OIE: Highly pathogenic avian influenza, France

OIE: Highly pathogenic avian influenza, France
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Information received on 05/07/2007 from Mrs Monique Eloit, Directrice générale adjointe, Direction générale de l´alimentation, Ministère de l´Agriculture et de la Pêche, PARIS Cedex 15, France

Summary

Report type	Immediate notification
Start date	28/06/2007
Date of confirmation of event	04/07/2007
Report date	05/07/2007
Date submitted to OIE	05/07/2007
Reason for notification	First occurrence of a listed disease
Manifestation of disease	Clinical disease
Causal agent	Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus
Serotype	H5N1
Nature of diagnosis	Laboratory (advanced)
Report pertains to	Defined zone within the country

New outbreaks

Summary of outbreaks

Total outbreaks: 1

Outbreak Location

MOSELLE (Assenoncourt, Assenoncourt)

Total animals affected

Species	Susceptible	Cases	Deaths	Destroyed	Slaughtered
Wild species		3	3	0	0

Outbreak statistics

Species	Apparent morbidity rate	Apparent mortality rate	Apparent case fatality rate	Proportion susceptible removed*
Wild species	-	-	100.00%	-

* Removed from the susceptible population either through death, destruction or slaughter

Epidemiology

Source of infection

Unknown or inconclusive

Control measures

Measures already applied	Control of wildlife reservoirs Zoning Vaccination permitted No treatment of affected animals
Measures to be applied	None specified

Diagnostic test results

Laboratory name and type

National Reference Laboratory, French Agency for Food Safety (AFSSA) - Ploufragan (National laboratory)

Tests and results

Species	Test	Test date	Result
Wild species	RT-PCR (amplification génomique en cha?ne avec polymérase - transcriptase inverse)	04/07/2007	Positive

See Also:

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