Category Archives: Asia

Nepal: Details 32 H5N1 avian influenza outbreaks reported since mid-April 2013

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Farms and vil­lages in Nepal have lost more than 122,000 poul­try in 32 out­breaks of H5N1 avian influenza in the past few weeks, accord­ing to the World Orga­ni­za­tion for Ani­mal Health (OIE) on 26 May 2013. A total of 42,653 birds, mostly chick­ens and ducks, died in the out­breaks, and another 79,681 birds were destroyed to stop dis­ease spread. One large com­mer­cial farm in Narayani province accounted for 33,675 of the deaths. The toll includes one wild crow that was found dead near a cus­tom sta­tion at the India bor­der. The ear­li­est out­break included in the report began 11 April 2013, and the lat­est one 20 May 2013.

(CIDRAP 5/28/2013)

 

Cambodia: H5N1 avian influenza sickens girl

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Another H5N1 avian flu case has sur­faced in Cam­bo­dia, that of a 5-year-old girl whose ill­ness was detected ret­ro­spec­tively, accord­ing to the World Health Orga­ni­za­tion (WHO) West­ern Pacific Region Office on 17 May 2013. Her ill­ness, which began on 28 Jan­u­ary 2013, was found dur­ing a fever sur­veil­lance study con­ducted by the US Naval Med­ical Research Unit (NAMRU). Her res­pi­ra­tory sam­ples tested pos­i­tive for H5N1 on 2 May 2013. The girl is from a vil­lage in Kam­pong Speu province. She is alive, and health offi­cials are inves­ti­gat­ing her expo­sure to poul­try, the WHO said. The lat­est infec­tion raises Cambodia’s total num­ber of H5N1 cases to 32, which includes 27 deaths. Her ill­ness is the country’s 11th H5N1 case reported in 2013.

(CIDRAP 5/21/2013)

Bangladesh: H5N1 influenza outbreaks affect 14,000 poultry

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H5N1 avian flu wiped out almost 4,000 poul­try and led to the culling of 10,000 more in two farm out­breaks in Bangladesh recently, accord­ing to a World Orga­ni­za­tion for Ani­mal Health (OIE). The first out­break, from 27 Feb­ru­ary to 1 March 2013, occurred on a com­mer­cial farm in Rang­pur dis­trict of Rang­pur province, in north­west­ern Bangladesh. It involved 3,420 dead poul­try, and the remain­ing 8,974 were culled to pre­vent dis­ease spread. The sec­ond out­break occurred 9 and 10 March2013 in Rajbari dis­trict in Dhaka province, in west cen­tral Bangladesh. It killed 558 birds, and the remain­ing 1,242 poul­try on the farm were destroyed. Together the virus killed 3,978 birds, and 10,216 were culled to con­tain the out­breaks, for a total of 14,194 poul­try deaths. Offi­cials have dis­in­fected both premises, the OIE said.

(CIDRAP 5/1/2013)