RUSSIA - Dead birds and fishes [and mice] in Tuvan Reserve

[Lyro]

BIRD FLU IN TUVAN RESERVE: 3,339 DEAD BIRDS AND 56 FISHES FOUND
27 June 2006 (NewsLab, Russia)

3,339 dead birds and 56 dead fishes were collected and destroyed near the lake of Ubsu-Nur of the Ubsu-Nur Reserve in the Tuva republic by 6.00 a. m. on June, 27. It is expected that the results of tests of the pathologic samples will be sent to All-Russian Center of Animal Protection and will be announced on June, 29. That was stated by the press service of Siberian Regional Directorate for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Natural Disaster Remedies.

As IA REGNUM-KNews had already reported, the strain of bird flu was detected in the salty water of Ubsu-Nur Lake on June, 22. 169 dead birds, mostly ducks, had been found at the lake banks a week before. The birds were sent to expert examination to Novosibirsk and Kemerovo.

Source: http://english.newslab.ru/news/194994/

 

[hawkeye]

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Does this seem like a VERY large number to anyone else?

 

[HenryN]

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Hot Topic: Bird Flu Outbreak Intensifies in Russia's Tuva Republic
MOSCOW (Dow Jones)--The Siberian office of the Russian emergencies ministry Tuesday said the outbreak of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in the constituent Tuva Republic was intensifying.
The emergencies ministry first reported June 23 that 169 dead wild birds had been collected from the Ubsu-Nur Lake in the Ovyursky district of the Tuva Republic, and the presence of H5N1 in their blood samples had been confirmed by the Kemerovo veterinary laboratory.
Tuesday's statement said wild bird deaths were continuing, with 371 new deaths reported by Sunday afternoon. A total 1,622 birds have died since the first were found on the lake June 15. The emergencies ministry warned further outbreaks were likely towards the end of July among young wild birds, as their immunity to the disease was weak.

http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=47948

 

[Sharpe]

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Does this seem like a VERY large number to anyone else?

Yes, Hawkeye, it is a massive, massive number. In fact I estimate that it is the 5th largest kill of wild migratory waterfowl since October of last year. Below is an attempt to list in order of number the reports of dead wild migratory waterfowl that have occurred since last October. As such, it does not include reports of dead poultry or dead domestic waterfowl, nor does it include all of the reports where the number of birds were not quantified, nor non-waterfowl species such as crows, doves, pigeons, etc. Naturally, it will include many which are not bird flu-related, and many will never be confirmed anyway, if they even were. It is interesting, regardless, and puts into perspective just how big this most recent outbreak in SE Russia/Mongolia is.

Masses of dead seagulls--Armenia, Oct06

Thousands of migratory birds--Malawi, 16Dec05

Thousands of flamingoes--southern Kenya, Apr06

3673 waterfowl--Iran, 12Oct05

>3300 geese, ducks, fish--SE Russia, June06

2000+ migratory birds--Chilika Lake, India, Jan-Apr06

1168 waterfowl--Qinghai Lake, Tibet, May, June06

1000+ducks, coots--Aguascalientes, Mexico, Dec06

>800 swans, wild birds--Astrakhan, Russia, Nov05

755 storks--Spain, June06

600 migratory birds--Pangong Lake, India, Feb05

500 birds at lagoon, Argentina, 23Jan06

>420 ducks, SE Australia, Nov05

300+ birds--Okhla Sanctuary, India 4Feb06

Hundreds of cattle egrets-Spain, 20Jan06

Hundreds to thousands of auklets--Oregon, Mar06

Hundreds of migratory birds--Eastern Kiril Islands, Japan, March06

Hundreds of eiders--Massachussetts, March-May06

300+ migratory birds--Lima, Peru, 17Mar06

300+ cattle egrets--Morocco, 5Feb06

238 migratory birds--Mangla Dam, Pakistan, 24Feb06

200 geese--Araz Reservoir, Iran, Oct06

Dozens to hundreds of pelicans--Southern California, March-Jun06

>135 swans--northern Iran, Feb06

100+ cranes--Quivira Park, Kansas, 23Mar06

>70 swans, ducks--Central Poland, Feb-Mar06

Dozens of ducks, geese--San Joaquin Valley, California, Apr06

large numbers of black storks--Lebanon, Oct05

60 Aleutian geese--Northern California, Nov05

>50 seagulls--Lithuania, 12Apr06

>50 seabirds--Norway, 16May06

50 swans--Wexford, Ireland, Dec05

40 migratory birds--Kuwait, Oct05

40 birds--Zambia, June06

27 geese--Illinois, 11Dec05

>20 seagulls--Switzerland, Feb06

>20 swans+lapwings--Finland, 7May06

>20 ducks--Kotka, Finland, 27Feb06

20 ducks--Belgium, 19Mar06

20 ducks--Algeria, Oct05

15 flamingoes, 5 spoonbills, cormorant--Bahamas, Feb06

20 pelicans+seagulls, Trinidad and Tobago, Feb-Mar06

 

[Mingus]

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Last year was Quigai strain,

next year will be Tuva strain ?

 

[HenryN]

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Last year was Quigai strain,

next year will be Tuva strain ?

The meeting in Italy had data on 2006 isolates in China. These recent isoaltes are close to isolates from Mongolia and Novosibisk and are probably similar in Tuva

http://www.recombinomics.com/phylo/Chen_Qinghai_2006.html

 

[Goju]

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tuvan reserve russia map - Straight as the crow flies west of Qinghai

 

[HenryN]

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In the Tuva preserve the infection continues to be extended: are found 3339 dead birds even 56 fishes

As of 6 is hour the morning on 27 June in the region of the lake Of ubsu-Nur of the preserve Of the ubsu-Nurskeye basin of republic Tuva assembled and utilized 3339 dead birds and 56 dead fishes are expected that the results of the analyses of the pathologic materials, directed to the All-Russian center- institute of the protection of animals will be known on 29 June. On this IA rEGNUM-KNews they reported in the press- service of Siberian regional center on the matters of civil defense, the extraordinary situations and overcoming of the consequences of the natural calamities.
Let us recall, in the republic Of tuva in the region of the filled with salt water lake Of ubsu-Nur on 22 June are discovered the signs of the virus of bird influenza. By week earlier on the coasts of this reservoir they were found with those be killeden of 169 wild birds, mainly weft, several small carcasses, which were to the same day directed for the analyses into Novosibirsk and Kemerovo.

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=ru_en&trurl=http%3a%2f%2fregnum.ru%2fnews%2f663576.html%3fforprint

 

[hawkeye]

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It's probably worth nothing that the news report cites 56 dead fish is of particular interest. Will it be possible to confirm that the fish died from H5N1? There has been suspicion, here at FT, of H5N1 causing fish kills in the past, and this may be an opportunity to completely confirm or deny fish kills based on H5N1.

 

[Mingus]

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My god, the entire lake must be a virus soup.

I would like to know the viral load that can be found in this water at this time.

The quigai lake is a salty lake too.

Maybe that salinity can help preserved the virus healthy ?

We keep swab in sterile saline in lab instead of pure water...

no salt at all make the cell wall of bacteria to brake down because of the osmosis pressure.

too much salt make a cell to shrink because of that same osmosis force that equilibrium the salt concentration inside and outside of a cell.

The right salt concentration (isotonic) make cells viable longer because there is no osmotic presure on them.

Influenza virus is no cell but have a liposaccharide enveloppe that came from the cells it infect and that may be on pressure from the osmosis forces.


Do thoses lake are isotonic ?

 

[hawkeye]

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Lake Area
(sq.km) Volume
(cu.km) Mean depth
(m) Max. Depth
(m)

Caspian 422,000 79,000 187 1,072
Aral¹ 66,000 1,064 16 69
Balkhash 22,000 122 6 27
Eyre, North² 7,000 23 3 6
Issyk-kul 6,300 1,730 275 702
Urmia 5,000± 25 5 16
Qinghai 4,600 85 17.5 27
Great Salt Lake 4,400 19 4 10
Van 3,600 191 53 550
Dead Sea 940 136 145 330


The lake, located on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau 3,260 meters above sea level, measures 4,400 square kilometers. It is the largest inland saltwater lake in China. The plateau region is a state-level natural reserve and is home to 213 species of wild animals and 445 plants. Grassy marshlands, wetlands, brush and dunes, together with fish, birds and beasts make up the region's very special biological system.

Reduced water supplies and levels have resulted in higher salt concentrations in the lake, according to Qinghai's provincial water resource bureau. In 1962, the salt content of the lake was 12.49 grams per liter. Now, that figure has increased to 16 grams per liter. The average pH has increased from 9.0 to more than 9.2, or even 9.5 in some areas. Its alkalinity is even higher than that of the sea. The change of water quality poses a great threat to the lake's ecology, according to the bureau.

 

[Mingus]

A little bit of info about the Ubsu-Nur lake ecosystem

A little bit of info about the Ubsu-Nur lake ecosystem

http://www.isar.org/pubs/ST/RUubsunur49.html

Ubsu-Nur Accepted into World Network of Biosphere Reserves

by Brian Donahoe

Imagine riding a horse from hot desert sands to glacial mountain peaks to Arctic-like tundra in a single day, with the possibility of seeing everything from camels and vultures to reindeer and snow leopards along the way. This would be possible in only one place in the world-the Ubsu-Nur Hollow, where the world's northernmost desert and southernmost tundra zone meet.

Ubsu-Nur is a fascinating, unique and fragile mountain basin straddling the border between Mongolia and the Republic of Tuva in the Russian Federation. It stretches 600 km from east to west, and 160 km from north to south; from 3000-meter-high snow-capped peaks to the salty Ubsu-Nur lake at about 1,000 meters above sea level, into which the entire depression drains. The more mountainous 20 percent lies within Tuva's territory, while the remaining 80 percent, composed primarily of steppe, desert-steppe and desert, lies within Mongolia.

According to Andriyan Dugarovich Doduk, director of the Ubsu-Nur Biosphere Nature Reserve headquartered in Erzin in southeastern Tuva, within this territory are found five of the Earth's seven major recognized ecological zones: from true desert through two types of steppe zones to taiga (heavy forest) and finally, on the snow-capped mountain slopes, a permafrost-tundra zone. The only major ecological zones not represented within the territory are savannah and humid tropical forest.

The existence of so many ecological zones in such a compact area, as well as the self-contained nature of the depression, make Ubsu-Nur ideal for studying such biospheric processes as the relationships between zones and the transition from one zone to another. "That's why it is quite correct to take the Ubsu-Nur hollow as a nature-model, allowing us to study all biospheric processes within that small area," wrote Professor Viktor Bugrovsky, the scientific supervisor of the International Ubsu-Nur Experiment, in the 1993 publication, "Experiment Ubsu-Nur."

The area is home to a number of endangered animal species and endemic plant species, Doduk said. In addition to the well-known snow leopard, there are mountain goats, big horn sheep, elk, and a number of species of eagle, kite and vulture. At least 44 endemic plant species have been identified.

Researchers from Russia, Tuva, Buryatia, Altai and Mongolia have been collaborating since 1984 in the "Ubsu-Nur Experiment." They shared their findings at the Fifth Ubsu-Nur International Symposium, a bi-annual event held this past July in Kyzyl, the capital of Tuva.

In recent years Bugrovsky, Doduk and others involved with Ubsu-Nur have been lobbying to have the Ubsu-Nur Depression included in the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere (MAB) World Network of Biosphere Reserves, a network of 352 biosphere reserves in 82 countries. At the end of October, their efforts paid off when both the Ubsu-Nur Biosphere Reserve in Tuva and the Ubsu-Nur Basin Cluster Biosphere Reserve in Mongolia were approved by the MAB Bureau for inclusion in its network.

The MAB Bureau is encouraging further transfrontier cooperation between the two reserves, with the ultimate goal of creating a single transfrontier biosphere reserve with joint management. This approach is becoming more common and has proved successful in other biosphere reserves such as the Tatra Biosphere Reserve on the border between Poland and Slovakia.

Such an arrangement would address what Doduk has identified as the single biggest problem Ubsu-Nur faces. "At present, the main problem is that there is an international border running through the middle of the depression," he said. "Visa requirements and travel and research permission make scientific collaboration difficult."

Doduk also said that he expected enforcement of regulations to be easier than it is now. "[As] part of the World Network, protection of the reserve will become the responsibility of the entire world, not just of Tuva and Mongolia," he said.

Jane Robertson, a program specialist at the World Network of Biosphere Reserves, noted that although full responsibility for the management of the reserves will still be up to the individual countries and they can expect no direct funding from UNESCO, UNESCO can help facilitate projects and sometimes help to implement them as well. In addition, UNESCO provides a framework for cooperation and information exchange among other members of the network. "The biosphere concept provides a mutual framework for working across boundaries," Robertson said.

UNESCO is promoting regional networks of biosphere reserves, Robertson said. She noted that Ubsu-Nur could become a part of the East Asia Biosphere Reserve Network, which includes 13 biosphere reserves in Mongolia, China, Japan, the DPR Korea, and the Republic of Korea.

Brian Donahoe is a graduate student in anthropology at Indiana University. His principal research interest is indigenous natural resource management among the nomadic reindeer herders of northeastern Tuva.

 

[Mingus]

Re: A little bit of info about the Ubsu-Nur lake ecosystem

Re: A little bit of info about the Ubsu-Nur lake ecosystem

The microbiology section here make their isotonic saline at 0.9%p/v that mean .9g/100ml so 9g/Liters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_chloride

So quigai lake is not "isotonic" but near that...

The alkalinity(high PH in a basic lake) is also a protective factor.

RNA and DNA are autocatalytic in low PH.

The cleavage site could automatically be cleaved without the virus attatch to a cell in a low PH water. (acid lake)

 

[HenryN]

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Commentary at

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/06270601/H5N1_Tuva.html

 

[HenryN]

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NOVOSIBIRSK, June 27 (RIA Novosti) - A new outbreak of bird flu has hit the West Siberian region of Tomsk, the local administration said Tuesday. A representative said a laboratory analysis of fancy pigeons that died in a village last week revealed the deadly virus.
"All the pigeons and chickens from the courtyard have been culled," the representative said. "The owner who had refused to vaccinate poultry will receive no compensation."
Governor Viktor Kress ordered vaccination as a preventive measure against an epidemic of the disease, which claimed over a million birds in Russia in February-April.
According to the Agriculture Ministry, bird flu was registered in 10 villages in three West Siberian regions in late May.

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060627/50551090.html

 

[HenryN]

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Commentary at

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/06270602/H5N1_Tomsk_Spread.html

 

[Mellie]

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H5N1 Bird Flu Spreads to Tomsk Siberia

Recombinomics Commentary
June 27, 2006

A new outbreak of bird flu has hit the West Siberian region of Tomsk, the local administration said Tuesday.

A representative said a laboratory analysis of fancy pigeons that died in a village last week revealed the deadly virus.

"All the pigeons and chickens from the courtyard have been culled,"

The above description of confirmed H5N1 bird flu in Tomsk provides additional evidence of earlier and more widespread outbreaks in Russia. Last year the first reports of H5N1 in the Novosibirsk region were in mid-July. Those reports were followed by H5N1 infections along the southern border with Kazakhstan. In August there were reports of H5 antibodies in birds in Tomsk.

The finding in Tomsk comes on the heals of a massive outbreak in Tuva, which also failed to report H5N1 last year. Earlier there were reports of H5N1 in northwestern Russia last month. These reports suggest H5N1 in Russia is more widespread and will increase in the upcoming months. Last year the reported cases were in southern Siberia in a region that links flyways to the Indian subcontinent, eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Less frequent outbreaks were reported in western Europe and there were no reports in the Americas.

Flyways in northern Russia link to western Europe and North America via the East Atlantic fly way. There are also links to Alaska via the East Asia / Australia flyway. The H5N1 reported in India over the winter may feed into north eastern Russia, which would link to the outbreak in Tuva.

These early reports of H5N1 in new areas in Russia may be signaling a significant increase in the H5N1 geographical reach and lead to additional expansion in H5N1 bird flu range in the upcoming months.

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/06270602/H5N1_Tomsk_Spread.html

 

[Mellie]

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http://www.recombinomics.com/News/06270601/H5N1_Tuva.html

Massive H5N1 Bird Flu Die-off in Tuva, Siberia

Recombinomics Commentary
June 27, 2006

The Siberian office of the Russian emergencies ministry Tuesday said the outbreak of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in the constituent Tuva Republic was intensifying.

The emergencies ministry first reported June 23 that 169 dead wild birds had been collected from the Ubsu-Nur Lake in the Ovyursky district of the Tuva Republic, and the presence of H5N1 in their blood samples had been confirmed by the Kemerovo veterinary laboratory.

Tuesday's statement said wild bird deaths were continuing, with 371 new deaths reported by Sunday afternoon. A total 1,622 birds have died since the first were found on the lake June 15.

The above report describes a massive number of H5N1 deaths in Tuva, which is in southern Russia, just to the north of Mongolia. Other reports indicate the number of dead birds is up to 3,339. The size of this outbreak is rivaling the deaths at Qinghai Lake in May, 2005 which topped 5000 dead birds primarily bar head geese. This year there is another outbreak somewhat south of Qinghai Lake near the southern border of Qinghai Province and northern border of Tibet. Over 1000 birds have died including ba headed geese and a number of other species. The recent wild bird meeting in Italy included phylogenetic trees of H5N1 from bar headed geese in China this year, indicating the isolates were most closely related to a crested Grebe from Novosibirsk or whooper swans from Mongolia.

This latest outbreak in Siberia suggests more H5N1 may be spreading worldwide this year. In 2005, there were no H5N1 reported until mid-July. The H5N1 this season may be more complex genetically because the H5N1 from Qinghai Lake on Novosibirsk evolved considerably in Europe as seen by the phylogenetic tree of over 70 isolates.

Thus, 2006 will likely see new sequences and new problems.

 

[Mingus]

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Maybe this is noting new but the story made a Promed mail news so it will be disceminated in the scientific community.

Archive Number 20060628.1791
Published Date 28-JUN-2006
Subject PRO/AH/EDR> Avian influenza (145) - Russia (Siberia)


AVIAN INFLUENZA (145) - RUSSIA (SIBERIA)
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[1]
Date: Wed 28 Jun 2006
From: Joe Dudley <jdudley@eaicorp.com>
Source: Dow Jones via Cattlenetwork.com, 27 Jun 2006 [edited]
<http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=47948>


Bird flu outbreak intensifies in Russia's Tuva Republic
-----------------------------------------------
The Siberian office of the Russian emergencies ministry said on Tuesday [27
Jun 2006] that the outbreak of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in the
constituent Tuva Republic was intensifying.

The emergencies ministry first reported on 23 Jun 2006 that 169 dead wild
birds had been collected from the Ubsu-Nur Lake in the Ovyursky district of
the Tuva Republic, and the presence of H5N1 in their blood samples had been
confirmed by the Kemerovo veterinary laboratory.

Tuesday's [27 Jun 2006] statement said wild bird deaths were continuing,
with 371 new deaths reported by Sunday [25 Jun 2006] afternoon. A total 1622
birds have died since the 1st dead birds were found on the lake 15 Jun 2006.
The emergencies ministry warned further outbreaks were likely towards the
end of July 2006 among young wild birds, as their immunity to the disease
was weak.

--
Joseph P Dudley, PhD
Chief Scientist
EAI Corporation
Arlington, VA 22203
<jdudley@eaicorp.com>

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[2]
Date: Wed 28 Jun 2006
From: Joe Dudley <jdudley@eaicorp.com>
Source: Ria Novosti, 26 Jun 2006 [edited]
<http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060626/50007747.html>


Expert doubts bird flu pandemic in East Siberia
-----------------------------------------------
A leading ornithologist in Siberia cast doubt Monday [26 Jun 2006] over a
possible bird flu pandemic in the region, after hundreds of wild fowl
carcasses were destroyed.

A total of 1622 bodies of wild geese, as well as more than 50 dead fish,
found on the shores of Lake Ubsu-Nur in the Republic of Tuva on the
Russian-Mongolian border had been incinerated by Monday [26 Jun 2006].

After preliminary tests, local virologists suggested bird flu had caused the
mass bird deaths in the last week, but Vladimir Zabelin, a leading local
ornithologist, said contamination of a river flowing into the lake could
have been to blame. "[The deaths] could have been the result of toxic waste
being dumped into the Tes-Khem River," he said. The expert said the fish
started dying first, apparently contaminating the birds through the food
chain.

The final results will be known by 29 Jun 2006, when a Vladimir-based
research institute in central Russia finalizes the analysis of blood samples
from dead birds.

--
Joseph P Dudley, PhD
Chief Scientist
EAI Corporation
Arlington, VA 22203
<jdudley@eaicorp.com>

[Results from the All-Russian reference laboratory at Vladimir, Moscow
(expected tomorrow [29 Jun 2006]?) and formal notification to the OIE will
enable verifying -- or otherwise -- the information included in these
newswires.

The Republic of Tuva (170 500 sq km: north to south 420 km, west to east 630
km; 1990 est. pop. 366 000) is situated in the center of Asia in the south
of Eastern Siberia, bordering Mongolia in the south, Irkutskaya region in
the northeast, the republic of Khakasia in the northwest, the republic of
Buryatia in the east, the republic of Altai in the west and Krasnoyarsky
region in the north. Map at
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:RussiaTuva2005.png>. - Mod.AS]

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[3]
Date: Wed 28 Jun 2006
From: ProMED-mail <promed@promedmail.org>
Source: Ria Novosti, 27 Jun 2006 [edited]
<http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060627/50551090.html>


New bird flu outbreak hits Siberia
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A new outbreak of bird flu has hit the West Siberian region of Tomsk, the
local administration said Tuesday [27 Jun 2006]. A representative said a
laboratory analysis of fancy pigeons that died in a village last week
revealed the deadly virus. "All the pigeons and chickens from the courtyard
have been culled," the representative said. "The owner, who had refused to
vaccinate poultry, will receive no compensation."

Governor Viktor Kress ordered vaccination as a preventive measure against an
epidemic of the disease, which claimed over a million birds in Russia in
February-April 2006.

According to the Agriculture Ministry, bird flu was registered in 10
villages in 3 West Siberian regions in late May 2006.

--
ProMED-mail
<promed@promedmail.org>

[An official confirmation from the reference laboratory is anticipated in
this case as well. Russia's last avian influenza reports to the OIE on avian
influenza in domestic fowl was sent on 16 Feb 2006; see
<http://oie.int/eng/info/hebdo/AIS_30.HTM#Sec2>. On the same day, a
notification on infection in wild birds was sent as well; see
<http://oie.int/eng/info/hebdo/AIS_30.HTM#Sec12>. An update might be
helpful. - Mod.AS]

[see also:
Avian influenza (126) - Russia (Siberia), Nigeria 20060526.1484
Avian influenza (120) - Russia, Czech Republic 20060520.1433]

.................arn/msp/sh

 

[gharris]

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okay - so contamination from the river may have killed the birds - but could be they were already carrying the H5N1 asymptomatically??