Re: Bird Flu
- From: "Jill" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:50:31 -0000
Mike wrote:
Have you seen these updates?
Bird Flu
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The season of peak risk for Bird Flu is now upon us, so it is not
good news that OIE has just reported that a new variant of the H5N1
virus has become dominant in areas of Asia.
If anyone is interested to get the uptodate information as it comes
The best method is to set Google news alerts http://news.google.com for
"h5n1" and "bird flu"
PArt of the Reuters report for the above on the 30th October is
H5N1 strain could start wave of bird flu outbreaks
Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:11 PM GMT
By Tan Ee Lyn
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Scientists in Hong Kong and the United States have
detected a new strain of H5N1 bird flu virus in China and warned it might
have started another wave of outbreaks in poultry in Southeast Asia and move
deeper into Eurasia.
The strain, called the "Fujian-like virus" because it was first isolated in
China's southern Fujian province in March 2005, has increasingly been
detected since October 2005 in poultry in six provinces in China, displacing
other H5N1 strains.
The strain might also have become resistant to vaccines, which China began
using on a large scale from September 2005 to protect poultry from H5N1,
said the scientists.
The researchers are from the University of Hong Kong, including virologists
Guan Yi and Malik Peiris, and Rob Webster of St Jude Children's Research
Hospital in the United States.
"The predominance of this Fujian-like virus appears to be responsible for
the increased prevalence of H5N1 in poultry since October 2005 and recent
human infection cases in China," they said in an article published in the
U.S.-based Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (www.pnas.org).
"It has already caused poultry outbreaks in Laos, Malaysia and Thailand, and
human disease in Thailand. It is likely that this variant has already
initiated a third wave of transmission throughout Southeast Asia and may
spread further in Eurasia."
Defra opinion seems to be
that it is just a matter of time before it reaches Europe.
If its as badly handled as the last one -- they are probably right;
certainly we are far from out of the woods from any of the various strains
now loose around the globe
One might hope that the newly formed global strike force will help prevent
this but I would not hold my breath
Have you
seen the extensive "Bird Flu Risk factors for United Kingdom" report
which Defra has just published?
do you have a link for this?
A search for Bird flu; H5N1; Avian influenza in the past week on the Defra
site shows nothing
for anyone interested the DEFRA Avian influenza link is
http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/diseases/notifiable/disease/ai/index.htm
which does not mention this report
--
regards
Jill Bowis
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