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Other documentAvian Influenza Disease Emergency: issue No. 59 (20/05/2009)
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No results found.A novel reassortant of the Influenza-A/H1N1 virus is currently circulating in humans. Human clinical cases, and sustained human-to-human transmission of the novel virus, were detected initially in North America (Mexico and the USA). Since its recognition as a novel strain by the CDC in the third week of April 2009, a total of 10,243 confirmed human cases including 80 deaths have been reported from 41 countries (WHO: 20 May 2009). The majority of the cases suffered only mild illness and recovered quickly... -
Other documentAvian Influenza Disease Emergency: issue No. 57 (15/01/2009)
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No results found.The recent number of H5N1 avian influenzarelated human cases in China's appears to lack the hallmark of nearby poultry outbreaks, writes CIDRAP News (21 January 2009), adding that this is a development that some public health officials worry could signal asymptomatic infections in birds. China has reported four human cases so far this year, three of them fatal... -
Other documentAvian Influenza Disease Emergency: issue No. 62 (09/12/2009)
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No results found.In late 2003 highly pathogenic avian influenza (A) subtype H5N1 (H5N1 HPAI) emerged in Southeast Asia causing poultry and economic losses on a large scale. Since 2004, the disease has spread to the rest of Asia, Europe and Africa. Despite the ongoing interventions on many fronts, including public education, surveillance sampling, restrictions on livestock movement, improvements in farm biosecurity, live-bird market disinfection, culling rounds, and vaccination campaigns, H5N1 HPAI continues to p ersist in China, Indonesia, Viet Nam, Bangladesh, and Egypt. Veterinary epidemiologists involved in influenza research recognize that this persistence suggests there are more complex epidemiological risk factors for the transmission and maintenance of this virus than originally identified...
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