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Russia - Poultry, Animals etc. Feb 22+
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Theresa42
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Re: Russia - Poultry, Animals etc. Feb 22+
Bird Flu Clean-Up Continues In Moscow
Feb 22, 2007
By Max Delany
Staff Writer
MOSCOW ? Veterinary workers wearing masks and white protective suits carted off refuse and burned it Tuesday inside the quarantined section of the popular Bird Market as guards patrolled the perimeter.
But other parts of the market, which has been linked to an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of avian flu, remained open for business, with sellers hawking dogs, cats and fish.
?Of course it doesn?t affect the dogs,? saleswoman Maria Ivanova said, sitting in front of a cage of playful Alsatian puppies selling for $200 each. [Stray dog dies of bird flu in Azerbaijan]
?They?ve said the quarantine of the bird section will last 21 days, and I?m not at all worried about it. It?s the poor birds I feel sorry for,? she said.
All 1,924 birds found in the market had been culled by Tuesday morning, city veterinary official Sergei Filatov said.
All of the infected birds that were found in five villages in the Moscow region were bought at the bird section of the Sadovod complex, located just southeast of the Moscow Ring Road.
The deadly virus might have spread to two more locations in the region, state veterinary official Nikolai Vlasov said Tuesday. ?We are unable to confirm the strain, but the pattern is the same as in the previous cases,? he said, Reuters reported.
A Sadovod market spokesman insisted that it was perfectly safe to come to market and buy other animals. ?Apart from the section selling birds, the rest of the market is working and it is fine to buy animals there,? he said.
Federal and foreign experts rated the risk from low to nonexistent.
?Hamsters and dogs are not able to catch the virus. There is a small probability that cats that have eaten a lot of infected meat could get sick, but cats will not catch the disease from them, nor will people,? said Alexei Alekseyenko, spokesman for the Federal Service for Veterinarian and Vegetation Sanitary Supervision.
World Health Organization spokesman Dick Thompson agreed that the most likely way for cats to be infected by the virus was to eat infected bird carcasses but was more circumspect about the danger of infected animals.
?There is no indication that cats can or have [passed on the virus to humans], but that is still an open question because this is a virus which hasn?t been around very long, especially in animals such as cats,? he said.
Moscow residents are getting more cautionary advice on a telephone hotline set up by the Moscow region veterinary service to deal with bird flu inquiries.
?You?d be better off just going to a regular pet store,? a woman who answered the hotline said Tuesday.
The Bird Market has a checkered history. Viewed as a flea market where people could buy hard-to-find pets during the Soviet period, the market was moved to its current location after city officials closed down its previous site nearer to the city center in 2002 due to health worries.
Yevgeny Duka, a veterinarian with the state veterinary service, said that although controls were tight for people selling animals inside the new Bird Market, no such checks existed for people selling animals beyond the perimeter of the official market.
?The problem is that people sell animals next to the official part of the market, and nobody can control them there,? he said.
Guards patrolling the quarantine zone at the market seemed unfazed by the cleanup.
?I?ve been told to stand here and not let people in, and that?s what I?m doing. I?m not thinking of any danger,? said Igor Pavlenko, a guard wearing a protective mask over his nose and mouth.
A market saleswoman also said there was nothing to worry about. She spoke as she stroked the head of a stray dog at her stall selling chunks of meat for dog food. ?No, the dog has not been in the quarantined area,? she added.
Staff Writer Svetlana Osadchuk contributed to this report.
http://www.sptimesrussia.com/index....0762&sess_id=7f8cabceaabca7dbb1e65320bc9a8dcc
Bird Flu Clean-Up Continues In Moscow
Feb 22, 2007
By Max Delany
Staff Writer
MOSCOW ? Veterinary workers wearing masks and white protective suits carted off refuse and burned it Tuesday inside the quarantined section of the popular Bird Market as guards patrolled the perimeter.
But other parts of the market, which has been linked to an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of avian flu, remained open for business, with sellers hawking dogs, cats and fish.
?Of course it doesn?t affect the dogs,? saleswoman Maria Ivanova said, sitting in front of a cage of playful Alsatian puppies selling for $200 each. [Stray dog dies of bird flu in Azerbaijan]
?They?ve said the quarantine of the bird section will last 21 days, and I?m not at all worried about it. It?s the poor birds I feel sorry for,? she said.
All 1,924 birds found in the market had been culled by Tuesday morning, city veterinary official Sergei Filatov said.
All of the infected birds that were found in five villages in the Moscow region were bought at the bird section of the Sadovod complex, located just southeast of the Moscow Ring Road.
The deadly virus might have spread to two more locations in the region, state veterinary official Nikolai Vlasov said Tuesday. ?We are unable to confirm the strain, but the pattern is the same as in the previous cases,? he said, Reuters reported.
A Sadovod market spokesman insisted that it was perfectly safe to come to market and buy other animals. ?Apart from the section selling birds, the rest of the market is working and it is fine to buy animals there,? he said.
Federal and foreign experts rated the risk from low to nonexistent.
?Hamsters and dogs are not able to catch the virus. There is a small probability that cats that have eaten a lot of infected meat could get sick, but cats will not catch the disease from them, nor will people,? said Alexei Alekseyenko, spokesman for the Federal Service for Veterinarian and Vegetation Sanitary Supervision.
World Health Organization spokesman Dick Thompson agreed that the most likely way for cats to be infected by the virus was to eat infected bird carcasses but was more circumspect about the danger of infected animals.
?There is no indication that cats can or have [passed on the virus to humans], but that is still an open question because this is a virus which hasn?t been around very long, especially in animals such as cats,? he said.
Moscow residents are getting more cautionary advice on a telephone hotline set up by the Moscow region veterinary service to deal with bird flu inquiries.
?You?d be better off just going to a regular pet store,? a woman who answered the hotline said Tuesday.
The Bird Market has a checkered history. Viewed as a flea market where people could buy hard-to-find pets during the Soviet period, the market was moved to its current location after city officials closed down its previous site nearer to the city center in 2002 due to health worries.
Yevgeny Duka, a veterinarian with the state veterinary service, said that although controls were tight for people selling animals inside the new Bird Market, no such checks existed for people selling animals beyond the perimeter of the official market.
?The problem is that people sell animals next to the official part of the market, and nobody can control them there,? he said.
Guards patrolling the quarantine zone at the market seemed unfazed by the cleanup.
?I?ve been told to stand here and not let people in, and that?s what I?m doing. I?m not thinking of any danger,? said Igor Pavlenko, a guard wearing a protective mask over his nose and mouth.
A market saleswoman also said there was nothing to worry about. She spoke as she stroked the head of a stray dog at her stall selling chunks of meat for dog food. ?No, the dog has not been in the quarantined area,? she added.
Staff Writer Svetlana Osadchuk contributed to this report.
http://www.sptimesrussia.com/index....0762&sess_id=7f8cabceaabca7dbb1e65320bc9a8dcc
Theresa42
Well-known member
Re: Russia - Poultry, Animals etc. Feb 22+
In Moscow region is revealed the new point of the case of poultry
Feb 21, 2007
In the village Udino of the Dmitrovskeyeo region of the Moscow area it is fixed the new case of the loss of poultry. As reported IA regnum in the Ministry of Agriculture of region, one of the rural inhabitants Igor Shafranovskiy on 17 February acquired three hens on the bird market on the southeast of Moscow.
The purchased bird fall in two days. In all in the secondary economy of Shafranovskogo are contained 17 birds. At present the brigade of veterinary specialists for taking of the necessary measures left in the place of incident. Meanwhile according to the specified data in the city Ramenskoye in the personal secondary economy Loginova V.A. perished 75 of 177 birds. From the words of owner, feathered were purchased on the bird market in Moscow. As of on 21 February in the territory of Moscow region are registered eight points, where the virus of bird influenza is revealed. In all perished 243 birds. In the unhappy regions more than 4 and one-half thousands of head of poultry are contained. From them vaccinated thus far 944 birds. Campaign on the vaccination continues.
http://www.regnum.ru/news/785989.html
babelfished from Russian:
In Moscow region is revealed the new point of the case of poultry
Feb 21, 2007
In the village Udino of the Dmitrovskeyeo region of the Moscow area it is fixed the new case of the loss of poultry. As reported IA regnum in the Ministry of Agriculture of region, one of the rural inhabitants Igor Shafranovskiy on 17 February acquired three hens on the bird market on the southeast of Moscow.
The purchased bird fall in two days. In all in the secondary economy of Shafranovskogo are contained 17 birds. At present the brigade of veterinary specialists for taking of the necessary measures left in the place of incident. Meanwhile according to the specified data in the city Ramenskoye in the personal secondary economy Loginova V.A. perished 75 of 177 birds. From the words of owner, feathered were purchased on the bird market in Moscow. As of on 21 February in the territory of Moscow region are registered eight points, where the virus of bird influenza is revealed. In all perished 243 birds. In the unhappy regions more than 4 and one-half thousands of head of poultry are contained. From them vaccinated thus far 944 birds. Campaign on the vaccination continues.
http://www.regnum.ru/news/785989.html
AlaskaDenise
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Re: Russia - Poultry, Animals etc. Feb 22+
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MOSCOW, February 22 (Itar-Tass) - Poultry owners in the Moscow region, whose birds recently died of bird flu or were culled, may receive compensation only if they have met veterinary regulations, chief veterinary doctor, Moscow region, Valery Sitnikov told reporters on Thursday.
"As many as 448 birds died or were culled at nine locations in the province," Sitnikov said.
"The decision on compensation will be made only after completion of the inspection. According to a decision by the Russian government, poultry owners' losses should be reimbursed, but only if they have observed the established rules," he added.
After purchasing a birds, the owner should place it in a separate cage for quarantine and only then release it into the enclosure where other poultry are kept.
The bird flu incubation period ranges between 18 hours to four days, so a four-day quarantine would be recommended, Sitnikov said.
"As far as I know, these rules were not obeyed in all the cases of birds' deaths," he underlined.
On Thursday, Sitnikov said bird flu-related deaths of poultry in the Moscow region may stop after February 22.
" If all the infected chickens were bought at Moscow's Bird Market, closed by authorities on February 18, there will be no new cases after February 22," he stated.
The latest bird flu-related death of poultry was reported in Moscow region's Dmitrov district.
Poultry deaths reports came from the districts of Domodedovo, Odintsovo, Podolsk, Naro-Fominsk, Taldom, Volokolamsk, Dmitrov and Zelenograd.
All the deaths occurred at private yards.
All the deaths occurred at private yards.
Spokesman for the Rosselkhoznadzor Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Inspection Alexei Alexeyenko told Tass on Wednesday that a new bird flu nidus had been detected in the Borovsk district of the Kaluga region.
Moscow region authorities recommended local residents "to refrain from buying poultry or eggs from private individuals" to prevent possible bird flu contagion.
It is also recommended not to purchase these products from sellers lacking veterinary certificates for their products, chief regional epidemiologist Alexander Milenin said.
The products supplied by poultry farms can be purchased without restrictions. "If cooked correctly, poultry meat or eggs, even infected with the bird flu virus, become safe for consumption," Milenin said.
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Theresa42
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Re: Russia - Poultry, Animals etc. Feb 22+
Map caption: Diagnosis "bird influenza" is laboratory confirmed in eight regions of the Moscow area, on nine podvor'yakh, where the case of hens is fixed, reported on Thursday the main state veterinarian of Moscow region Valerie Sitnikov.
http://www.newsru.com/pict/big/934166.html
From this article: http://www.newsru.com/russia/22feb2007/8birdflu.html
Map caption: Diagnosis "bird influenza" is laboratory confirmed in eight regions of the Moscow area, on nine podvor'yakh, where the case of hens is fixed, reported on Thursday the main state veterinarian of Moscow region Valerie Sitnikov.
http://www.newsru.com/pict/big/934166.html
From this article: http://www.newsru.com/russia/22feb2007/8birdflu.html
Theresa42
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Re: Russia - Poultry, Animals etc. Feb 22+
babelfished from Russian:
Azerbaijan denies participation to the "bird influenza" in the Moscow area
Feb 24, 2007
State veterinary service with the Ministry of Agriculture of Azerbaijan refutes the statements of Russian side about the possible spread of "bird influenza" in the Moscow area via the exotic birds left from the [Azeri] Republic, reports agency "Trend" with the reference to the statement of department.
"These statements by in no way not of obosnovanny. From Azerbaijan to Russia no exotic birds are left and, that most important, in Azerbaijan there is no 'bird influenza'", they emphasized in the Azerbaijan veterinary service.
In the department they added that for averting the penetration of virus on the territory of Azerbaijan all veterinary boundary points of the country work in the intensive regime, remains valid prohibition to the hunting, sale and use of wild birds in the country, regularly it is carried out monitorings with the participation of the representatives of Gossluzhby, ministries of ecology, public health, and also society of hunters.
Several days ago the representatives of Russian veterinary services made the assumption that the birds, that became the reason for the flash of epidemic, were left for the capital "bird market" either from the southern federal region or from other countries (Azerbaijan or Iran). However, Russian officials did not present precise information.
In the last week "bird influenza" it was discovered in a whole series of the regions of Moscow region, which led to the mass destruction of bird in the region and closing of bird market in the capital.
http://top.rbc.ru/retail/index.shtml?/news/retail/2007/02/24/24194018_bod.shtml
babelfished from Russian:
Azerbaijan denies participation to the "bird influenza" in the Moscow area
Feb 24, 2007
State veterinary service with the Ministry of Agriculture of Azerbaijan refutes the statements of Russian side about the possible spread of "bird influenza" in the Moscow area via the exotic birds left from the [Azeri] Republic, reports agency "Trend" with the reference to the statement of department.
"These statements by in no way not of obosnovanny. From Azerbaijan to Russia no exotic birds are left and, that most important, in Azerbaijan there is no 'bird influenza'", they emphasized in the Azerbaijan veterinary service.
In the department they added that for averting the penetration of virus on the territory of Azerbaijan all veterinary boundary points of the country work in the intensive regime, remains valid prohibition to the hunting, sale and use of wild birds in the country, regularly it is carried out monitorings with the participation of the representatives of Gossluzhby, ministries of ecology, public health, and also society of hunters.
Several days ago the representatives of Russian veterinary services made the assumption that the birds, that became the reason for the flash of epidemic, were left for the capital "bird market" either from the southern federal region or from other countries (Azerbaijan or Iran). However, Russian officials did not present precise information.
In the last week "bird influenza" it was discovered in a whole series of the regions of Moscow region, which led to the mass destruction of bird in the region and closing of bird market in the capital.
http://top.rbc.ru/retail/index.shtml?/news/retail/2007/02/24/24194018_bod.shtml
Mellie
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Bird Flu Epidemic Spreads to Moscow
Bird Flu Epidemic Spreads to Moscow
http://english.mn.ru/english/issue.php?2007-7-2Bird Flu Epidemic Spreads to Moscow
The Moscow News
Cases of bird flu have been registered for the first time in the Moscow region, but officials are assuring people that consuming poultry is still safe.
With bird flu reaching Moscow and continuing to spread this week, laboratory tests confirmed that birds from as many as nine areas in the Moscow region were infected with the deadly virus, the Moscow region's chief veterinarian Valery Sitnikov told news agencies.
"We can state that the death of chickens in the Domodedovo, Odintsovo, Podolsk, Taldom, and Volokolamsk regions was caused by the H5N1 virus," Sitnikov was quoted as saying.
While no human cases of bird flu have been registered, authorities are taking precautions. Sitnikov underlined that poultry from all 23 poultry farms in the Moscow region were constantly being monitored, but were completely safe. Some 30,000 domestic birds have already been vaccinated, including 28,000 chickens.
A bigger question is what dangers the spread of the virus to the capital poses to Muscovites. On Thursday, the chief sanitary doctor, Gennady Onishchenko, issued reassuring statements that no harmful mutations of the H5N1 virus had been found so far. "There are no mutations adapting the virus to humans." He added, however, that "there are no guarantees that this mutation could not take place in the future." Onishchenko warned against making speculations, but underlined that caution was necessary.
Meanwhile, the Komsomolskaya Pravda tabloid, citing unnamed prosecutors, reported that poultry traders had brought in contaminated meat to the Sadovod market. Moscow's Bird Market reportedly had several imported, infected birds shipped in from abroad.
But in a statement to The Moscow News, the Emergency Ministry, which has been taking measures in light of the danger of the epidemic, said that they had no information whatsoever that contaminated meat had reached any Moscow market. Rospotrebnadzor, the government consumer watchdog, could not confirm these reports either.
Moscow's epidemiological watchdog agency warns consumers to avoid contact with domestic and wild birds, avoid purchasing decorative birds, and buying poultry in unsanctioned trading spots. Poultry should be well cooked, and raw poultry should be stored separately from other foods. MN
Bird Flu Epidemic Spreads to Moscow
http://english.mn.ru/english/issue.php?2007-7-2Bird Flu Epidemic Spreads to Moscow
The Moscow News
Cases of bird flu have been registered for the first time in the Moscow region, but officials are assuring people that consuming poultry is still safe.
With bird flu reaching Moscow and continuing to spread this week, laboratory tests confirmed that birds from as many as nine areas in the Moscow region were infected with the deadly virus, the Moscow region's chief veterinarian Valery Sitnikov told news agencies.
"We can state that the death of chickens in the Domodedovo, Odintsovo, Podolsk, Taldom, and Volokolamsk regions was caused by the H5N1 virus," Sitnikov was quoted as saying.
While no human cases of bird flu have been registered, authorities are taking precautions. Sitnikov underlined that poultry from all 23 poultry farms in the Moscow region were constantly being monitored, but were completely safe. Some 30,000 domestic birds have already been vaccinated, including 28,000 chickens.
A bigger question is what dangers the spread of the virus to the capital poses to Muscovites. On Thursday, the chief sanitary doctor, Gennady Onishchenko, issued reassuring statements that no harmful mutations of the H5N1 virus had been found so far. "There are no mutations adapting the virus to humans." He added, however, that "there are no guarantees that this mutation could not take place in the future." Onishchenko warned against making speculations, but underlined that caution was necessary.
Meanwhile, the Komsomolskaya Pravda tabloid, citing unnamed prosecutors, reported that poultry traders had brought in contaminated meat to the Sadovod market. Moscow's Bird Market reportedly had several imported, infected birds shipped in from abroad.
But in a statement to The Moscow News, the Emergency Ministry, which has been taking measures in light of the danger of the epidemic, said that they had no information whatsoever that contaminated meat had reached any Moscow market. Rospotrebnadzor, the government consumer watchdog, could not confirm these reports either.
Moscow's epidemiological watchdog agency warns consumers to avoid contact with domestic and wild birds, avoid purchasing decorative birds, and buying poultry in unsanctioned trading spots. Poultry should be well cooked, and raw poultry should be stored separately from other foods. MN