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H5N1 in Domestic Ducks in Bavaria

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AVIAN INFLUENZA (145): GERMANY (BAVARIA), VIET NAM
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[1] Germany (Bavaria)
[2] Viet Nam

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[1] Germany (Bavaria)
Date: Sat 25 Aug 2007
Source: Reuters Foundation AlertNet [edited]
<http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L25355240.htm>


Authorities have closed off a poultry farm in southern Germany after
an outbreak of bird flu.

Local veterinary authorities said late on Friday [24 Aug 2007] checks
at the farm in the Erlangen-Hoechstadt area in Bavaria had discovered
birds infected with the H5N1 virus.

A spokeswoman said samples would be examined to determine whether the
birds were infected with the deadly strain of H5N1. There was no
danger to people in the area, she said.

The farm contains around 44 000 birds.

Germany identified several cases of the deadly H5N1 strain in wild
birds in Bavaria in June [2007]. Several bird flu infections were
also registered in Germany last year [2006].

Earlier this week, Russia banned poultry imports from Italy to
prevent the spread of bird flu after outbreaks there.

--
Communicated by:
ProMED-mail Rapporteur Mary Marshall

[Besides a single domestic goose, which was found serologically
positive in Thuringia, at the beginning of July, the current outbreak
-- if confirmed -- will be the 1st outbreak in a commercial poultry
in Germany in 2007. It will be interesting to obtain details on the
possible exposure of this flock to wild, free roaming birds. The HPAI
(highly pathogenic avian influenza) H5N1 virus has been detected in
wild birds in Germany, particularly Bavaria, since June 2007.

According to the ADNS (European Commission Animal Disease
Notification System) data, as of 24 August, a total of 306 HPAI cases
in wild birds have been notified by member states in 2007; the 1st
cases were detected towards the end of June. Of the 306 cases, 298
were reported from Germany, 7 from France, and one from the Czech
Republic. See tables and graphs, pertaining to weekly figures and to
the species involved, at
<http://ec.europa.eu/food/animal/diseases/adns/adns_wildbirds2007.pdf>.

The July 2007 issue of the Journal of Wildlife Diseases (Vol. 43, No.
3) includes a supplement with 14 papers dealing with the subject
"Wild birds and the epidemiology of avian influenza"; see
<http://www.jwildlifedis.org/content/vol43/3_Supplement/index.dtl>.

We are grateful to Mary Marshall for bringing this information to our
attention. - Mod.AS

Bavaria (Bayern) in southern Germany, can be located on the map at
<http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/europe/germany.pdf>. - CopyEd.MJ]

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[2] Viet Nam
Date: Fri 24 Aug 2007
Source: Reuters Foundation AlertNet [edited]
<http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HAN236817.htm>


Bird flu has spread to 2 more provinces in Viet Nam, killing hundreds
of chickens and ducks, the Agriculture Ministry said on Friday [24 Aug 2007].

The outbreak of H5N1 in the northern province of Thai Nguyen and Dong
Thap to the south brought to 4 the number of provinces on the
government's current bird flu watch list. Vietnam has 64 provinces.

A total of 150 ducks and 35 chickens fell sick on Wednesday [22 Aug
2007] in Thai Nguyen, 80 km (50 miles) north of Hanoi, and tests have
confirmed they had the H5N1 virus, the ministry's Animal Health
Department said in a report.

The virus also struck a farm in the southern Mekong delta province of
Dong Thap where 250 chickens were found dead on Sunday [19 Aug 2007], it said.

Bird flu has infected 7 people in Viet Nam so far this year [2007], 4
of whom have died, bringing the death toll since late 2003 to 46, the
government said.

--
Communicated by:
ProMED-mail Rapporteur Mary Marshall

[The provinces mentioned in this report can be located on the map of
Viet Nam available at
<http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/vietnam_admin01.jpg>.
- CopyEd.MJ]

[see also:
Avian influenza (141): France, wild birds, Viet Nam 20070815.2673
Avian influenza (140): Germany (Bavaria), wild duck 20070812.2633
Avian influenza (138): Germany (Bavaria), duck 20070811.2622
Avian influenza (137): Germany (Bavaria), duck 20070807.2563
Avian influenza, poultry vs migratory birds (30): Germany 20070811.2612
Avian influenza (132): Viet Nam 20070720.2324
Avian influenza (130): Viet Nam, Czech Republic, EU, Bangladesh 20070713.2254
Avian influenza (129): Indonesia, Viet Nam, vaccination 20070713.2247
Avian influenza (128): Viet Nam, vaccination, Czech Republic 20070712.2225
Avian influenza (126): Germany (Thuringia), Viet Nam 20070709.2185
Avian influenza (123): Review, Germany, France, wild birds 20070706.2155
Avian influenza (121): OIE, Viet Nam, vaccination 20070704.2129]
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Suspicion on bird flu in Bavarian enterprise confirms Munich. SDA/Reuters/AFP/baz. On a Bavarian poultry yard the suspicion on the dangerous bird flu virus was confirmed. Ended ducks were positively tested in the national reference laboratory on the Baltic Sea island Riems on the H5N1-Virus. This communicated a spokeswoman of the Bavarian environmental and consumer protection Ministry on Saturday. All 160'000 of animals of the enterprise in Wachenroth would have to be gekeult. The environment around the yard in the district attaining high city was spaciously locked off, in order to prevent a propagation of the illness. The infections in the course of regular investigations one determined. More than 30 countries have so far cases of bird flu announced, usually arose the epidemic however with game birds. World-wide nearly 200 humans died, however none of it in Europe at also the virus H5N1 dangerous for humans according to data of the World Health Organization (WHO). There were most dead ones in Asia.
http://www.baz.ch/news/index.cfm?ObjectID=9E6FA2C4-1422-0CEF-703BF58C2A095945
 
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Bird flu confirmed on German farm

Saturday, 25 August 2007 20:17
<rte:body>An outbreak of the deadly strain of bird flu has been identified on a poultry farm in southern Germany.
A spokeswoman for Bavaria's environment ministry said dead ducks from the farm in Wachenroth had tested positive for the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of the virus.
The strain can be lethal for people living in close contact with birds.
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Officials discovered the infection after more than 400 ducks at the farm died over a short period of time.
The spokeswoman said the farm has been sealed off and all 160,000 birds will be culled.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0825/birdflu.html
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Deadly bird flu hits Germany

New 7:02AM Sunday August 26, 2007


BERLIN - An outbreak of deadly bird flu has been identified in a southern German poultry farm, a spokeswoman for Bavaria's environment ministry said.
The spokeswoman said dead ducks from the farm in Wachenroth in Bavaria's Erlangen-Hoechstadt area had tested positive for the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of the virus, which can be lethal for people living in close contact with birds.
All 160,000 birds in the farm would be culled, the ministry spokeswoman said. The farm has been sealed off.
Local authorities had earlier said the farm contained some 44,000 birds. Officials discovered the infection after more than 400 ducks at the farm died over a short period of time.
Germany identified several cases of the deadly H5N1 strain in wild birds in Bavaria in June. A string of bird flu infections were also registered in Germany last year.
Earlier this week, Russia banned poultry imports from Italy to prevent the spread of bird flu after outbreaks there.Globally, the H5N1 virus has killed 195 people out of 322 known cases, according to the World Health Organisation. 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.
- REUTERS

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=16&objectid=10459930
 
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christian said:
More from AFP

Bird flu at German poultry farm
Yahoo!/AFP - 25 Aug 2007 17:37:18 GMT

ERLANGEN, Germany (AFP) - The H5N1 bird flu virus has been found in several ducks at a poultry farm in the southern German state of Bavaria, local authorities said on Saturday.

A three-kilometre (two-mile) security zone was thrown up around the farm at Wachenroth near the city of Erlangen following the discovery on Friday, the authorities said.

Tests were being carried out at a lab in northern Germany to determine which strain of H5N1 the birds were infected with and results are due next week.

The virus was detected in three young ducks from a batch delivered four weeks ago by a supplier in the northern German state of Lower Saxony, whose premises will also be inspected, a spokeswoman for the agriculture ministry in Berlin said.

All 44,000 ducks at the Wachenroth farm may have to be destroyed depending on the results of the tests and following a full inspection of the site, which also contains around 60,000 other animals, the spokeswoman said.
160.000 will be culled according to other sources.

H5N1 was found in other ducks in Bavaria this month and over the summer around 50 wild birds were found dead with the virus across the country.

There are two strains of H5N1 -- low pathogenic, which is less dangerous, and high pathogenic, which can be lethal for birds and can also infect humans, sometimes fatally.

Migrating birds can infect domesticated birds with the highly pathogenic strain. Experts fear it will mutate into a strain that can be transmitted between humans.
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Animal epidemic Suspicion on bird flu confirmed with several ducks of a Bavarian poultry breeding enterprise could be proven the high-sticking on H5N1-Virus. Now the entire existence is gekeult. Blocked: the poultry yard concerned in middle Franconia "the hochpatogene type of virus was confirmed", said the spokeswoman of the district attaining high city, Annika Fritz, on Saturday evening. "one begin in these minutes" with the enterprise concerned in Wachenroth with it, the whole existence to clubs. It concerns 160,000 ducks. With the animals which can be killed further samples were taken, in order to reconstruct, "where and whereby the virus were brought in", added Fritz. ABOUT bird flu: Stretched vaccine works better vaccines: Doping for the depot bird flu: Stick ducks with Munich at H5N1 probably end-infected ducks from Lower Saxony In a stable of the enterprise on Friday with several young ducks infections with the H5N1-Virus had been proven. The young ducks had been supplied after first realizations approximately four weeks ago by an enterprise to Lower Saxony to the yard to Wachenroth. Also this ancillary industry is in the meantime examined according to data of the Federal Ministry for consumer protection. The infections on the yard when attaining were determined the data according to in the course of regular investigations. The working area thereupon blocked; the authorities in the periphery of three kilometers at the same time furnished a restricted area around the yard as a precaution. With the analyses of the taken samples in Friedrich Loeffler Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut on the Baltic Sea island Riems it should be clarified whether it actually concerned the highly infective type of virus fol/AFP

http://www.focus.de/gesundheit/news/tierseuche_aid_130571.html
 
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BERLIN, Aug 25 (Reuters) - An outbreak of bird flu in a southern German poultry farm has been identified as the "highly pathogenic" strain of the H5N1 virus, a spokeswoman for Bavaria's environment ministry said on Saturday.

All 160,000 birds in the farm in Wachenroth in the Erlangen-Hoechstadt area of Bavaria would be culled, the ministry spokeswoman said. The farm has been sealed off.

http://mobile.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/BAT001860.htm
 
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niman said:
Commentray at

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/08240701/H5N1_Bavaria_Domestic.html
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Commentary

H5N1 in Domestic Ducks in Bavaria
Recombinomics Commentary
August 24, 2007
http://precedings.nature.com/documents/553/version/1
In a poultry yard in Bavaria several cases of bird flu were discovered

it concerns an enterprise in Wachenroth

The Second Channel of German Television reported in the evening, there about 44,000 young ducks were accommodated. Samples from ver­ende­ten animals were sent to Friedrich Loeffler Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut on the island Riems. A test result is to be present at the beginning of coming week.

The above translation describes suspected H5N1 in domestic ducks in Wachenroth in Bavaria. The location is northwest of Nuremberg, where over a dozen swans were H5N1 confirmed in the past two months. This summer over 350 wild birds were H5N1 confirmed, eclipsing the record number confirmed in Germany in 2006.

These infections, when long range migration in Germany is minimal, provide additional evidence for endemic H5N1 in Germany. The recent detections in France and the Czech Republic supports endemic H5N1 throughout Europe.

These repeated conformations raise serious questions about the surveillance programs in neighboring countries which have not detected H5N1 since the spring of 2006.


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Middle Franconia: 160,000 ducks are gekeult because of bird flu It is the so far largest Keulungsaktion in Germany: In a poultry breeding in middle Franconia to this evening 160,000 ducks are killed. With several animals the dangerous bird flu virus H5N1 had been proven. This evening the action is to be locked, communicated the director/conductor of the circle veterinary centre of the circle attaining high city, Ottmar Fick. The toetung takes place via river and CO2-Begasung. The Kadaver was transported sequentially in two animal body removal plants. Up to 50 containers are necessary for it, said Fick. Friedrich Loeffler Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut on the island Riems had confirmed the high-sticking on form of the H5N1-Virus on Saturday with five ended ducks. Altogether in the mast enterprise 400 ducks had succumbed to the virus. According to Ottmar Fick consolidate themselves the references to the fact that the exciter by "intersperse" one transferred: "with it it concerns straw of the surrounding pastures, which could be contaminated by excrement of infected migratory birds", said Fick. However also different transmission paths were examined. To the possible damage for the poultry yard firm lawyer Alexander Daenzer Grassm? did not want to express itself yet. "the future of the enterprise depends strongly on it, like it now with the virus goes around", said Daenzer Grassm?. It pointed thereupon that the initiative proceeded for the investigation of the dead animals from the enterprise. In arrangement with the district administration office according to in one and a half months "the things could be brought to its estimate back on the way". On durable damage do not count he (with strip packing)
http://www.zeit.de/news/artikel/2007/08/26/2366044.xml
 
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A volunteer of German technical aid organization THW fumigates the hygiene sluice at a farm near Erlangen, southern Germany, Sunday Aug. 26, 2007. Tests have determined that birds at the poultry farm died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, and some 160,000 birds were being slaughtered as a precaution, authorities said Saturday Aug. 25, 2007. (AP Photo/Udo Dreier)

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=3524984

Tests have found that birds at a poultry farm in southern Germany died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, and some 160,000 birds were being slaughtered as a precaution, authorities said.
The virus was detected in ducklings at the farm near Erlangen, in northern Bavaria. A federal lab confirmed that the birds died of the "highly pathogenic" H5N1 variant, the state consumer protection ministry said Saturday.


More than 400 birds had died over a short period of time at the farm, ministry spokeswoman Sandra Brandt said. Authorities planned to start Saturday evening with the slaughter of the 160,000 birds at the farm.
Several cases of the virus have surfaced among wild birds in Germany this year. Last month, it was detected in a domestic goose in the east of the country.
The H5N1 virus has killed more than 190 people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization.
It remains hard for humans to catch, but experts fear it could mutate into a form that spreads easily among people, potentially sparking a global pandemic. So far, most human cases have been traced to contact with infected birds.
 
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A mass cull of ducks continues at the farm in southern Germany which has come down with an outbreak of deadly bird flu. It is the highly contagious H5N1 strain for which there is no vaccine or treatment, so no chances are being taken. Everything moving in and out of the quarantine zone is being disinfected, and 160 thousand birds in all are being slaughtered. Until this outbreak in Erlangen in northen Bavaria, apart from one in eastern Germany, all previously reported cases were in the wild.

"The virus was discovered on a poultry farm in Hoechstadt during a routine control. Some suspicion of bird flu arose, and these suspicions were confirmed by the latest report" says an official. Scientists are taking such precautions because they fear the strain, which first started killing birds and people in Asia in 2003, will eventually mutate into a flu that humans can catch and propogate, triggering a deadly pandemic.

http://euronews.net/index.php?page=info&article=439292&lng=1
 
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On Saturday one probably still believed with the poultry breeding enterprise Gepro in Wachenroth in a mild end: "if bird flu is proven, must be gekeult anyway only 44,000 Kueken from the stable, in which it broke off", said firm lawyer Alexander Daenzer Grassm?. Current messages - Wachenroth (strip packing bay). On Saturday MAN ONE probably still believed with the poultry breeding enterprise Gepro in Wachenroth in a mild end: "if bird flu is proven, must be gekeult anyway only 44,000 Kueken from the stable, in which it broke off", said firm lawyer Alexander Daenzer Grassm?. But then everything went very fast: Friedrich Loeffler Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut proved the high-sticking on form of the H5N1-Virus in five of the 400 ended to animal. And the Bavarian consumer protection Ministry arranged the immediate toetung of the entire existence: The Keulung of 160,000 ducks still began on Saturday evening. "after my knowledge that is the largest mass mass actionmass action, which gave, says it in Germany in connection with the bird flu in a utilizable animal existence ever" to undersecretary of state Otmar Bernhard (CSU) concerned. Accordingly surreal the scenery at the rehearsing impulse area works nearby the motorway Wuerzburg Nuernberg. The technical welfare organization established a hygiene air-lock, in which all disposal vehicles with formic acid are disinfected. From the stables lain on a hill monotonous metallic impacts penetrate. And over the Waeldchen beside it circle birds, whose reminds cries of the Quieken of pigs. On Sunday morning at five the eight make o'clock completely weakened veterinarians and the in addition-called coworkers of the duck mast enterprise a break. In heavy protective clothing they killed 80,000 animals in the hours before and in containers shipped. The responsible persons had hoped for a more rapid conclusion of the Keulung. "the toetung does not represent a large logistic problem, because the company can use their slaughtering plants also for clubs", said Andreas taps by the national office for health and food security. But despite support by two mobile plantplant plants of the Free State it comes again and again by technical breakdowns to delays. Also outside of the stables the employees have to do all hands fully: Camera teams tried to overcome and in the working area penetrate the shut-off positions, announce doorman Rudolf the Rau firm lawyer. Over night a private security agency is engaged, whose people set up themselves with grimmiger expression at the fences and flutter volumes. The police drives strengthens strips. Up to some describe invisibly is against it the three-kilometer prohibited area which furnishes the district administration office around the enterprise. Since then in March yearly only few kilometers passed was completely found from here the first swans ended at the bird flu South Germany, applied anyway continuously the stable obligation. In the last months some the 86 breed enterprises announced in this area became careless. Veterinary centre leader Ottmar Fick: "we had to make attentive with the help of the municipalities on the regulations." The fact that thereby the virus was brought in into the Gepro existence does not believe Fick however. Rather confirm yourself the suspicion that this over "intersperse", the straw at laying the stables out, happened. "possible were contaminated the getreidefelder in the environment by excrement by infected birds", believe Fick. Ungeschoren seems to come against it the supplier of Lower Saxony of the Kueken of it. In its existence veterinarians could not prove any traces of H5N1. The Middle Franconian poultry mast enterprise, to which the Kueken at the end of July had been supplied, nevertheless issued a sales ban for all products delivered since then. Its speciality are early mast ducks, which are supplied particularly to the Asia catering trade. "you are examined and, if they are perfect, again released", say veterinarian Fick. And if not? "then following has, about which I do not want now yet at all to talk." A danger for humans does not exist anyhow according to estimate of the national office for health and food security. "a transmission did not become yet admits", says vice-president taps. Completely differently it stands around the dangers for the fortbestand of the enterprise. For the killed ducks it is compensated from the animal you cash. But the offspring of the animals will last. In addition, firm lawyer Daenzer Daenzer-Grassm? did not lose after the Hiobs message of the island Riems his optimism: "in one and a half months we will have brought everything here with agreement of the district administration office back on the correct way." (strip packing)
http://www.ad-hoc-news.de/Marktberichte/de/13014688/Massent%F6tung-mit-Hindernissen
 
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Erlangen, Germany - German health officials slaughtered 160 000 geese over the weekend after the deadly H5N1 bird-flu virus was found in a poultry farm near the southern city of Erlangen.

The cull was ordered after 400 geese were found dead in their compound on Friday. Tests by the Friedrich Loeffler Institute of Veterinary Medicine found the lethal strain in five of the birds.

A team of eight vets and poultry workers at the farm in Wachenroth, Bavaria, started what officials called the biggest ever culling operation in Germany late on Saturday.

The birds were placed in three large containers where they were either gassed or electrocuted, officials said after the operation ended on Sunday afternoon.

A three-kilometre exclusion zone was set up around the farm as officials began tracking down the cause of the infection. Initial reports said the infected animals came from another poultry farm in the northern state of Lower Saxony, but this was later denied.

"We have not been able to pinpoint the source of outbreak," said Bavarian Health Secretary Otmar Bernhard. "The infection might have come from straw, but that is just a suspicion."

The H5N1 strain of avian influenza has killed nearly 200 people in recent years, mainly through direct contact with poultry. Most of the victims have been in Asia.

There have been no human deaths from bird flu in Europe, where outbreaks were reported recently in several countries, including Germany and the Czech Republic.

Bird flu hit wild water-birds and some domestic poultry in other parts of Germany this year. - Sapa-dpa

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=nw20070826155239769C347078
 
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New case of bird flu in Franconia again emerged in Franconia the highly sticking on poultry virus H5N1. After in the June of this yearly 16 infected animals were already found dead in the area Nuernberg, the dangerous virus only few kilometers of Upper Franconia in a poultry breeding enterprise in Wachenroth in the district attaining arose now. For yesterday evening the so far largest Massenkeulung Germany runs on the yard - meanwhile over 80.000 animals were killed. At present the veterinary centre attaining high city assumes the exciter became to transfer by the straw. However momentarily also different transmission paths are examined. The poultry yard in Wachenroth was spaciously blocked already yesterday evening, after becoming known the suspicion case. Approximately around the enterprise a 3 kilometers large prohibited area was established. The veterinary centre generally warns attaining high city however panic-makes of hastier and calls instead to caution up: So one is to touch a dead bird for example in no case unprotected. If it concerns several dead birds at a discovery site, the veterinary centre is absolute to inform the police or the fire-brigade. The moreover one immediately ducks and swans in parks, green belts or lakes should not be fed any longer due to the still unclear spreading ways of the bird flu virus. For further questions and information approximately around the bird flu the Federal Ministry for nutrition, agriculture and consumer protection has a Hotline under the number: 01805 768,555 freely geschalten. If you should find one or more dead birds, then you announce yourselves please immediately under the number: 09193 20505

http://www.kanal8.de/default.aspx?ID=1782&showNews=112965
 
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Ein LKW voller toter Entenk?ken. Foto:

ATTAIN ap/taz/rtr on a poultry yard in the proximity of attaining had after the outbreak of the bird flu on weekend 160,000 ducks to be killed. That is the largest Keulung, which ever gave it in Germany, said a speaker of the Bavarian Department of the Environment on Sunday. Friedrich Loeffler Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut had tightened the high-sticking on bird flu virus H5N1 on Saturday with animals from the breed enterprise, how the Bavarian consumer protection Ministry communicated. The Keulung began immediately. "before were in a part of the enterprise within shortest time over 400 animals ends", said Ministry spokeswoman Sandra Brandt. At the virus variant according to data of the World Health Organization world-wide nearly 200 humans died, however none of it in Europe. A danger for humans does not proceed from the incident, stressed Bayerns health undersecretary of state Otmar Bernhard (CSU). The source of infection is however not yet clarified. The bird flu suspicion had arisen, when on Friday several dead young ducks had been discovered. Thereupon an operating barrier was furnished and the area with the stable was blocked. At the yard hygiene air-locks were furnished, which authorized only with protective clothing enter may. In the periphery of three kilometers around the enterprise a restricted area was furnished. The yard when attaining lies in an area, which was explained in the previous year because of earlier cases of bird flu as the "risk area". The region was controlled therefore particularly intensively, explained the district attaining high city. For the mass massentoetung of poultry in all Lands of the Federal Republic proper Toetungsmaschinerien is available. Mobile gasification plants and tank car with carbon dioxide are used. Within a short time the animals are suffocated by the inhalation of the gas. In some cases also Carbon monoxide is used, which works directly deadly. In the country Lower Saxony, where with 72 million animals 60 per cent of the German poultry are held, is also the toetung in the electrical bath intended. In this way 800,000 animals can be killed there per day. Subsequently, the Kadaver in incineration plants is destroyed. If the capacity should not be enough, the animal bodies are burned if necessary in zementfabriken or buried on already fixed places.
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niman said:
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A volunteer of German technical aid organization THW fumigates the hygiene sluice at a farm near Erlangen, southern Germany, Sunday Aug. 26, 2007. Tests have determined that birds at the poultry farm died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, and some 160,000 birds were being slaughtered as a precaution, authorities said Saturday Aug. 25, 2007. (AP Photo/Udo Dreier)

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=3524984

Tests have found that birds at a poultry farm in southern Germany died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, and some 160,000 birds were being slaughtered as a precaution, authorities said.
The virus was detected in ducklings at the farm near Erlangen, in northern Bavaria. A federal lab confirmed that the birds died of the "highly pathogenic" H5N1 variant, the state consumer protection ministry said Saturday.

More than 400 birds had died over a short period of time at the farm, ministry spokeswoman Sandra Brandt said. Authorities planned to start Saturday evening with the slaughter of the 160,000 birds at the farm.
Several cases of the virus have surfaced among wild birds in Germany this year. Last month, it was detected in a domestic goose in the east of the country.
The H5N1 virus has killed more than 190 people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization.
It remains hard for humans to catch, but experts fear it could mutate into a form that spreads easily among people, potentially sparking a global pandemic. So far, most human cases have been traced to contact with infected birds.
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Un périmètre de sécurité de trois kilomètres a été instauré autour d'un élevage de canards en Bavière. Vendredi 24 aôut, une souche de grippe aviaire "hautement pathogène" a été détectée.
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http://www.rfi.fr/actufr/articles/092/article_55693.asp
 
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Re: H5N1 in Domestic Ducks in Bavaria

Briefly before were in a part of the enterprise in Wachenroth, in which alone 44,000 mast ducks are held, within fewer hours more than 400 animals ends. The Bavarian authorities ordered comprehensive preventive measures, in order to prevent a propagation of the epidemic. The bird flu suspicion had arisen, after on Friday dead young ducks had been discovered. They had arrived as Kueken four weeks ago ago from an enterprise in Lower Saxony after Wachenroth. There the authorities of Lower Saxony gave 'all-clear' signal yesterday. The analyses of the national office for consumer protection and food security in Oldenburg would have free of doubts devoted that the Kueken supplied from enterprises of Lower Saxony to Bavaria had not been infected with the virus, said a speaker of the Ministry Of Agriculture in Hanover. "for Lower Saxony we can give 'all-clear' signal. The cause probably lies in Bavaria." Veterinarians would have examined a Brueterei and three further enterprises in Lower Saxony, but no remarkablenesses discovers. The yard concerned when attaining lies in an area, which was explained in the previous year because of earlier cases of bird flu as the "risk area". The region was observed therefore particularly intensively and controlled, was called it in the circle attaining high city. Around the enterprise a restricted area was furnished, "although in the appropriate area since occurrence of some cases of bird flu at the beginning of the past yearly the preventive measures to today existence, issued by the authority, had". At the yard hygiene air-locks were furnished, by which only the necessary personnel for the investigations was allowed to enter the enterprise. Protective clothing is prescribed. In the periphery of three kilometers around the poultry enterprise the restricted area exists. For dogs Anleinpflicht was arranged. A danger for humans does not proceed from the bird flu, stressed Bayerns health undersecretary of state Otmar Bernhard (CSU). The enterprise concerned stopped the sales of the meat, which was delivered after 30 July. The source of infection is not clarified yet. Possibly the infection was caused by straw, so Bernhard. "that is however a pure assumption." The authorities look far for the origin of the H5N1-Erregers. World-wide so far bird flu arose in more than 30 countries. Usually game birds were concerned. Only recently the exciter was confirmed with game birds at a lake close Munich. World-wide nearly 200 humans, of it did not die in Europe at the virus H5N1 according to data of the World Health Organization (WHO). There were most dead ones in Asia. From the citizens of Berlin morning mail from 27 August 2007
http://www.morgenpost.de/content/2007/08/27/wissenschaft/918023.html
 
Re: Suspect H5N1 in Domestic Ducks in Bavaria

Re: Suspect H5N1 in Domestic Ducks in Bavaria

niman said:
Commentary at

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/08260701/H5N1_Bavaria_Domestic_Confirmed.html
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Commentary

H5N1 Confirmed in Domestic Ducks in Bavaria
Recombinomics Commentary
August 26, 2007
http://precedings.nature.com/documents/553/version/1
The Keulung of 160,000 ducks still began on Saturday evening. "after my knowledge that is the largest mass mass action mass action, which gave, says it in Germany in connection with the bird flu in a utilizable animal existence ever" to undersecretary of state Otmar Bernhard (CSU) concerned

The above translation indicates the culling of 160,000 ducks in Bavaria is the largest bird flu linked culling in Germany to date. The culling follows Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut on the island Riems confirmation of H5N1 in five of the 400 ducklings that had died. Although the location is in a region where there were multiple H5N1 wild bird confirmations in 2006, the current outbreak is likely to be linked to the recent outbreaks reported in Bavaria, Saxon-Anhalt, Saxony, and Thuringia. Although these recent outbreaks were during the summer, when long range migration is minimal, the number of confirmed wild bird cases this summer exceeded the record number confirmed in 2006. The recent outbreaks were most closely related to H5N1 previously described in a massive wild bird outbreak in Tyva/Mongolia last year.

Media reports have speculated that the farm infection was linked to hay, which would have been exposed to wild birds. Sequence analysis of H5N1 from the domestic ducks should help resolve its origin. However, the extensive number of wild bird outbreaks in central and southern Germany, including wild ducks near Munich, strongly suggests the infections were linked to H5N1 circulating in wild birds.

The massive cull following multiple reports in wild birds raises additional issues about surveillance in neighboring countries. France has reported three outbreaks in regions near Germany, and the Czech Republic has reported one wild bird infection as well as multiple outbreaks in domestic poultry. However, the Czech sequences are distinct from the sequences in Germany.


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