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Meanwhile became known about the hospitalization of workers two farmer the economy of the Moscow area. How many men they fell ill and than - thus far it does not communicate. It is known only that the symptoms resemble precisely bird influenza.

The above translation describes farm workers at two locations that have bird flu symptoms.  English language media reports indicate H5N1 has been confirmed in the poultry and the workers have pneumonia.  If there are several workers and/or workers at multiple locations with pneumonia and other bird flu symptoms, there is cause for concern’

and other bird flu symptoms, there is cause for concern’

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 http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11680578

 http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=11263039&PageNum=0

    Bird flu confirmed in four districts of Moscow region



18.02.2007, 16.51



MOSCOW, February 18 (Itar-Tass) -- Bird flu cases have been exposed in four districts of the Moscow region.

“A report on bird deaths at a farmstead in the Taldom district was made late on Saturday night,” a source at the regional administration told Itar-Tass.

The Taldom situation is similar with the one in the Domodedovo, Odintsovo and Podolsk districts, the source said. A farmer bought a hen in Moscow, and it died of bird flu several days later. “Veterinarians eliminated about 40 chickens and burned the carcasses,” he said.

“All bird flu cases have been localized, and disinfection has been done,” Moscow regional chief veterinarian Valentin Sitnikov said on the Vesti news channel on Sunday. “Nearby farmsteads are being watched, and people who had contacts with ill chickens are under medical surveillance,” he added.


   http://www.tass.ru

     
150 birds died in Moscow suburbs where H5N1 strain was found

Moscow, Feb 19: At least 150 domestic birds have died in suburban Moscow districts where the H5N1 bird flu strain was detected in the first outbreak close to the Russian capital, officials said on Monday.

Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said disinfection and quarantine measures were being carried out in five districts where poultry deaths were reported. The presence of h5n1 so far has been confirmed in two of them, it said in a statement.

The bird flu cases have been traced to a single animal market just outside Moscow city limits, said Alexei Alexeyenko, a spokesman for the Federal Agricultural Oversight Agency Rosselkhoznadzor. He said the strain that sickened birds near Moscow was of a highly virulent subtype and could have originated in Asia, the Caucasus region or the Balkans.

"The strain is very dangerous and can affect humans," Alexeyenko said.

He said poultry that died belonged to private individuals who had bought birds recently, and that the birds had not been vaccinated during preventive inoculation campaigns.

Officials said several people who had been in close contact with the dead birds were taken in for medical observation, but no health problems had been reported.

Many people in the Moscow suburbs keep small numbers of chickens and other farm animals in their yards.

No human cases of bird flu have been reported in Russia, which had its first reported cases of the h5n1 strain in Siberia in 2005.

Outbreaks have since occurred farther west, but mostly in southern areas distant from the capital.

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    1 mln birds to be vaccinated from bird flu near Moscow
16:30 | 19/ 02/ 2007
   


MOSCOW, February 19 (RIA Novosti) - At least a million domestic birds will be vaccinated against avian influenza near Moscow now that the disease has reached areas surrounding the Russian capital, a senior local veterinary official said Monday.

"All the birds will be vaccinated for free," Olga Gavrilenko, head of the local department of Russia's veterinary watchdog, said after a deadly virus of bird flu was registered in five districts of the Moscow Region at the weekend.

All poultry in the region is normally inoculated twice a year, in spring and in fall. But in view of the current epidemic, experts have recommended that all the birds be immunized again.

Five cases of avian flu were registered last Saturday in various districts of the Moscow Region, all of which were traced to a single market in southwest Moscow. The Russian agricultural watchdog confirmed Monday that a bird flu outbreak near Moscow involved the deadly H5N1 virus.

"The virus is the Asian type of bird flu, which is dangerous for humans," said Alexei Alexeyenko, a spokesperson for the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision.

The Emergency Situations Ministry has said 150 dead birds were found at private farms in the Domodedovo, the Odintsovo, the Podolsk, the Naro-Fominsk and the Taldom districts of the Moscow Region last week, but that no cases of humans infected by the virus have been registered so far.

Moscow's veterinary and food safety experts have urged local residents to avoid buying poultry at unauthorized locations. Prosecutors have launched a probe into "veterinary violations".

According to the World Health Organization, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has claimed 167 human lives globally since it first appeared in Asia in 2003. It has since spread worldwide, and scientists fear the virus could mutate into a form transmissible between humans, sparking a global pandemic.

Russia recorded its first cases of avian flu in August 2005, but until now outbreaks have occurred only in southern provinces and in Siberia. The most recent bird flu outbreak occurred in mid-January in the southern region of Krasnodar, but by February it had been contained.


http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070219/60961396.html

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MosNews

A 43-year old Russian farmer has been taken to hospital after possibly contracting bird flu, Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda reported on Wednesday.

The newspaper said that the man together with his mother purchased a turkey at a Moscow market on February 13 and took it to his farm near the town of Ramenskoye, about 40 kilometers South-East of the Russian Capital. On February 17 the bird suddenly died and after that, other birds on the farm started dying every day.

On Tuesday morning, the farmer discovered that all his geese were dead and called the veterinarian service. Immediately after that he felt feverish and called an ambulance.
The doctors took the farmer and his mother to hospital and veterinarians sealed off and disinfected the farm and the surrounding area.

The farmer’s mother was released from hospital after tests and the man himself remains in contagious diseases section with suspected bird flu diagnosis.

On Tuesday, chief sanitary inspector for Moscow Region, Olga Gavrilenko, told the press that there were neither registered nor suspected cases of bird flu among humans in Moscow Region.

The highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu that can threaten humans has hit two more localities around Moscow after being confirmed in five other districts, a Russian veterinary official said Tuesday.

“We are as yet unable to confirm the strain (in the two new areas), but the pattern is the same as in the previous cases,” Nikolai Vlasov, head of veterinary surveillance at animal and plant health watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor, told a news briefing.

He did not name the localities. All fowl at the affected farms have been culled and the farms were isolated.

Russia’s Emergencies Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday that 190 domestic fowl had died between Feb. 10 and Feb. 19 in Moscow and six districts in the Moscow region —- Domodedovo, Odintsovo, Podolsk, Naro-Fominsk, Taldom and Volokolamsk.

I note from Kparcels post that the Russians are now claiming the man
does not have Bird flu . Considering the circumstances of his farm
( dead birds ) I feel we are entitled to suspend belief until further confirmation.

"He [the resident of the Ramenskoye district] has been admitted to the infectious diseases ward at a local hospital, but his diagnosis is rhinitis, or simply a common cold," a local health official said.

She said the illness had probably been caused by excessive stress related to the bird flu outbreak, and that all lab tests showed the patient was not contaminated with the H5N1 virus.

Russia is sealing off suburbs there ..... men in white plastic everywhere , not a friendly warm look ,how many getting a jab in the arm  , and if you want to say gee no thanks to any of the kind assistance from these plastic clothed people ???people hit the panic button , now we watch the denial process everything fine , go home and eat plenty of chicken , drink plenty of vodka everything under control.......reminds me of a Faulty Tower's "  Don't mention the Germans" I did once but I think I got away with it "..... everything fine move along nothing to see..   So which big wig will go on air and eat chicken to calm his country ? No worrys ..     This is a good way to stop the public from wishing to see a doctor , you don't want to be laughed at unless you look like your dying then not much is going to keep you alive anyway that far into the sickness ....... Herd Immunity

Heading says it all... Nothing to see move along now .......... ..

To Everyone. I do not know how bad the Bird Flu is in Russia,but you can count on one thing from the Russians,If they have reported any Bird Flu,it is much worse than they will say.Johnray1

Now why does that not reassure me?

Published Date	06-MAR-2007
Subject	PRO/AH/EDR> Salmonellosis, banquet - Russia (Krasnoyarsk)

SALMONELLOSIS, BANQUET - RUSSIA (KRASNOYARSK)
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A mass outbreak of food poisoning at a governor's ball in the 
Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk was caused by a flagrant disregard of 
sanitary and epidemiological norms, the Russian prosecutor general's 
office reported on Tue 6 Mar 2007.

The ball, hosted by Krasnoyarsk Governor, Alexander Khloponin, on 1 
Mar 2007, brought together more than 1400 people, 232 of whom were 
suffering from symptoms of food poisoning as of 6 Mar 2007.

So far, 212 guests have been hospitalized with symptoms of 
salmonellosis. "We have identified a number of people who were 
involved in the making of salads and hors d'oeuvres," a spokesperson 
said.

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[The report says the affected individuals are suffering from symptoms 
of salmonellosis but does not specifically state that cultures 
revealed this enteric infection.

The city of Krasnoyarsk is the capital of Krasnoyarsk krai 
(territory) and is an important junction on the Trans-Siberian 
Railway. The area can be seen on a map of Russia at
<http://encarta.msn.com/map_701513795/Krasnoyarsk.html>. - Mod.LL]

[see also:
2004
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Salmonellosis, foodborne - Russia (W. Siberia): RFI   20040803.2114
2003
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Salmonellosis, foodborne - Serbia (Belgrade)   20031216.3071
Salmonellosis, hospital - Slovakia (Bratislava)   20031210.3033
2000
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Salmonellosis - Belarus (Gomel)   20000516.0766
1999
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Gastrointestinal infections, outbreaks - Russia   19990225205432
1998
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Salmonellosis - Lithuania   19980805.1501
1997
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Salmonellosis - Russia (Far East)   19970418.0821
1995
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Salmonellosis - Russia   19951019.0959]
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 Russia (Krasnoyarsk)....... working hard in 2006......

Team exercises on struggle against spread of bird flu held in Krasnoyarsk
4/11/2006 2:08:00 PM
Team exercises on struggle against spread of bird flu were held in Krasnoyarsk in the Territorial Veterinary Service on April, 11. Readiness of Krasnoyarsk epizootic group to possible appearance of bird flu virus in the region was shown at the exercises. 


According to Alexander Chernykh, a deputy-chief veterinary surgeon of the territory, the aim of this demonstration is to show readiness of the territorial fast response squads to an epizootic situation. 'People must know that we have everything ready to start working in the first house after the infection: to set a diagnosis and to take measures to prevent its spread,' Chernykh explained. 


In total there are 13 people in the regional squad. They told that in case of emergency an epizootic car, intended for veterinary patrol in the nidus of infection, will be sent to the accident site immediately. A group of experts will be set an exact diagnosis, undertake diagnostic research and do preventive treatment of the places with possible infection. 


Moreover, the epizootic squad has a disinfection car to disinfect cattle-breeding warehouses and yards. This car will also be sent to the accident site in the first hours after information about the infection is received. One more task of the epizootic squad is to hold veterinary and sanitary expert examination of animals and plants. It will be possible to learn with the help of experts working at this car what food can be eaten and sold in the infected area. 


The same epizootic groups, which are taking all the necessary measures on struggle against possible appearance of bird flu virus in Krasnoyarsk Territory are formed in the territorial districts. 
Members of the epizootic squad also noted that a disinfectant barrier would be installed at the entrance to the infected area to disinfect coming and departing vehicles. Alexander Chernykh stressed that similar squads had been already formed in the territorial districts. 'They are smaller than ours, but each of them has two epizootic cars and disinfection cars,' he said. 


The deputy-chief veterinary surgeon added that such epizootic squads, including the regional squad, can not only deal with prevention and struggle against bird flu, but other infectious diseases as well, such as anthrax, distemper and foot-and-mouth disease. 
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    Russian poultry may have caught H5N1 flu from migrating birds

16 Mar 2007 bbj.hu

Chickens that died from the H5N1 avian influenza in Russia may have caught the disease from migratory birds that traveled from China, hundreds or thousands of miles away, scientists said.
An analysis of viruses isolated from the poultry shows a similarity to those taken from wild geese and ducks known to have caught the disease in a Chinese lake region, researchers led by Aleksandr Lipatov of the US Department of Agriculture said today in a study. More than 1 million Russian chickens and other poultry died of bird flu or were culled to stop the outbreak, which occurred in 2005 and 2006, the researchers said in the April issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases. While more research is needed to prove a link, the study suggests that wild birds may have been the cause. The results „indicate a correlation but do not prove conclusively that wild migrating birds are the primary source of influenza (H5N1) infection of poultry in Russia,” the researchers said in the journal, published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, based in Atlanta.

While still contagious only in birds, H5N1 is deadly to humans. Scientists are monitoring the virus, which has infected 278 people and killed 168 of them since late 2003, to see if the infection begins spreading quickly in humans. The role of migratory birds in spreading H5N1 is poorly understood, according to the World Health Organization in Geneva. Researchers have debated how much, if any, of the spread of H5N1 from Asia to Africa, the Middle East and Europe has occurred through migratory birds. The virus is more likely to reach new areas through the sale and shipment of poultry.



The virus hasn't been seen in North America. Robert Webster, a virologist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, has said that smuggled birds or poultry are more likely to bring the virus to that continent than are migratory birds. The US Agriculture Department released a report this week saying that sick birds with H5N1 probably wouldn't be strong enough to migrate to Alaska from Asia. Lipatov and Russian government scientists studied seven flu viruses taken from poultry in western Siberia and other parts of Russia during the outbreak.

There was a close genetic between the viruses and others from the Qinghai Lake region of China, where migratory birds were found infected in 2005. The viruses also showed signs of having undergone reassortment, a genetic process that can help them adapt to new organisms or conditions, the researchers said. „Until other possible routes of viral dissemination are analyzed and excluded, whether wild migratory birds are the primary source of influenza (H5N1) virus transmission and infection of poultry cannot be conclusively determined,” the researchers concluded. (Bloomberg)




    

Top WHO Official Says Russian Research Important in Preventing Bird Flu Pandemic
Created: 26.03.2007
MSK, 1 hour 41 minutes ago   MosNews


Russian research could be important in the fight against a possible global pandemic of bird flu, the RIA-Novosti news agency quoted a top flu official at the World Health Organization as saying on Monday.

Since 2003, when bird flu first hit Asian countries, 281 people have contracted the disease and 169 of them have died, according to latest WHO data. Experts fear the virus could mutate into a form that spreads easily among people, sparking a pandemic across the world.

David Heymann said WHO was studying the possibility of using Russian vaccines against the deadly virus. Weakened living vaccines can be produced in greater numbers for a relatively short time. Russian vaccines could also be delivered nasally, which is a further advantage, Heymann said.

WHO said an average of 350 million doses of flu vaccine can currently be produced annually. Although their number could increase to 500 million doses, it falls short of what could be required if a pandemic occurred with a global population of 6.7 billion.

Russia has completed the first phase of clinical trials for a human vaccine against the H5N1 bird flu virus. Researchers said they had developed vaccine production techniques and commercial production could be started immediately in the event of a pandemic.

No human fatalities or cases of humans infected with the virus have been reported in Russia, where the first outbreaks were registered in southern areas and Siberia in 2005. The latest outbreak occurred near Moscow in February resulting in the culling of thousands of poultry.

http://mosnews.com/news/2007/03/26/whoflu.shtml

Every year starting from the end of April up to ten million migratory birds arrive in the region. Part of them nest on the peninsula, while others head north after a stopover.

Poultry on Kamchatka vaccinated against bird flu

03.04.2007, 08.07

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, April 3 (Itar-Tass) - Vaccination of domestic birds against bird flu has been launched on Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula, the chief veterinary doctor of the region told Tass on Tuesday.

According to Vitaly Sapunov, the region has received over 43,000 dozes of vaccine against the dangerous virus. First of all, over 22,000 birds from private households and local farms will be vaccinated.

The vaccination of the biggest on the peninsula poultry factory Pionerskaya, where over 205,000 chickens are held, is not envisaged as it is a restricted-access factory, Sapunov said.

No decision has been made concerning a ban on hunting migratory birds in the spring season as a preventive measure. Every year starting from the end of April up to ten million migratory birds arrive in the region. Part of them nest on the peninsula, while others head north after a stopover.

Some birds arrive in the region from areas where bird flu cases have been registered. However, no bird flu cases have been fixed in the region as of yet.
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=11396877&PageNum=0
   

Russia warning of spring ......

Local bird flu outbreaks likely in spring in Russia – service

09.04.2007, 13.28

MOSCOW, April 9 (Itar-Tass) - Local outbreaks of bird flu are possible in Russia in the spring, but veterinary services are ready for them, a senor official of the Federal Service for Supervision of Agriculture, Nikolai Vlasov, told a news conference on Monday.

He said that “there is a danger of bird flue outbreaks” with the coming of migrating birds to Russia.

“I hope that there will be few outbreaks of bird flu, within a limit of two tens, and they will be local,” he said.

Vlasov stated that “veterinary services have performed just excellently” during a bird flu outbreak in the Moscow region.

“Infection was localized, although it could spread in the whole region and adjacent regions”.

Most of Russia’s poultry farms with about six million birds are in central regions.

Vlasov called preparedness of Russian veterinary services for a bird flu threat “one of the best in the world”.

“At present, preliminary vaccination of poultry is going on in Russia, and even in case of virus outbreaks nothing catastrophic will happen in the country,” he said.
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=11415847&PageNum=0

In order to prevent wide ranging spread of infection over Russia it is necessary to organize medical monitoring of sea ships, aircraft and train crews, arriving from the countries where influenza H5N1 cases were detected, in case of need to arrange raids to outlets and markets to detect poultry and poultry products brought from these countries. In Russia it is necessary to prepare a reserve of vaccine strains of viruses--potential causative agent of pandemic, including H5N1 and H7N7, that can start to vaccine reproduction immediately in case of pandemic.

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