PHNOM PENH, 28 January 2013 (IRIN) - Health authorities in Cambodia will bolster public awareness campaigns on H5N1 avian influenza after four people became infected in January, resulting in two fatalities.
“Ongoing public awareness campaigns need to be reinforced through TV and radio,” Sok Touch, director of Cambodia’s Communicable Disease Control Department (CDC), told IRIN on 28 January, calling on people to be vigilant. “We’re planning on doing this immediately as there is no room for complacency.”
The four cases of H5N1 avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, are the first confirmed in Cambodia this year. There were three recorded cases (all fatal) in 2012.
Since 2005, 24 people have been infected resulting in 21 deaths, according to WHO, with over half of the infections in children under 14.
According to a joint statement from the Ministry of Health and World Health Organization (WHO) on 25 January, an eight-month-old boy from the capital Phnom Penh recovered after being infected with bird flu, while a 15-year-old girl from southwestern Takeo Province and a 35-year-old man from southwestern Kampong Speu Province died after contracting the virus.
The CDC said the boy had contact with chickens at a market, but the girl from Takeo and the man from Kampong Speu both fell ill after cooking dead chickens gathered from their villages.
A fourth case, also in Kampong Speu, was confirmed by the Ministry of Health on 27 January, when a 17-month-old girl tested positive for H5N1.
“We are working closely with the Ministry of Health to enhance surveillance of H5N1,” said Sonny Krishnan, communications officer with WHO in Phnom Penh, adding that WHO did not know yet if there was a link between the cases of the girl and 35-year-old man.
“We just did a map of the two communes and they’re not far from each other, so there could be an indication of a movement of poultry," Krishnan said.
Philippe Buchy, head of virology at the Pasteur Institute in Phnom Penh, said the best way to avoid further infections was to contain infected poultry, which is complicated in Cambodia.
“The country is large, there is not the surveillance required; a lot of resources [that are needed]... are not available to monitor clearly the poultry deaths everywhere, especially in a country where most of the production is backyard,” he said.
An earlier report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) indicated that chickens are kept by 90-95 percent of rural households, providing an important source of protein and livelihoods for millions.
According to WHO, since 2003, there have been 613 laboratory confirmed cases of H5N1 with 362 related deaths worldwide. http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97346/Cambodian-bird-flu-deaths-prompt-awareness-drive
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Fourth bird flu case confirmed
- Last Updated on 28 January 2013
- By Mom Kunthear and Justine Drennan
A shipment of live chickens from the provinces is unloaded at O’Russey market in Phnom Penh, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013. Photograph: Vireak Mai/Phnom Penh Post
In the wake of a Ministry of Health announcement of two fatalities among the three confirmed human cases of avian flu in the new year, authorities this weekend increased efforts to eradicate affected birds, even as some officials reported a fourth case.
An official on the Ministry of Health’s human influenza hotline and a commune chief said yesterday a two-year-old girl from Kampong Speu was diagnosed with H5N1 on Saturday after being admitted to Kantha Bopha hospital in Phnom Penh, where a 15-year-old girl died of the virus last Monday.
Due to less-rigorous monitoring of the disease in other hospitals, the cases seen in Kantha Bopha hospital were likely just the “tip of the iceberg”, said Dr Philippe Buchy, head of the virology unit at the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge, the medical research centre that tested the recent cases.
In Takeo province’s Prey Kabbas district, officials in Snao village, the home of last week’s 15-year-old victim, killed and burned more than 4,000 chickens and ducks on Saturday and prohibited the import of new poultry into the village for one month, Prey Kabass district governor Ith Sa said.
“The officials from the ministries of Health and Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, the provincial governor, the courts and local government decided to collect and burn the poultry in the village in order to prevent the spreading [of the virus] to other places,” Sa said.
Local health officials had buried the burned birds outside the village, sprayed the village and distributed medicine to eradicate the virus, he said.
Officials in Kong Pisei district’s Prey Nhat commune, in Kampong Speu province, the home of the two-year-old confirmed on Saturday to be the fourth case of the year, were pushing similar measures, according to commune chief Chan Sun.
Sun said a lot of poultry in the commune tended to get sick during the dry season, and officials had told villagers not to cook or touch sick or dead birds.
“They have to burn and bury the dead poultry,” he said. “We have also prohibited poultry buyers who usually come into the commune from buying chickens in the commune for a while until we are sure everything is safe.”
More than 40 chickens at the infected toddler’s house had fallen sick and died, and, as with the other three cases this month, health officials suspect contact with poultry had caused her to become ill.
“Health officials went to the girl’s and her neighbours’ houses this morning to spray and distribute medicines, and they tested some poultry,” Sun said.
Testing individual birds for the virus was the most common method of tracking the virus, but it did not necessarily reflect H5N1’s ubiquity in environments such as markets, Institut Pasteur’s Buchy said.
Although Ith Sa said health officials had sampled 10 birds taken from 10 villagers in Snao and found them clean, Buchy said samples taken from such elements as soil, water and feathers better reflected the exposure caused by “many poultry together” — the situation seen in markets.
A study co-written by Buchy, to be published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases in February, has found that as many as 20 per cent of such samples, from markets in Phnom Penh, Takeo and Kampong Cham, tested positive for H5N1.
Although this finding did not directly demonstrate the disease’s risk to humans, recent cases showed that not only farmers who routinely handled poultry but also people “swimming in ponds where there are ducks, going to markets and... plenty of things” could be exposed to the virus, Buchy said.
According to Friday’s press release by the WHO and the Ministry of Health, the world has seen 613 confirmed cases of the virus and 362 related deaths, while Cambodia has seen 24 confirmed cases and 21 deaths since the virus emerged a decade ago. The case reported on Saturday would be Cambodia’s 25th.
The last case officially confirmed in Friday’s Ministry of Health statement — a 35-year-old man also from Kampong Speu’s Kong Pisei district, but from Preah Nipean commune — died last Wednesday. In the year’s first case, an eight-month-old boy from Phnom Penh recovered after being diagnosed with the virus.
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Hundreds of temporary workers Department of Veterinary Medicine, Assiut to demand the installation of
Assiut - Islam Radwan
Side of the demonstrations of Veterinary Medicine in Assiut
Hundreds of temporary workers Directorate of Veterinary Medicine in Assiut, inside the headquarters of the Directorate, on Sunday, in order to claim them confirmation, as well as their refusal to appoint Deputy Minister belongs to the Muslim Brotherhood - as they say -.stressed demonstrators, they are working on funds "bird flu" and "Almzbouhat "The salaries do not exceed the 150 pounds per month, which are not sufficient to spend on their families, and demanded more than once installation but to no avail. pointed demonstrators, they were surprised by the nomination of Dr. Mustafa Amin, Deputy Directorate of Veterinary Medicine, and Dr. Omar Radwan, Hilal Senior specialists Directorate, for the position of Director of the Directorate of Veterinary Medicine in Assiut, and two belong to political Islam, although they had demanded the appointment of Dr. Salah El Din Mohamed Ibrahim takes office, said the demonstrators, they have collected signatures from all its ranks and sent to the head of the Cairo, to recommend Dr. Salah al-Din Muhammad Ibrahim to take office. http://gate.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/5/35/301121/%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B8%D8%A7%D8%AA/%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B1/%D8%AA%D8%B8%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%A6%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D9%82%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%A8%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B7%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B7%D8%B1%D9%8A-%D8%A8%D8%A3.aspx
Wind "sowing" pandemic
Monday, 01/28/2013 06:48
ANTD - According to the New Scientist, bird flu virus can be spread by wind and human disease easily when directly facing the wind.
Scientists from the National Institute of Public Health and Environment in the Netherlands investigated the outbreak of H7N7 influenza in poultry farms in 2003 and give the result: 89 people have been infected, 1 deaths. Wind through tracking chart on the computer scientists to explain why different strains of influenza can fly to different farms. Also pandemic H5N1 had 360 people died in 610 patients. Cause outbreaks of similar cases of H7N7-virus moves through the air.Epidemiological Institute said, if this certification means that the whole world is in danger. Also by FMD virus (the virus that causes foot and mouth disease) Wind can be moved to a distant. And viruses can cause disease outbreaks in animals and poultry. http://www.anninhthudo.vn/Khoe-dep/Gio-gieo-dai-dich-cum/484511.antd
"Superbug" Norovirus Rampant in US, Symptoms Present Within 48 Hours of Exposure
As flu season wanes a new "Superbug" from Australia is taking its place in the spotlight.
Transferred to the King Faisal Hospital urgently
Transferred to the King Faisal Hospital urgently
HIV infects «80» trainees civilian Taif Center for Training
Virus has infected today, more than eighty trainees status of civil defense training in Taif were transported immediately to King Faisal hospital urgently.
Sources suggest that the virus infected trainees in the eye, and is still relevant authorities transporting the injured to hospital, while exist a large number of officers Directorate of Civil Defense hospital to follow up on the incident.
Sources suggest that the virus infected trainees in the eye, and is still relevant authorities transporting the injured to hospital, while exist a large number of officers Directorate of Civil Defense hospital to follow up on the incident.
Article link newspaper harmony: the virus infects «80» trainees civilian Taif Center for Training http://www.alweeam.com.sa/180541/%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3-%D9%8A%D8%B5%D9%8A%D8%A880%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7-%D8%A8%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%B2-%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%86%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B7%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81/
So the threat of the H5N1 virus remains
January 27, 2013 16:31:45 |
Though Health Minister Mafsiah Mboi determine if up to now, no human bird flu virus infected a new variant, but people are asked to remain vigilant because the H5N1 virus and its derivatives still remains a threat to humans.
In recent weeks, the H5N1 virus is no longer attacking the chicken, but duck into a new target, but at least 11 districts have been a bumpy Sentra duck breeding ducks must have lost thousands because of sudden unexpected death has attacked a new variant of the bird flu virus.
However, Menkes recalled a society to not panic, even though we should remain vigilant because it is not known whether the virus has mutated to a human or not.
Applicability of the bird flu virus mutates into a human body might remain a threat, let alone already many dead birds and simultaneously sharply in recent weeks this. In addition to the destruction done duck and bird flu vaccine, estimation of funds from the state budget through organized emergency response mechanism through legislation draws important.
Estimates of the emergency response is not only the case for natural disasters, but also important to restrict the spread of disease, outbreaks of disease and municipalities could happen at any time, as the previous duck flu also attack poultry.
Natural dynamics of the virus in the human environment and the animals who live together continue. Members inevitably Indonesia should continue to do a complete phylogenetic analysis of viruses continue circulating various variants.
Therefore, a very urgent need for the government with sufficient funds to conduct surveillance as a result sustained a broad informed through bilateral organizations or international interest of better management control on the spread of the virus and thus evolution.
H5N1 bird flu virus variant appears very violent 2.3.2 for ducks. Eleven provinces reported by infected within six months since the case of mass deaths of ducks in Brebes regency, Central Java, September 2012.
Members of the University of Airlangga Surabaya Biomolekuler Dr DRH CA Nidom MS to ANTARA in Surabaya (26/12) asserts that Tim Bird Flu Researchers Airlangga University (Unair) Surabaya find Bird Flu antiviral vaccines for animals, including ducks, chickens, and other birds.
"The government should not underestimate the duck, duck keberbahayaan due to high levels of bird flu virus due to the spread of water in the mass media," said Head of the Centre for Research in the Unair Bird Flu.
Now, the question is all of us, whether visitation was mainly a further episode of previous bird flu crisis, or as a new episode of a new virus which requires all parties, especially the competent authority from central to regional to more responsive and sipag in addressing and overcoming flu birds.
Variant of the bird flu virus with 2.3.2 which can be found in Indonesia as well viral gene regulation over intra or inter variant or diintroduksi from outside Indonesia through import live poultry or wild bird migration.
To inhibit the spread of the bird flu virus currently threatening duck populations, the number of the stricken area was already doing many of anticipation, one of which injects the H5N1 vaccine into a duck.
In fact, in Malang Regency H5N1 vaccine allocation Sentra Sentra-duck farming, such as ferns District, Singosari, Pakisaji, and the Occupation of 100 thousand more.
It's just, it's duck flu penganggulangan it enough just to inject the vaccine without any further action and kongkret from the government that the virus has not spread widely and mutate into a human body? Certainly not enough.
Continuous efforts and synergistically with various stakeholders, municipalities and ranchers would be done, as well there should be special budget memnag handling diseases, including bird flu that could disappear and reappear now late duck.
http://www.antarajatim.com/lihat/berita/103330/virus-h5n1-tetap-jadi-ancaman?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Nipah death toll rises to 8
Nipah virus claims 2 more lives
2013-01-27 11:44:14.0
The Director of the government’s disease monitoring outfit, IEDCR, Prof Mahmudur Rahman on Sunday said two more died of the virus taking the total death toll this year to eight.
The new deaths were from Pabna and Rajshahi while one 8-month old boy is struggling for life in the Rajshahi Medical College Hospital.
The virus that infects a person only after drinking raw date sap and later can pass on to other people through contact is a cause of public health concern in Bangladesh since 2001, as it breaks out every year during Jan-Apr.
Drinking raw date or palm sap in the morning is an age-old practice in Bangladesh, especially in rural areas, but IEDCR suggests drinking boiled sap or molasses and washing hands with soap after caring patients.
The IEDCR Director told bdnews24.com that the Health Education Bureau had been instructed by the health minister to launch mass media campaign.
“This year we saw an early spike of the virus, infecting 11 people within a couple of weeks,” he said.
He said they had sent nipah management guidelines for clinicians in every district where the virus is prevalent.
Visiting Director of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention Dr Thomas R. Frieden when asked by journalists said that it’s entirely a health education issue as drinking raw date sap can cause the infection.
“But changing behaviour is very hard,” he said and that they had a project with ICDDR,B in Dhaka to see ‘ways of reducing the risk by reducing raw date sap consumption.’
He said US CDC helps Bangladesh with testing materials to diagnose the virus.
This year IEDCR confirmed first death from nipah on Tuesday in Dhaka in a family who brought date sap from Bhaluka, an upazilla in Mymensignh. On Friday it confirmed five more deaths.
The fatality rate from the virus is nearly 80 percent while it is fully preventable if people shun the consumption of raw date sap.
It usually takes seven to eight days on an average between exposure and signs of symptoms — fever, altered mental status and seizure.
Nipah virus was first detected in Malaysia in 1998 but at present Bangladesh, a hotspot for infectious diseases, is the only country in the world that reports the disease.
An ICDDR,B study using infrared cameras found that fruit bats perch on the jars, put up on trees to collect the sap, and try to drink the juice. They also urinate into the pot.
The Pteropus bats’ saliva and urine carry the virus. But it gets destroyed if the sap is boiled. “The virus is killed in 70 degrees Celsius temperature,” Prof Rahman said.
As of 2012, the virus has killed 136 of its 176 victims in 21 districts across Bangladesh. http://bdnews24.com/health/2013/01/27/nipah-virus-claims-2-more-lives
The new deaths were from Pabna and Rajshahi while one 8-month old boy is struggling for life in the Rajshahi Medical College Hospital.
The virus that infects a person only after drinking raw date sap and later can pass on to other people through contact is a cause of public health concern in Bangladesh since 2001, as it breaks out every year during Jan-Apr.
Drinking raw date or palm sap in the morning is an age-old practice in Bangladesh, especially in rural areas, but IEDCR suggests drinking boiled sap or molasses and washing hands with soap after caring patients.
The IEDCR Director told bdnews24.com that the Health Education Bureau had been instructed by the health minister to launch mass media campaign.
“This year we saw an early spike of the virus, infecting 11 people within a couple of weeks,” he said.
He said they had sent nipah management guidelines for clinicians in every district where the virus is prevalent.
Visiting Director of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention Dr Thomas R. Frieden when asked by journalists said that it’s entirely a health education issue as drinking raw date sap can cause the infection.
“But changing behaviour is very hard,” he said and that they had a project with ICDDR,B in Dhaka to see ‘ways of reducing the risk by reducing raw date sap consumption.’
He said US CDC helps Bangladesh with testing materials to diagnose the virus.
This year IEDCR confirmed first death from nipah on Tuesday in Dhaka in a family who brought date sap from Bhaluka, an upazilla in Mymensignh. On Friday it confirmed five more deaths.
The fatality rate from the virus is nearly 80 percent while it is fully preventable if people shun the consumption of raw date sap.
It usually takes seven to eight days on an average between exposure and signs of symptoms — fever, altered mental status and seizure.
Nipah virus was first detected in Malaysia in 1998 but at present Bangladesh, a hotspot for infectious diseases, is the only country in the world that reports the disease.
An ICDDR,B study using infrared cameras found that fruit bats perch on the jars, put up on trees to collect the sap, and try to drink the juice. They also urinate into the pot.
The Pteropus bats’ saliva and urine carry the virus. But it gets destroyed if the sap is boiled. “The virus is killed in 70 degrees Celsius temperature,” Prof Rahman said.
As of 2012, the virus has killed 136 of its 176 victims in 21 districts across Bangladesh. http://bdnews24.com/health/2013/01/27/nipah-virus-claims-2-more-lives
Jordan-Health minister announces 3rd H1N1 fatality
| Health minister announces 3rd H1N1 fatality | |
| Amman, Jan 27 (Petra) -- A third H1N1 patient died in Jordan on Sunday as swine flu infections in the Kingdom rose to 107, health minister Abdullatif Wreikat said. A ministry statement said the fatality was reported by the King Abdullah University Hospital near the northern city of Irbid and two new H1N1 cases were also detected at the Al Hussein cancer Centre in Amman. Two deaths were reported in the country in the past weeks. Wreikat said H1N1 has become a seasonal flu, according to World Health Organisation WHO reports, which he said needed not be reported. But he said the ministry monitors those cases and "transparently" reports them to the public. The minister urged citizens to take care of severe flu affecting especially patients with heart and lung diseases, the most vulnerable to the H1N1 epidemic. http://petra.gov.jo/Public_News/Nws_NewsDetails.aspx?Site_Id=1&lang=2&NewsID=98296&CatID=-1 | |
Deadly virus: In Upper Dir, pneumonia claims 30 children’s lives
Deadly virus: In Upper Dir, pneumonia claims 30 children’s lives
Published: January 27, 2013Even though at least 30 children have died due to pneumonia in the remote villages of Upper Dir during the recent outbreak in Kalkot Komrat and Thall union councils, the district health department is still light years away from planning a strategy to combat the deadly virus.
After the number of deaths increased to 20, district health officials declared emergency in hospitals. District Health Officer (DHO) Dr Wakeel Muhammad said scores of children infected with pneumonia were admitted in the headquarters hospital, mainly from villages surrounded by hills.
The immunisation campaign is underway in the affected areas, stated the DHO. “In the last three days around 1,500 children have been vaccinated against the deadly virus.”
Blood samples of the infected children were sent to Islamabad by the World Health Organisation, said the DHO. “We will chalk out plans for the eradication of the disease after receiving the reports.”
Had the parents rushed the children to the hospital, their lives could have been saved, he added. “Due to lack of awareness and medical facilities most of the parents prefer to treat their children from quacks or with homemade herbal medicines which resulted in the high number of casualties.”
Talking to The Express Tribune, Faqir Hussain, who lost three children from the deadly virus, said he rushed his children to the headquarters hospital but they died due to the unavailability of staff and medicines. I had borrowed money from relatives for the treatment, he added.
Musafar Khan, who lost two daughters and a son, also complained about the negligence of the medical staff. “My children were taken to the hospital in time but the doctors ignored them.” They might have survived had they been the children of some government official, he added.
When contacted, doctors at the headquarters hospital could not give the exact number of children infected with pneumonia who come for treatment.
While the doctor at BHU Thall, who wished not to be named, said many children suffering from severe fever and throat infection had come to him about a week ago, but he treated them with plain antibiotics. “We don’t have proper medicines so I couldn’t admit the children at the BHU and suggested they be taken to the headquarters hospital,” he said.
Most parents prefer herbal medicines because the rest are expensive, he explained. “The children died due to lack of facilities and nourishing food.”
Published in The Express Tribune, January 27th, 2013.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/499159/deadly-virus-in-upper-dir-pneumonia-claims-30-childrens-lives/http://tribune.com.pk/story/499159/deadly-virus-in-upper-dir-pneumonia-claims-30-childrens-lives/
Bangladesh to be 'Global Disease Detection site'
Bangladesh to be 'Global Disease Detection site'
2013-01-27
The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is strengthening its ties with Bangladesh as part of its initiative to protect the global community from the urgent public health threats.
Director of the world’s leading public health institute Dr Thomas Frieden, who is now visiting Dhaka, said on Sunday that from this year they would work on two new initiatives – establishing ‘Global Disease Detection’ site, and making ‘disease detectives’ – based on 40 years of ‘very productive’ relations with Bangladesh.
“The relationship is getting even better,” the Director told journalists.
The US CDC designated Bangladesh as its eighth ‘Global Disease Detection’ site last year.
Dr Frieden said the disease detection site would help in protecting people within Bangladesh and also around the world from ‘threats to health whether infectious or non-infectious’.
He said a programme would start late this year to train people who will find out any disease outbreak and stop it.
“We’ve been working for it for the last several years,” he said, adding that the trained people would know ‘how to stop outbreaks and epidemics’ under the Field Epidemiology Training Programme (FETP).
Dr Frieden arrived in Dhaka on Saturday to discuss with health officials the US-Bangladesh cooperation on public health issues and strengthening the partnership.
He said their approach is to prevent problems. “We do it by finding out what the problem is, what causes it and by working to prevent it, stop it.”... http://bdnews24.com/health/2013/01/27/bangladesh-to-be-global-disease-detection-site
The US CDC designated Bangladesh as its eighth ‘Global Disease Detection’ site last year.
Dr Frieden said the disease detection site would help in protecting people within Bangladesh and also around the world from ‘threats to health whether infectious or non-infectious’.
He said a programme would start late this year to train people who will find out any disease outbreak and stop it.
“We’ve been working for it for the last several years,” he said, adding that the trained people would know ‘how to stop outbreaks and epidemics’ under the Field Epidemiology Training Programme (FETP).
Dr Frieden arrived in Dhaka on Saturday to discuss with health officials the US-Bangladesh cooperation on public health issues and strengthening the partnership.
He said their approach is to prevent problems. “We do it by finding out what the problem is, what causes it and by working to prevent it, stop it.”... http://bdnews24.com/health/2013/01/27/bangladesh-to-be-global-disease-detection-site
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Second NY hospital warns nearly 2,000 patients of possible HIV infection from insulin pens
Published: 26 January, 2013,
Swine Quarantine Area Santo Domingo
Puerto Limon, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas. Despite the quarantine, swine producers say there are few controls.
A pig farm located in the parish Puerto Limon, Santo Domingo, is under quarantine for swine fever. To date there are 200 dead animals and, therefore, the Ecuadorian Agency for Quality Assurance (Agrocalidad) raises cadastre to determine the animal population to be vaccinated. however, affected producers and others in the area began yesterday self vaccinate their animals. They noted that receive support from the National Pork Association by sending 2,000 doses. The audience asked local union members in Quito, in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Aquaculture (Magap) to present their problems and needs. production in farms and small farms in Puerto Limon and domestic partners of Santo Domingo began Tsáchilas to immunize animals to prevent plague is maintained for more days, said its president, Marcelo Lopez. "For next week and we sent 2,000 doses of our national union," said the leader, who along with the other partners are organized for the plan. mentioning The main drawback is the lack of comprehensive control by state agencies because they would not be required to be vaccinated household breeding. Cali Milton, Agrocalidad provincial coordinator, said that the land will be used to draw up a vaccination plan. http://www.eluniverso.com/2013/01/26/1/1447/cuarentena-porcina-zona-santo-domingo.html
'Schmallenberg virus to hit UK milk production'
Johann Tasker
Friday 25 January 2013 06:45
Schmallenberg virus is now so prevalent its impact will be felt on UK milk production - as well as in calf and lamb losses, the NFU council was told.
More than 1,000 cases of the disease - which causes deformed and stillborn calves and lambs - have been confirmed across England and Wales. But the number is widely held to be the tip of the iceberg because the virus is not notifiable and many farmers don't report it.
Farmers are encouraged to report the disease so the scale of the problem can be accurately ascertained. "The only way we are going to get on top of this disease is by keeping strict records," said NFU Warwickshire delegate David Eglin.
Dorset farmer Robert Lasseter said sheep producers grappling with a collapse in lamb prices needed a morale boost. "We need to know where we are going with this. It is a crisis out there. It feels to me like we are sitting on a time bomb."
NFU livestock chairman Charles Sercombe confirmed that livestock farmers would be encouraged to complete a national Schmallenberg survey towards the end of the lambing season. "None of us knows what the likely impact of the disease will be and it is important that we find out," he said.
http://www.fwi.co.uk/articles/25/01/2013/137305/39schmallenberg-virus-to-hit-uk-milk-production39.htm
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