Indonesian pigs test negative for bird flu

[Theresa42]

Emotional roller-coasteeeerrrrrrrrrrrr...wheeeeeee...!

Indonesian pigs test negative for bird flu
Fri May 19, 2006 6:44 AM BST

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Fresh tests on pigs from Indonesia's Sumatra island, where five people have been confirmed infected with bird flu, did not show any trace of the H5N1 virus, a senior government official said on Friday.

The pigs had earlier tested positive for the H5N1 avian flu virus by a leading animal research centre in Bogor, West Java. The Sumatra cluster case has raised concern about possible human-to-human transmission of the virus.

"Swab tests from the pigs' nose by the Bogor animal research centre came up negative for the virus ... the H5N1 virus," Syamsul Bahri, animal health director at the agriculture ministry, told Reuters.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/new..._UK-BIRDFLU-INDONESIA-PIGS.xml&archived=False

 

[Theresa42]

Re: Indonesian pigs test negative for bird flu

Nasal swabs?!

 

[Sally Furniss]

Re: Indonesian pigs test negative for bird flu

"Swab tests from the pigs' nose by the Bogor animal research centre came up negative for the virus ... the H5N1 virus," Syamsul Bahri, animal health director at the agriculture ministry, told Reuters.

Guaranteed negative result

 

[Shannon Bennett]

Re: Indonesian pigs test negative for bird flu

Frankly, the idea of asymptomatic pigs makes my skin crawl. The perfect mixing vessel with no way to know if the pig is infected with the virus. Indonesia neither has the funding nor the labs to test the millions of swine living there. Anyone know when a typical flu season is in full sway in that country? Obviously they have some human virus circulating as the nurse treating the Gintu family was sick with one when she nursed the family.
Could we have found a more perfect storm?

 

[Mingus]

Re: Indonesian pigs test negative for bird flu

Guaranteed negative result

It's the best way to test early infection !
We get hundreds of positives from the swine H3N2 epidemic here in Canada last summer.

The problem is, if you swab the nose of the same animals after it get positive antibody test, now, for sure it will be negative...

Lab tests are like statistics, you can manipulate them to made them tell anything.

 

[Mingus]

Re: Indonesian pigs test negative for bird flu

Archive Number 20060519.1413
Published Date 19-MAY-2006
Subject PRO/AH/EDR> Avian influenza (118) - Indonesia (pigs: not)


AVIAN INFLUENZA (118) - INDONESIA (PIGS: NOT)
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Date: Fri, 19 May 2006
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Source: Reuters alertnet, 19 May 2006 [edited]
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Fresh tests on pigs from Indonesia's Sumatra island, where 6 members of a
[human] family have been confirmed infected with bird flu, did not show any
trace of the H5N1 virus, a senior government official said on Friday [19
May 2006].

Pigs are being tested in the village because they can act as mixing vessels
in which human and bird flu viruses can swap genes, leading to a strain
that can easily infect people and pass from person to person.

"Swab tests from the pigs' nose by the Bogor animal research centre came up
negative for the virus ... the H5N1 virus," Syamsul Bahri, animal health
director at the agriculture ministry, told Reuters. Bogor is in West Java.

Bahri said similar swab tests on poultry from the same village were
negative for the H5N1 virus, but more tests would be done to confirm the
findings. "We will take the samples to the World Organisation of Animal
Health's (OIE) laboratory in Australia for further testing," he said.

Earlier tests by scientists at a leading Indonesian animal research
institute had found pigs in the village where the cluster case occurred
were positive for bird flu antibodies.It indicated the animals had once
been exposed to the H5N1 bird flu virus, but were not infected any longer.

[byline: Fitri Wulandari]

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[The results from the OIE reference laboratory at Geelong, Victoria,
Australia are awaited with interest.- Mod.AS]

[see also:
Avian influenza (117) - Indonesia (pigs: susp) 20060518.1401]

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Personal note: So they tell clearly "The pigs were not infected any longer" so It do were infected !