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Pakistan: outbreak in poultry - OIE report

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<TABLE><TBODY><TR><TD>Monitoring system to check bird flu outbreak

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</TD></TR><TR><TD>ISLAMABAD: The government is making a plan to register all poultry farms to have proper monitoring system to check any outbreak of bird flu in the country.

National Institute of Health (NIH) Executive Director Masood Anwar said, while addressing the participants of media retreat on 'Bird Flu Prevention and Control' jointly organised by National Institute of Health (NIH), Ministry of Health and UNICEF. He said proper surveillance system was must for monitoring the bird flu. He stated that affiliated with poultry industry should follow guidelines, disseminates by the Ministry of Health and Livestock time to time to prevent people from bird flu virus. He further said due to inadequate preventive measures adopted by the workers of the poultry farms, besides human being other animals including dogs and cats may also acquire this virus which could further spread to others. He opined that effective media campaign was essential to create awareness among masses about the disease and its prevention. He added citizens should also regular check their pet animals which might also a major source for spread of bird flu.

NIH Epidemic Investigation Cell Incharge Dr Jaleel Kamran apprised that no bird flu human case was detected in the country during the last two years. He added that 14 suspected patients were admitted in hospitals of Lahore and Islamabad, however, their blood samples declared negative by the laboratories. He said so far total 136 samples were sent to laboratory for test and all found negative. He added globally 206 deaths had been confirmed due to bird flu in 12 countries out of 335 suspected cases.

Dr Jaleel said total 21 cases were reported in poultry farms last year while 76 in 2005 mainly in wild birds and commercial backyard poultry. He stated that a federal monitoring cell had been set up besides establishment of provincial and district monitoring cells to monitor the situation and to exchange technical information on avian influenza.

Dr Fawad of WHO said the virus might expand from one farm to another and to population by mechanical means like contaminated equipment, vehicles, feed, bird cages etc. He added the fatality rate of disease stands at 70 percent which was very high. He added the symptoms of disease included high fever, cough, aches, running nose and sore throat while pneumonia or other complications might occur at a later stage. He said same testing procedures had been adopted in Pakistan as being implemented in other parts of the world for suspected bird flu cases. He observed that Pakistani laboratories have enough facilities to test the bird flu virus.

The event was attended by journalists working in health sector both from print and electronic media. Certificates were also distributed among the participants of the function.


http://thepost.com.pk/CorpNewsT.aspx?dtlid=130636&catid=8

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Re: Pakistan: outbreak in poultry - OIE report

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Nov 2, 2007 (CIDRAP News) ?Officials in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Vietnam have reported new outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza in poultry this week.
In Bangladesh, an official from the government's livestock department said the H5N1 virus was detected at three farms in the northern part of the country, Reuters reported today. Workers culled about 6,000 chickens, which were buried over the last 2 days, the report said.
The country's last reported H5N1 outbreak occurred in May, according to a World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) report.
Meanwhile, a livestock official in Pakistan said yesterday that 45,000 chicks at a breeding operation in the Northwest Frontier province were destroyed and buried after a laboratory in Islamabad identified the H5N1 virus in samples from the flock, The Post, a Pakistani newspaper, reported today.
According to OIE reports, Pakistan's last poultry outbreak occurred in July.
Elsewhere, veterinary officials in Vietnam reported two more H5N1 outbreaks in ducks, according to a report from Xinhua, China's state news agency. An outbreak that began on Oct 29 in southern Vietnam's Tra Vinh province struck a flock of 2-month-old ducks, killing 400 and sickening 500, the report said.
On Oct 28 an H5N1 outbreak killed 210 of 400 ducks at a household in northern Vietnam's Nam Dinh province, the Xinhua report said.
According to OIE reports, Vietnam had six H5N1 outbreaks in October, all involving unvaccinated ducks. Besides Tra Vinh and Nam Dinh, affected provinces included Cao Bang in the north and Quang Tri in central Vietnam. Before October, Vietnam's last reported outbreaks occurred in August.
In other avian flu developments, authorities in Canada have lifted remaining restrictions on the movement of birds and bird products in Saskatchewan, according to an Oct 31 press release from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). The restrictions were imposed in late September when a highly pathogenic H7N3 strain of avian flu was detected in chickens at a commercial poultry operation in the province.
No other cases of avian influenza were found after the initial outbreak, the CFIA said. Import restrictions imposed by some countries after the outbreak will be addressed on a case-by-case basis, the CFIA said.
See also:
Oct 31 OIE report on current and past Vietnam outbreaks
OIE report on past Bangladesh outbreaks
OIE report on past Pakistan outbreaks
Oct 31 CFIA press release

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http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/avianflu/news/nov0207birds2.html

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