Laos
Health Ministry warns nationals poultry flu
By Singkham
(KPL) Ministry of Health has warns nationals poultry flu might be spread, which the disease has already killed four people in Cambodia, according to an instruction of Minister of Health issued last week.
The medical workers nationwide were instructed to pay closely monitor and give surveillance patients with symptom of acute respiratory infection in provinces.
The authorities should implement actively to control the outbreak of this acute respiratory infection countrywide, the instruction said. The irregular conditions of climate change facilitated to the outbreak of poultry flu in Africa, Europe and Asia continents last month.
The outbreak of poultry flu is active in Cambodia and transmitted from poultry infected to five people, of whom four died at the end of January 2013.
The issuance of instruction is to get readiness to handle and respond the communicable disease outbreak may be occurred in nearly future.
The medical workers advised to pay special attention to the patients with symptom of acute respiratory infection who have re ceived health check from other public health service s nationwide.
The instruction is to improve cross- border infectious disease surveillance and response teamwork, pay closely cooperation with provincial agriculture divisions to monitor the infection areas of poultry flu and provincial information divisions to promote sanitation campaign in society.
The establishment of the action plans to respond the disease was advised matching with real budget. The crossing border transportation of patient who suspected infected with acute respiratory infection is already prohibited, which based on health international regulation.
Officials warn medical staff to prepare for bird flu
The Ministry of Health has advised doctors and medical staff throughout the country to closely monitor the condition of anyone presenting with severe respiratory problems, after several people died of bird flu type A (H5N1 virus) in Cambodia last month.
The warning was issued earlier this month, aimed at encouraging health workers to prepare for and respond to a possible outbreak of the virus.
Deputy Minister of Health, Associate Prof. Dr Bounkong Syhavong, said the prevailing weather conditions favour an outbreak of the H5N1 flu virus on the continents of Africa, Asia and Europe.
He said the health minister has already advised the Vientiane Health Department and provincial health departments to closely monitor and repor t cases of patients who appear to have a serious respiratory problem when they visit a healthcare centre or hospital.
In addition, emergency response teams in the provinces are advised to ramp up efforts to combat the virus if they suspect that anyone has developed H5N1 type flu. They are also advised to take precautions against the virus at international border crossings nationwide.
Medical staff are advised to coordinate with agriculture and forestry departments to identify which villages and districts have identified cases of bird flu.
Health staff are also being asked to team up with information, culture and tourism officials to encourage people to follow the three basic principles of health hygiene – eating freshly cooked food, drinking clean boiled water, and keeping the home environment clean.
Additionally, health officials are suggesting that staff make plans to respond to a possible outbreak of the disease, ensuring that sufficient funding is available to tackle it. All suspected cases of the virus should be reported to the Communicable Diseases Department of the Ministry of Health through the disease surveillance system.
Anyone with a severe respiratory illness or bird flu should not be allowed to enter or exit Laos, in line with international health regulations.
Cambodia
The boy is the eighth person this year and twenty-ninth person to become infected with H5N1 virus, and the twenty-sixth person to die from complications of the disease in Cambodia. Of the twenty-nine confirmed cases, 20 were children under 14, and nineteen of the twenty-nine were female. http://www.wpro.who.int/mediacentre/releases/2013/20130222/en/index.html
The child’s home commune, Angkor Chey, is located just 2 km from where the last fatal case of H5N1 was reported last week, when a 3-year-old girl died of the virus, Dr. Laurent said. A 9-year-old girl also died in Kampot province, in a neighboring district, in late January.
Out of the eight confirmed cases in Cambodia in the past month, only one person has survived, making it the worst single outbreak of the disease in humans in the world this year. http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/seventh-h5n1-death-cambodia-worlds-worst-hit-this-year-11250/
Fighting Avian Influenza
By William E. Todd, U.S. Ambassador of Cambodia
17-FEB-13
I have been told by Cambodian health officials that there have been six confirmed deaths in less than two months and that a total of eight cases of avian influenza (H5N1) have been reported.
Vietnam
Department of Preventive Health (MOH) said the A/H5N1 flu in Cambodia has spilled over the border, can outbreak in the southern provinces of Vietnam.
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| In the provinces bordering Cambodia at high risk for influenza A/H5N1 outbreak |
In adjacent areas between Tay Ninh and Cambodia, Veterinary Authority region 6 (MARD) has discovered two outbreaks in the Tien Thuan and Binh Minh Ben Cau district. Risk of spread to poultry outbreaks and to people in the southern provinces are at a high level, especially in the provinces bordering Cambodia as Tay Ninh, Binh Phuoc, Long An. Meanwhile, the trade in poultry slaughter of unknown origin difficult to control in the South increases the risk of A/H5N1 flu infection in humans and animals http://vov.vn/Xa-hoi/Cum-AH5N1-co-the-bung-phat-thanh-dich-o-phia-Nam/249306.vov
For reasons not distinguish discarded chicken broilers reared in water, most of the livestock specialist, said: "If birds were plucked, it is true that it is difficult to distinguish but with live chickens on the eyes often easy to know where a chicken in less than 2 years with chickens raised in just 6 months old ". Officials "assured" that a threat to public health, the custody or burial place is a job very urgent, and difficult to give reasons to quibble seems to be wrong.
The provincial prevent ineffective for three reasons: One is the provincial leadership not drastically in direction,
and the other is the capacity of the poor market managers,
three that they accepted bribes and for cars go through!
Another question is if the government is not in the fierce and direct the results today? The answer is no and chicken waste are illegally imported into Vietnam. http://hanoimoi.com.vn/Tin-tuc/Luan-ban-Hanh-dong/577437/neu-chinh-phu-khong-vao-cuoc
