OIE:UPDATE ON AVIAN INFLUENZA IN ANIMALS IN ASIA (TYPE H5)
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UPDATE ON AVIAN INFLUENZA IN ANIMALS IN ASIA (TYPE H5)
Location |
Virus type |
Official reports | |
Date |
Link | ||
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H5N1 |
12/12/2003 16/12 - 06/02/2004 24/03 - 19/07/2004 24/09/2004 |
Follow up report No.3 - No.4 |
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H5N2 |
24/12/2004 |
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H5N1 |
08/01/2004 24/01 - 19/02/2004 17/03 - 13/05/2004 01/07 - 07/07/2004 19/07 - 22/09/ 2004 22/10 - 25/11/2004 24/12 - 07/01/2005 28/02 - 01/07/2005 |
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H5N1 |
12/01/2004 13/01 - 20/01/2004 18/02 - 09/03/2004 13/07/2004 01/07/2005 |
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Taipei |
H5N2 |
20/01/2004 15/04/2004 |
Follow up report No.1 |
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H5N1 |
23/01 2004 30/01 - 06/02/2004 13/02 - 20/02/2004 29/02 - 05/03/2004 12/03 - 19/03/2004 02/04 - 09/04/2004 16/04 - 23/04/2004 29/04 - 06/05/2004 14/05 - 25/05/2004 04/06 - 07/07/2004 14/07 - 22/07/2004 23/07 - 31/07/2004 27/08 - 17/09/2004 24/09 - 01/10/2004 08/10 - 15/10/2004 20/10/2004 22/10- 5/11/2004 12/11 - 19/11/2004 25/11/2004 25/10 - 5/11/2004 12/11 - 19/11/2004 25/11 - 03/12/2004 10/12 - 17/12/2004 23/12 - 04/01/2005 07/01 - 14/01/2005 20/01 - 27/01/2005 04/02 - 11/02/2005 18/02 - 25/02/2005 05/03 -11/03/2005 18/3/2005 - 4/4/2005 22/4/2005-29/4/2005 6/5/2005 - 13/5/2005 20/5/2005 - 3/6/2005 10/06 - 17/6/2005 1/7 - 15/7/2005 15/7/2005 |
Follow up report No.11 - No.12 Follow up report No.13 - No.14 Follow up report No.15 - No.16 Follow up report No.17 - No.18 Follow up report No.19 - No.20 Follow up report No.21 - No.22 Follow up report No.23 - No.24 Follow up report No.25 - No.26 Follow up report No.27 - No.28 Emergency report (tig) Follow up report No.1-No.2 (tig) Follow up report No.3- No.4 (tig) Follow up report No.5 (tig) Follow up report No.29 - No.30 Follow up report No.31 - No.32 Follow up report No.33 - No.34 Follow up report No.35 - No.36 Follow up report No.37 - No.38 Follow up report No.39 - No.40 Follow up report No.41 - No.42 Follow up report No.43 - No.44 Follow up report No.45 - No.46 Follow up report No.47 - No.48 Follow up report No.49 - No.50 Follow up report No.51 - No.52 Follow up report No.53 - No.54 Follow up report No.55 - No.56 Follow up report No.57 - No.58 Follow up report No.59 - No.60 Follow up report No.61 |
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H5N1 |
24/01/2004 17/03 - 26/07/2004 22/9/2004 - 1/4/2005 |
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Hong Kong (SARPRC) |
H5N1 |
26/01/2004 05/11/2004 17/12/2004 14/01/2005 |
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H5 |
27/01/2004 |
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Indonesia |
H5N1 |
02/02/2004 24/02 - 25/03/2004 12/05 - 28/06/2004 04/08 - 08/10/2004 11/03- 8/04/2005 24/5 - 01/07/2005 |
Follow up report No.7 - No.7 (contd) |
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H5N1 |
04/02/2004 10/02 - 19/02/2004 27/02 - 19/03/2004 06/07/2004 27/05/2005 08/06/2005 08/06/2005 |
Emergency report (wildbirds) Follow up report No.1 |
Malaysia (Peninsular) |
H5N1 |
19/08/2004 27/08 - 09/09/2004 17/09 - 30/09/2004 02/11 - 03/12/2004 04/01/2005 |
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Philippines | H5 |
15/07/2005 |
Emergency report |
COUNTRIES HAVING INFORMED ON THE ABSENCE OF
HIGHLY PATHOGENIC AVIAN INFLUENZA INFECTION
Country |
Date |
Official report |
Bangladesh |
2 February 2004 |
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Mongolia |
12 February 2004 |
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Philippines |
12 February 2004 |
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Singapore |
12 February 2004 |
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Nepal |
16 February 2004 |
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Myanmar |
16 February 2004 |
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India |
04 March 2004 |
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Sri Lanka |
29 July 2004 |
AVIAN INFLUENZA IN THE PHILIPPINES
Immediate notification report
Information received on 8 and 12 July 2005 from Dr José Q. Molina, Director, Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI), Department of Agriculture, Quezon City:
Report date: 12 July 2005.
Precise identification of agent: low pathogenic H5 avian influenza virus. Samples were sent to the OIE Reference Laboratory for avian influenza at the Australian Animal Health Laboratory, Geelong, Victoria, Australia, for confirmation of the specific strain involved.
Date of first confirmation of the event: 7 July 2005.
Clinical disease: no.
Nature of diagnosis: laboratory.
Details of outbreak:
First administrative division | Lower administrative division | Type of epide-miolo-gical unit | Spe-cies | Number of animals in the outbreak | ||||
susceptible | cases | deaths | destroyed | slaugh-tered | ||||
Bulacan province | Calumpit city | farm | avi | 280* | ... | 0 | 280* | 0 |
* 230 native ducks, 20 native chickens and 30 two-day-old chicks
Description of affected population: smallholder (backyard) farm. The infection was detected in ducks only, with no clinical signs of disease and no deaths.
Diagnosis: the infection in ducks was detected during routine testing using haemagglutination inhibition (HI) test and was confirmed on 7 July 2005 using RT-PCR(1). All the chickens in the same farm tested negative to the HI test.
Laboratories where diagnosis was made | Diagnostic tests used | Date | Results |
The Philippine Animal Health Centre, BAI, Quezon City |
- ELISA(2); - agar gel precipitation test; - haemagglutination inhibition (HI) test. |
... | HI test positive for H5 virus |
Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, Department of Health, Alabang, Metro Manila | RT-PCR(1) | 7 July 2005 | positive |
Control measures:
- all ducks and chickens in the affected farm were culled and the farm was cleaned and disinfected;
- a 3-km-radius quarantine zone was imposed around the affected farm, prohibiting movement of live poultry within, into and out of the zone;
- surveillance and testing of all poultry flocks in nearby areas are being maintained.
Other details/comments: no disease incidence or abnormally high mortality were reported in poultry in the area or in adjoining towns.
(1) RT-PCR: reverse transcriptase - polymerase chain reaction
(2) ELISA: enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
Note by the OIE Animal Health Information Department: Changes in the obligations of OIE Member Countries to notify avian influenza (“notifiable avian influenza”), as adopted during the 73rd OIE General Session in May 2005, will come into effect on 1 January 2006. The OIE Animal Health Information Department is publishing the above report because of the importance of monitoring the disease situation in South-East Asia.
HIGHLY PATHOGENIC AVIAN INFLUENZA IN THAILAND
Follow-up report No. 60 (new outbreaks)
Information received on 9 July 2005 from Dr Yukol Limlamthong, Director General, Department of Livestock Development (DLD), Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Bangkok:
End of previous report period: 30 June 2005 (see Disease Information, 18 [26], 185, dated 1 July 2005).
End of this report period: 8 July 2005.
Date of first confirmation of the event: 23 January 2004.
Nature of diagnosis: clinical, post-mortem and laboratory.
Details of new outbreaks:
First administrative division | Lower administrative division | Type of epide-miolo-gical unit | Name of the location | Date of start of the outbreak | Spe-cies | Number of animals in the outbreaks | ||||
susceptible | cases | deaths | destroyed | slaugh-tered | ||||||
SuphanBuri province | YanYao, SarmChoog | village | village No. 5 | 5 July 2005 | avi | 70 | 3 | 3 | 67 | ... |
SuphanBuri province | SarmChoog, SarmChoog | village | village No. 1 | 5 July 2005 | avi | 90 | 40 | 40 | 50 | ... |
SuphanBuri province | BanKhong, UThong | village | village No. 8 | 5 July 2005 | avi | 12 | 7 | 7 | 5 | ... |
SuphanBuri province | YanYao, SarmChoog | village | village No. 9 | 6 July 2005 | avi | 10 | 3 | 3 | 7 | ... |
SuphanBuri province | BanPoh, Muang |
village | village No. 2 | 7 July 2005 | avi | 44 | 22 | 22 | 22 | ... |
Description of affected populations in the new outbreaks: native poultry and fighting cocks in villages. The biosecurity is minimal.
Diagnosis:
Laboratories where diagnosis was made | Diagnostic tests used | Results |
National Institute of Animal Health, DLD |
- agar-gel precipitation test; - haemagglutination test; - pathogen isolation by egg inoculation; - intracerebral pathogenicity index test. |
positive |
Source of outbreaks or origin of infection: unknown or inconclusive.
Control measures undertaken:
- stamping out;
- quarantine;
- movement control inside the country;
- screening;
- zoning;
- disinfection of infected premises/establishments.
Treatment of affected animals: no.
Vaccination prohibited: yes.
Other details/comments: the case findings resulted from the second nationwide active surveillance campaign, being conducted from 1 to 31 July 2005. The purpose of this surveillance is to evaluate the present status of highly pathogenic avian influenza after the second wave of outbreaks (between 3 July 2004 and 12 April 2005)(1).
(1) The last outbreaks reported previously were published in Disease Information, 18 [16], 109, dated 22 April 2005.
- GISAID: H5N1 Bird Flu Circulating in Dairy Cows in the United States 3 days ago
- USCDC: A(H5N1) Bird Flu Response Update 3 days ago
- USCDC: Avian Influenza A(H5N1) U.S. Situation Update and CDC Activities 9 days ago
- USCDC: Urgent field correction notice 9 days ago
- Joint FAO/WHO/WOAH preliminary assessment of recent influenza A(H5N1) viruses 10 days ago
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