Over 10,000 ducks die in Cambodia -confirmed H5N1

[Ronan Kelly]

Over 10,000 ducks die in Cambodia2010-02-01 19:59
The Cambodian government said on Monday that more than 10,000 ducks have died and some 30,000 others are being sick in the country's southern province of Takeo.

Kao Phal, director of animal production department of agriculture ministry said that samples of the dead ducks being examined and the results will be known Tuesday or the day after.

He said that those dead ducks were reported happening a few days ago and now some 30,000 others are being sick.

Kao Phal said while sample testing is being examined, he could not tell what the cause to the deaths of the ducks was.

However, he said no report of any disease or death of human lives, but at the same time precaution to villagers is strictly advised by the government health concerning authorities.

According to Kao Sophal, the case is happening in Prey Khla village, Rominh Commune, Koh Andeth district in Takeo province, some 90 km south of Phnom Penh.

Cambodia, in the past and present, has had reports on the bird flu and influenza A/H1N1.

Source:Xinhua
http://english.eastday.com/e/100201/u1a4994311.html

 

[Treyfish]

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Suspected bird flu cases in Takeo

Written by Pen Bona tuesday, 02 F?vrier 2010 19:28


Cases of suspected bird flu in the province of Takeo
In Takeo Province, thousands of poultry found dead in recent days, are suspected of having contracted bird flu. The cause of death has not yet been identified.
Nearly 20 000 ducks and thousands of birds of all kinds have been killed in recent days in Koh Andet district, located in the province of Takeo.

The Ministry of Agriculture immediately dispatched experts to determine the cause of these deaths. No results have been announced yet but the ducks could have been infected by avian influenza H5N1.

As a preventive measure, the Minister of Agriculture Chan Sarun visited the site last January 31 and reminded the villagers measures basic hygiene to prevent transmission of the virus.

The first case of bird flu was discovered in the kingdom in 2004 and seven people died from the virus. :tiphat:http://www.cambodgesoir.info/index....pe-aviaire-a-takeo&catid=19:societe&Itemid=38

 

[Treyfish]

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FOWL PLAY: Takeo orders destruction of ducks

TUESDAY, 02 FEBRUARY 2010 15:02
KHOUTH SOPHAK CHAKRYA AND KIM YUTHANA


The Takeo province Agriculture Office has ordered the farmers of domesticated ducks across the province to incinerate their birds and temporarily suspended the sale of the animals? meat until the results tests for the H5N1 virus (also known as bird flu), come back from Phnom Penh this week following mass deaths of the fowl.

Nhib Sron, director of the Takeo agriculture office, said that since the middle of January, about 50,000 ducks in the province?s Koh Andeth district had contracted an unknown illness, and that there were signs the disease had reached some communes in neighbouring Tramkak district. ?We haven?t identified the virus or other agent causing these deaths, but we sent some of the dead animals to a Phnom Penh laboratory for analysis,? Nhib Sron said. Thai Ly, Takeo province?s chief officer of domesticated animals, said that 16,442 ducks had died since the outbreak began, and that roughly 31,000 more have fallen sick.:tiphat:http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index....l-play-takeo-orders-destruction-of-ducks.html

 

[Treyfish]

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The Cambodian government said on Monday that more than 10,000 ducks have died and some 30,000 others are being sick in the country?s southern province of Takeo, according to Chinese News Agency Xinhua.
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Kao Phal, director of animal production department of agriculture ministry said that samples of the dead ducks being examined and the results will be known Tuesday or the day after.
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He said that those dead ducks were reported happening a few days ago and now some 30,000 others are being sick.
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Kao Phal said while sample testing is being examined, he could not tell what the cause to the deaths of the ducks was.
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According to Kao Sophal, the cause is happening in Prey Khla village, Rominh Commune, Koh Andeth district in Takeo province, some 90km south of Phnom Penh.
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Cambodia, in the past and present, has had reports on the bird flu and influenza A/H1N1.--AKP
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[Commonground]

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Takeo orders destruction of ducks

Tuesday, 02 February 2010

The Takeo province Agriculture Office has ordered the farmers of domesticated ducks across the province to incinerate their birds and temporarily suspended the sale of the animals? meat until the results tests for the H5N1 virus (also known as bird flu), come back from Phnom Penh this week following mass deaths of the fowl.

Nhib Sron, director of the Takeo agriculture office, said that since the middle of January, about 50,000 ducks in the province?s Koh Andeth district had contracted an unknown illness, and that there were signs the disease had reached some communes in neighbouring Tramkak district. ?We haven?t identified the virus or other agent causing these deaths, but we sent some of the dead animals to a Phnom Penh laboratory for analysis,? Nhib Sron said. Thai Ly, Takeo province?s chief officer of domesticated animals, said that 16,442 ducks had died since the outbreak began, and that roughly 31,000 more have fallen sick.
hat-tip Mike Couston

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index....l-play-takeo-orders-destruction-of-ducks.html

 

[Commonground]

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[I didn't realize until just now that the Cholera cases in Vietnam were also from Takeo. See also: http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=140247]

45 suspected cholera cases
02-02-2010 - The Youth
According to Department of Health and backup environment, all seven patients are described living in two Takeo and Kandal province (Cambodia), when infected into An Giang new treatment.

Ministry of Health recommended precautions cholera back, it should be cooked thoroughly to make food, drink boiled, avoiding raw vegetables and live food hygiene is not guaranteed.

Meanwhile, in Ha Tinh have in influenza A/H5N1 outbreaks in poultry. There appeared some status with the flu, fever after contact with infected birds. However, all seven samples of products suspected infected patients post influenza A/H5N1 tests at the Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology Surgeons were negative for this virus.

* On 31-1, Hospital mountainous district Nam Tra My (Quang Nam) said has received 25 cases of malaria in Tra Tap last week.

Local health officials have discovered nearly 100 cases of malaria infected people but not to subjective health facilities. The district has the commune of people infected with malaria but not statistics the number of patients.

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[Sally Furniss]

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A shows Kaoh Andaet District
B shows Tak?o town the capital of Tak?o Province

 

[Ronan Kelly]

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Bird flu kills Takeo ducks: govt
Wednesday, 03 February 2010 15:04 Chhay channyda and Jacob Gold .

Sample tissue from ducks in Takeo province that died in an outbreak of a disease officials could not identify earlier this week have tested positive for the H5N1 virus, commonly known as bird flu, officials at the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said Tuesday.

In light of the test result, officials said they will move ahead with Monday?s order from the provincial agriculture department to destroy all live ducks and halt duck meat sales in the affected area. Since the outbreak began last month, 16,442 ducks have died and at least 31,000 live ducks are exhibiting symptoms of the virus.

Ly Sovann, deputy director of the Communicable Diseases Control Department at the Ministry of Health, confirmed the positive test result on Tuesday and related the contents of an unreleased statement from the Agriculture Ministry.

?The statement identified the bird flu-affected area as Pralay village, Romenh commune, Koh Andeth district. All ducks within 5 kilometres of the village will be incinerated, sales of duck meat will be stopped and local officials within 10 kilometres of the area must monitor both ducks and humans for signs of infection,? Ly Sovann said.


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The bird flu outbreaks always occur around this period of time.

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Hong Narith, cabinet director of the Agriculture Ministry, also confirmed the release of a ministry press release, but declined to comment further in advance of the statement?s release.

While the farmers of Romenh commune may face financial hardship as a result of the cull, Dr Phillipe Buchy, director of the virology unit at the Pasteur Institute in Phnom Penh, said that isolated outbreaks were now a yearly occurrence, and that the threat of a larger-scale outbreak was low.
?These [bird flu] outbreaks always occur during this period of time, around Vietnamese and Chinese New Year celebrations. This is because there is an increased traffic in poultry, though we?re not sure if this is the only reason,? he said. ?Since 2004 we have had cases every year.?

Buchy said it was too soon to comment on the threat of the H5N1 strain in Takeo, but said the strain responsible for the December 2009 bird flu outbreak in Kampong Cham province showed no signs of mutation from the most common form of the virus, which has very little ability to infect humans.

Dr Nima Asgari, a public health specialist for the World Health Organisation in Cambodia, said that investigators from the Ministry of Health had begun screening people in the affected district for signs of infection, and that ?nobody seemed to be sick.? Nonetheless, Asgari said that anyone handling ducks or duck meat, particularly the health officials tasked with destroying the ducks, should still follow standard precautions.

?They should wear a proper mask and gloves, and wash their hands with soap and water,? he said, adding that people cooking duck meat should also wash their hands with soap and water and make sure that the meat is cooked thoroughly to eliminate the slight risk of transmission from consuming infected meat.

Cambodia reported its first case of H5N1 in poultry in January 2004. Four human cases of bird flu were reported in Cambodia between February and May of 2005, all of them fatal. There have been nine known cases of bird flu in Cambodia. Two of them, including the case of a Kampong Cham man diagnosed in December, have been non-lethal.
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index....nal-news/bird-flu-kills-takeo-ducks-govt.html

 

[Ronan Kelly]

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Cambodia confirms new outbreak of bird fluWednesday, February 03, 2010 12:11 AM



PHNOM PENH, Feb. 3, 2010 (Xinhua News Agency) -- Cambodia said Wednesday the country was again hit by a new outbreak of bird flu.

In a statement released Wednesday by Cambodia's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, it said a new outbreak of H5N1 was found in Pralay Meas Village, Rominh Commune, Koh Andeth District in Takeo province.

In a response to the new outbreak, the department of animal production of Agriculture Ministry has culled poultry in the affected area and ordered a temporary suspension of buy, sales and trafficking of such poultries within five kilometers within the affected area.

The statement did not say how many poultries have died or infected by the disease, but officials have said more than 16,000 ducks have died and some 30,000 live ducks are contracting symptoms with the virus.

The officials said no sign of human infection from the disease as of now.

Takeo province is bordering with Vietnam and located about 90 kilometers south of Cambodia's Capital City of Phnom Penh.

Since bird flu was first hit Cambodia in 2004, seven Cambodians have died of the disease.


(Source: iStockAnalyst )

http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews/articleid/3833100

 

[kiwibird]

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Source: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index....fficial-fears-cholera-cases-in-prey-veng.html

Official fears cholera cases in Prey Veng
Thursday, 04 February 2010 15:04 Tep Nimol

SIX villagers in Prey Veng province have been stricken with an illness that one commune official said he believed to be cholera, although health officials have yet to hand down an official diagnosis.

The villagers from Reak Chey commune have suffered from intense diarrhoea and vomiting since Monday, commune chief Hong Sophal said.

?We have sent a man to Calmette Hospital [in Phnom Penh] because he is suffering, even though the doctors here have tried to help him,? he said.

The man?s daughter, Srun Vanthon, said her father?s condition has not improved since entering the hospital, and that doctors have not told her what is causing her father?s illness.

?He is still in bad condition,? she said. ?I am worried about his life.?

Health officials have not confirmed the presence of cholera in the area.

Sambath Narin, the director of the health centre in Reak Chey, said he has not met with anyone complaining of similar symptoms.

?I cannot say it is cholera because I have not met with the patients,? he said. ?Few people here have diarrhoea or are vomiting.?

Ly Sovann, deputy director of the Communicable Diseases Control Department at the Ministry of Health, said he also had not received reports of cholera outbreaks in Prey Veng.

The information comes after Vietnamese media reported that seven Cambodians infected with cholera were being treated in Vietnamese hospitals.

The report in Thanh Nien Daily said that the seven patients, all from Takeo and Kandal provinces, had been admitted to Vietnamese hospitals between January 19 and 28. A total of 45 people were first admitted with symptoms of ?acute diarrhoea?, but the report did not specify whether any of the other patients were Cambodian. The report said the patients were being treated in An Giang, which borders Cambodia and is also home to an ethnic Khmer minority population.

In early January, Cambodian health officials warned citizens against a potential cholera outbreak.

 

[Ronan Kelly]

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Duck culling begins in Takeo
Thursday, 04 February 2010 15:05 Chhay Channyda and Jacob Gold .
Photo by: Rick Valenzuela
Ducklings waddle and pace before their sunset feeding time at Chea Em's farm and family home in Svay Em commune in Pursat's Sampov Meas district on Tuesday 21 October 2008.

HUNDREDS of ducks and chickens in Takeo province?s Pralay Meas village were destroyed on Wednesday in the first day of a cull that officials said was ordered to contain a newly confirmed outbreak of the H5N1 virus, commonly known as bird flu.

Kao Phal, director of the Animal Health and Reproduction Department at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), said that authorities killed about 710 ducks and 350 chickens in and around Pralay Meas village, located in Romenh commune, Koh Andeth district. The ministry?s bird flu containment protocol requires all farm fowl within a 5-kilometre radius of the outbreak zone to be destroyed.

?This disease is faster than a war,? Kao Phal said. ?If you are exposed to the virus you can get infected, so we have to educate people about how to avoid getting sick.?

Experts have noted, however, that the strain of the virus in Takeo likely has little ability to infect humans.

Mao Nhorn, Romenh commune chief, said that local authorities ?got the results of the test early Tuesday but tried to prevent word from spreading among the villagers?, who might have then spirited away the infected ducks in the night before culling teams could arrive on Wednesday. As an added precaution, authorities formed a perimeter around the village before starting the cull.

?Some people asked to burn the ducks themselves, but we told them the ducks needed to be given to officials,? Mao Nhorn said. ?Others hesitated because they did not want their ducks to be killed, but after we educated them about bird flu, then they understood.?

Thai Ly, chief of domesticated animals at the Takeo province agriculture department, said that nearly 20,000 ducks had died and that 35,270 had fallen ill before the first specimens were sent for testing on January 31, and that an unspecified number had succumbed to the virus since then.

He said Wednesday?s cull was accompanied by the gathering of additional bird samples from around the affected village.

Yang Saing Koma, president of the Cambodian Centre for Study and Development in Agriculture (CEDAC), said most ducks in the affected area were kept in small numbers by families who used them for household egg consumption and who would be able to replace the animals fairly easily.

However, he said the area also supported a significant number of commercial duck farms, also specialising in eggs. It is these farmers, he said, who would be hardest-hit by the cull.

?Right now there are no subsidies at all,? he said. ?For me, I think they should receive some kind of support.?

Yang Saing Koma estimated that after a scenario such as a total bird flu cull, the average commercial duck farm could recover in six months.

Cambodia reported its first case of H5N1 in poultry in January 2004. There have been nine known human cases of bird flu in Cambodia, seven of them fatal.
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2010020431676/National-news/duck-culling-begins-in-takeo.html

 

[Ronan Kelly]

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Duck, chicken culls go on in an effort to contain flu
Friday, 05 February 2010 15:04 Chhay Channyda .

AUTHORITIES continued to destroy ducks and chickens on Thursday in the second day of a cull intended to prevent an outbreak of bird flu from spreading beyond Takeo province?s Pralay Meas village, agriculture officials said.

?We destroyed 50 ducks and 150 chickens in Pralay Meas village today,? said Thai Ly, Takeo province?s chief officer of domesticated animals.
Thai Ly said that authorities would continue the cull until all fowl in the village were eliminated.

?At that point, we will closely monitor the village [for infections] for the next 30 days and continue to ensure that no poultry is sold or trafficked through the area,? he said.

Thai Ly said that officials will soon hold talks with farmers and vendors across Koh Andeth district to discuss the ban on selling poultry and other temporary measures critical to containing the bird flu outbreak.

Nhib Sron, director of the Takeo agriculture office, said that almost all of the ducks in the village had been destroyed on the first day of the cull, allowing authorities to focus their attention on elusive and highly mobile chickens.

?There aren?t nearly as many chickens as ducks in the village, which makes them harder to pin down, compounded with the fact that unlike ducks they tend to walk around everywhere,? he said.

He said that as an additional precaution, the perimeter of the village was being sprayed with an antibacterial agent called TH-4, although the compound is not effective against viruses.

Nhib Sron also said that authorities planned to confine the cull to Pralay Meas village despite instructions from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to kill all poultry within 5 kilometres of the outbreak area.

?Within the 5-kilometre range, we are still going to enforce the commercial ban on poultry and teach people about the dangers of the disease,? he said, adding that no human infections had been reported.

On Wednesday local authorities and representatives from several ministries launched their response to the outbreak, which centred on a village-wide poultry cull that saw 710 ducks and 350 chickens eliminated by day?s end.

The ministry ordered the cull on Tuesday after several ducks killed in an unidentified outbreak tested positive for the H5N1 virus, commonly known as bird flu. Before the results were announced, more than 19,500 ducks had died and 35,000 had fallen ill.

Cambodia reported its first case of H5N1 in poultry in January 2004. Four human cases of bird flu were reported in Cambodia between February and May of 2005, all of them fatal. There have been nine known cases of bird flu in Cambodia. Two of them, including the case of a Kampong Cham man diagnosed in December, have been non-lethal.
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index....-culls-go-on-in-an-effort-to-contain-flu.html

 

[Laidback Al]

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Cambodia reported its first case of H5N1 in poultry in January 2004. Four human cases of bird flu were reported in Cambodia between February and May of 2005, all of them fatal. There have been nine known cases [human] of bird flu in Cambodia. Two of them, including the case of a Kampong Cham man diagnosed in December, have been non-lethal.

The nine human cases of H5N1 reported to WHO are from the provinces highlighted in yellow below. The duck culling reported in this thread is taking place in the province of Takeo circled in red on the map [Tak?v on the map].

 

[Treyfish]

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:tiphat:I don't see this as a good idea at the present time




CP aims to boost sales of young chickens

Tuesday, 09 February 2010 15:01 Chun Sophal




BABY chickens worth a total of US$2.73 million will be sold to farmers by animal feed producer CP Cambodia Co Ltd this year, according to the company?s vice president.

Wittaya Kreangkriwit said on Monday that CP plans to sell 3.9 million chicks to 300 farming families in Kandal and Kampong Speu provinces at about US$0.70 each.

The farmers are then obliged, as part of an agreement, to buy animal feed from CP to nourish the chickens to maturity.

In 2009, the business sold 3 million 21-day-old chicks at $0.50 each, making $1.5 million in revenues.

?We hope that our sales strategy will be successful, because we believe the number of people raising chickens in Cambodia is increasing,? Wittaya said.

Chhay Sok Huon, president of Chicken Farming Association, which represents 50 chicken farmhouses in Kandal and Kampong Speu provinces, agreed that demand for eggs and chicken meat has increased this year. It intends to buy more chicks from CP.

He added: ?But we want the company to sell chicks at a lower price to allow farmers to benefit more and expand. This would ensure there is a sufficient supply of eggs and chicken meat to markets, reducing the need for imports.?

He said that at present about 700,000 eggs and hundreds of kilograms of chicken are imported from Vietnam and Thailand into Cambodia.

Kao Phal, director of the Department of Animal Health and Production, said that such imports have caused problems for local farmers, due to market competition.

?We are trying to reduce the quota of egg imports and meat from other countries gradually in order to encourage domestic animal farming,? he said.

A report from the department showed that in 2009 Cambodia raised about 20 million chickens and ducks, compared to 16 million in 2008.:tiphat:http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index....cp-aims-to-boost-sales-of-young-chickens.html