Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in China - THAILAND - This is a Follow-up report (No. 1) via OIE on the recent outbreak of Avian Influenza in China.

See also: 6 February 2004

Information received on 11 February 2004 from Dr Shen Zhenzhao, Director General, Bureau of Animal Husbandry and Health, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing:

End of previous report period: 4 February 2004 (see Disease Information, 17 [6], 32, dated 6 February 2004).

End of this report period: 10 February 2004.

To date, there have been altogether 38 outbreaks in 14 provinces (autonomous regions or municipalities), of which 23 (see Table 1) have been confirmed by the National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory as subtype H5N1-caused highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), the other 15 (see Table 2) being suspected HPAI.

The cumulated number of diseased birds is 137,577, out of which 121,720 have died.

Control measures:

In accordance with the Law on Animal Epidemic Prevention, the local governments in the above-mentioned places:

- have sealed off the infected areas;

- have culled all the poultry within a 3-km radius around the foci of infection, and

- have imposed compulsory vaccination on the poultry within a 5-km radius around the foci of infection.

Up to now, 2,287,000 have been culled.

Up to now, 5,484,500 poultry have been compulsorily vaccinated.

At present, the disease in the places mentioned below is under control.

Note by the OIE Animal Health Information Department:The map (please click here) merely indicates the towns affected and the capitals of those provinces where outbreaks have been confirmed or suspected. It does not attempt to show the precise geographical location of the outbreaks within the affected provinces.

Table 1.- Outbreaks confirmed by the National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory

Anhui Province	Yushan district, Maanshan city
	Guangde county
	Yingzhou city
	Jieshou city
Gansu Province	Gaolan county
Guangdong Province	Chaoan county
	Haifeng county
Guangxi Autonomous Region	Longan county
Henan Province	Pingyu county
Hubei Province	Wuxue county
	Ezhou city
	Yichang city
	Xiangfan city
Hunan Province	Wugang county
	Pingjiang county
Jiangxi Province	Qingyunpu district, Nanchang city
	Dongxiang county
	Guixi city
Shanxi Province	Changan district, Xi’an city
Xinjiang Autonomous Region	12th Agriculture Division under the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps
Yunnan Province	Chenggong county
	Guandu district, Kunming city
Zhejaing Province	Yongkang city

Table 2.- Suspected outbreaks

Gansu Province	Xigu district, Lanzhou city
	Anning district, Lanzhou city
	Jingyuan county
Guangdong Province	Luoding city
	Jiedong county
	Doumen district, Zhuhai city
	Maogang district, Maomin city
Shanghai	Nanhui district
Hubei Province	Macheng city
Yunnan Province	Xishan district, Kunming city
	Anning city
	Shilin county
Tianjin	Jinnan district
Shanxi Province	Huayin city
Guangxi Autonomous Region	Xingning district, Nanning city

Source: Office International des Epizooties - 13th February 2004