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Posted: January 21 2015 at 2:19am |
Nigeria: 2 Regions Report New Outbreaks of Bird FluThe health and veterinary authorities on Friday reported outbreaks of avian flu hundreds of miles apart on opposite ends of Nigeria. In Lagos, the southern commercial center, 3,300 birds at a live bird market showing symptoms were culled, said Nigeriaโs chief veterinary officer, Dr. Abdulganiyu Abubakar, in a report to the World Organization for Animal Health, an agency that tracks disease outbreaks. In Kano State, in northern Nigeria, an unspecified number of birds showing a high mortality rate were culled from a poultry farm. In both cases, blood samples tested positive for an H5 strain of avian influenza, officials quoted by Nigerian news media said. It was not immediately clear whether the birds were afflicted with H5N1, which is highly pathogenic and can infect humans. H5N1 first spread from Asia to Europe and Africa in the late 1990s and is a recurrent problem in domesticated bird populations. Nigeria was the first country in Africa to report H5N1 in poultry, in 2006, according to the World Health Organization. |
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Nigeria reports H5N1 bird flu in five statesAgriculture Minister Akinwumi Adesina said the first cases were confirmed on a commercial farm in the northern city of Kano and at a live bird market in Lagos State on January 8. "While we quickly confirmed that the cases were due to H5, we could not at the time determine the biotype. We have now confirmed that the cases were due to the H5N1 virus," he added. "We are taking all measures necessary to ensure that public safety is protected and that the poultry industry is not significantly affected by the spread of the bird flu." Adesina told reporters in Abuja that the five states involved were Lagos and Ogun in the southwest, Delta and Rivers in the south and Kano in the north. Fifteen commercial farms and nine live bird markets were affected. "As at today January 21, 2015, a total of 139,505 birds have been associated with bird flu exposures, with 22,173 (15 percent) mortality recorded," he said. Kano was the worst affected, with 103,445 bird reported as exposed to infection. Of those nearly 16,000 had died, he added. The H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus has killed more than 400 people worldwide since it first appeared in 2003, most of them in southeast Asia. But Adesina said there was "no cause for alarm" and "we are not in a state of any epidemic". The risk to humans was small, he said, but urged enhanced hygiene procedures to be taken. "I can assure you that Nigeria is managing the recent outbreak with strong determination, purposefulness and aggressiveness," he added. Biosecurity measures introduced included comprehensive surveillance of poultry farms across the country, quarantine and decontamination of outbreak sites, he said. |
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Nigeria H5N1 bird flu now in 7 states, suspected in 140,000 birds: ministerABUJA Thu Jan 22, 2015 6:33am EST (Reuters) - An outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in Nigeria has spread to 21 commercial farms in seven different states, with more than 140,000 birds having been exposed to the virus, the agriculture minister said on Thursday. Authorities said the deadly virus had arrived in Lagos, in the southwest, and Kano, in the north, last week. Agriculture Minister Akinwumi Adesina said it had now spread to five other states across the country: Ogun, Delta, Rivers, Edo and Plateau. Around 100,000 of the birds exposed were in Kano, Adesina said. "All the farms have been quarantined and decontaminated. Other locations in Ikorodu, Ojo and Lagos Mainland have already been quarantined, while awaiting confirmation," he said. "Nigeria will successfully control the bird flu outbreak. We have successfully controlled it in the past," he added. Africa's most populous country and biggest economy was the continent's first country to detect bird flu in 2006, when chicken farms were found to have the H5N1 strain. In 2007, it reported its first human death from the disease. H5N1 bird flu first infected humans in 1997 in Hong Kong. It has since spread from Asia to Europe and Africa and has become entrenched in poultry in some countries, causing millions of poultry infections and several hundred human deaths. (Reporting by Felix Onuah; Writing by Tim Cocks; Editing by Alison Williams and Dominic Evans) |
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