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India: bird flu in poultry suspected / confirmed

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Control & Containment Measures Against Bird Flu Stepped Up in India

http://www.medindia.net/news/Contro...inst-Bird-Flu-Stepped-Up-in-India-24198-1.htm

The pace of control and containment measures against bird flu has been enhanced. As against 21 Rapid Response Teams (RRTs) yesterday, 32 RRTs have now been deployed. Twenty-two areas have been identified for culling and proper sanitization works in the culling zone.


On 26th July 2007, the second day after the confirmation of outbreak of Avian Influenza, 9,472 poultry birds were culled; 7,159 eggs destroyed; and 450-kilogram poultry feed material disposed of.

RRTs started the actual control and containment operations yesterday after requisite health check-up by medical teams and under coverage of Tamiflu tablet. All the members of RRTs were fully equipped with PPE (personal protection equipment) and control operations were carried out as per the guidelines issued by the Government of India in identified poultry units as well as backyard poultry. Eight areas/villages, 4 each in East and West Imphal districts, were covered on the second day.

A Control Room has been set up at the Office of the Directorate of Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Services at Imphal
 
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Imphal, July 28: A member of the rapid response team of Manipur?s veterinary department, which has been engaged in culling poultry since bird flu was detected in the state last week, died today after reportedly consuming formalin, a solution being used to spray the burial sites of culled birds.
Salam Babuyaima, a 53-year-old grade IV employee of the department, collapsed around 8.30am, when the team was preparing to depart for the day?s culling operations in Imphal East and West districts. He died at Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital an hour later.
Veterinary and health officials, who carried out routine health check-ups of the team this morning, ruled out any connection between his death and avian influenza.
The health officials said Babuyaima was found fit during the check-up.
Culling of poultry started on Thursday, following confirmation the previous day that more than 100 birds had died of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu at a farm in Chingmeirong in Imphal East.
Officials said that before leaving for work today, Babuyaima was asked to keep an eye on the materials collected by his team for the operations.
?He was holding an 800ml bottle of formalin and spray equipment. The team went down with the items from the quarantine while the grade IV employee lagged behind. On being asked, he said he had consumed formalin,? an official statement said.
Babuyaima collapsed on his bed in the quarantine ward and was immediately rushed to the hospital, where he died. The formalin he consumed was highly concentrated, an official said.
Veterinary and health officials informed chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh who has decided that the post-mortem report would be made public to dispel any fear regarding the cause of the death.
Veterinary director Th. Dorendro Singh also said the post-mortem report would be made public.
Officials are tight-lipped about why the employee consumed formalin. Investigations are on.
Culling operations continued today in spite of the incident. However, progress was slow. While 16,000 poultry were killed by 3.30pm yesterday, only 9,800 were killed by the same time today.​
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<!--google_ad_region_start=article-->IMPHAL/GUWAHATI/SHILLONG: Amid intensified culling in Manipur following the bird flu outbreak, police are keeping their fingers on the gun to prevent smuggling of chickens from within the five-km radius of the poultry farm where the deadly H5 and H5N1 viruses were detected.

Manipur veterinary officials have killed and incinerated over 30,000 birds since culling began on Thursday within a five-km radius from the affected area at Chingmeirong in Imphal East district.

There was no report of human infection, but a member of a culling team, Salam Babuyaima Singh, died on Saturday after he inadvertently consumed formalin, a disinfectant.

"We are not allowing anybody to carry domestic birds out of the death zone. Many incidents of such smuggling have been detected," IGP S Dinokumar Singh said.

"Our men are guarding the transit points at Irilbung and Lamlai that connect Ukhrul and Thoubal districts. There are frequent patrols in and around the area," Imphal East SP L Kailun said.

Thoubal SP Soibam Ibomcha Singh said over 200 chickens, brought from Imphal, were seized at Wangoi and Sekmaijin on Friday and handed over to veterinary officials. In Bishenpur district, DC Aleng A S Shimray has banned the sale and transport of poultry birds, in line with the ban in Imphal.

At Moreh in Manipur near the Myanmar border, police and Assam Rifles have intensified vigil to stop people from smuggling poultry products into the state from the neighbouring country.

Assam Rifles was helping the Manipur government in the culling operation, while BSF has been on alert along the Indo-Bangladesh border to prevent smugglers from bringing in chicken and poultry products from Bangladesh and Myanmar.

The Centre had advised the north-eastern states to stop import of poultry from Myanmar and Bangladesh after both nations reported bird flu outbreaks early this year. It was suspected that the virus came to Imphal through poultry smuggled from Myanmar.

"We have sent three teams to assist Manipur veterinary department in the culling exercise," Assam Rifles spokesman Major Arun Devgan said.

The BSF, on the other hand, is extra-vigilant along the Indo-Bangladesh border, though Manipur does not share a boundary with that country.

"We remain alert during border haats (markets) where chances of birds being smuggled in from Bangladesh are high," a BSF officer in Shillong said.

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Culling of chickens continues
Bijay Sankar Bora
Tribune News Service
Guwahati, July 28
Even as the culling of chickens continued within five km radius of avian influenza affected site at Chingmeirong in east Imphal district of Manipur, NGOs have launched mass awareness campaign against the diseases and the dreaded H5N1 strain of virus in the state.
Manipur health department has also focused on examining human population in the vicinity of the bird flu incidence site. So far, no infection in human body was found, according to Dr P. Rajendra Singh in Imphal.
The administration has engaged 40 rapid response teams (RRTs) for culling of chickens. About 30,000 chicken in the state have been culled since the process began on Thursday.
The state health directorate has engaged over 40 medical teams to examine three lakh people living in over 60,000 households in and around Chingmeirong area where the avian flu virus has struck. The screening is intended to be completed within ten days. The National Institute of Communicable Disease (NICD), New Delhi, has sent two respiratory ventilators to add teeth to the 10-bed isolation ward in Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital in Imphal.:tiphat: http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20070729/nation.htm#12
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Chicken hunt to intensify, area widened
By Our Staff Reporter
IMPHAL, Jul 28: Notwith-standing collection and cul- ling of over 45,000 fowls, ducks and eggs, and con-fiscation of poultry feeds in the three days of bird flu containment efforts spear-headed by the Veterinary and Animal Husbandry De-partment, the same opera- tion is set for a more intense and extensive search akin to mass combing operation - to search and destroy left out domestic birds suscep-tible to the disease.
Even though there is no report of human casualty or admittance to medical cen-tres from infection of the vi- ral disease, the V&AH De-partment is leaving no stone unturned to ensure that areas considered vul-nerable to outbreak of avian influenza is completely sanitised.
According to V&AH Di-rector Dr Th Dorendra near- ly 10,000 fowls and ducks and poultry feeds from wi-thin the five kilometre ra- dius, with chingmeirong as the central point, could be collected and buried as per prescribed norms today bringing the total number of culled birds in the three day campaign to about 44,567.
Compared to the first day culling of about 9473 birds on the first day marked with lack of coordination among the different Department teams specifically set up for the purpose, the second day yesterday recorded a heal-thy figure of 22,998 chickens and 2100 ducks. The latter figure comprises of those domestic birds left unten-ded at Langol and Thang- meiband areas yesterday as further burying activi-ties resumed in the early hours today.
Expectations and tenta-tive target set by the De- partment to increase the number in today?s cam-paign, however, suffered a setback as a personnel of the Rapid Response Team (RRT) collapsed and died minutes before the culling process commenced in the morning. Only 10,000 chic-kens and ducks, 5000 from each of the two capital districts could be culled till late afternoon today.
It is informed that among the destroyed poultry items in the last two days included 10,436 eggs and 2695 kilograms of poultry feeds. Quantity of poultry feeds collected and buried/destroyed for today could not be accounted.
Coming to the Director?s comment on the ongoing campaign, it is informed that the process tomorrow would be on a more wider scale both in area and in-tensity and appealed to clubs, meira paibis and NGOs to extend all possible cooperation to the Depart-ment personnel in contai- ning the disease spread.
Conceding that culling of chickens from organised farms is more convenient compared to similar drive from the backyard farms of residential areas, Dr Doren-dra reiterated his appeal to the general public to hand over chickens and ducks to RRTs for further culling and burying exercises.
dispelling apprehension among the citizens that han-dling of fowls might lead to avian influenza infection, the Director said there is no health hazard if one handles such domesticated birds by covering the hands in plas-tic sheets/bags. However, after handling the birds one needs to thoroughly wash hands and clothes with de-tergents, he cautioned.
RRT personnel directly involved in the collection and culling of fowls need to wear protective gears owing to their nature of duty and vulnerability due to inevita-bility of constant contact with the chickens and ducks, the Director maintained.
Regarding reports of vo-luntary organisation mem- bers confiscating poultry items/products in Thoubal and Bishnupur districts suspected to have been smuggled out from Imphal areas, he conveyed that the confiscated items be hand-ed over to Veterinary depar- tment personnel of the res-pective districts/zones for burial at specified areas.
He, nevertheless, said that all prescribed proce-dure would be difficult to comply with as officials and personnel of the Depart-ment in these districts have been summoned for duty in Imphal areas.
Numerous instances have been reported of the police station concerned sending messages to the Department to collect chic-kens and ducks deposited by the people at the police stations, he informed while assuring that the Depart-ment is committed to res- pond positively and promp-tly to the people?s contri- bution in containing the disease.
Citing man-power shor-tage of V&AH Department to deal adequately with such disease outbreak, the Director fervently appealed to the common citizens for maximum effort and infor-mation to units of the V&AH Department in the districts and to other related de-partments to eliminate the disease before it assumes more dangerous proportion that could prove to be fatal to human beings.
Regarding detection of avian influenza in Ching-meirong area, he said chic- kens reared in the backyard farm of the place of the disease outbreak were pro- cured from the Mantri-pukhri Central Poultry Farm even though the exact origin of the disease is yet to be traced. He also dismissed rumours that the Chingmeirong family bought a chicken from Moreh side which is likely to be the cause of bird flu outbreak and insisted that the affected family never narrated such theory.
Meanwhile, reports were received that four truckloads of poultry feeds were detained briefly at Sekmai police station but had been released as the consignments were meant for farms located beyond the prohibited 10 kilometre radius of the avian flu outbreak centre.
On the otherhand, youths of local voluntary organisations of Kakching Wairi confiscated nearly 100 chickens and two ducks suspected to have been shifted/smuggled out of Imphal area this evening.
The seized items have been buried in the locality, sources added.
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Assam Rifles join culling
IMPHAL, Jul 28: Following outbreak of bird flu in Imphal town, a major drive was undertaken by the Hqs IG AR (S) in and around Mantripukhri on July 26 and 27 to contain spread of bird flu, informed an AR PRO release.
With the constitution of six Emergency Response Teams, all the poultry and poultry products in the garrison were centrally collected and were disposed of by the medical officer of 4 AR with the assistance of the team from Veterinary Department.
Moreover, the unit pastor with nursing assistance was also sent to all the neighbouring villages to conduct lecture on the risk of bird flu and necessary precautionary measures to avoid infection.
A total of 326 birds and 2472 eggs were disposed off during the drive, added the release.:tiphat: http://www.thesangaiexpress.com/News_pages/Brief News.html
 
Re: India: bird flu in poultry suspected / confirmed

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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Indian government confirmed on Thursday that the latest outbreak of bird flu in poultry in the remote northeast of the country was of the dangerous H5N1 strain.

"It has been confirmed as the H5N1 strain," Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Health Vineet Chawdhry told Reuters.

Hundreds of health workers will fan out in Manipur state to check on the health of some 450,000 people in and around the affected poultry farm in the village of Chingmeirong on the outskirts of Imphal, the state capital.

None of the people in the poultry unit or veterinary workers dealing with the outbreak are showing flu symptoms, but they have been put on the anti-flu drug Tamiflu just in case, Chawdhry said.

The confirmation of the H5N1 strain came after authorities received the results from two government laboratories.

India declared itself bird flu free last August after two major outbreaks of the H5N1 virus in chickens in western India. It culled around a million birds to contain those outbreaks.

It plans to slaughter some 150,000 poultry in a 5 km (3 mile) radius around the affected farm.

India has had no human case of bird flu.

Neighboring Bangladesh, Myanmar and Pakistan have also witnessed outbreaks of the H5N1 strain of bird flu this year.
 
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Mixed bag on Day IV of culling : 40,000 culled, but bird smuggling on

IMPHAL, Jul 29 : Even as the culling exercise within the designated 5 km radius continues unabated for the fourth day today, there have been no let up in the attempts to smuggle birds and feeds from the affected zones to other parts of the State.

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Around 40,000 birds were culled today, said an official source.
This brings the total number of birds culled in the last four days to 1,19,329 including ducks.

Even as co-ordination has improved considerably there is no respite in the attempt to smuggle out birds from the designated zones to other parts of the State.

Birds which were smuggled out from Imphal areas were seized at Wangoi and Lainingkhul today even as attempts to divert the birds were foiled at North AOC, Khoyathong and Kali Bari. MLA of Lamshang Assembly Constituency has also reported to the Control room that unidentified persons abandoned about 100 dead fowls as the spot at Mayang Lanjing today.

On immediate receipt of the information police and Veterinary personnel have been sent to the place to gather the dead fowls. The cause of the death is yet to be ascertained, but they not culled.

To help the State contain the disease from spreading further, the other North East States have offered to extend their help and co-operation.

A Joint Director of the Sikkim Veterinary Department Dr KC Bhutia arrived at Imphal today.

A four member team from Meghalaya is also expected to arrive here by tomorrow.

Likewise Assam has also offered to depute a team to help the State over come the problem of shortage of man power.

At present 34 RRT personnel of the Veterinary Department are being pressed into service, but this has proved inadequate to meet the demand of the situation.

Officials deputed by the Centre who have been arriving in batches during the last few days have started supervising the field work.

To help the State Government, the Centre has sent a fresh batch of 1000 pieces of N-95 masks as well as another 1000 piece of Personal Protection Equipments today.

The Control room has been flooded with calls and SOS messages all through the day.

A report was received today which said that 14 fowls perished at a farm at Tentha Khunou.

Other calls received at Control room included urging the Veterinary Department to come and pick up the fowls which have been left behind in the culling drive.

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http://www.kanglaonline.com/index.php?template=headline&newsid=38791&typeid=1

Not sure where to post this, it's India but it's a possible human case, although they seem to not want to admit that's a possibility.

"Irananda said his brother developed fever yesterday and was admitted to JN hospital at around 4 pm. Doctors at the JN hospital casualty department advised he should be admitted in the general ward for observation. Though the family insisted that he should be admitted in the isolation ward for investigation and observation, the doctors declined and discharged his brother at around 5:30 pm.

Subsequently, after his fever worsened, he was taken again to JN hospital. The family`s request for admitting him in the isolation ward was again denied, Irananda said."
 
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Culling still on, public health comes into focus

.....some snips referring to poultry ...

IMPHAL, Jul 30 : Even as 11,350 birds including ducks and fowls were culled as of 3.30 pm today by personnel of the 34 RRT personnel pressed into service at different places in Imphal East and West, public health has started to come into the focus of the Government machineries.


Meanwhile, the RRT personnel of the Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Department continued with its culling drive for the fifth day today.

Culling was carried out at Raj Bhawan too today where 12 Vincova breed ducks were reared.

Though the culling process will continue tomorrow, teams will be sent to the zones within the designated 10 kms radius to investigate the reports of unnatural deaths of fowls, which have been pouring in at the Control room set up in the Veterinary office.

Even today, the Control room received reports of the deaths of 240 fowls at Khurai Kongpal Sajor. The birds reportedly perished one after the other during the last few days.

Many calls continue to pour into the Control room, with many urging the RRT personnel to pick up the birds left behind in the last drive.

On the other hand two officials arrived from Mizoram today to over see the situation. Earlier a one member team from Sikkim arrived yesterday.

A team from Meghalaya was supposed to arrive today, but there is no confirmation of their arrival.

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120,000 birds culled in Manipur

30 Jul, 2007,

IMPHAL: More than 120,000 poultry have been culled in Manipur during the last five days with authorities ruling out a fresh outbreak of the deadly avian influenza in the state, officials said on Monday.

"The operations have been quite successful with people now voluntarily bringing their birds for culling after being aware of the threat it could pose to humans. There are no fresh reports of the bird flu virus spreading in other parts of the state," said K. Gopal, nodal officer of the Animal Disease Control Programme in Manipur.

The culling of an estimated 160,000 birds has been carried out since Thursday in a five km radius from the farm at Chenngmeirong near the state capital Imphal from where the deaths were reported. There are an estimated 800 poultry farms in the area.

"Now we have found out that the number of poultry would be higher than what we estimated as scores of more people are coming with their birds on their own for culling," Gopal told media.

About 34 Rapid Response Teams with five members in each group led by a veterinarian are involved in the culling with laboratory tests earlier confirming the dead birds had H5NI strains, which are highly infectious in nature.

Several experts and veterinary department officials from other northeastern states have arrived in Manipur to assist in the culling operations.

"The officials from the other states are here to help us and also gather first hand knowledge on the enormity of the virus," said Th Dorendra Singh, Manipur's veterinary director.

Health officials said there were no immediate reports of humans contracting the virus although a massive surveillance campaign was on to ensure the safety of locals.

"No human infection has been reported so far and we are stepping up surveillance and healtah checkups," Manipur Health Secretary P Vaiphei said.

More than 25,000 people living within the five km affected zone have undergone health checkups so far. Some with fever and other respiratory infections have had their blood tested.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/120000_birds_culled_in_Manipur/articleshow/2244006.cms
 
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Bird flu: Ministry takes steps to prepare states





By IE
Tuesday July 31, 02:26 AM
The Union Health Ministry has sent members of rapid response teams in all states in the Northeast to Imphal, where culling has started, to gain hands-on experience in tackling bird flu. The Ministry also proposes to start mock drills in West Bengal soon to help officials know more about the flu.
"Till now, they only have theoretical knowledge on the subject. We want them to go and get their hands on the actual problem. With this they will get to know what and how are things to be tackled in such situations. Though we have not come across any human cases yet, we face risk from the neighbouring countries like Myanmar," said a senior official in the Health Ministry. "By mock drills we will create a situation, a poultry farmland will be taken to give an overview of the situation. This will help us fight the scare in the minds of the people and will also give them the idea to react during the hour of need," he said. Meanwhile, even as the culling continues, human samples within the infection zone of 3 km have tested negative. "We have surveyed 45,000 households, which means about 1,60,000 people and have not come across any suspected case. The ventilators and all other medical equipment required during emergency have been put in place," said an official at the NICD.



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2nd outbreak reported

Culling tally reaches 1,37,944; mass fowl deaths reported at Khurai farm

The Imphal Free Press

IMPHAL, Jul 30: Even as culling of birds continued for a fifth day today in the greater Imphal area, another case of mass sickness and deaths of chickens has been reported at a farm at Khurai.

According to sources in the veterinary department, the unusual sickness and deaths of the birds, with what are described as bird flu symptoms, had taken place a few days back, but went unreported at the time, although the farm had been covered in the culling operations. Some of the sick birds had in fact been culled unknowingly.

The sources said after the farm owners finally reported the matter, veterinary teams have collected faecal samples of the dead birds and have sent the same for verification.

In the meantime, culling operations continued apace today, with a total of 11,350 birds culled in 34 localities in both Imphal East and Imphal West district today.

Since the start of culling operations on July 26, a total of 1,37,944 birds including chickens, ducks and other domesticated birds have been culled, while 20249 eggs and 11615 kgs of poultry feeds have been disposed off safely till today, veterinary department sources said.

Altogether 16 ducks imported from Vietnam reared at the Imphal Raj Bhavan today were also culled by a veterinary RRT today. The state governor`s residence falls within the culling zone.

Veterinary officials also said that the culling operations within the core 5 km radius zone was planned to be completed by today, but due to the bird population turning out to be well in excess of the official estimates, the operations will be continuing for the time being.

With various local NGOs and local organisations cooperating actively to the bird culling drive, the department has also constituted mobile teams to collect and dispose of birds, including broilers, local hens and ducks which were kept for culling after collecting from the individual households. Above 2,000 birds mainly adult broilers and ducks have been culled in this manner, the sources disclosed.

More than 900 birds which have been seized by public and police in the last three days at various places after being smuggled out from the core zone have also been culled.

It is meanwhile reported that some 40 chickens culled by an RRT at Kongpal Mutum Leikai were stolen by unidentified persons while being kept in a gunny sack for disposal this afternoon.

In another development, some 250 poultry farmers who have been hardest hit due to the steps taken up for containment of bird flu have banded together in an association called the Manipur Poultry Farmers and Traders` Association to protect their interests.

Since most of the poultry farmers have set up their farms with the help of bank loans, one of the issues of major concern to them is how the current situation will affect their loan status, a representative of the association said.

In the meantime, some chicken centres in the Imphal area have converted themselves to fish centres, even as the price of fish has been rising steadily over the past few days.

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Manipur bird flu suspected to have come from Burma​
Subhaschandra M
Mizzima News (www.mizzima.com)
July 31, 2007 - July 31- Fingers are being pointed at Burma for the outbreak of bird flu to have crossed the border to the Indian state of Manipur.

Indian officials and traders suspect that the bird flu virus has come from Burma last week.

The fresh outbreak of the epidemic in southern Burma might be connected with the outbreak in Manipur for 'free-chicken trade' prevails along this sector of the Indo-Burma international border.

Manipur's situation is getting worst by the day. Indian officials here are yet to find the source of the outbreak though the deadly H5N1 virus struck the Chingmeirong Ira Poultry farm in Manipur's Imphal east district on July 25 killing 132 chickens reared by Sagolsem Irananda, a poultry farmer.

Dr Th. Dorendra, Director, Veterinary and Animal Husbandry department who is supervising culling at least 1.5 lakh birds in a five kilometer radius in Imphal, suspects that the virus came from Burma. He told reporters here that the bird flu most likely came through the porous Indo-Burma border.

But the first bird flu affected family of the region rejected the allegation that they might have imported chickens from Burma when the country was hit by avian influenza in March.

Traders also believe that the virus might have come across the border as hundreds of chickens along with eggs were brought in from Burma 'routinely' to Manipur every month.

"Despite the ban, many traders smuggle hundred of chickens and 40 to 50 cartons of eggs in every day. Even before the outbreak in June, chickens from Burma used to arrive here because the rates are comparatively cheaper," a poultry trader told Mizzima.

The turnover of Manipur's poultry sector is more than Rs. 30 million. It employs more than 4,000 people as India is the world's fourth-largest producer of eggs and fifth in chicken broilers. It produced 43 billion eggs and 1.7 billion broilers in 2005, according to industry estimates.

Meanwhile the report of fresh outbreak of bird flu in two poultry farms in Thanbyuzayat, Mon State, southeastern Burma forced tightening of the Indian border trade points, according to agency sources.

The report said that authorities have adopted measures to check the outbreak, culling more than 300 chickens in two poultry farms where the H5N1 virus was identified.

This fresh outbreak comes a month after a case occurred in a privately owned chicken farm in Pegu Division, 80 kilometres north ofRangoon in June. Earlier outbreaks in Burma were identified in February and April.

Manipur's bird flu control wing took immediate precautionary measures to monitor movement of the livestock through the State's important transit points at its borders including Moreh town, Mao hill station and Jiribam town.

Since the outbreak of bird flu in Manipur on July 25, Chingmeirong, a typical locality in Imphal east district of Manipur is now in the news. "We're ruined, all chicks are gone" said Irananda whose family is dependent on the poultry farm which has no insurance cover.

The State Veterinary Department culled 1.3 lakh chickens, including 5,000 ducks in the last five years. Amidst this Manipur health Minister Ph Parijat announced that there are no cases of bird flu among humans in the state so far, and the situation is well under control. Medical teams have checked altogether 2,35,161 residents in the areas within a five-kiolmetre radius of Chingmeirong, and so far not one case of infection in human beings has been reported.
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Re: India: bird flu in poultry suspected / confirmed

Government of <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: left bottom; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(res://ietag.dll/#34/#1001); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat-x" tabIndex=0 w:st="on"><st1:country-region style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: left bottom; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(res://ietag.dll/#34/#1001); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat-x" tabIndex=0 w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place> <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>​
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Situational Report on Avian Influenza in <st1:place style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: left bottom; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(res://ietag.dll/#34/#1001); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat-x" tabIndex=0 w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: left bottom; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(res://ietag.dll/#34/#1001); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat-x" tabIndex=0 w:st="on">Chingmeirong</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: left bottom; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(res://ietag.dll/#34/#1001); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat-x" tabIndex=0 w:st="on">Village</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> in East Imphal District of Manipur<o:p></o:p>​
(As on 29.7.2007)<o:p></o:p>​
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Deptt of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries notified an outbreak of Avian influenza in <st1:place style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: left bottom; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(res://ietag.dll/#34/#1001); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat-x" tabIndex=0 w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: left bottom; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(res://ietag.dll/#34/#1001); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat-x" tabIndex=0 w:st="on">Chingmeirong</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: left bottom; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(res://ietag.dll/#34/#1001); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat-x" tabIndex=0 w:st="on">Village</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> in East Imphal District of Manipur on 25.7.2007. <o:p></o:p>
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The Central Rapid Response Team of Ministry of Health and F.W. deputed to Imphal is in the field. The additional team of cullers underwent medical screening. As of now, 196 cullers are under the cover of Tamiflu. Their health status is being monitored.<o:p></o:p>
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The medical teams consisting of 680 health personnel in total have conducted house to house active surveillance on <st1:date style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: left bottom; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(res://ietag.dll/#34/#1001); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat-x" tabIndex=0 w:st="on" Month="7" Day="27" Year="2007">27<SUP>th</SUP> July, 2007</st1:date>. They covered 45,032 houses in the Imphal Municipalility area (ward no.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 21, 22, 25, 26) Luwangsangbam, Koirengei, Lamlongei, Ahalup, Matai, Kontha area, Achanbigei, Heingang, Laipham Siphai, Paomei Colony, Sangakpam, Khurai area and Kairang area.<o:p></o:p>
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Out of the 45,032 houses surveyed, 935 were having backyard poultry. A total of 2,35,161 persons were covered. 287 Fever/ Acute upper respiratory Tract infection cases were found and no persons had handled either dead or sick bird. These cases are being monitored. <o:p></o:p>
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The isolation ward in <st1:place style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: left bottom; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(res://ietag.dll/#34/#1001); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat-x" tabIndex=0 w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: left bottom; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(res://ietag.dll/#34/#1001); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat-x" tabIndex=0 w:st="on">J.N.</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: left bottom; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(res://ietag.dll/#34/#1001); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat-x" tabIndex=0 w:st="on">Hospital</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, Imphal is ready to receive patients. Two ventilators have been installed to provide critical care. This is in addition to the critical care facilities available at Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal. <o:p></o:p>
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Adequate supply of logistics [Tamiflu, N-95 masks and personal protective gears] have been made available to the State Government. <o:p></o:p>
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The situation is being closely monitored. As of now, there is no suspected human cases of Avian Influenza.

http://mohfw.nic.in/status report as on 29th July 2007.htm<o:p></o:p>
 
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