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INDIA: 30,000 Tested/Pigeons fall & die
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    Posted: February 21 2006 at 6:49am
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060221/india_nm/india237678

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Bird flu spreads, thousands tested in India
Tue Feb 21, 2006 (excerpt)

"About 500 people have walked into makeshift medical camps in Navapur
to get checked for cough and cold since Monday evening," said T.P. Doke,
health director of the western state of Maharashtra.

Doke said authorities had completed a door-to-door search in Navapur
where 30,000 people had been examined. Another Maharashtra state
official said about 300,000 birds have been culled so far with tens of
thousands more to be killed.'


http://in.today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=topNe ws&storyID=2006-02-21T191919Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-23767 8-1.xml
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Something obviously has them worried in India.   I haven't heard of any other door to door searches in other countries on this sort of scale.   30,000 residents in a few days?   There is a lot happening in India right now.....
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MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF PIGEONS CAUSES PANIC

STAR of MYSORE (online)

Bird flu feared

Madikeri, Karnataka, Feb. 21 (UNI)- Around 15 pigeons died in the
regulated market yard at Kushalnagar here yesterday, causing panic in
the wake of the bird flu fear gripping the country.

Residents gathered before the RMC yard as the birds died mysteriously.
They fear that bird flu might have hit the town.

Samples have been taken for the veterinary department to take action.

The Deputy Commissioner has convened an emergency meeting
tomorrow to discuss the precautionary measures to be initiated to avoid
bird flu.



http://www.starofmysore.com/main.asp?type=news&item=8808
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Britain had had a contingency plan in place for three-
and-a-half years and was well prepared. "We are appealing to poultry
keepers to be ready to house their birds should such an order be issued,
which would happen if there were there an outbreak to be found in this
country."


John Oxford, professor of virology at Barts hospital,
London, said the likelihood of a human avian flu
pandemic is "high and within a span of, say, 18 months".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/birdflu/story/0,,1713623,00.html?g usrc=rss
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Bird flu terror in MP village as flying pigeons fall
and die


February 21, 2006
 
Bird flu terror prevailed after about 25 pigeons and crows suddenly died
this afternoon at this district's Madeyapura village.

The flying birds fell to the ground, writhed briefly and then died. Two
Veterinary Services department employees collected two pigeons'
carcasses that were being conveyed to a Bhopal-based laboratory.
Meanwhile, district CMO K M Ojha said that government orders were
received for exercising additional alertness.

Bhind district adjoins Uttar Pradesh where 1,000 poultry died yesterday in
Etawah district.

http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=255855&c at=Health
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8 fresh human cases suspected as culling
continues

Press Trust of India

Navapur (Maharashtra), February 21, 2006

In fresh suspected cases of bird flu, eight persons were admitted to a
hospital.

Health workers on Tuesday culled more than 1.5 lakh chickens and
destroyed an equal number of eggs.

As the culling operation continued within the three km area with only
50,000 birds remaining to be eliminated, the authorities decided to
extend the area of the exercise up to 10 km radius of Navapur covering
organised and unorganised sectors bringing in its sweep remaining six
lakh chickens.

The culling of over 60,000 chickens in Uchal taluka of Surat district of
Gujarat near Navapur was completed after which authorities turned their
focus on bird feed imported by poultry farmers to ascertain if they were
infected.

The new patients with symptoms of suspected avian influenza were
admitted to isolation ward of the sub district hospital on Monday
following the door-to-door medical check, taking the total number of
patients under observation in the ward to 11, Civil Surgeon Dr MV Munde
said.

"There are eleven patients now admitted in the isolated ward for
suspected bird flu, including eight who were admitted on Monday
following door-to-door survey and three others were admitted on
Sunday," Munde said.

The blood samples of all these people were sent to National Institute of
Virology in Pune for testing and reports are expected in three days, he
added.

The three patients, who were admitted on Sunday, were those in contact
with the Ganesh Sonar who died in Surat last week and two of his family
members, Munde said.

Expediting culling operations, ten earth moving machines were pressed
into service to help burial of the birds.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1631996,001300820000. htm
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The projected innocense of the Government of India is insane!

They have had birds die all across the country for half a year now.  Initially it was wild birds. Then the pigs started dying. Then the cows started dying by the hundreds.  They took hundreds of samples that they said they were sending off to laboratories to be tested, but there NEVER was a published report of what was killing the cows or pigs or birds.  When the poultry started dying three months ago they initially claimed that it was Newcastles (as did every other country in denial).

Coverup!  Coverup!  Coverup!
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I thought Newcastle's was a bird disease? I didn't think anything else could get it.
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Newindpress.com Feb 22

"About 500 people have walked into makeshift medical
camps in Navapur (town) to get checked for cough and cold since Monday
evening," said T.P. Doke, Maharashtra's health director.

"We collected 46 new blood samples and throat swabs and have sent them
for testing."


http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEH2006022109345 1&Page=H&Title=Top+Stories&Topic=%2D447&
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More people are being quarantined in India - 12 quarantined in Navapur and 3 under observation in Vaira.

http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/s1575390.htm
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