OIE: Highly pathogenic avian influenza, Germany

OIE: Highly pathogenic avian influenza, Germany
submited by kickingbird at Mar, 11, 2009 21:21 PM from OIE

Information received on 11/03/2009 from Prof. Dr. Werner Zwingmann, Ministerialdirigent, Head of dep. animal health and food hygiene, Federal Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection(BMELV) , Bonn, Germany

Summary

Report type	Immediate notification (Final report)
Start date	06/03/2009
Date of first confirmation of the event	06/03/2009
Report date	10/03/2009
Date submitted to OIE	11/03/2009
Date event resolved	06/03/2009
Reason for notification	Reoccurrence of a listed disease
Date of previous occurrence	04/10/2008
Manifestation of disease	Sub-clinical infection
Causal agent	Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus
Serotype	H5N1
Nature of diagnosis	Laboratory (basic), Laboratory (advanced)
This event pertains to	the whole country

New outbreaks

Summary of outbreaks

Total outbreaks: 1

Outbreak Location and Affected population

BAYERN (Possenhofen (bei Starnberg), P?cking, Starnberg) : One of 39 wild ducks shot in January was positive for HPAI H5N1, 38 were negative for influenza A.

Total animals affected

Species	Susceptible	Cases	Deaths	Destroyed	Slaughtered
Wild species	39	1	0	0	0

Outbreak statistics

Species	Apparent morbidity rate	Apparent mortality rate	Apparent case fatality rate	Proportion susceptible animals lost*
Wild species	2.56%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%

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

Epidemiology

Source of the outbreak(s) or origin of infection	Unknown or inconclusive
Epidemiological comments	The place where the birds were killed is inside a risk zone, thus free-range holding of poultry is forbidden. There are no poultry holdings in the neighbourhood.

Control measures

Measures applied	Control of wildlife reservoirs Screening Vaccination prohibited No treatment of affected animals
Measures to be applied	No other measures

Diagnostic test results

Laboratory name and type

Friedrich-Loeffler Institute (National laboratory)

Tests and results

Species	Test	Test date	Result
Wild species	polymerase chain reaction (PCR)	06/03/2009	Positive

Future Reporting

The event is resolved. No more reports will be submitted.

See Also:

http://www.oie.int

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