Information received on 20/11/2009 from Dr Kanga Kouame, Directeur des Services Vétérinaires et de la Qualité, -, Ministère de la Production Animale et des Ressources Halieutiques, Abidjan, Cote D´Ivoire
Summary
Report type | Follow-up report No. 1 (Final report) |
Start date | 06/10/2009 |
Date of first confirmation of the event | 10/10/2009 |
Report date | 20/11/2009 |
Date submitted to OIE | 20/11/2009 |
Date event resolved | 30/10/2009 |
Reason for notification | Reoccurrence of a listed disease |
Date of previous occurrence | 01/2007 |
Manifestation of disease | Sub-clinical infection |
Causal agent | Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus |
Serotype | H5N1 |
Nature of diagnosis | Laboratory (advanced) |
This event pertains to | a defined zone within the country |
Outbreaks | There are no new outbreaks in this report |
Epidemiology
Source of the outbreak(s) or origin of infection |
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Epidemiological comments | The reoccurrence of highly pathogenic avian influenza serotype H5N1 is not confirmed and will be closed since the results obtained by the OIE Reference Laboratory in Padova were negative for avian influenza by RT-PCR, virus isolation in embryonated eggs, sequencing, intravenous pathogenicity index test and hemagglutination inhibition test. Further tests were carried out by the same laboratory for Newcastle disease and West Nile fever and they were negative. Concerning the ravens that died in Abidjan, some people have revealed that they had spread a toxic product, mainly Gambaril; that could be the origin of the deaths reported. Toxicological tests gave negative results. |
Control measures
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Diagnostic test results
Laboratory name and type | Laboratoire de référence de l´OIE pour la maladie de Newcastle et l´influenza aviaire à Padoue (OIE’s Reference Laboratory) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Future Reporting
The event is resolved. No more reports will be submitted. |