State of the epizooty of avian flu in the countries of Central Asia and of the Indian sub-continent

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Afghanistan

  • Beginning Mars 2006: First case of avian flu listed in the west of the country.

Bangladesh

  • At the end of March 2007: First case of avian flu in a breeding. The authorities cut down 66.000 chickens in 22 farms.

  • Tuesday April 3rd 2007: Again cases of avian flu in breedings were declared. The authorities locals follows closely the working health condition of the people in contact with the poultries. It is to be recalled that this sector represents more than one million employment in the country.

India

Mid 2006, the country is always unscathed H5N1. A preparation of the country to a possible pandemia is in hand. At August 11th, 2006, nearly 13,5 million people are touched by the rains of monsoons which have fallen without stopping for 11 days, especially in the state of Gujarat (10 million affected people) and moindrement in that of Maharashtra (western) and Andhra Pradesh (south-eastern). 240 drowned and of many missings are already entered last days. This context could be favorable to the least followed birds and poultries and to the diffusion of the H5N1 if it is present on the territory.

Historical:

  • Tests in progress after the death of more than one thousand of migratory birds to the Western Bengal (Is).
  • Tuesday February 15th 2006: 12 suspect human cases according to WHO in the State of Maharashtra (western) among patients hospitalized with respiratory fever and problems. 3 others also hospitalized in the Neighboring state of Gujarat. (results awaited in the week).
  • Thursday February 17th 2006: for some time quantities of poultries die in the west of India in the State of Maharashtra (western) around the town of Navapur. Joint deaths the human ones, peacocks and hundreds of pigs were observed 1st at February 17th, 2005 in the state of the Uttar Pradesh. The pigs living around slum would have died after having eaten refuse (but, the pig, as the wild boar is an omnivore which shows itself readily necrophagous, it can consume corpses of birds, mouse, rats or even of dogs, cats or other animals likely to be dead infected by a virus H5N1). According to the local mediums, dogs would be falls ills after having consumed flesh of corpses of these pigs. These pigs belonged almost all to Dalit S (of the caste of the Intouchable S), almost all employed of the Agra Municipal Corporation . not having an official explanation (not analyzes?), these inhabitants named this " maladie" influenza of the pig (" Pig flu".).
Recombinomics estimates that the transmission with the Chien S was a first index, but that associated with died of human and peacocks, one can suspect the avian flu, the more so as the unexplained deaths presented a neurological component of encéphalite type which can be induced by the H5N1 (as one saw in Vietnam).

  • Saturday February 18th 2006: First cases of influenza in the area of Bombay. The H5N1 is officially identified on chickens among 50.000 dead fowls.

  • Friday February 19th 2006: One suspect that the H5N1 could be responsible for dead on February 12th, 2006 of a farmer in the avicolous area of Mavapur where more than 50 thousand poultries were cut down and buried (with 90 hundred US of compensation by poultry, including 50% paid by the central government).
Five people would show also symptoms of avian flu. The results of the blood tests are awaited before February 23rd.
  • Monday February 20th 2006: the controlling authority learns the afternoon suspect death from 70 chickens in a hatchery of Western Bengal (Is of India). According to a magistrate of the district (Vinod KUMAR), another stockbreeder, village of Ghiya, also already buried 150 dead fowls since the day before in the same area (source; Arranges Close trust off India). Analyzes are made on samples taken on 10 alive chickens. The hatchery is insulated by the police force.
  • Tuesday February 21st (evening): the press announces that 95 human samples are being analyzed and that 17 people were placed in observation (12 of the State of the Maharashtra, with a light fever and 5 of the Neighboring state of the Gujarat, of which three had contacts with poultries).
  • Wednesday February 22nd 2006: Whereas more than 700.000 poultries would already have been cut down on suspicion around Navapur (80 000 still owe the being), the Secretary of State to Health P.K. Hota, announces that 95 suspect human cases are the subject of analysis (9 samples according to other sources (AP | 22.02.06 | 15:11). The results are awaited for the 24.
  • Thursday February 23rd 2006: In this avicolous area where the contacts with the poultries are daily, according to authorities 11 of the first 12 people isolated after the appearance of the H5N1 in poultries, had not contracted the virus. One 12th sample is the subject of additional analyzes.
  • Saturday February 25th 2006: in the District of Surat, State de Gujarat (W of India) 2 chickens were tested positive with the H5N1 HP according to Indian TV NDTV. The local authorities specified that the two breedings were under monitoring since the sampling on February 13rd. Rem: the District of Surat is next to the district of Nandurbar of the State of Maharashtra (Western), where the 1st cases of infected poultries had been confirmed on February 18th, 2006. According to the results of the blood analyzes, none of the 95 inhabitants of Nandurbar is victim of the H5N1, but two other patients were hospitalized with a pneumopathy, chicken a selector 55 year old and a 66 year old man having had contacts with dead chickens.
(Source: Indian ministry of Health and the family Wellbeing).
  • the transmission risk of the disease to the population is considered to be particularly high in this country, and this area, but no human case was however still confirmed.
  • Tuesday March 14th 2006: After the North of the country is with the area of Maharashtra to be touched.
  • Friday March 17th 2006: A sick teenager is hospitalized by precaution because it had contact with dead fowl in the State of Maharashtra (western of the country) where a second hearth of H5N1 was updated, in the district of Jalgaon to 200 km of Navapur, involving the euthanasia of more than 75.000 poultries. 65.000 inhabitants of this district would have been controlled.
  • Tuesday March 28th 2006: several avian hearths were identified in the Western state of Maharashtra.

Kazakhstan

  • Monday March 20th 2006: Case of influenza avaire confirmed on a swan found dead last week.

Pakistan

  • Fine 2003, three to four million chickens had been cut already down in the country after an epizooty by a stock of bird flu H7N3 and the presence of H9 virus.

  • In the country, in 2005, approximately 25.000 breedings produced the chicken which approximately constitutes 45% of the meat consumption consumed by 150 million inhabitants.

  • Monday March 20th 2006: the H5N1 HP is confirmed by the tests of checks made at the laboratory reference of Weybridge, on dead chickens coming from two different breedings, in February 2006, in the North-West of the country. Twenty-five thousand poultries must be shot down.

- Pakistan prohibited mid-March the importations of poultry of India and Iran, two bordering countries where the H5N1 was confirmed. It will have taken approximately three weeks so that the analyzes are made and published, and the virus had been confirmed a few front days in Afghanistan, on Thursday, March 16. Transport of interprovincial poultries is prohibited, just as hunting for the wild birds.

  • Monday April 24th 2006: the authorities brought back cases of the deadly virus of avian flu H5N1 in low-courses of farms infected close to Islamabad.

- Now, we have nine close poultry where virus H5N1 was confirmed , indicates Mohammad Afzal, police chief of the cattle of the ministry.
- At least 40.000 chickens were cut down since the first cases.
- We examined samples of blood and taking away of 33 workmen but the tests were negative according to a local source.

  • Tuesday February 6th 2007: approximately 18 chickens died because of virus H5N1 in a farmyard with Rawalpindi close to Islamabad, it is what indicates the Minister for agriculture.

  • Wednesday February 7th 2007 in Pakistan: the country announces that birds of ornament are also touched: peacocks, pheasants, pigeons and parakeets.

See too

External bonds

  • National Sanitary Surveillance Institute

  • Network Sentinels INSERM U707
  • Blog on the influenza

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