Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Indonesia
INDONESIA - This is an emergency report via OIE on the recent outbreak of Avian Influenza in Indonesia.
6 February 2004
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Information received on 3 February 2004 from Dr Sofjan Sudarjat, Director General of Livestock Services, Department of Agriculture, Jakarta:
Date of the report: 2 February 2004.
Nature of diagnosis: clinical and post-mortem with laboratory confirmation.
Date of initial detection of animal health incident: 15 December 2003.
Estimated date of primary infection: 11 December 2003.
Outbreaks:
| Location | No. of outbreaks |
| Banten province (1 district) | 12 |
| West Java province (6 districts) | 12 |
| Central Java province (17 districts) | 26 |
| Jakarta province (1 district) | 1 |
| Yogyakarta province (3 districts) | 8 |
| East Java province (13 districts) | 26 |
| Lampung province (3 districts) | 4 |
| Bali province (5 districts) | 30 |
| South Kalimantan (1 district) | 1 |
| Central Kalimantan (1 district) | 1 |
| South Sumatra (6 districts) | 6 |
| Total | 127 |
Description of affected population: mostly layer/breeder hens.
Total number of animals in the outbreaks:
| species | susceptible | cases | deaths | destroyed | slaughtered |
| avi | 20,200,000 | ... | 4,700,000 | ... | ... |
Diagnosis:
A. Laboratories where diagnosis was made:
- Disease Investigation Centre Region IV, Yogyakarta;
- Research Institute for Veterinary Science, Bogor;
- Veterinary Drug Assay Laboratory, Gunung Sindur, Bogor.
B. Diagnostic tests used:
- agar gel precipitation test;
- haemagglutination inhibition test;
- intravenous pathogenicity index test;
- reverse transcriptase - polymerase chain reaction;
- DNA sequencing.
C. Causal agent: highly pathogenic avian influenza virus type A, subtype H5N1.
Epidemiology:
A. Source of agent / origin of infection: under investigation.
B. Mode of spread: movement of live poultry, poultry products and by-products, egg trays and equipment.
C. Other epidemiological details: animal categories/species affected include broiler chickens, ducks, quail and native chickens.
Control measures:
- quarantine;
- movement control inside the country;
- modified stamping-out policy;
- vaccination
- zoning.
Note by the OIE Animal Health Information Department: no outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Indonesia have been reported before to the OIE.
Source: Office International des Epizooties - 6th February 2004
