OIE:HIGHLY PATHOGENIC AVIAN INFLUENZA IN INDONESIA Follow-up report No. 6
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HIGHLY PATHOGENIC AVIAN INFLUENZA IN INDONESIA
Follow-up report No. 6
See also: 6 August 2004, 2 July 2004, 14 May 2004, 9 April 2004, 5 March 2004, 6 February 2004
Information received on 6 October 2004 from Prof. H.R. Wasito, Director General of Livestock Services, Department of Agriculture, Jakarta:
End of previous report period: 30 July 2004 (see Disease Information, 17 [32], 227, dated 6 August 2004).
End of this report period: 6 October 2004.
New outbreaks:
Location | No. of outbreaks |
East Java Province, Kediri district | 1 |
Central Java Province, Grobogan district | 1 |
The total number of infected provinces is 15, comprising 98 districts.
Description of affected population in the new outbreaks: layer hens and Arabian chickens.
Number of animals in the new outbreaks:
Outbreak | species | susceptible | cases | deaths | destroyed | slaughtered |
Kediri | avi | 2,200 | ... | 460 | ... | ... |
Grobogan | avi | 1,200 | ... | 350 | ... | ... |
Diagnosis:
A. Laboratory where diagnosis was made: Disease Investigation Centre Region IV, Yogyakarta.
B. Diagnostic tests used:
- haemagglutination inhibition test;
- pathogenicity test.
C. Causal agent: highly pathogenic avian influenza virus type A, subtype H5N1.
Epidemiology:
A. Source of agent / origin of infection: local contamination.
B. Other epidemiological details: Kediri and Grobogan were previously infected districts but had not reported cases since January 2004.
- The new cases in Kediri occurred in July-August 2004.
- The new cases in Grobogan occurred in September 2004.
Control measures during reporting period:
- quarantine;
- movement control inside the country;
- modified stamping-out;
- vaccination;
- zoning.
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