New mass bird deaths in Russia

[ukcz]

Specialist does not confirm bird flu in Russia Krasnodar region
14.02.2006

KRASNODAR, February 14 (Itar-Tass) - The chief veterinary doctor of Russia?s southern Krasnodar region has not confirmed reports of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Control on bird flu cases among wild geese and ducks in the coastal zone.

?Neither I, nor concerned Krasnodar agencies have official documents confirming such diagnosis,? Vladimir Shevkoplyas told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.

The Krasnodar region started taking preventive measures long before the spring arrival of migratory birds. A regime of restricted access has been introduced at all 42 poultry farms of the region.

However, according to the chairman of the committee for agrarian policy and consumer market of the local legislature, Ivan Petrenko, ?the situation is less optimistic in the private sector, which has about eight million fowl?.

Checks have demonstrated that many people carelessly send their ducks and geese to local water reservoirs, where contacts with migratory birds are most likely, he said.

Unfortunately, ?people don?t realize how serious the problem is,? he regretted. He stressed that ?if a bird flu seat is registered just in one household, all fowl will be destroyed within the radius of 30 kilometers from it?.

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=3187775&PageNum=0

 

[Bruce]

Russia H5N1 outbreak confirmed in southern Russia

Russia H5N1 outbreak confirmed in southern Russia

H5N1 outbreak confirmed in southern Russia

MAKHACHKALA, Russia AFX - The H5N1 bird flu virus has been found among
poultry in the Russian Caucasus province of Dagestan, a senior veterinary
official said.
"An infection of the bird flu virus type H5N1 occurred" at a poultry farm in
the village of Shamkhal, said the deputy head of Russia's veterinary
surveillance department, Nikolai Vlasov.

 

[Bruce]

Russia H5N1 outbreak confirmed in southern Russia

Russia H5N1 outbreak confirmed in southern Russia

H5N1 outbreak confirmed in southern Russia MAKHACHKALA, Russia AFX - The H5N1 bird flu virus has been found among
poultry in the Russian Caucasus province of Dagestan, a senior veterinary
official said.
"An infection of the bird flu virus type H5N1 occurred" at a poultry farm in
the village of Shamkhal, said the deputy head of Russia's veterinary
surveillance department, Nikolai Vlasov.
http://freeserve.advfn.com/news_H5N1-outbreak-confirmed-in-southern-Russia_14208006.html

 

[DB]

"Subspecies" of Deadly Bird Flu Confirmed in Southern Russia

"Subspecies" of Deadly Bird Flu Confirmed in Southern Russia

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Makhachkala, 15 February: The H5N1 bird flu virus has been identified in Dagestan, the deputy head of the veterinary inspectorate of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Plant Control, Nikolay Vlasov, told reporters today.

"Examination of the bodies of chickens which died recently at the Makhachkalinskaya poultry farm in the village of Shamkhal has revealed that they were infected with the H5N1 flu virus. The infection came from wild birds," Vlasov said.

Vlasov said the subspecies of the virus found in Dagestan is not dangerous for humans. "We must say this is an avian flu virus which only affects livestock. The avian flu which can be passed to humans is not in Dagestan," he assured us.​

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[Clytie]

Bird flu confirmed in 24 Crimean villages

Bird flu confirmed in 24 Crimean villages

Bird flu confirmed in 24 Crimean villages

Interfax
http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=1146460 5
Feb 13 2006 8:13PM

KYIV. Feb 13 (Interfax) - Deaths of poultry had been recorded in 42 villages in Ukraine's region of Crimea by 4:00 p.m. on Monday, and the H5 bird flu virus was confirmed by lab tests in dead fowl in 24 of the villages, the Ukrainian Health Ministry said, citing the Crimean veterinary authority.

No new sites of poultry deaths had been registered for the past 24 hours. Tsvetochnoye was the only Crimean village to be under quarantine.

Ninety-five people underwent medical examinations, and 26 were under medical surveillance. There was no registered case of serious viral respiratory disease.

Nor had there been any reported case of bird death caused by bird flu in any other part of Ukraine.

 

[Theresa42]

H5N1 in ducks & chickens in Stavropol

H5N1 in ducks & chickens in Stavropol

Crazy babelfish translation from Italian:

Aviaria: nuovo focolaio in Russia
20/02/2006 15:33:00

New focolaio of avian infuence in Russia. In one not far small farm from Stavropol e' recorded one moria of ducks and polli. It only turns out you of the laboratory analyses - I attended between some day - will say in incontrovertible way if the massacre of the flown ones them from courtyard is due to deadly virus the H5N1, like the veterinaries of that zone seem to give for discounted.

http://www.studiocelentano.it/newsflash_dett.asp?id=19059&opt=ict

Aviaria: nuovo focolaio in Russia

MOSCA, 20 FEB - Nuovo focolaio di influenza aviaria in Russia. In una fattoria non lontana da Stavropol si e' registrata una moria di anatre e polli. Soltanto i risultati delle analisi di laboratorio - attesi tra qualche giorno - diranno in modo incontrovertibile se la strage dei volatili da cortile sia dovuta al micidiale virus H5N1, come i veterinari di quella zona sembrano dare per scontato.

 

[Sally Furniss]

Russia quarantines 17 villages

Russia quarantines 17 villages

Bird flu: Russia quarantines 17 villages
22/02/2006 - 08:31:36
The southern Russian region of Dagestan today declared a quarantine in 17 villages after the H5N1 bird flu strain was detected in three poultry farms.

The chief veterinary official, Zaidin Dzhambulatov, said it was forbidden to transport fowl and poultry products from these villages. He added that strict restrictions on access to 10 poultry farms were also in force.

About 500,000 chickens have been destroyed or died in Dagestan this month.

The first two incidents of mass deaths occurred early this month. Dagestan authorities initially blamed Newcastle disease, a common illness among birds that is not a threat to humans. But tests later showed that bird flu was the cause. Authorities today confirmed H5N1 among birds in a third poultry farm.
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=173570100&p=y7357x8x6&n=173570860

 

[Mellie]

Russian Authorities Quarantine 17 Villages in Recent Bird Flu Outbreak

Russian Authorities Quarantine 17 Villages in Recent Bird Flu Outbreak

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/02...uarantine.shtml

Russian Authorities Quarantine 17 Villages in Recent Bird Flu Outbreak

Created: 22.02.2006 13:13 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 13:14 MSK, 36 minutes ago

MosNews

Local authorities have quarantined 17 villages in Russia?s southern Dagestan province after the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain was identified in three poultry farms, the Xinhua news agency reports, quoting a local medical official.

All transportation of fowl and poultry products from these affected villages have been banned, said Zaidin Dzambulatov, chief of Dagestan?s government veterinary committee. Access to 10 poultry farms has also been severely restricted, she emphasized.

On Wednesday, local authorities confirmed a third case of H5N1 virus in a Dagestan poultry farm after detecting the virus in two similar farms last week, which were the first confirmed cases of the virus in the Russian Caucasus region.

The region borders Azerbaijan where bird flu cases have been confirmed this month. Neighboring Turkey has also seen 21 cases of the virus being recorded in human beings.

Russia?s first H5N1 case was confirmed in Siberia last year, but, to date, no human case has been registered in Russia. So far at least 90 people have been killed by the human-infecting H5N1 strain around the world.

Experts are still concerned that the virus could mutate into a form, not just transmissible from animals to humans, but between humans, with the potential to lead to a devastating pandemic

 

[Mellie]

Russian Authorities Quarantine 17 Villages in Recent Bird Flu Outbreak

Russian Authorities Quarantine 17 Villages in Recent Bird Flu Outbreak

Russian Authorities Quarantine 17 Villages in Recent Bird Flu Outbreak http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/02...uarantine.shtml

Russian Authorities Quarantine 17 Villages in Recent Bird Flu Outbreak

Created: 22.02.2006 13:13 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 13:14 MSK, 36 minutes ago

MosNews

Local authorities have quarantined 17 villages in Russia?s southern Dagestan province after the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain was identified in three poultry farms, the Xinhua news agency reports, quoting a local medical official.

All transportation of fowl and poultry products from these affected villages have been banned, said Zaidin Dzambulatov, chief of Dagestan?s government veterinary committee. Access to 10 poultry farms has also been severely restricted, she emphasized.

On Wednesday, local authorities confirmed a third case of H5N1 virus in a Dagestan poultry farm after detecting the virus in two similar farms last week, which were the first confirmed cases of the virus in the Russian Caucasus region.

The region borders Azerbaijan where bird flu cases have been confirmed this month. Neighboring Turkey has also seen 21 cases of the virus being recorded in human beings.

Russia?s first H5N1 case was confirmed in Siberia last year, but, to date, no human case has been registered in Russia. So far at least 90 people have been killed by the human-infecting H5N1 strain around the world.

Experts are still concerned that the virus could mutate into a form, not just transmissible from animals to humans, but between humans, with the potential to lead to a devastating pandemic

 

[Sally Furniss]

Mass poultry deaths registered in southern Russia

Mass poultry deaths registered in southern Russia



Mass poultry deaths registered in southern Russia


ROSTOV-ON-DON, February 24 (RIA Novosti) - More than 24,000 hens died at a poultry farm in southern Russia, a local official said Friday.

"From February 20 to February 23, more than 24,000 birds died at a poultry farm in a village of Lavlinskaya (124 kilometers from the regional center Krasnodar)," an emergencies ministry spokesperson said.

He said there were about 300,000 hens at the farm and the preliminary data did not indicate bird flu as a potential cause of deaths.

"Samples for further tests have been sent to a regional lab in Krasnodar," the official said.

Bird flu outbreaks have been reported in January at two poultry farms in Daghestan, a republic in southern Russia.

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060224/43741593.html

 

[Bruce]

Russia: Stavropol H5N1 Confirmed

Russia: Stavropol H5N1 Confirmed

H5N1 virus confirmed in Stavropol territory

STAVROPOL. Feb 27 (Interfax) - Tests have confirmed bird flu deaths in the city of Kislovodsk and the Izobilnoye district of the Stavropol territory, chief regional veterinarian inspector Viktor Parakhin told Interfax on Monday.
Parakhin said the Vladimir virology laboratory found H5N1 virus in the samples.
"The deaths are not numerous, yet we are assessing the situation in order to prevent the spread of the infection," he said.
http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11470779

 

[Sally Furniss]

Zoo in port city of Odessa.

Zoo in port city of Odessa.

Dead Ukraine birds tested for H5N1
From correspondents in Kiev
28feb06 PARTS of a zoo in Ukraine's southern port city of Odessa have been put under quarantine pending test results to determine whether the lethal H5N1 bird flu virus has spread beyond Crimea, officials said today.

Samples of pheasants and parrots that began dying in the zoo last week were being analysed for traces of the H5N1 avian influenza strain, which is potentially deadly to humans, regional officials were quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency. Preliminary test results showed that the birds were infected with an H5 type of bird flu, said Pavel Melnik, Odessa's top veterinary official.
Since first appearing in Ukraine last December, the H5N1 virus had been recorded only in the country's Crimean peninsula, which lies around 190 kilometres southeast of Odessa across the Black Sea.
Ukraine has not recorded any instances of humans catching the virus

The H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus has killed more than 90 people in Asia, Turkey and northern Iraq and has recently spread to several countries in Europe.
The 160-plus humans known to have caught the virus so far were infected after handling contaminated poultry.
Health experts fear the virus is close to mutating into a human-to-human form capable of killing millions worldwide.
http://townsvillebulletin.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,7034,18298241%5E401,00.html

 

[Bruce]

Russian Bird Farm Ravaged

Russian Bird Farm Ravaged

Russian officials say the deadly H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus has killed more than 100,000 birds on a poultry farm in southern Russia.
The governor, Alexander Tkachev, of the Krasnodar region said Tuesday that the farm has been quarantined and other measures have been ordered to stop the spread of the virus.
By VOA News
28 February 2006 http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-02-28-voa24.cfm


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Note birds were kiled by the flu not with it.

and history repeats itself...2004 May 30 Seven hundred thousand chickens expired during a power blackout
in Moscow that cut off their ventilation; not long afterward the dead chickens
started exploding.[Pravda]?

 

[Clytie]

Avian flu strikes hard in southern Russia

Avian flu strikes hard in southern Russia

Avian flu strikes hard in southern Russia

H5N1 strain kills 495,000 birds


By David Holley, Los Angeles Times | March 2, 2006

MOSCOW -- The dangerous strain of bird flu known as H5N1 has killed nearly half a million domestic fowl in southern Russia in the past month despite efforts to control the outbreak by culling poultry, the Emergency Situations Ministry said yesterday.

About 495,000 birds in southern Russian regions near the Caspian and Black seas have died since Feb. 3 from the virulent strain of bird flu, which can also infect humans, ministry spokesman Viktor Beltsov said. Another 220,000 birds were killed in an attempt to stem the outbreak, he said.

This is the third large outbreak of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in Russia, but the previous episodes involved fewer deaths of sick birds. Last summer, about 17,000 birds died from the flu strain while more than 600,000 others were killed in an effort to prevent the disease's spread, according to the ministry. During a second outbreak from October to January, about 1,500 birds died of the disease and 6,500 were culled.

Health officials fear that the disease might mutate into a form that could be easily transmitted from person to person, possibly triggering a worldwide flu pandemic. The larger the number of human cases caught from contact with birds, the greater the chances for such a mutation to occur, specialists say.

The disease is not spread to humans through birds that have been properly cooked.

Since 2003, 173 people in seven countries have contracted the virus, and 93 of them have died, according to a World Health Organization tally as of Monday. The first deaths were recorded in 1997 in Hong Kong. No cases of bird flu in humans have been detected in Russia.
Southern Russia is particularly vulnerable to the disease because it is a major stopover point for migratory birds, which have been blamed for spreading the H5N1 strain. The most severe outbreak has been in Dagestan, on the Caspian Sea, where 595,000 birds have either died of flu or been culled.

The Dagestan outbreak began with the death of wild swans and was spread by crows and seagulls that fed on their carcasses, Zaidin Dzhambulatov, chairman of the regional government's veterinary committee, said.

''Both the crows and the gulls fly all around, and in effect what we got was a rainfall of infected bird droppings," he said.
At two major poultry farms, wild birds got into the main feed preparation facilities, infecting grain that was then fed to poultry, he said.

Russia will begin mass vaccination of domestic fowl against bird flu starting March 10, Agriculture Minister Alexei Gordeyev of Russia said yesterday. The country already has sufficient quantities of vaccine, he said in an interview with Mayak radio. He also predicted that migratory birds would carry the bird flu strain to the United States this spring.

The H5N1 strain of bird flu crossed into Western Europe for the first time only in mid-February. By late in the month it had ravaged a farm of more than 11,000 turkeys at Versailleux, in southeastern France.

It is not yet clear how great a danger to human health may be posed by the spread of the disease in Russian poultry farms, said Svetlana Yatsyshina, head of the virus studies group at the Russian Health Ministry's Central Scientific Research Institute of Epidemiology.
''The likelihood of human infection depends on the closeness of people's contact with sick birds," she said.

 

[Sally Furniss]

Russia: anti-bird flu drill

Russia: anti-bird flu drill

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=3938210&PageNum=0
Russian ministry completes anti-bird flu drill

MOSCOW, March 4 (Itar-Tass) - Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry on Friday completed a two-day command and staff drill to combat a possible outbreak of bird flu in the country.
"Using the results of the exercise held at the Ministry's headquarters, specialists will prepare proposals and an inter-departmental plan of responding to a possible aggravation of the epizootic situation, as well as recommendations for the population," the Ministry's information department told Itar-Tass.
Taking part in the drill -- aside from Emergency Situations Ministry specialists -- were representatives of other ministries and departments concerned.
"The specialists determined the main preventive measures, developed a plan of interaction between various departments," the information department said.
Spokesman for the Emergency Situations Ministry Viktor Beltsov said three scenarios were considered during the drill: pre-epidemic measures, the measures during an outbreak, and anti-pandemic actions.
"All the tasks and objective of the exercise have been fulfilled," Beltsov said.
Similar exercises were held in Siberia, including the Altai territory, and the Omsk and Novosibirsk regions. More than 250 wildfowl species fly through these territories in the period of spring migration.
However, the anti-bird flu exercises in these regions were largely practical.

 

[Sally Furniss]

Re: Russia: Stavropol H5N1 Confirmed

Re: Russia: Stavropol H5N1 Confirmed

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YESSENTUKI, Caucasus, March 4 (Itar-Tass) - New cases of birds dying of avian influenza (bird flu) have been reported in North Caucasus, sources at an inter-regional veterinary laboratory in the city of Pyatigorsk, Stavropol Territory, said Friday.
"Another 32 samples we received for testing have proved positive," said Viktor Pilipeiko, the laboratory's director. "We're sending the tests to the Institute of Animal Life Protection in the city of Vladimir for final confirmation of bird flu virus."
Earlier in the day, experts at the institute sent back a proof-positive confirmation for test samples taken in three districts of Stavropol Territory.
"Those samples were taken in Izobilnoye and Neftekumsk districts and in the village of Narzanny near Kislovodsk [a major mountainous resort town and spa -- Itar-Tass]," Pilipeiko said.
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All the bird deaths occurred on small private farms there, he indicated.
"Some days ago, our laboratory also found the virus in [tissues of] the birds that died in the region of Kabardino-Balkaria, Chechnya and Dagestan," Pilipeiko said adding that all of those were wild birds.
He indicated at the same time that the laboratory had not received any cats or other domestic animals who suspectedly died of bird flu.
A broad vaccination of poultry is due to begin in the Stavropol Territory in mid-March. The vaccine was created at the institute in Vladimir but it is produced in some other places across Russia, too, including the Stavropol biological preparations factory.
First consignments of the vaccine will be supplied to local veterinary stations and to neighboring regions of the Caucasus.
The Pyatigorsk laboratory controls the situation in all districts of the Stavropol Territory and all other parts of North Caucasus. It has done more than 22,000 tests for bird flu since the beginning of the year.
Medics say the virus affected wild birds in most cases, and especially crows.
Itar-Tass reporter Sergei Trofimov who covers Astrakhan, a territory adjoining the northwest part of the Caspian Sea, said the first case of bird flu has been registered there this year, too.
The regional veterinary service said three gueese died of the disease on a private farm in the village of Parygino, where the authorities introduced quarantine Friday.
Police patrols and posts were placed on all the roads leading to the village and veterinarian services did disinfecting on all the households there.

YESSENTUKI, Caucasus, March 4 (Itar-Tass) - New cases of birds dying of avian influenza (bird flu) have been reported in North Caucasus, sources at an inter-regional veterinary laboratory in the city of Pyatigorsk, Stavropol Territory, said Friday.
"Another 32 samples we received for testing have proved positive," said Viktor Pilipeiko, the laboratory's director. "We're sending the tests to the Institute of Animal Life Protection in the city of Vladimir for final confirmation of bird flu virus."
Earlier in the day, experts at the institute sent back a proof-positive confirmation for test samples taken in three districts of Stavropol Territory.
"Those samples were taken in Izobilnoye and Neftekumsk districts and in the village of Narzanny near Kislovodsk [a major mountainous resort town and spa -- Itar-Tass]," Pilipeiko said.
All the bird deaths occurred on small private farms there, he indicated.
"Some days ago, our laboratory also found the virus in [tissues of] the birds that died in the region of Kabardino-Balkaria, Chechnya and Dagestan," Pilipeiko said adding that all of those were wild birds.
He indicated at the same time that the laboratory had not received any cats or other domestic animals who suspectedly died of bird flu.
A broad vaccination of poultry is due to begin in the Stavropol Territory in mid-March. The vaccine was created at the institute in Vladimir but it is produced in some other places across Russia, too, including the Stavropol biological preparations factory.
First consignments of the vaccine will be supplied to local veterinary stations and to neighboring regions of the Caucasus.
The Pyatigorsk laboratory controls the situation in all districts of the Stavropol Territory and all other parts of North Caucasus. It has done more than 22,000 tests for bird flu since the beginning of the year.
Medics say the virus affected wild birds in most cases, and especially crows.
Itar-Tass reporter Sergei Trofimov who covers Astrakhan, a territory adjoining the northwest part of the Caspian Sea, said the first case of bird flu has been registered there this year, too.
The regional veterinary service said three gueese died of the disease on a private farm in the village of Parygino, where the authorities introduced quarantine Friday.
Police patrols and posts were placed on all the roads leading to the village and veterinarian services did disinfecting on all the households there.
First reports on deaths of migratory birds in the delta of the Volga river, which crosses the region from northwest to southeast, came November 17, 2005, and tests proved the presence of bird flu virus in them.
December 17, 2005, the number of dead birds reached 560.


http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=3938253&PageNum=0

 

[emmysue]

Re: Russia: Stavropol H5N1 Confirmed

Re: Russia: Stavropol H5N1 Confirmed

Stavropol is where many of the Chechen children suffering from the "mysterious illness" are hospitalized.

see:
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=109937
From article:
"On February 21 another 17 people fell ill," she said, adding that some were hospitalised in the southern Russian city of Stavropol.
All but 36 of the patients were children and adolescents seemed particularly prone, she said.
Clinic director Igor Boev told AFP 54 Chechens were treated between January 1 and February 20 for "pseudo-asthmatic" attacks.
"These patients have been in a stressed state for 15 to 20 years and their nervous, endocrinological and vascular systems have deteriorated," the psychiatrist said.

 

[Dove]

New mass bird deaths in Russia

Bird flu claims new mass bird deaths in Russia

13:40 | 14/ 03/ 2006

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060314/44286162.html


MOSCOW, March 14 (RIA Novosti) - About 69,000 birds have died or been slaughtered in the last 24 hours at Russia's poultry farms, an Emergency Situations Ministry spokesman said Tuesday.

The official said 1,168,144 fowl had been slaughtered since an outbreak of bird flu hit southern Russia, a major stopover area for migrating birds, in February. According to the ministry, the virus has affected nine regions: the republics of Kabardino-Balkaria, Daghestan, Chechnya, Kalmykia, Adygea, North Ossetia-Alania, and the Krasnodar and Stavropol territories, and the Astrakhan regions.

"Vaccination of domestic fowl in Daghestan and Stavropol began on March 10, and 394,000 domestic fowl have been vaccinated since then," the spokesman said.

The official said that type A, subtype H5N1 virus, potentially lethal for humans, had been found in domestic and wild birds in four of Russia's seven federal districts since July 2005. A total of 642,848 fowl were slaughtered last year, he added.

The ministry said no cases of humans contracting bird flu had been reported in the country.