Indonesian researchers: BF could be more easily transmitted

[sharon sanders]

Re: Indonesian researchers: BF could be more easily transmitted

Researchers seem to find H5N1 in backyard poultry in Indonesia wherever they look for it. I suspect the viral load in the environment is huge. I also wonder about the suggestion people are becoming infected from exposure to fewer diseased birds. Leaving aside the question of whether the virus has become better adapted to infecting humans, if people ARE becoming infected more easily, I wonder whether it's because they're picking up the virus from other vectors and/or contaminated soil/dust as well as infected poultry? I would have thought that once the virus replicates within poultry and reaches a certain threshold of viraemia, infected poultry simply keel over and die, therefore, there is a limit on the amount of virus they can carry. Kenny D.

Before they die they re-infect the wild birds which keeps the cycle going.

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Indonesian researchers: BF could be more easily transmitted

Report in Media Indonesia Online, officials state "no mutation of the H5N1 virus in Indonesia".

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http://www.mediaindo.co.id/berita.asp?id=134972

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Indonesian researchers: BF could be more easily transmitted

Report in Media Indonesia Online, officials state "no mutation of the H5N1 virus in Indonesia".

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http://www.mediaindo.co.id/berita.asp?id=134972

No Mutations in the Bird Flu virus in Indonesia

JAKARTA -- MIOL: the bird flu Virus (Avian Influenza/AI) available in Indonesia till at this time did not mutate.

Was like this Chairman Urusan Inserted Breaker Komunikasi Publik Unit Pengendalian of the Illness of Avian Influenza Director General Peternakan Departemen of Agriculture, M. Zoelkarnain Hasan, in Jakarta, on Friday (8/6).

From almost 300 specimens that were sent to the WHO collaboration laboratory direct, that the bird flu virus in Indonesia to at this time not mutated.

"Be still till at this time not having the mutation from A to A," he said.

So the community might not worry towards the spread of the virus through the other animal apart from the poultry, because as far as this is concerned the virus H5N1 to the other animal will die after his bearer's animal died.

"This virus died and stopped not spreading in that was other," he said while added, so up to now the government does not give compensation for the other kept animal that was destroyed like the pig, the cat, and the dog.

He also said his side had not destroyed the kept animal.

If indeed had the extermination of the kept animal only was related to the Daerah Regulation (Regional Regulations) then.

For the problem of chicken immunity against the bird flu vaccine, he said the possibility of poultry resistance against the vaccine indeed was available.

Like to the duck that has divaksin and was stated free the bird flu virus evidently after being researched still was gotten by this virus.

"Because that till at this time still was held by the research in Bogor to find out the possibility" of "poultry resistance against the vaccine," he said.