Experts: Avian flu attack wasn't bioterrorism

The government has moved to debunk rumours that a recent outbreak of avian flu was deliberately triggered.

January 29, 2013

With alarm spreading over a rumour that biological weaponry caused a recent avian flu attack, Indonesian officials moved this month to set the record straight.

Painstaking investigations into the outbreak have yielded no evidence to support such speculation,National Intelligence Agency (BIN) chief, Lt. Gen. Marciano Norman told reporters.

"Until now, there is no indication that the virus is leading to bioterrorism," Marciano said on January 10th. "However, we have to stay alert. In the future, it is possible that biological attacks will be used in wars. But I do not think Indonesia has gone that far."

Co-ordinating Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Minister Djoko Suyanto said a special government team was set up to look into the allegations.

"The team consists of many members of intelligence agencies and people from public health offices,” he said, adding that "we have not received any reports that have been validated". False reports spur public anxiety

Terrorism expert Wawan Purwanto told Khabar Southeast Asia the rumours were stirring up fears among Indonesians.

"They (whoever spreads the news) will cause society to panic," he told Khabar. "We recommend that the Ministry of Health and experts promptly inform the public" that there is no cause for alarm.

At the same time, he said, the possibility of such threats should not be dismissed. "If a person is deliberately injected, then it means this is an act of terror. We must be alert and stay vigilant."

Indonesia has been the site of repeated avian flu outbreaks. To date, at least 11 provinces and 69 counties – including in Java, Sumatra, Bali and Sulawesi -- have been affected.

Experts are still unsure about how the virus is entering the country. Chairul Anwar Nidom, Chief of the Avian Research Centre at Airlangga University, told Khabar that in 2003, officials discovered a strain that is 98.2% similar to the one found in China. The most recent version is 99.2% similar to the Chinese strain.

In the past, the H5N1 avian flu virus reportedly only attacked chickens. However, over the past three months, the virus has been killing thousands of ducks, contributing to the alarm.

According to data from the Ministry of Agriculture and the Directorate General of Livestock and Animal Health, more than 513,700 ducks died.

The virus has also been killing ducks in a number of other countries, including China, Vietnam, Thailand, and Bangladesh. In Indonesia, the first reported attack came in Brebes, a small district in Central Java last October.

Chairul agrees there is no basis for believing that someone is trying to mount a biological attack via bird migration, as some have suggested. The rumours are contradicted by science, he noted.

"The migratory birds are not sensitive enough to catch this virus," Chairul said. "Moreover, the virus is spreading rapidly in ducks and without mutation." 

http://khabarsoutheastasia.com/en_GB/articles/apwi/articles/features/2013/01/29/feature-03

Cambodia and then two youngster infected with the H5N1 avian flu death

Cambodia and then two youngster infected with the H5N1 avian flu death
29/01/2013 12:56 AM


Cambodia have two children, died after being infected with the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, bringing the death toll to four people.
World Health Organization office in Cambodia, said the 10 seven-month-old girl who lived in central Kampong Speu province, and a nine-year-old girl living in the southern Kampot province after infection, local time, on Monday, one after another in the hospital died.
Cambodia three reports of avian flu last week, these two deaths. http://www.metroradio.com.hk/997/News/Default.aspx?NewsID=20130129005633

Good Morning Good Morning

His chickens Revelation beating.

Dam function forces killed dozens of chickens: Employment ... somewhat "rigid"

(LD) - No. 24 - Tuesday, 01/29/2013 05:35

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Related to the functional forces broke into home, beating dozens of people's chicken, day 28.1, according to the understanding of Labor Reporter, the incident stems from only 2009 of Can Tho..

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Tommorow Never Knows

Warning over killer pneumonia linked to flu

A warning has been issued over a killer strain of pneumonia that is striking otherwise healthy flu sufferers, after half of cases for a whole year have been seen in just one month.

Pneumonia seen in one of the lungs. Photo: ALAMY

By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor

11:05AM GMT 28 Jan 2013

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The disease can leave patients in a life-threatening condition within hours and up to three in four will die.

It typically strikes after a normal bout of flu and affects previously healthy middle-aged people.

Government scientists have recorded 18 cases of PVL community acquired pneumonia between December 6th and January 7th. Normally between 30 and 40 cases are seen in a whole year in the UK.

So far four peple have died.

It is not known what has caused the surge in cases.

The bug, with the full name Panton-Valentine Leukocidin-positive Staphylococcus aureus, is extremely virulent. It is carried on the skin of around three per cent of the population and usually causes boils and skin infections.

However it can enter the bloodstream and may travel to the lungs or get into the lungs following a bout of flu.

Once there it causes pneumonia and patients become critically ill very quickly.

They may cough up blood, have difficulty breathing and are extremely unwell, experts said.

The 18 cases have all needed intensive care and several required sophisticated life-support known as ECMO, where oxygen is pumped into the blood outside the body because the lungs are overwhelmed with infection.

The patients ranged in age from four to 63 years with a median age of 41 and most have flu-like symptoms before developing pneumonia. In five cases the bug had spread between family members.

Experts at the HPA said the bug can be treated with a range of antibiotics but is so deadly because of the speed at quick it causes severe illness.

Pneumonia can cause severe illness but most people recover and often do not need hospital treatment. However pneumonia caused by PVL-SA causes very serious complications extremely quickly, experts said.

Professor Angela Kearns, at the Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infections Reference Unit at the HPA, said: "Levels of PVL colonisation in the community have doubled in the last ten years but from a very low base and less than five per cent of the population, probably nearer three per cent, carry it on their skin.

"It usually causes skin boils and abcesses but can in rare cases cause severe pneumonia. It is one of those random events caused by bacterial infection. The mortality rate is so high because of the speed of onset, the lungs become overwhelmed because we can get on top of the infection.

"Treatments are available, it is getting that happen as quickly as possible.

"We have seen outbreaks in households.

"We do no think we are seeing the start of an epidemic."

The bulletin from the HPA said: "Healthcare personnel should remain vigilant for such cases, especially during the influenza/respiratory virus season.

"HPA Guidance on the diagnosis and public health management of such infections and their close contact is available."

It urged doctors to send samples to the HPA for testing from suspected cases and said fees for such tests would be waived.

Flu levels have risen in the last month but remain within normal limits for winter.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9795993/Warning-over-killer-pneumonia-linked-to-flu.html

I've Just Seen a Face

KP govt tackles pneumonia, measles outbreak in Upper Dir

UPPER DIR:  A health crisis in Khyber Pakthunkwa’s (KP’s) Upper district continues unabated, with the death toll due to an outbreak of measles and pneumonia resulting in 47 deaths over the last two weeks.

In order to control the epidemics, a special unit has been set up in the Dir District Headquarters Hospital (DHQ) along with mobile health teams, which have been dispatched to the region.

Upper Dir District Health Officer Dr Abdul Wakeel confirmed on Monday that the death toll due to pneumonia and measles has now risen to 47 at the very least. He added, however, that the number of deaths may be higher as many areas still remain accessible due to harsh weather conditions.

Family members hold their children suffering from measles and admitted at a hospital.

Dr Wakeel explained that the health teams have been dispatched to the affected areas and have been accompanied by World Health Organisation (WHO) and other organisations’ staff to monitor the health crisis.

“So far around 1,400 children have been vaccinated while door-to-door vaccination is still continuing,” he added.

Sources in the provincial health department said that the affected children were also experiencing severe malnutrition, which need to be taken care of on an urgent basis.

The KP health department, along with the WHO and other UN bodies are focusing on handling the crisis in the worst-hit areas of Thall, Komrat and Lamoti.  http://dawn.com/2013/01/28/kp-govt-tackles-pneumonia-measles-outbreak-in-upper-dir/

Back in the USSR

№ 10 01/28/13

Increased incidence of community-acquired pneumonia

Chief Medical Officer of the Kurgan region Gregory Khokhlov adopted a resolution defining problems for agencies responsible for ensuring the health of citizens... In the Kurgan region in 2012, the incidence of community-acquired pneumonia increased by 8.6% and accounted for 2545 cases of disease, the rate was 268.6 per 100 thousand people (2011 - 2343 cases; 247.3 per 100 thousand population). On the third week of 2013 recorded 73 cases of community-acquired pneumonia - 0.8 per 10 thousand people, which is 14.3% higher than the incidence of the 2nd week in 2013 (67 cases, 0.7 per 10 thousand population) 60% higher incidence of the same period last year (the third week in 2012 - 47 cases, 0.5 per 10 thousand population). Disease cases are registered in all age groups: 0-2 years - 9, 3-6 years - 4, 7-14 - 6, 15-17 - 2 18-39 - 8, 40-64 years - 26, over 65 - 18. According to severity: 1 heavy (the patient was hospitalized), 68 cases of moderate (53 people were hospitalized), 4 - mild (2 patients hospitalized).. http://kikonline.ru/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=53695:vyrosla-zabolevaemost-vnebolnichnymi-pnevmonijami&catid=26:2010-04-10-06-12-15&Itemid=116

01/28/2013 17:23 Society

The first cases of influenza reported in the Baikal region

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Deceived and punished.Changeable weather caused the growth of colds. During the last week in the region has increased the number to a hospital. The first cases of influenza.

Changes in temperature and clothes are not for the weather.According to doctors, this is enough to get sick. Over the last week in the Irkutsk region recorded 12 and a half thousand cases of SARS, 4 - influenza. Most of the cases - children. - Compared to last week, we have increased the incidence of the total population by 10%. According to our forecasts, in the near future is expected epidemiological rise of flu and other viruses - said deputy chief state sanitary doctor of the Irkutsk Region Love Nursayanova. risk that the epidemic will s....  http://vesti.irk.ru/obshestvo/2013/01/28/181811/

28.01 12:41

Black Label Yurga garrison. A Hidden Epidemic

Recruits from the Novosibirsk region filled hospitals units in Jurg. Mothers of soldiers reported that the garrison from the end of last year, a raging epidemic of pneumonia.

However, most cases of servicemen do not receive appropriate medical care - "Boys are like living dead."Sibkray.ru tried to understand the causes of the continuing state of emergency - from this "unrecognized" military leadership of the epidemic to the recent history of the suicide.

Troops stationed in Jurg, enjoys notoriety. Only in January, one soldier committed suicide, two other attempts failed. Just on the eve of the new year is another soldier died in hospital from pulmonary edema. Meanwhile, much of the recruits from the Novosibirsk region leaves it there.

At first sight, for the Novosibirsk mother the news that her son sent to serve in Jürg should rejoice. Not the Far East and the Arctic, drive ..

http://sibkray.ru/news/1/586806/

Suspected Case of Meningococal Virus in Bnei Brak

The Health Ministry reported, Monday, that a five-year-old boy from Bnei Brak, east of Tel Aviv, was admitted to Schneider Children's Hospital in Petach Tikva and was being treated for meningococal disease, a virus which can prove fatal if not treated quickly. The boy was transferred to the children's ward after antibiotics improved his condition. Bacterial samples were taken from him for laboratory analysis and preventativetreatment was administered to his family and people in the yeshiva where he learns. The ministry continues to investigate the boy's contacts.

Fast action by parents and doctors at Kaplan Hospital in Rechovot was recently credited with saving a three-year-old who had a meningococal rash. Doctors say parents whose children have a rash and high fever should not hesitate to bring them to an emergency room.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/260838#.UQaxd7_pccc

Cambodia reports 2 new fatal cases of bird flu in humans, surpassing total for all of 2012

 

 

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JANUARY 28, 2013 12:03 PM

 

 

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Two more children have died in Cambodia of bird flu, bringing the number of fatal cases to four since the start of this year.

The Cambodian office of the U.N.'s World Health Organization said a 17-month-old girl from central Kampong Speu province and a 9-year-old girl from southern Kampot province died Monday after being hospitalized.

Last week, Cambodia reported three human cases of bird flu, two of them fatal. For of all 2012, the country reported a total of three cases, all fatal.

Cambodia since 2005 has reported 26 cases, 23 of them fatal.

WHO says bird flu, also known as avian influenza, or H5N1, has killed 360 other people worldwide since surfacing in 2003. Most human cases have been linked to contact with infected poultry. http://www.canada.com/health/Cambodia+reports+fatal+cases+bird+humans+surpassing+total+2012/7882660/story.html

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Deadly Flu of 1918 Spurred Denial, Then Drastic Action

 5:42 am, Mon Jan 28, 2013.

• By RANDY DOTINGA

The near-closure of the entire city, mandatory face masks and hundreds of deaths were just weeks ahead, along with an epic battle of commerce versus public health.

But nobody in the coastal town by the border was too worried about a deadly flu rampaging across the world in September 1918. "San Diego is full of colds just now," a local newspaper noted, but that wasn't even in a story. It was just an advertisement for something called Dover's Powders.

Things changed almost instantly. Within days, camps of World War I soldiers were quarantined, the local health board president warned of a disease "more murderous than any epidemic the nation has yet experienced" and officials shut down schools, theaters, churches and more.

The deadliest epidemic to ever hit the nation had come to San Diego, where it would take the lives of 368 people, or about one in every 200 residents. Many of those stricken were young and strong, unlike the victims of this year's flu season in the county. (So far, 14 people have died, their ages ranged from 46 to 92, and all but one were already weakened by existing illnesses.)

From Kansas to the World

The epidemic of the Spanish flu didn't start in Spain. The first reports in the world came from a military camp in Kansas, where dozens of men died after struggling to breathe amid fever, headaches, chills and fluid-filled lungs.

Other soldiers survived to be shipped out to Europe to fight in World War I in Europe. They almost certainly spread the illness to that continent, where hundreds of thousands fell ill and died.

As September 1918 turned into October, hundreds would die in single days in Philadelphia and Boston, and the first reported cases of the deadly flu appeared in San Diego at the Army's Camp Kearny.

By early October, four military facilities were quarantined. The "Bluejackets" training at a naval training camp at Balboa Park had to stick around and not take their usual liberty three times a week. They played sports and games instead, the San Diego Union reported.

No Spitting in Balboa Park

"Order has been passed out that there is to be no expectorating on the streets of the park," the paper reported. "The punishment is that the lad spitting on the street or the plaza must wear a cigar box swung about his neck, and this box is partially filled with sand and serves as a receptacle for the cigarette and cigar stubs of the victim’s shipmates."

The city itself, though, didn't worry too much. Bustling with 70,000 residents and just three years past the exposition that put Balboa Park on the national map, San Diego had other things on its mind. Soldiers were flooding the city to prepare to fight in the war, and the recently elected mayor who'd run on a "More Smokestacks" platform, was pushing for more business.

As the flu worsened, city leaders took a pro-business position. They weren't too interested in shutting anything down to prevent the flu's spread even after the local coroner quit to protest their lack of action.... 

http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/this_just_in/article_13941f72-6758-11e2-971d-001a4bcf887a.html

Everybody's Got Something to Hide

 ..Except Me and My Monkey

 C'mon, Indonesia..You will have to eventually admit there are positive human cases of H5N1!

C'mon, Saudi Arabia.. I know what you are hiding..

C'mon, Uganda..The new Ebola outbreak will be reported and that's that.

C'mon, State dep't.. You know as well as I do there are cases in Indonesia, Cambodia and Egypt!

C'mon, WHO..You are supposed to be telling people in a timely manner what is goin on!

C'mon, CDC.. I mean really.. are you gonna do your job at all?

C'mon, U.S. Agriculture Dep't.. Where is the report on the "Low Path" H5N1 report in the New York live poultry market.. and what is the N-type?

Hey Jude

Israeli Hospitals Report Beds Filled with Flu Patients

Hospitals along the northern coast report their beds are starting to be filled with patients suffering with influenza.

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By Chana Ya'ar

First Publish: 1/28/2013, 3:10 PM

Nurse at Rambam Hospital

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Hospitals along the northern coast report their beds are filled with patients suffering with influenza, which can sometimes be deadly, particularly when it strikes young or frail children, or the elderly, with other underlyingmedical conditions.

In particular, hospitals in Haifa reported Monday they had reached full capacity in most departments following a night in which the emergency room was flooded with patients.

Rambam Medical Center reported a large intake overnight in the children’s units as well as in departments treating adults for the seasonal flu virus, according to a report broadcast Monday morning on Army Radio.

A similar report came from Haifa’s Bnei Zion Hospital, where the census had also reportedly reached maximum capacity.

In Netanyahu, Laniado Hospital reported that occupancy reached 55 percent over its maximum capacity on the patient floors – but the medical center said it would keep its doors open anyway.

The hospital stressed that if a flu patient feels a worsening situation, such as difficulty breathing, high fever or any other symptom, the patient should “hurry to the hospital for treatment” right away.

“Despite the overload at the hospital, health stands above all, and the hospital staff will address every patient,” said the medical center in a statement.

Laniado Hospital was founded and is funded in part by the Sanzer-Klausenberger Hassidic dynasty.  

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/164653#.UQaoV7_pccc

Get Back

Panic grips Mamun Cantt as Sq leader catches swine flu

 January, 28 2013 - 19:17

By Sukhwinder Malhi-

PATHANKOT: Panic gripped Mamun Cantonment  base near here on Monday  when  a suadron leader was found swine flu positive. He has been admitted to Command Hosital at ChandiMandir cantonment near Chandigarh.

Dr Sucha Ram, Pathankot civil Hospital, said, while Squadron  leader Rahul Garg (40), who hails from West Bengal  had been on training in Patiala  on january 14 , from where he suspected to have  got swine
flu, tests on other Army jawans  who have been in his contact were being conducted.

Dr Ram said while  the condition of Garg was citical but stable, three other suspected  swine flu patients were identfied in Pathankot  but their medical report  said they were found swine flu negativwe.

He said, while there has been no swine flu  pateint identfied in the district so far, Garg  is suspected to have got the desase  during his training at Patiala.

H said while an isolation ward has been set up at Pathankot civil hospital for treatment of such patients, an awareness dribve has been launched in the city  to educate people about  swine flu.

http://punjabnewsline.com/news/Panic-grips-Mamun-Cantt-as-Sq-leader-catches-swine-flu.html

Three new human cases of avian influenza H5N1 in Cambodia in 2013

Joint news release of the Ministry of Health of the Kingdom of Cambodia and World Health Organization

PHNOM PENH, 25 JANUARY 2013 - The Ministry of Health (MoH) of the Kingdom of Cambodia wishes to advise members of the public that three new human cases of avian influenza have been confirmed positive for the H5N1 virus.

The first case, an 8-month old infant boy from Chrey Korng Village, Sangkat Chorm Chao, Khan Por Sen Chey, Phnom Penh has been diagnosed with H5N1 influenza. He developed symptoms on 08th January 2013 then was brought to the National Paediatric Hospital for consultation on 9th January with fever, cough, runny nose, and vomiting. The boy was registered in the Influenza-Like Illness Sentinel Surveillance and the samples were sent to the National Institute of Public Health's laboratory on 11th January. The result was confirmed by Institut Pasteur du Cambodge on 22nd January 2013. The infant has recovered and had history of coming into contact with poultry prior to becoming sick.

The second case, a 15-year-old female from Snao village, Snao commune, Prey Kabass district, Takeo Province, has been diagnosed with H5N1 influenza on 22nd January 2013. She became sick on 11th January suffering with fever and cough. She was initially treated by local private practitioners. Her condition worsened and she was admitted to Kantha Bopha Hospital on 17th January with fever and shortness of breath. Unfortunately, despite intensive medical care, she died on 21st January. There is evidence of recent deaths among poultry in the village and the patient prepared sick chicken for food prior to becoming sick.

In the third case, a 35-year-old man from Trapeang Sla village, Preah Nipean commune, Kong Pisey district, Kampong Speu province has been diagnosed with H5N1 influenza on 23rd January 2013 by Institut Pasteur du Cambodge. He became sick on 13th January, 2013 suffering with fever and cough. He was initially treated by local private practitioners. His condition worsened and he was admitted to the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital in Phnom Penh with fever and dyspnea on 21st January. Samples were taken the same day and sent to the National Institute of Public Health's laboratory. Despite intensive medical care, the patient died soon after the samples were taken. There is evidence of recent deaths among poultry in the village and the patient prepared sick chicken for food prior to becoming sick. The man is the twenty-fourth person in Cambodia to become infected with H5N1 virus, and the third person this year and the twenty-first person to die from complications of the disease. Of all the twenty four cases, 15 were children under 14, and fifteen of the twenty four confirmed cases occurred in females.

"Avian influenza H5N1 is still a threat to the health of Cambodians. This is the three cases of H5N1 infection in human this year, and children still seem to be most vulnerable. I urge parents and guardians to keep children away from sick or dead poultry, discourage them from playing in areas where poultry stay and wash their hands often. If they have fast or difficulty breathing, they should be brought to medical attention at the nearest health facilities and attending physicians be made aware of any exposure to sick or dead poultry." said HE Mam Bunheng, Minister of Health.

The Ministry of Health's Rapid Response Teams (RRT) have gone to the hospitals and the field to identify the patient’s close contacts, any epidemiological linkage among the three cases and initiate preventive treatment as required. In addition, public health education campaigns are being conducted in the villages to inform families on how to protect themselves from contracting avian influenza. The government's message is - wash hands often; keep children away from poultry; keep poultry away from living areas; do not eat sick poultry; and all poultry eaten should be well cooked.

H5N1 influenza is a flu that normally spreads between sick poultry, but it can sometimes spread from poultry to humans. Human H5N1 Avian Influenza is a very serious disease that requires hospitalization. Although the virus currently does not easily spread among humans, if the virus changes it could easily be spread like seasonal influenza. Hence, early recognition of cases is important.

Globally since 2003, there have been 613 laboratory confirmed cases of avian influenza with 362 related deaths.

The Ministry of Health will continue to keep the public informed of developments via the MoH website www.cdcmoh.gov.kh where relevant health education materials can also be downloaded.

For more information on human influenza please call the MoH Influenza Hotline numbers:

115 (free call); 012 488 981 or 089 669 567

or contact:

Ministry of Health
Dr Sok Touch: Tel +855 12 856 848
Dr Ly Sovann: Tel +855 12 825 424

World Health Organization
Dr Pieter JM van Maaren: Tel +855 23 216 610
Dr Reiko Tsuyuoka: Tel +855 23 216 610

http://www.wpro.who.int/mediacentre/releases/2013/20130125/en/index.html

Baby's in Black

...Two Cambodians died from bird flu in 2013, causing concern at the start of the new year. From Phnom Penh, VOA correspondent Robert Carmichael sent to the following narrative.

 A 2-year-old Cambodian girl is in critical condition in Phnom Penh after hospitalization due to infection with the H5N1 virus, also known as avian influenza or bird flu. Mr. Sonny Inbaraj Krishnan, Information Officer for the World Health Organization in Phnom Penh say this movement makes health experts concerned. Mr. Krishnan said this is the fourth case of H5N1 place people. Last year there were 3 cases, so within one month of the new year there were 4 cases, and that is a concern. 

....However, other diseases such as dengue fever and Malaria killing more people than H5N1, so he Krishnan asked why there is concern about bird flu. Krishnan explained the specific concerns that this H5N1 virus can undergo a process called reclassification and recombination with other influenza viruses, and this process can cause a new virus capable of transmission between people. Cambodia is a country mainly agricultural, and each village poultry. Medical staff of tracking young people who have contact with infected patients and the operators working under the Ministry of Agriculture is testing poultry in the infected villages and destruction of poultry disease.

 Thursday The last six, the Minister of Health Mam Bunheng urged parents to make sure their children wash their hands often and stay away from sick or dead poultry. He also recommends that children with breathing difficulties should be taken immediately to the nearest clinic. Mr. Krishnan said the radio and television stations are transmitting messages. According to Krishnan, since this week will transmit short news on radio and television to inform people how to protect yourself and your family from bird flu. Especially be careful not to allow children to play with chickens and ducks, and it is important nhaty to wash your hands. 

...Mr. Krishnan of the World Health Organization warned not to draw too many conclusions from this event, and yet is the number of samples is small. But according to him, there are local factors complicate the problem. When people get sick, the first place which led them to relatives usually local pharmacist or a private clinic.H5N1 can be fatal in less than 1 week after infection, so to lose a few days because of ineffective treatment and misdiagnosis can be fatal. 

Mr. Krishnan said the illness becomes worse more damage and when the clinic or local pharmacy no prescription anymore, then the new home bring a child or patient to the hospital, and the hospital is very little chance of survival . A next obstacle is the Lunar New Year, starting on February 8. It is time poultry are transported to the market, and raise the risk of infected birds can transmit the disease. Medical experts hope the media are promoting the effort will bring results. http://www.voatiengviet.com/content/ca-cum-gia-cam-thu-tu-trong-nam-gay-lo-ngai-tai-campuchia/1592161.html

Twist And Shout

..Sangiang Village, District Rancaekek, Bandung regency, Asep Wahyudin said the death of the ducks in the group at 15 thousand heads

...Chairman of Farmers Group Partners Barokah, Sangiang Village, District Rancaekek, Bandung regency, Asep Wahyudin said the death of the ducks in the group at 15 thousand heads. That number increased to more than double from seven thousand ducks at the end of December.

"The virus continues to spread and the number of ducks that died continues to grow. Fact, more than double the death," he said in an interview at his farm on Monday (01.28.13).

Asep mengatakanan, before dying, these ducks have the disease with strange symptoms. Duck seizures and neck pulled back. After that ducks lay seizures and death.

"If you see strange symptoms. Almost all ducks are bred experiencing such symptoms. As many as 2,500 cattle have my duck, around 2,000 ducks experienced anything like it. Then dead flounder," he said...

http://www.pikiran-rakyat.com/node/220732?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Do You Want to Know a Secret

..1000 ducks infected ducks  seized at airport..

 ..450 pups ducks or Day Old Duck (DOD) destroyed by the Agricultural Quarantine officer grade II Kendari, Southeast Sulawesi (Sultra), Monday (01/28/2013) tested positive for the flu or bururng avian influenza. Culling hundreds of ducklings tail is made after receiving the results of laboratory tests of Center for Veterinary Maros, South Sulawesi.

..1000 ducks initially seized on January 13, 2013 in Work Areas for Agricultural Quarantine (KPs) Haluoleo Airport 


Observations second day, there were 125 deaths of scores of individuals.

On the fourth day the sample is taken and sent to the Laboratory of Veterinary Maros Big Bakau. "While waiting for an answer lab test results, continued observation. Observations on the seventh day mortality was found 50 tail number. Observation until the 14th overall was 550 dead tail," he said.
http://regional.kompas.com/read/2013/01/28/21155784/Positif.Flu.Burung.450.Anak.Itik.Dimusnahkan

China CDC H5N1 Travel reminder

Annual leave to travel abroad should be noted that the avian flu to get into the body

...Disease Control, Department of Health, said the recent Asian countries, including Indonesia and Nepal coming of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian flu case reports in the past five years the country focused on Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Egypt, Indonesia and Vietnam, the death rate The up to 六成.

In response, the CDC a special appeal to people during the Spring Festival travel abroad, in particular to the outgoing avian flu areas, should strengthen self-protection, to avoid contact with birds; access to traditional markets should also pay particular attention to personal hygiene and safety, meat and eggs must be fully cooked food again; attempts to prevent the avian influenza virus brought into the country and avoid infection with avian influenza, the public not to smuggling birds immigrants. In addition, the return, such as fever or flu-like symptoms, quarantine officers at the airport to seek assistance, unwell, seek medical advice should wear a mask after returning home, travel and contact history to physician instructions to facilitate the diagnosis as soon as possible and treatment.  http://www.cnyes.com/life/Content/20130128/KH5L3CKORGM4.shtml