Newcastle outbreak-Russia

[Treyfish]

[1] Russia (Kaluga region)
Date: Sat 28 April 2007
Source: Regnum News Agency [trans. from Russian by Assoc.Mod.NP, edited]
<http://www.regnum.ru/news/820691.html>


Outbreaks of Newcastle disease [NCD] have been registered in 3
settlements of the Kaluga region. The disease was revealed in the
villages of Lapino in the Babyninskiy district, Pavlischev bor in the
Juhnovskiy district, and Kudrinskaya in the Meshchovskiy district.
This information was provided by a representative of the directorate
of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Kaluga region.

Vaccination is supported by other measures such as disinfection of
affected premises, combined with public education activities.

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[2] Russia (Amur region)
Date: Fri 27 April 2007
Source: Amur.info News Agency [trans. from Russian by Assoc.Mod.NP, edited]
<http://www.amur.info/news/2007/04/27/26.html>


Quarantine has been declared in one of areas of [the city of]
Blagoveshchensk, within private buildings. [For the location of
Blagoveshchensk, adjacent to the border with China, see map at
<http://map.rin.ru/maps_e/Amurskaya.gif>. - Mod.AS]

Experts of the city's station for animal disease control have
discovered NCD-infected birds -- including chickens, ducks, and
turkeys -- in one of the backyard farms. Avians in neighbouring
dwellings have been culled and the premises disinfected. During the
quarantine period imposed upon the relevant city-district, the trade
in susceptible birds, such as hens, guinea fowls, and turkeys, will
be forbidden.

George Ivanchikov, the chief of the Blagoveschensk station for animal
disease control, has informed that final disinfection of the relevant
territory should be completed by Saturday [28 April]. If all actions
are accomplished as planned, the quarantine might be terminated at
the end of the next week [Sat 5 May 2007].

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[The Kaluga region is located in the Central area of Russia southwest
of Moscow. It borders with the Moscow, the Tula, the Oryol, the
Bryansk, and the Smolensk regions.

The Amur region is located in the southern part of the Russian Far
East. Blagoveschensk city is the administrative center of the region.
The region borders with China in the south (the total length of the
state border is more than 1200 kilometers); the Chita region in the
West; the Republic of Sakha Yakutia in the North; and the Khabarovsk
Territory in the East. - Mod.NP

Kaluga oblast (region) is No. 6 and Amur oblast is No. 43 in the
administrative map of Russia, available at
<http://www.grida.no/graphics/CEE/russia/russieoblast.jpg>. The
distance between the 2 regions exceeds 5000 km. (3100 miles)

The 2 events might be a reminder of the presence of the NCD virus in
Russia; unfortunately, the last available information on the NCD
situation in Russia, on OIE's (World Animal Health Organization)
web-site, dates back to 2004 (a total of 12 outbreaks, in the
following 6 regions: Ivanovskaya oblast, Altayskiy kray, Moskva
(gorod), Nizhegorodskaya oblast, Smolenskaya oblast, and Bryanskaya
oblast. This demonstrates the wide geographical distribution of the
disease. (See OIE's HandiSTATUS at
<http://www.oie.int/hs2/zi_pays_mald.asp?c_pays=162&c_mald=17>)

Official confirmation of the outbreaks described above, including
laboratory test results pertaining to the pathogenicity of the NCD
virus involved, and a detailed update on the NCD situation in Russia,
are anticipated. - Mod.AS]:tiphat:
http://tinyurl.com/22tctz

 

[hawkeye]

Re: Newcastle outbreak-Russia

A little history regarding the Kaluga region.

28/ 02/ 2007


Moscow Region bird flu outbreak contained
Print version

MOSCOW, February 28 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's food safety watchdog said Wednesday that a bird flu outbreak in Moscow and the Moscow Region has been contained and its reoccurrence in the future is highly unlikely.

Since February 10, dead poultry with traces of a deadly H5N1 virus have been found in Moscow, eight districts of the Moscow Region and a district in the Kaluga Region, but no cases of humans infected with the virus have been registered and emergency measures have been taken to stop the spread of the disease.

"We are not expecting any new cases of bird flu [in the region]," said Nikolai Vlasov, department head at the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision.

He said that the last avian flu case was registered on February 22 and 2,146 birds have been culled.

"It is obvious that the Moscow incident is over," Vlasov said.

The veterinary official said all H5N1 cases have been traced to a single market in southwest Moscow and an ongoing investigation has determined that contaminated fowl originated from either Central Asia or southern Russia.

"It has been determined by a genetic analysis of the discovered H5N1 traces [in dead poultry], Vlasov said.

He also reiterated that the current outbreak did not affect state poultry farms where strict food safety measures have been introduced since the first bird flu case was registered in Russia in 2005.

"As for the large poultry farms, we are certain there is no virus there," the official said.

According to the food safety watchdog, Russia could face a number of avian flu outbreaks in the spring when wild birds start migrating from the south.

"When the [bird] migration starts, we are expecting that wild birds will carry the virus to the Urals and Siberia, and even to Russia's Far East where no bird flu cases have been registered so far," Vlasov said.

According to the World Health Organization, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has infected at least 273 people from 11 countries and claimed 167 human lives since it first appeared in Asia in 2003. It has since spread worldwide, and scientists fear the virus could mutate into a form transmissible between humans, sparking a global pandemic.

Russia recorded its first cases of avian flu in August 2005, but until now outbreaks have occurred only in southern provinces and in Siberia.