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Mon, Mar 14th, 2011 6:27 pm BdST



Dhaka, Mar 14 (bdnews24.com) — The first case of human infection of avian influenza or bird flu this year has been detected, confirms the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR).


IEDCR director Mahmudur Rahman told bdnews24.com that the human infection was confirmed on Monday after testing the samples of saliva and nasal discharge of a 13-month-old girl running temperature, who visited an influenza surveillance centre recently.


The surveillance centre is run jointly by the IEDCR and International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases and Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), according to him.


Proper treatment of the patient had already been ensured, the IEDCR director said.

http://www.bdnews24.com/details.php?id=189801&cid=2

A 13-month-old girl was detected with bird flu virus in the capital yesterday.

The minor girl of the city's Kamalapur area was taken to the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) with fever where doctors found “mild symptoms” of the virus in her body, said IEDCR Director Mahmudur Rahman.

This is the second case of human infection of bird flu, also known as avian influenza (H5N1), in the country.

The girl, however, is not having any serious breathing problem, which is normally the case.

The symptom is so mild that it has been detected because of the extensive surveillance, Mahmudur said, adding that proper treatment of the girl has been ensured.

"She is fine now and will recover soon."

The first human infection was detected on May 22, 2008. Also in the capital, it was a 15-month-old boy who fully recovered after treatment at the IEDCR.

The IEDCR director advised to take precautionary measures including properly washing hands and avoiding infected chickens, as the virus affected the poultry firms in the country in the last several months

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H5N1 Confirmation Delays in Bangladesh Increase Concerns
Recombinomics Commentary 16:24
May 23, 2008

The toddler became ill in January this year, and has since made a full recovery, said Hartl. Although the health authorities in Bangladesh reported the suspected case straight away, it took time for a sample from the baby to be sent and tested in the US, he said.

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H5N1 Confirmed in Child in Dhaka Bangladesh
Recombinomics Commentary 14:53
May 22, 2008

The boy from a slum in the capital Dhaka 'has survived. He has been quarantined and his condition has improved,' Mr Rahman said. 'Although there is no farm in the neighbourhood we suspect that he got the illness after his family bought chickens from a farm,' he said.

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In Bangladesh, an H5N1 infection was confirmed today in a 13-month-old girl in Dhaka, the capital, according to a report from bdnews24.com, citing the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research. The case is the first in the country this year, the story said.

The WHO has confirmed only one Bangladeshi H5N1 case at this point, in a 16-month-old boy in 2008. His case was not fatal.

The girl was said to be "out of danger." The story did not list her possible source of exposure to the virus, but a series of H5N1 outbreaks in poultry have been reported in Bangladesh in recent weeks.

The WHO's global count of H5N1 cases, which does not yet include the Bangladesh case, stands at 532, including 315 deaths.

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Dhaka, Mar 14 (bdnews24.com) — The first case of human infection of avian influenza or bird flu this year has been detected in Dhaka, confirms the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR).

IEDCR director Mahmudur Rahman told bdnews24.com that the human infection was confirmed on Monday after testing the samples of saliva and nasal swab of a 13-month-old girl running temperature, who visited an influenza surveillance centre recently.

The surveillance centre is run jointly by the IEDCR and International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases and Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), he said.

Family members of the child were also examined, said the IEDCR director, adding that the minor girl, undergoing treatment in IEDCR supervision, was out of danger.

IEDCR was also examining the areas where the child visited with her parents this year, Mahmud said.

He informed that it was the second case of avian influenza (H5N1) in humans in the country.

Bird flu was detected in a 16-month-old child from the same area in 2008 and health department disclosed it September that year.

The IEDCR director, however, urged everyone not to panic for this. "There is nothing to panic as the degree of infections in the girl is very low," he said.

Frequent bird flu outbreaks in the poultry farms at different places in the country earlier stoked fears of a serious health threat to Bangladeshis.

"The virus (H5N1) can pass on to humans from poultry any time given the present situation. It's a public health concern," says Dr ASM Alamgir, an influenza expert with the World Health Organisation's Dhaka office.

He says in areas currently experiencing avian influenza outbreaks in poultry, the practice of marketing live birds may pose a significant risk to the people involved.

"Even people should try to avoid coming into close contact with pigeons and crows unnecessarily, as lab tests found the presence of H5N1 in crows during the mass death in 2008 in Dhaka and Chittagong."

He suggests people consume well-cooked poultry products and maintain bio-security in farms.

Avian flu has so far killed 306 people out of 518 infected in 15 countries and most of these cases have been linked to close contact with infected poultry or their secretions.

Bangladesh can be a hot spot for emerging infectious and costly diseases such as bird flu because of population growth and movement, urbanisation, changes in food production and other factors, researches say.

IEDCR advises doctors to take history of exposure to sick poultry while seeing patients with serious respiratory illness, who might have contracted the deadly strain of human avian influenza virus.

Livestock experts say maintaining bio-security in poultry farms is the key to stave off the avian influenza that also brings colossal damage to the poultry industry with each strike.

The world's first outbreak of bird flu among humans occurred in Hong Kong in 1997, when it claimed six lives. That outbreak was linked to chickens and classified as H5N1.

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The first case of human infection of avian influenza or bird flu this year has been detected in Bangladesh, the country's disease surveillance agency reported Monday.


The director of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), Dr. Mahmudur Rahman, said the human infection was confirmed on Monday after testing samples of saliva and nasal discharge of a 13-month-old girl with fever who ha recently visited an influenza surveillance center.

The surveillance center is run jointly by the IEDCR and the International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases and Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B).

Infectious disease specialists are providing proper treatment to the child patient, according to bdnews24.com.

"Bird flu" refers to an illness caused by any of many different strains of influenza viruses that have adapted to a specific host.

Avian influenza, also known as avian flu, and commonly bird flu, refers to "influenza caused by viruses adapted to birds," according to Wikipedia, an online knowledge portal.

While its most highly pathogenic strain (H5N1) had been spreading throughout Asia since 2003, Avian Influenza reached Europe in 2005, and the Middle East as well as Africa the following year.




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BANGLADESH: Bird flu outbreaks up sharply in 2011
11 Mar 2011 12:38

Source: Content partner // IRIN


DHAKA, 9 March 2011 (IRIN) - Outbreaks of H5N1 bird flu among poultry in Bangladesh - already three times higher this year than the same period last year - have caused “serious concern” for the authorities.

“We are undertaking heavy surveillance at farms and teams are supervising markets to prevent sick chickens from being sold,” Director-General of the Department of Livestock Mohammad Ashraf Ali told IRIN.

The avian flu death toll may mount given how such outbreaks typically occur up to June, said the chief technical adviser for the Food and Agriculture Organization, Mat Yamage.

But reports of increases may not be a bad thing, he noted. “One hypothesis [for the increased number of outbreaks], though unconfirmed, is that farmers are more willing to report bird flu because the rate of compensation more than doubled this year. This is a positive development, as farmers generally no longer opt to sell sick poultry.”

Ashraf said the loss [ http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportID=77223 ] to farmers was still being estimated; he was reluctant to specify precise compensation levels per bird.



Yamage said he could not give a figure for compensation because it depended on the type of bird and its age, adding: "It won't be possible to calculate the total losses suffered by the poultry industry until much later. There are also secondary effects, such as a loss of consumer confidence."

A compensation figure of US$2.8 per bird has been mentioned in some areas. [ http://theindependentbd.com/national/37 ... ingly.html ]

While the government has trained farmers how to prevent the spread of H5N1, still worrying is how farmers may not be practising “bio-security”, such as using solid fences and nets to quarantine infected flocks, and disinfecting footwear, said Yamage.

“Bangladesh has a very high population density - and as every backyard farm [ http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportID=83265 ] has poultry, it’s very easy for the virus to spread from one backyard to another,” said Ashraf.

Since the beginning of the year, 200,000 birds have been culled in 92 outbreaks. About two million birds have been culled since the first outbreak in 2007.

Bird flu was first detected in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, in March 2007 [ http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportID=75318 ] and one human case was reported in May 2008.

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AVIAN INFLUENZA, HUMAN (25): BANGLADESH (DHAKA)
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Date: Mon 14 Mar 2011
Source: bdnews24.com [edited]
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The 1st case of human infection of avian influenza [A/H5N1 virus
infection] or bird flu this year [2011] has been detected in Dhaka,
confirms the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research
(IEDCR).

IEDCR director Mahmudur Rahman told bdnews24.com that the human
infection was confirmed on Monday [14 mar 2011] after testing the
samples of saliva and nasal swab of a 13-month-old girl running a
temperature, who visited an influenza surveillance centre recently.
The surveillance centre is run jointly by the IEDCR and International
Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases and Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), he
said.

Family members of the child were also examined, said the IEDCR
director, adding that the girl, undergoing treatment in IEDCR
supervision, was out of danger. IEDCR was also examining the areas
where the child visited with her parents this year [2011], the
director said.

He informed that it was the 2nd case of avian influenza (H5N1) in
humans in the country. Bird flu was detected in a 16-month-old child
from the same area in 2008 and the health department disclosed it
September that year.

The IEDCR director, however, urged everyone not to panic. "There is
nothing to panic as the degree of infection in the girl is very low,"
he said.

Frequent bird flu outbreaks in poultry farms in different places in
the country earlier stoked fears of a serious health threat to
Bangladeshis. "The virus (H5N1) can pass on to humans from poultry any
time given the present situation. It's a public health concern," says
Dr ASM Alamgir, an influenza expert with the World Health
Organisation's Dhaka office. He says in areas currently experiencing
avian influenza outbreaks in poultry, the practice of marketing live
birds may pose a significant risk to the people involved.

"Even people should try to avoid coming into close contact with
pigeons and crows unnecessarily, as lab tests found the presence of
H5N1 in crows during the mass death in 2008 in Dhaka and Chittagong."
He suggests people consume well-cooked poultry products and maintain
bio-security in farms.

Avian flu has so far killed 306 people out of 518 infected in 15
countries and most of these cases have been linked to close contact
with infected poultry or their secretions.

Bangladesh can be a hot spot for emerging infectious and costly
diseases such as bird flu because of population growth and movement,
urbanisation, changes in food production, and other factors,
researches say. IEDCR advises doctors to take history of exposure to
sick poultry while seeing patients with serious respiratory illness,
who might have contracted the deadly strain of human avian influenza
virus.

Livestock experts say maintaining bio-security in poultry farms is the
key to stave off the avian influenza that also brings colossal damage
to the poultry industry with each strike. The world's 1st outbreak of
bird flu among humans occurred in Hong Kong in 1997, when it claimed 6
lives. That outbreak was linked to chickens and classified as H5N1.

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[This is only the 2nd human case of avian influenza (H5N1) in humans
to have been recorded in Bangladesh. The previous case was a
16-month-old child from the same area in 2008. Both this infection and
the previous case involved young children and appear to have been
mild, detected during routine influenza surveillance. Confirmation by
WHO is awaited.

The HealthMap/ProMED-mail interactive map of Bangladesh can be
accessed at <http://healthmap.org/r/0AzS>. - Mod.CP]

[see also:
2008
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Avian influenza, human (50): Bangladesh, WHO 20080529.1740
Avian influenza, human (49): Bangladesh, WHO 20080525.1718
Avian influenza, human (48): Bangladesh 20080523.1704]
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