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Wild ducks carrying bird flu virus registered in Siberia

Gert van der Hoek

Gert van der Hoek

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Wild ducks carrying bird flu virus registered in Siberia

19.06.2007, 08.40


NOVOSIBIRSK, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Wild ducks that had been infected with bird flu, but recovered from it were registered in the Altai territory, the Tomsk region, Buryatia and the Ust-Ordyn Buryat autonomous district, a regional department of the Russian agriculture watchdog told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.

?These birds either had contact with infected birds or carried the virus themselves to recover,? the source said. ?Forty-seven probes exposed genetic material of the virus and presence of antibodies in blood serum.?

Measures are being taken throughout Siberia to prevent bird flu outbreak.

?As of June 19, no bird flu cases of poultry have been registered so far,? the source said.

Around 6 million poultry are located in high-risk zones of the Siberian federal district. Around 4.4 million of them have already been vaccinated.

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=11639714&PageNum=0
 
Re: Wild ducks carrying bird flu virus registered in Siberia

May this report is related?

Antibodies to avian flu found in some wild birds in Siberia



Genetic material of the A-H5 virus and antibodies in blood serum were found in laboratory tests in 41 tests of material from wild migrant birds in Altai Territory, Ust-Orda Buryat Autonomous District and the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, a REGNUM correspondent was told today at the press office of Rosselkhoznadzor Novosibirsk Region Department.

Besides, antibodies to A-H5 and H7 strains were found in 19 tests of sample material from wild migrant birds in three districts of Tomsk Region. Overall, more than 1,500 samples were taken in the frameworks of the monitoring.

Under summarized information of the department, there are about 6,000,000 of poultry located in the high risk zones of the Siberian Federal District.

By information by May 28, no cases of bird flu infections have been registered in the district.

http://www.regnum.ru/english/835476.html


And this one from Theresa42:

babelfished from Russian:

Wild weft in five regions of Altai edge are the carrier of the influenza of birds

May 11, 2007

In the Altai edge in five regions they are registered the antibody of the influenza of birds in the wild planktonic bird.

On this to correspondent IA regnum it reported today, on 11 May, the division head of infectious diseases and organization of the counterepidemic measures of the boundary administration of Valentina Tsitser's veterinary science.

Positive tests are discovered on the reservoirs in the Rubtsovskeye, Mikhajlovsk, Slavgorodskeye, Uglovskeye and Volchikhinskeye regions.

The colleagues for administration note that the wild feathered can be the source of infection for the poultry. Therefore epizootic situation depends on how honestly very masters of birds will satisfy the requirements of safety.

Is as before in the edge forbidden the enclosure of birds outside the boundary of personal podvoriy. Furthermore, continues vaccination.

Are today inculcated already about 1 million 400 thousand individuals. Monitoring at the poultry processing facilities regularly shows that in the blood serum these birds antibodies to the bird influenza do not have.

http://www.regnum.ru/news/825716.html
 
Wild ducks carrying bird flu virus registered in Siberia

Wild ducks carrying bird flu virus registered in Siberia

19.06.2007, 08.40

NOVOSIBIRSK, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Wild ducks that had been infected with bird flu, but recovered from it were registered in the Altai territory, the Tomsk region, Buryatia and the Ust-Ordyn Buryat autonomous district, a regional department of the Russian agriculture watchdog told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.

“These birds either had contact with infected birds or carried the virus themselves to recover,” the source said. “Forty-seven probes exposed genetic material of the virus and presence of antibodies in blood serum.”

Measures are being taken throughout Siberia to prevent bird flu outbreak.

“As of June 19, no bird flu cases of poultry have been registered so far,” the source said.

Around 6 million poultry are located in high-risk zones of the Siberian federal district. Around 4.4 million of them have already been vaccinated.
 
Re: Wild ducks carrying bird flu virus registered in Siberia

.....antibodies to A-H5 and H7 strains were found in 19 tests of sample material from wild migrant birds in three districts of Tomsk Region. Overall, more than 1,500 samples were taken in the frameworks of the monitoring.....
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So we can say that about 1 in 100 wild birds carry H7 or H5 antibodies, in these regions.

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