OIE:HIGHLY PATHOGENIC AVIAN INFLUENZA IN CAMBODIA Follow-up report No. 4

OIE:HIGHLY PATHOGENIC AVIAN INFLUENZA IN CAMBODIA Follow-up report No. 4
submited by kickingbird at Apr, 8, 2005 7:45 AM from OIE

Information received on 1 April 2005 from Dr Sen Sovann, Deputy Director, Department of Animal Health and Production (DAHP), Phnom Penh:

End of previous report period: 22 September 2004 (see Disease Information, 17 [39], 280, dated 24 September 2004).

End of this report period: 28 March 2005.

Precise identification of agent : avian influenza A virus subtype H5N1.

Nature of diagnosis: clinical and laboratory.

Details of new outbreaks:

*First administrative division*	*Lower administrative division*	*Type of epide-miolo-gical unit*	*Name of the location*	*Date of start of the outbreak*	*Spe-cies*	*Number of animals in the outbreak*
*First administrative division*	*Lower administrative division*	*Type of epide-miolo-gical unit*	*Name of the location*	*Date of start of the outbreak*	*Spe-cies*	*susceptible*	*cases*	*deaths*	*destroyed*	*slaugh-tered*
Kandal province	Takmao district	...	Kro Peuha	2 Feb. 2005	avi	105	70	70	35	0
Kompot province	Banteay Meas district	...	Kia Thavong Leu	24 Mar. 2005	avi	28	19	19	9	0

Description of affected population in the new outbreaks: backyard chickens.

Diagnosis:

Laboratories where diagnosis was made

Diagnostic tests used

Date

Results

National Animal Health and Production Investigation Center (NAHPIC)

Pasteur Institute, Cambodia

RT-PCR (reverse transcriptase - polymerase chain reaction)

4 February 2005

25 March 2005

positive

Source of new outbreaks: unknown; under investigation.

Control measures:

- stamping out and disinfection;

- control of animal movement in the affected areas.

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