Highly pathogenic avian influenza In Hungary
This is a followup report (No 1) from OIE on the outbreak of Avian Influenza in Hungary.
12 February 2007
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Information received on 12/02/2007 from Mr Tibor Bálint, Chief Veterinary Officer, Animal Health and Food Control Department, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development , Budapest, Hungary
Summary
| Report type | Follow-up report No. 1 |
| Start date | 19/01/2007 |
| Date of confirmation of event | 24/01/2007 |
| Report date | 12/02/2007 |
| Date submitted to OIE | 13/02/2007 |
| Reason for notification | Reoccurrence of a listed disease |
| Date of previous occurrence | 06/2006 |
| Manifestation of disease | Clinical disease |
| Causal agent | Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus |
| Serotype | H5N1 |
| Nature of diagnosis | Suspicion, Clinical, Laboratory (basic), Laboratory (advanced) |
| Report pertains to | Entire country |
| Related reports |
New Outbreaks
| Outbreak 1 | Derekegyház-Ördöngös, Szentes, CSONGRAD | ||||||||||||
| Date of start of outbreak | 23/01/2007 | ||||||||||||
| Outbreak status | Continuing (or date resolved not submitted) | ||||||||||||
| Epidemiological unit | Farm | ||||||||||||
| Affected animals |
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| Affected population | a geese flock | ||||||||||||
| Summary of outbreaks | Total outbreaks: 1 | ||||||||||||
| Outbreak statistics |
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Epidemiology
| Source of infection |
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| Epidemiological comments | This farm is situated within the surveillance zone, at about 9 km from the earlier confirmed outbreak in Csongrád county (in Szentes-Lapistó). In the morning of 26 January 2007, a bacterial infection (Mycoplasmosis) was suspected on the basis of post-mortem examinations. For safety reasons, the official movement control of the flock was ordered and samples were sent to the Veterinary Diagnostic Directorate of the Central Agricultural Office. On the late afternoon of 26 January 2007, the clinical signs and post-mortem examinations carried out on spot did not exclude the suspicion of HPAI virus to be present in this geese flock. The same day, the affected geese showed neurological signs explicitly. Therefore, the killing of whole flock was ordered. On 27 January 2007, the whole flock of the affected farm was killed as well as the flocks of four backyard farms within the 1-km-radius zone around the affected farm. |
Control measures
| Measures already applied |
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| Measures to be applied |
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Diagnostic test results
| Laboratory name and type | Veterinary Diagnostic Directorate of the Central Agricultural Office, Budapest (former Central Veterinary Institute) (National laboratory) | ||||||||||||||||
| Tests and results |
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Map of outbreak locations
| Location of current outbreaks |
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