Kazakhstan: 2024 Avian flu in wild birds

[Shiloh]

Source: https://eurasianet.org/kazakhstan-hundreds-of-wild-swans-die-with-avian-flu


Kazakhstan: Hundreds of wild swans die with avian flu
Activists are concerned the die-off may number into the thousands.
Jan 2, 2024​

Environmental officials in Kazakhstan say at least 227 wild swans have died in the western Mangystau region as a result of the spread of the avian influenza.

The Mangystau regional government’s ecology department said on January 2 that the bodies of the birds were found around the Karakol Lake, which lies some 30 kilometers south of the city of Aktau.

Azamat Sarsenbayev, a local activist who has been monitoring the unfolding situation, has said he believes the die-off is much greater than what the authorities are stating.

“I don’t understand why they are underestimating the scale of the tragedy that is currently unfolding on Lake Karakol,” Sarsenbayev wrote on January 1...


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Kazakhstan - Influenza A viruses of high pathogenicity (Inf. with) (non-poultry including wild birds) (2017-) - Immediate notification


GENERAL INFORMATION

COUNTRY/TERRITORY OR ZONE
ZONE

ANIMAL TYPE
TERRESTRIAL

DISEASE CATEGORY
Listed disease

EVENT ID
5455

DISEASE
Influenza A viruses of high pathogenicity (Inf. with) (non-poultry including wild birds) (2017-)

CAUSAL AGENT
Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus

GENOTYPE / SEROTYPE / SUBTYPE
H5 (N untyped)

START DATE
2023/12/28

REASON FOR NOTIFICATION
Recurrence of an eradicated disease

DATE OF LAST OCCURRENCE
2023/01/13

CONFIRMATION DATE
2023/12/28

EVENT STATUS
On-going

END DATE - SELF-DECLARATION

NO REPORT INFORMATION

REPORT NUMBER
Immediate notification

REPORT ID
IN_164802

REPORT REFERENCE - REPORT DATE
2024/01/03

REPORT STATUS
Validated

NO EVOLUTION REPORT

EPIDEMIOLOGY

SOURCE OF EVENT OR ORIGIN OF INFECTION

• Unknown or inconclusive

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL COMMENTS
No epidemiological comment

QUANTITATIVE DATA SUMMARY

MEASURING UNIT
Animal
SpeciesSusceptibleCasesDeathsKilled and Disposed ofSlaughtered/ Killed for commercial useVaccinated Mute Swan (WILD)NEW-227 227---TOTAL-227 227---

DIAGNOSTIC DETAILS

CLINICAL SIGNS
YES

METHOD OF DIAGNOSTIC
Diagnostic test

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)	Republican State Enterprise National Veterinary Reference Center	Mute Swan	ob_129664	2023/12/28	Positive

​https://wahis.woah.org/#/in-review/5455

 

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