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    Posted: March 05 2006 at 5:58am


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Pigs die of mysterious disease in eastern Nepal
5/3/2006 12:25

Over 2,000 pigs have died of an unidentified disease in some villages of Morang district in eastern Nepal in the past two months, an official said Sunday.
The disease, first seen in Dangihat and Karanari village of Morang district, some 300 km east of Kathmandu, claimed the lives of over 1,000 pigs in Letang village alone, Shambhu Yadav, an official of the District Livestock Services Office (DLSO), said, adding that eight boars and four buffaloes also died of the disease.
"The disease is believed to be air borne but we have not launched any investigation into it," Yadav noted.
Earlier, it was suspected that swine fever was the cause of the deaths but outbreak of avian flu in India has terrified the farmers of Morang district located close to India.
Farmers have been disposing the carcass of diseased animals in the nearby forest and the environment has been polluted there, according to Yadav.
Fever, dysentery, yawning and lack of appetite are the symptoms of the disease, Yadav added.
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Chicken Party with no cost in Chitwan RSS

http://www.gorkhapatra.org.np/pageloader.php?file=2006/03/03 /nation/nation3

Last Updated: 06:00 AM NST Kathmandu - March 03, 2006

CHITWAN, March 2: A chicken party was organised here at Narayanghat for free of charge to dissipate people's suspicion about poultry products triggered by the rumours of Bird Flu.

At the party organized by the Forum for Nepal Chicken Entrepreneurs , 500 KG meat and 2,500 eggs were served to the visitors for free of charge.

The organizers of the party claim that the party has sent right message to people convincing them that Bird Flu has not made it way into Nepal so far. Chitwan has been producing 50 percent of poultry products of Nepal.

Meanwhile, in Nuwakot, a 11-member district level committee Bird Flu Monitoring Committee has been constituted under convenorship of Chief District Officer of Nuwakot, Shreekrishna Shrestha.

The committee comprises chief of the District Vet. Office, Nuwakot, Ramchandra Devkota as member secretary as well as meat sellers, vet doctors, journalists and entrepreneurs.

Denying the news report that large number of chickens died in Nuwakot because of Bird Flu as baseless, District Police Officer Shrestha said the main objective of the committee is to inform the people with real facts.

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2000 pigs suddenly die over the past two months and they believe its and airborne virus which in all we're all screwed
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Another interesting thread on Nepal and sky burial/bird flu:

http://www.phayul.com/news/discuss/view.aspx?id=11615
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Sichuan Sheet has been killing pigs, cows and chickens for many months now in Nepal.  Same as in India. 

As you can see, the dead birds all had symptoms of Bird Flu, but the minister of misinformation for Nepal said it was NOT Bird Flu.  That's official.

Now, on the pig deaths, they will collect samples like they have always done and send them off to a lab somewhere outside of the country (the favored place is South Africa) and await results.  Those results are never released in the media. Probably because they never come back.

The most ironic thing on this entire issue is the fact that (the developing) Sichuan Sheet passed through Nepal on its way to Qinghai Lakes in March - April of last year.  There were reported meningitis outbreaks in India as the birds headed north to Qinghai.  Those Meningitis outbreaks swept through Nepal, too. 

A few months later the JE deaths started, and thousands upon thousands of mostly young people supposedly died in India and Nepal.  There were some actual recorded JE deaths as it is endemic in those two countries, but the numbers of total dead were way out of the norm and most of the dead did NOT test as JE.  Based upon the medical reports that I could find, NO H5N1 tests were run.  Yep, if you do not test for it, you do not find it.
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http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=4017771&Page Num=0
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Thanx joe, I New nepal had come up before , here is some 2005 posts.

Not what i was looking for thou but here goes..

rense.com

Mystery Disease (H5N1?)
Kills At Least 33 In Nepal
From Patricia Doyle, PhD
dr_p_doyle@hotmail.com
6-18-5
 
Hello, Jeff - We need to assume that the disease below is H5...and prepare accordingly until such time as we either affirm or deny the reports. Bush's open border (no border) policies may be about to contribute to our long-discussed pandemic nightmare.
Patricia Doyle
Nepal - Outbreaks Of Deadly Undiagnosed Diseases - 33 Deaths
Xinhua News Agency Online
6-17-5
At least 33 people died of diarrhea, respiratory infection and undiagnosed disease in 2 different districts in western Nepal, officials said on Fri 17 Jun 2005.
"More than 12 people died of diarrhea in the village of Badhu in Bajrua district in the last week," Deepak Shah, acting chief of the district health office, told reporters.
"8 other people died of an undiagnosed disease that spread in Barbise, Naubise, Toli and Kailashmandau villages of the district in the last week," he said. A team of health workers has been dispatched to the epidemic affected area, he added.
Meanwhile, about 13 people have died of respiratory illness in less than a week in the mid-western district of Mugu. "The disease has hit Sewa and Kalai villages most while it is also spreading in surrounding places," said an official at the district health office.
The Department of Health has dispatched medical teams to the affected areas to identify the disease and provide treatment to the infected people, the official said.
Dr. Henry L. Niman, PhD
Recombinomics Commentary
6-17-5
At least 14 people died of diarrhea and eight others died of undiagnosed disease in two different districts of far-western Nepal, the Source reported Wednesday.
"More than 14 people died of diarrhoea in Toleni village of Doti district in the last three weeks," it quoted Hikmat Bahadur Bogati, an official at district health office as telling reporters.
About 80 people in the village are seriously ill and there is no medicine for them, he noted.
"A health worker team has already been dispatched to the epidemic affected area," he added. Xinhua also reported that eight civilians died from an undiagnosed disease in Bajura district in the past one week.
Mysterious Disease Kills 22 in Western Nepal
Mysterious fatal diseases in Nepal at this time are cause for concern. The H5N1 infected bar headed geese found dead in Qinghai Lake Nature Reserve in May winter on the northern plains of India. Thus, these birds would fly over Nepal when migrating from India to China.
In Vietnam, H5N1 bird flu infections can be found in asymptomatic ducks and geese. These birds excrete large amounts of stable H5N1, causing potential pollution problems. The H5N1 in fatal humans infections in Vietnam can produce these asymptomatic conditions in laboratory ducks.
Thus, it is possible that H5N1 infected geese from India could spread human disease linked to their migratory flight path. After H5N1 was discovered in patients with gastro-intestinal or neurological conditions, WHO had indicated that H5N1 testing of cluster of unexplained deaths would begin.
The 22 deaths described above would clearly meet that definition, but there are no hints of H5N1 testing of these cases or meningitis cases in northern India, which is very close to these two outbreaks in western Nepal.
Although WHO has expressed concerns about delayed reporting of H5N1 cases in Vietnam, surveillance of H5N1 outside of Vietnam also appears to be lacking. A much more aggressive surveillance program is required to understand exactly where H5N1 is and isn't in human and animal populations in Asia.
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CLASSICAL SWINE FEVER, SWINE - GERMANY
(NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA)
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Date: Sun 5 Mar 2006
From: Thijs Kuiken <t.kuiken@erasmusmc.nl>
Source: ANP via NRC Handelsblad, Netherlands, 3 Mar 2006
[translated from Dutch, edited>


Classical swine fever outbreak in North Rhine-Westphalia
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Classical swine fever has been identified on a farm in Haltern in the
German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. This was confirmed by the
Minister of the Environment, Uhlenberg, to the news channel ARD.

Haltern is about 60 km east of Winterswijk [The Netherlands>.
[A map of North Rhine-Westphalia, including Haltern, bordering the
province Gelderland in the Netherlands, can be found at
<http://www.supertravelnet.com/maps/index.php?
action=showmap&country=164_9011_5&language=1>.>

Since the beginning of February 2006, 72 of the more than 300 pigs on
the farm in Haltern have died. After the diagnosis of classical swine
fever, all pigs in a radius of 3 km around the pig farm must be
killed. All pigs in a radius of 10 km around the farm must be checked
on a regular basis.

Uhlenberg said that 2 pig farms in the area of the affected farm have
been identified as suspect. However, it has not been confirmed
whether animals on those farms are infected with classical swine
fever.

The German Ministry of Agriculture did not state how the animals were
infected. At the end of last year [2005>, the Product Boards for Livestock,
Meat and Eggs (PVE) in the Netherlands indicated their concern about the
possible infection of wild boars. Researchers had detected antibodies to
classical swine fever virus in wild boars in The Netherlands and Germany.
This
meant that the animals [had been> ill, but no longer carried the virus.

Classical swine fever is not infectious for humans.

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Thijs Kuiken
Department of Virology
Erasmus MD
<t.kuiken@erasmusmc.nl>

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[During 1997-98, the Netherlands suffered a major CSF epizootic; the
disease was eradicated and has reportedly been absent since March
1998. Germany has reported the presence of CSF in wild boar only,
each year for the last 10 years; spillovers into commercial farms of
domestic pigs have been uncommon.

A useful overview of CSF ("Hog cholera"), including photos, is available at
<http://www.vet.uga.edu/vpp/gray_book/FAD/HOC.htm>. - Mod.AS>


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Thats scary i have spent alot of time in that country. Health care doesn't exsist. I could easly see it go H2H their. combine that with the tourism industry and an incubation period of acouple of days. It could easly go anywhere. I have a friend (back in 98) there that was tell me a story where his sister dropped dead working in the field. I ask him of what . He said I don't know they just cremated her body.  I don't think it is H5N1 but it just makes me thinkhow it could go undetected.

 

 

 

 

 
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