OIE: Pandemic influenza A/H1N1 2009, Finland

OIE: Pandemic influenza A/H1N1 2009, Finland
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Information received on 30/11/2009 from Dr Riitta Heinonen, Deputy Director General, Department of Food and Health, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, HELSINKI, Finland

Summary

Report type	Immediate notification (Final report)
Start date	18/11/2009
Date of first confirmation of the event	25/11/2009
Report date	30/11/2009
Date submitted to OIE	30/11/2009
Date event resolved	30/11/2009
Reason for notification	Emerging disease
Morbidity	80 %
Mortality	0 %
Zoonotic impact	It affects also humans
Causal agent	Pandemic A/H1N1 virus

New outbreaks

Summary of outbreaks

Total outbreaks: 1

Location(s)

L?NSI-SUOMI (Teuva)

Total animals affected

Species	Susceptible	Cases	Deaths	Destroyed	Slaughtered
Swine	950	800	0	0	0

Outbreak statistics

Species	Apparent morbidity rate	Apparent mortality rate	Apparent case fatality rate	Proportion susceptible animals lost*
Swine	84.21%	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	Contact with infected person
Epidemiological comments	The farmers were sick with flu-like symptoms a few days before the pigs got sick. The farm is under voluntary restrictions agreed by the industry, which consist of a two-week quarantine for delivery of fattening pigs to other farms and a four-week quarantine for delivery of breeding pigs to other farms. Pigs sent to slaughter must be free of clinical signs.

Control measures

Measures applied	Quarantine No vaccination No treatment of affected animals
Measures to be applied	No other measures

Diagnostic test results

Laboratory name and type

Finnish Food Safety Authority (National laboratory)

Tests and results

Species	Test	Test date	Result
Swine	real-time reverse transcriptase/polymerase chain reaction (RRT-PCR)	25/11/2009	Positive

Laboratory name and type

National Institute for Health and Welfare (National laboratory)

Tests and results

Species	Test	Test date	Result
Swine	gene sequencing	30/11/2009	Positive
Swine	real-time reverse transcriptase/polymerase chain reaction (RRT-PCR)	26/11/2009	Positive

Future Reporting

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

See Also:

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