody levels, which were readily detected in the asymptomatic domestic ducks that are being culled in Bavaria.

It might also be useful to define propaganda for the media that keeps propagating the nonsense on the "negatives".
 
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they had positives PCR too in Schwandorf.
3300 samples, 19 positive.
They had "a few" positive antibody tests but don't say how
many were tested.
I assume the antibody tests are more expensive, it would be interesting
to know, how much these tests cost.
I asked this before...
 
Re: H5N1 in Domestic Ducks in Bavaria

gsgs said:
they had positives PCR too in Schwandorf.
3300 samples, 19 positive.
They had "a few" positive antibody tests but don't say how
many were tested.
I assume the antibody tests are more expensive, it would be interesting
to know, how much these tests cost.
I asked this before...
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No, antibody tests are done in microtiter paltes for pennies per assay (96 tests per $1 plate).
 
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(Reuters) - in the fight against the bird flu the authorities started the largest Keulungsaktion in two Oberpfaelzer duck mast enterprises on weekend in the history of the Federal Republic. Altogether approximately 205,000 animals are to be killed. The Keulung will drag on according to estimate of the authorities further days. Into the night to Sunday first those had been killed nearly 30,000 animals on a yard in Trumling with the help of a mobile Keulungsanlage. On Sunday the action in the three stables of an enterprise in Hofing was continued. It is expected that the capacity can be increased by 3000 to 4000 killed animals per hour in the course of the day on up to 10.000. A statement, how long the Keulung will still last, is at the earliest on Monday possible, said the speaker of the district administration office swan village, franc pepper. The two yards with Nittenau had contact to the poultry mast enterprise in the proximity of attaining, where the bird flu had broken out well two weeks ago. There 166,000 ducks had been killed. The poultry in the Oberpfaelzer enterprises was thereupon as a precaution examined. Anti-body tests would have furnished the reference in the blood that the exciter was present or is H5N1 in the enterprise. Even if so far no animal is gotten sick, the references were sufficient, in order to justify the Massenkeulung, said pepper. The enterprises are spaciously locked. Vehicles, which left the yards, were disinfected by the technical welfare organization.

http://de.today.reuters.com/news/ne...3_RTRDEOC_0_DEUTSCHLAND-VOGELGRIPPE-WE-ZF.xml
 
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I read headlines like:

> largest mass-killing of all times

>assembly-line massacre on 200000 ducks

here a little review about reported mass-cullings in European Union:

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foot-mouth:1966/67 in UK: 433987 cattle,sheep,goats,pigs
pig-plague:1993-1996 in Germany, 1.2M pigs
of these 400000 in 2 counties in 1993-1995,
only 90000 were ill, the rest was preventive

pig-plague 1997 in Netherlands: 12M pigs

In UK, Febr.2001 foot-mouth 6.5M - 10M animals

BF H7N7 in 2003 in Netherlands: 26M fowl in 2 months

spring 2006 in Germany: pig plague,110000

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found this for 2003:
http://www.huehner-info.de/infos/krankh_...pest_nlbe03.htm
(in German)
my summary:

Start: 4. M?rz 2003 Netherlands: 17 farms
End: 24.Juni 2003: all movement restrictions cancelled in Germany

Virus in 252 farms, 19 of these backyard
30M killed
83 humans infected, one death
only one farm in Germany and 100000 cullings because of strict measures
 
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machinetranslation

Precaution: because of (possible) contact with H5N1 positive farm. Confirmation of post by GSGS.

Monday, 10 September 2007


Precautionary mass culling

Schwandorf. After the find of bird flu exciters Schwandorf the so far largest massculling of poultry in the history of Germany takes place in the Bavarian district.

More than 200,000 ducks in two fattening enterprises must be slaughtered. It was expected that the work lasts until Monday.

A speaker of the district stressed that it concerns thereby a precautionary measure, it still with none of the animals the illness broke out.


http://www.tagblatt.ch/index.php?ar...ontseite&jahr=2007&ressortcode=&ms=hauptseite
 
Re: H5N1 in Domestic Ducks in Bavaria

niman said:
Bird cull begins in Germany

Reuters

September 8, 2007 at 12:18 PM EDT

He said there was no outbreak of bird flu in Trumling or Hofing and that none of the birds showed signs of illness. But he added the blood tests were enough to justify the culling action.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/serv...onal/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20070908.wbirdflu0908
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none of the the birds showed signs of illness. But he added the blood tests were enough to justify the culling action. :confused:
 
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Are they saying the blood tests showed LPAI, but they only consider HPAI to be "bird flu?"

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"none of the the birds showed signs of illness. But he added the blood tests were enough to justify the culling action."

Asimptomatic illness - but the blood tests reveal it.
 
Re: H5N1 in Domestic Ducks in Bavaria

AlaskaDenise said:
Are they saying the blood tests showed LPAI, but they only consider HPAI to be "bird flu?"

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No one has said anything about a low path H5N1 sequences, which are VERY different than a high path H5N1 sequence. Although low path H5N1 is in Europe, there has been no data presented to indicate the H5N1 in the birds in eastern Gemrnay was low path. The biological test to determine pathogenicity is done on experimental chickens. All of the culled birds that were asymptomatic were ducks.

If there is PCR data, there should be sequence data, which would EASILY distinguish European low path H5N1 from Qinghai high path H5N1.

The comments on the asymptomatic birds are based on the observation that the birds looked healthy, even though they had H5N1 antibodies (and H5N1 sequences?).
 
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