Confirman muerte de joven en Beijing por bichito H5N1

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Confirman muerte de joven en Beijing por bichito H5N1

Beijing, 7 ene (PL) Autoridades sanitarias confirmaron la muerte en esta capital de una joven, Huang Yanqing, a causa del bichito H5N1 de la gripe aviar.

El deceso se produjo el pasado lunes después que la mujer enfermara tras estar en contacto con carne contaminada de pato el pasado 19 de diciembre.

El diagnóstico fue confirmado por los exámenes de laboratorio realizados en el Centro para el Control y Prevención de Enfermedades y en la Academia Militar de Ciencias Médicas.

Incluso antes de la confirmación, el Ministerio de Salud había informado del caso a la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) y a los departamentos de salud de las regiones administrativas especiales de Hong Kong y Macao.

Las aves fueron compradas por Huang en un mercado popular de la vecina provincia de Hebei.

Al menos 13 personas comieron la carne, pero nadie más enfermó.

El contagioso bichito H5N1 infecta normalmente a las aves y pájaros, pero en ocasiones contamina a seres humanos.

Debido a ello, las autoridades municipales decretaron una alerta sanitaria, desinfectaron la vivienda de la fallecida, la sala donde estuvo hospitalizada y establecieron una vigilancia médica sobre más de un centenar de personas que se relacionaron con la enferma.

Huang Yanqing residía en un distrito densamente poblado de la capital china, lo cual explica las medidas se precaución que se han tomado para prevenir la eventual aparición de un brote epidémico.

Los inspectores ya localizaron la procedencia de las aves, en el condado de Jixian, municipio de Tianjín, a unos 120 kilómetros de Beijing.

La última muerte anterior por gripe aviar se había producido en la provincia meridional de Guangdong en febrero de 2008.

La OMS advirtió que es posible el surgimiento de nuevos casos de contagio humano por el bichito H5N1 en los próximos meses, ya que las temperaturas frías parecen favorecer su propagación.

http://www.prensalatina.com.mx/article.asp?ID={B7B72215-675A-4C8E-B245-EFA669ED7177}&language=ES

Qué alegría, nada más y nada menos que en Beijing. :o

 

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FULFORD !

SUELTA A LOS NINJAS!

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la ultima foto me recuerda a una mesa de cocktail

 

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FULFORD !

SUELTA A LOS NINJAS!

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JAJAJ,si lo que dice este macho cabrío fuese verdad,nos ibamos a reir un rato

 

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la ultima foto me recuerda a una mesa de cocktail

Parece la entrada a un restaurante chino

 

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Parece la entrada a un restaurante chino

ojojojojoj

 

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A&D, te informa sobre los puntos positivos y negativos del mercado de Divisas, te ayuda y asesora para que tomes decisiones sabias que favorezcan tu capital y su rentabilidad.

 

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[Samzer]

Hmmm espero que no tenga nada que ver pero lo he visto y he recordado la noticia del H5N1.

Pelicans fall out of sky from Mexico to Ore.

Pelicans suffering from a mysterious malady are crashing into cars and boats, wandering along roadways and turning up dead by the hundreds across the West Coast, from southern Oregon to Baja California, Mexico, bird-rescue workers say.

SANTA ANA, Calif. — Pelicans suffering from a mysterious malady are crashing into cars and boats, wandering along roadways and turning up dead by the hundreds across the West Coast, from southern Oregon to Baja California, Mexico, bird-rescue workers say.

Weak, disoriented birds are huddling in people's yards or being struck by cars. More than 100 have been rescued along the California coast, according to the International Bird Rescue Research Center in San Pedro.

Hundreds of birds, disoriented or dead, have been observed across the West Coast.

"One pelican actually hit a car in Los Angeles," said Rebecca Dmytryk of Wildrescue, a bird-rescue operation. "One pelican hit a boat in Monterey."

While some of the symptoms resemble those associated with domoic-acid poisoning — an ocean toxin that sometimes affects sea birds and mammals — other symptoms do not. Domoic acid also apparently has not been found in significant amounts offshore, although more tests are needed.

Rescuers are wondering whether the illness is caused by a bichito, or even by contaminants washed into the ocean after recent fires across Southern California. Many of the birds also have swollen feet.

"These birds are on the freeway, getting run over," said Jay Holcomb, executive director of the rescue center in San Pedro. "A bunch we've seen have been hit. They've been landing on yards five miles inland. When some of the people have captured them in parking lots, they just sit in the corner. They just go pick them up."

"Maybe the weather has been particularly difficult on them," said Heather Nevill, a veterinarian tracking the problem for the International Bird Rescue Research Center. "Maybe the fish stocks are particularly low. It might be more than one thing, all coming together at once."

Nation & World | Pelicans fall out of sky from Mexico to Ore. | Seattle Times Newspaper

Otro medio en el que dicen alguna cosa más.

Increase of sick brown pelicans baffles experts

LOS ANGELES – Wildlife experts are trying to figure out why sick, disoriented and bruised California brown pelicans are being found in record numbers along more than 1,000 miles of coastline.

The birds, some of them dead, have been spotted from San Francisco to Baja California, Mexico. Many have been found far from their homes on roads, fields and backyards.

The pelicans started appearing late last month north of San Pedro in Southern California, then began appearing farther north, said Jay Holcomb, executive director of the International Bird Rescue Research Center in Fairfield, in Northern California.

The center's San Pedro facility received more than 40 birds in the past seven to 10 days, while the Fairfield one has received about 25, Holcomb said Tuesday.

A man vacationing in Baja California alerted the center about a similar problem there this week after discovering sick pelicans on the beach south of San Felipe.

"There are dead or sick brown's all over the place," Rick Meyer wrote in an e-mail Monday to the research center. "Normally there are just a couple, but in the last 10 days there is one every 100 feet... Something's going on."

In the Los Angeles area in the last week, birds have been reported staggering across a road in the beach community of Playa del Rey and on a runway at Los Angeles International Airport. One bird was reported to have struck a vehicle.

Bird rescuers knew something strange was happening because the increasing numbers of sick pelicans involved adults, ages 3 and older, Holcomb said. Typically, this time of year there is a significant die-off of young brown pelicans, but marine biologists say they are seeing a larger-than-normal die-off of adults.

The sick birds are thin, seem confused and disoriented, and have discoloration on their pouches and feet, Holcomb said.

"This type of disorientation in adult pelicans is something we'd see during a domoic acid outbreak, but we have yet to see them exhibiting the other common symptoms," he said.

Domoic acid, a neurotoxin, is produced by microscopic algae. Birds and sea mammals ingest the acid by eating fish and shellfish that consume the algae.

Birds poisoned by domoic acid generally experience seizures, but the pelicans admitted to the rescue centers did not suffer seizures, Holcomb said.

Rescuers have sent pelican blood samples and carcasses to state and federal wildlife authorities and laboratories that specialize in detecting potentially fatal algae toxins. Holcomb said test results are expected in about a week.

Meanwhile, veterinarians and volunteers are nursing the growing number of antiestéticathered patients with intravenous fluids, medications and a diet of smelt and squid. Holcomb said rescuers have been successful in nursing many of the ailing birds back to health, but the cost is staggering — $500 to $1,000 per bird.

The California brown pelican is a subspecies of the common brown pelican. Its habitat stretches from Mexico's Sinaloa and Nayarit coasts to the Channel Islands off Southern California.

Brown pelicans nearly became extinct in the 1960s and 1970s because the pesticide DDT infiltrated their food. The species started to recover in 1972 when DDT was banned in the United States.

Increase of sick brown pelicans baffles experts - Yahoo! News

 

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Segunda muerte por la gripe aviar en China.

China warns of bird flu risk after second fatality

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BEIJING (AFP) — China warned Monday of a rising bird flu risk after a second person died of the bichito in less than a month, and said it could be especially dangerous as the nation headed into the Lunar New Year holiday.

A 27-year-old woman surnamed Zhang died in the east Chinese province of Shandong on Saturday, nearly two weeks after falling ill, the provincial health bureau said.

It was the second confirmed fatality this month from the H5N1 strain of avian influenza, bringing the total number of reported deaths in China since 2003 to 22.

"With the approach of the Lunar New Year, the trade in poultry products is increasing, and there is a growing risk of the emergence and spread of epidemics," the agriculture ministry warned in a statement.

The ministry called for a number of measures to counter the re-emerging threat, including stepped-up surveillance and increased production of poultry vaccines.

The week-long Lunar holiday that begins on Monday sees many of the nation's 1.3 billion people travelling for family reunions that are characterised by big meals antiestéticaturing poultry and other meats.

Low winter temperatures that are conducive to the spread of the bichito are exacerbating the problem.

Heightening tensions, authorities announced on the weekend a two-year-old girl had also been diagnosed with bird flu in the province of Shanxi, bordering Shandong.

The Shanxi provincial health bureau said on Sunday that she was in a critical condition.

It said that 67 people who had been in close contact with the toddler were under observation, but none had shown signs so far of having contracted the disease.

The girl had fallen ill in Hunan, province hundreds of kilometres away, but had been brought to Shanxi by her grandparents, Chinese press reports said.

amowing the case, the agriculture ministry sent teams to Shanxi and Hunan to look for traces of bird flu, but came up with nothing, the China News Service reported. A search in Shandong also yielded no results.

This highlighted the underlying threat of bird flu, as it indicated that the bichito was lurking undetected in poultry and waiting to be passed on to humans.

This month's previous fatality, a 19-year-old woman in Beijing, had been handling ducks she had bought in a market, also without prior warning in the form of an outbreak among fowl.

China has reported the latest cases to the World Health Organization (WHO), as well as health authorities in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, according to the China News Service.

The WHO had little immediate comment on Monday about the new developments.

"The ministry of health has informed the WHO of the two cases over the weekend, and we're prepared to offer technical support if they ask," said Nyka Alexander, a Beijing-based WHO spokeswoman.

According to the WHO, about 250 people have died from bird flu worldwide since 2003.

Scientists antiestéticar the bichito could mutate to jump easily from human to human, potentially sparking a global pandemic.

AFP: China warns of bird flu risk after second fatality

 

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Falsimedia sembrando miedo... Bah, lo de siempre.

 

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Up to 60,000 turkeys to be culled after Abbotsford avian flu outbreak

Amy O'Brian, Vancouver Sun
Published: Friday, January 23, 2009

METRO VANCOUVER - Up to 60,000 turkeys on a farm near Abbotsford will be culled and their bodies likely composted due to an outbreak of avian flu.

Initial testing has shown birds at E & H Farms are carrying avian flu, but the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is awaiting final confirmation from a lab in Winnipeg.

"At this point in time, while we're waiting for the test, we are making plans for how we will destroy the birds and how we will dispose of the carcasses," said Sandra Stephens, a disease control specialist with the C.F.I.A.

"We want to be prepared to be able to act very, very quickly once we receive the final word from the lab."

In an effort to contain the bichito, 22 commercial farms in a three-kilometre radius surrounding E & H Farms have been under quarantine since the bichito was initially detected Wednesday night. The quarantine means poultry products cannot leave a farm until they have been tested and show no signs of the avian flu.

The quarantine will remain in effect for three weeks after the turkeys are culled, Stephens said.

The initial test, which was conducted at a lab in Abbotsford, was prompted when a worker noticed the birds seemed to be suffering from some sort of respiratory distress.

Mortality among the birds in the two barns at the farm has been normal to "perhaps slightly elevated," Stephens said.

Initial tests show the bichito is an H5 strain, which is an indication it could become highly pathogenic, similar to the H5N1 bichito that has killed more than 250 people worldwide. But Stephens said there has been no evidence to suggest it is an unusually dangerous form of the bichito.

"It's possible that we could have an H5N1, but it would appear, just by the way this bichito is acting, that it's not a highly pathogenic form, so it wouldn't be the Asian strain," she said. There are 16 different H-types of the bichito, but it is the H5 and the H7 types that can quickly change from a low pathogenic form to a highly pathogenic form, Stephens said.

Dr. Perry Kendall, provincial health officer, said there is no risk to public health at this time. He said one worker at the turkey farm has possibly been affected by contact with the birds, but measures are in place to ensure the health and safety of anyone else who might come in contact with an infected bird.

"We've got rapid communication and if we need to, we can very quickly get out and assess who might be at risk," Kendall said. "We have protocols in place for the protection that we think is needed for the people who would be exposed if they did a cull."

Those who come in direct contact with the infected birds will have to take a course of anti-viral drugs as a precaution.

"The risk is really remote that the avian influenza would move to humans or infect a human," he said.

During the avian flu outbreak of 2004, the bichito was never detected in a human, but more than 17 million birds were culled, making it the largest animal cull in Canadian history. Most of the carcasses were composted and Stephens said composting is still the preferred method of disposal.

Kendall said the Asian strain of the bichito has never been detected in North America. He said there has been thorough testing and surveillance of both farm fowl and wild birds, which are also known to carry the bichito.

Calvin Breukelman, chair of the B.C. Poultry Association's biosecurity committee, said an emergency response team coordinated by the poultry industry was mobilized Friday morning.

Since the 2004 outbreak, he said farmers have been working closely with the C.F.I.A. to enhance biosecurity and communication.

Despite all the precautionary measures, Breukelman said the local poultry industry is concerned whenever it hears of a possible outbreak of avian flu.

"Of course we're concerned," he said. "We want to be able to ensure, first of all that if it is on this farm, that we deal with it effectively and prevent it from spreading any further. That's the number-one priority for us.

"We're all hoping for the best with this thing, but if we do get the news that it's a positive flock, then we'll have to go in and deal with it accordingly. We just hope that everything's going to turn out fine."

Liz Bicknell, spokeswoman with the B.C. Ministry of Agriculture, said the farm in question has been diligent about biosecurity.

"This particular farm we're dealing with right now, their biosecurity measures are impeccable - they are very, very high," Bicknell said.

Up to 60,000 turkeys to be culled after Abbotsford avian flu outbreak

 

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Hundreds of dead birds litter lawns in Franklin

FRANKLIN (Somerset) —Hundreds of dead birds have fallen across the southern part of the township, and at least one resident who found her lawn and car littered with the carcasses Saturday is being told she has to clean up the mess.

Andrea Kipec of Park Lane was reeling Saturday after she found more than 150 dead birds on her property, and dozens more at her neighbors' homes.

Kipec said she learned the U.S. Department of Agriculture might have some involvement after she called police Friday night, Jan. 23, to ask what to do about a small quantity of dead birds she found on her car and driveway.

“They said they had an e-mail about poisoning of birds from the USDA Wildlife Service targeting blackbirds and starlings,” Kipec said.

She said police told her that she had to clean up the bird carcasses.

“I said to myself, what am I going to do, I want to move my car but I don't want to touch the dead birds,” Kipec said Saturday during a phone interview. “I just counted again and stopped at about 130, not counting about 20 more in the gutters of the house.”

Animal-control officer Katie Nordhaus said Saturday that she had no knowledge of a bird kill and couldn't say anything more until speaking with the township health department tomorrow.

Despite numerous attempts Saturday, neither the USDA's Wildlife Services state office in the Pittstown section of Union Township in Hunterdon County, nor Mayor Brian Levine could be reached for comment. Township Health Official Walter Galanowsky and Office of Emergency Management Coordinator J. Gary Howard also could not be reached for comment.

Sgt. Philip Rizzo, township police spokesman, said that he was aware of an e-mailed memorandum from the USDA warning the community about the possibility of large numbers of dead-bird sightings, but he could neither provide a copy of the e-mail, nor provide all the information contained in it.

“I have no way to give you another agency's release,” Rizzo said. “That would be for the USDA to do.”

Rizzo confirmed that the USDA on Friday informed police of a “legitimate operation,” adding that neither avian flu nor West Nile bichito were factors.

He said he had no information about the reason for the USDA operation, where it took place, any methods used, or if those methods would be lethal or harmful to people, children or pets.

“It was a legitimate USDA operation,” Rizzo said. “But the memo said to instruct the public to use shovels, gloves and plastic bags to dispose of the birds.”

Rizzo said the memo was addressed to Franklin Township, but also noted that “surrounding municipalities” might be affected by the dead birds.

“Something like that would have crossed my desk,” Piscataway Mayor Brian Wahler said Saturday. “Typically, when a federal agency does something out of the ordinary like that, they inform us.”

New Brunswick Public Information Officer Bill Bray said Saturday that he was unaware of a USDA operation in the area.

Jack Connolly of Park Lane in Griggstown said he, too, was concerned because his Labrador retrievers like to put dead birds in their mouths and bring them to the house.

“Last night I went out first and threw two dead birds in the garbage,” said Connolly, who is involved in township open space issues, including the creation of bird sanctuaries. “When I went out this morning (Saturday) there were another 12 or so.”

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