Denmark investigates nine dead swans
15/02/2006 - 11:41:34
At least nine dead swans have been found on Danish islands in the Baltic Sea, near the German island where two birds were discovered that tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu strain.
Tests were being conducted on the birds by the Danish Institute for Food and Veterinary Research to establish the cause of death.
Today, experts from a German medical institute said preliminary tests on samples from two dead swans found yesterday on the Baltic Sea island of Ruegen were positive for H5N1. They were Germany’s first known cases of the disease.
Of the birds found dead in Denmark, five were on Falster Island, about 31 miles north-west of Ruegen, and four were on Bornholm Island, just south of the southern tip of Sweden.
The Danish Veterinary and Food Administration urged all farmers to keep poultry indoors to prevent their coming into contact with infected migratory birds. A formal ban on keeping fowl outdoors was expected in a few days, it said.
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Danish lab to test 35 birds for bird flu
Results expected Friday
Feb. 16, 2006. 10:30 AM
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Thirty-five dead birds found in Denmark will be tested for the deadly H5N1 avian flu virus that was found in northern Germany earlier this week, Danish officials said today.
"We have received 32 dead swans, a duck, a seagull and a cormorant," said Mogens Madsen, head of the Danish Institute for Food and Veterinary Research's testing lab. "They all will be tested and we expect the results to be ready Friday."
Germany's Agriculture Ministry announced today that tests have confirmed two swans found dead in northern Germany earlier this week carried the H5N1 bird flu virus.
Those swans, found on the Baltic island of Ruegen, were first known cases of the deadly strain in Germany, which borders Denmark. Further tests were being conducted at the EU reference laboratory in Britain.
In Denmark, all but one of the dead fowl were found on Danish islands in the southeastern part of the country, just north of the Ruegen island. The cormorant was found in the Vejle fjord in western Denmark and was being tested as a precaution, said Madsen.
Following the German cases, the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration on Wednesday ordered farmers with more than 100 birds to keep their poultry indoors as a precaution.
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Bird Flu Suspected In Denmark, Nine Dead Swans Found In Islands
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In Denmark, authorities say nine dead Swans have been found on Falter Island and Bornholm island. Falter Island is just 30 miles from the German island of Ruegen where bird flu infected swans were found. Both islands are in the Baltic sea.
The Danish Institute for Food and Veterinary Research are carrying out tests.
Danish poultry farmers have been told to keep all their poultry indoors by the Veterinary and Food Administration.
As bird flu spreads across Western Europe, poultry farmers are experiencing two serious problems. 1. The threat of losing their poultry to infection. 2. Crashing poultry sales. In Italy, supermarkets have reported a 90% drop in the sale of chicken.
Ornithologists say that the spread of bird flu could be accelerated when birds start migrating from Africa, where bird flu is establishing itself (Nigeria), to Europe.
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H5N1 Suspected in Denmark and Northern Poland
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February 15, 2006
Dead birds were found late yesterday and early today on Danish islands Lolland, Falster and Zealand and were sent for testing, Danish television TV2 Oest said. Ruegen is located less than 100 kilometers (62 miles) off the Danish island Bornholm and the southern Swedish coastline.
Poland will test the bodies of three dead swans found in the northern part of the country for bird flu, press agency PAP reported. The examination of the birds found in Krynica Morska, a Polish city on the Baltic coast, will be concluded tomorrow, the newswire said, citing Anna Dyksinska of the Gdansk regional veterinary office.
The above comments suggest the H5N1 confirmed in northern Germany along the Baltic coast will also be confirmed in Demark and northern Poland (see map). These swan deaths are also close to Sweden. Other countries on the southern shore of the Baltic sea include Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia,
These locations are markedly north of the outbreaks being reported in European countries near the Mediterranean Sea, but both locations raise the possibility of H5N1 migration form birds using the East Atlantic Flyway in the fall to migrate south to western Africa.
Reports from Russia in August suggest that H5N1 infections were not limited to southern Siberia, but included regions to the north as well. The Mission report from Russia descried two dozen species that were H5N1 positive, suggesting that migration from Russia covered most of Europe. However, in the fall western Europe denied H5N1 infections, which are now being reported almost hourly throughout Europe, including confirmation six EU members (Greece, Italy, Slovenia, Austria, Germany, Hungary).
H5N1 in this region is cause for concern. In 2003 there was a major outbreak of H7N7 in The Netherlands, and H5N7 reassortants have been described in Denmark. H5 from migratory birds also has sequences from Sweden, so recombination between H5 and H7 sero-types is common.
Serological studies indicated H7N7 efficiently infected humans, leading to concerns of H5N1 acquire H7 sequences leading to more efficient infections of humans. The H5N1 detected in swans in the region will soon be reinforced by H5N1 out of Africa, since H5N1 in Nigeria is suspected of migrating into the East Atlantic Flyway.
As H5N1 expands its geographical reach, new opportunities for recombination emerge, and recombinations that lead to acquisition of polymorphisms such as S227N which increase the affinity of H5N1 for human receptors is cause for concern.
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Tests done on dead birds found in southern Denmark have turned up no sign of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration said today.
Most of the 35 birds were found near the border with Germany, where authorities identified the first cases of the virus in that country earlier in the week.
Still, the administration said Denmark would continue to monitor the situation closely, and scientists warned it was only a matter of time before the virus made it to the Nordics.
“It doesn’t mean we’ll scale down the preparedness – on the contrary,” Minister for Family and Consumer Affairs Lars Barfoed said. “With the discovery in Germany of the bird flu, it is very close to us under all circumstances.”
Following the German cases, the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration on Wednesday ordered farmers with more than 100 birds to keep their poultry indoors, to prevent them from coming into contact with infected migrating birds
Flere døde svaner fundet i Danmark
Flere borgere har onsdag morgen rapporteret om døde svaner på Bornholm, Falster, Lolland og Sjælland
Jakob Rohde-Brøndum - 10:46 - 15. feb. 2006
Få timer efter de tyske myndigheder bekræftede to fugleinfluenza-tilfælde i Østersøen, har flere borgere rapporteret om døde svaner på Bornholm, Falster, Lolland og Sjælland.
Henvendelserne kom efter at Fødevareregion Øst til morgen opfordrede borgerne til at kontakte fødevaregionen, hvis de fandt døde svaner eller andefugle.
De døde svaner skal nu sendes til undersøgelse på laboratorium i Aarhus, oplyser dyrlæge Jørgen Vendelboe fra Bornholms Levnedsmiddelkontrol, til DR Bornholm.
Omkring 150 borgere har siden klokken 8 onsdag morgen ringet til Fødevareregion Ringsted og rapporteret, at de har fundet døde fugle og primært svaner, oplyser beredskabschef Svend Johansen til TV2 ØST.
På Falster er der i følge politiet fundet fire døde svaner ved Hasselø. På Lolland blev der tirsdag klokken 22 fundet en død svane nær Lalandia. Den er bragt til dyreklinikken i Maribo. Og ved Kalvehave på Sydsjælland ligger der stadig en svane 50 meter ude på isen, som politiet ikke kan komme ud til.
Det er Fødevareregionen, som koordinerer optællingen og undersøgelserne af svanerne. Det er nemlig endnu uvidst, om de mange døde svaner er døde af fugleinfluenza eller om de er døde af naturlige årsager.
Tidligt onsdag blev det konstateret, at to svaner, der er fundet døde på den tyske ø Rügen, 40 kilometer syd for Falster, er døde af viruset H5N1.
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Several dead swans were found in Denmark
Several citizens reported dead swans in Bornholm, Falster, Lolland and Sjælland Wednesday morning.
Jakob Rohde-Brøndum - 10:46 - 15. feb. 2006
Several hours after German authorities confirmed H5N1 in the Oestersoe, several citizens reported dead swans om Bornholm, Falster, Lolland and Sjælland.
The reports came after the Food Authorities East this morning urged citizens to contact them if they found dead swans or ducks.
The dead swans will be sent to a lab in Aarhus, explains veterinarian Jørgen Vendelboe from Bornholms Levnedsmiddelkontrol, to DR Bornholm.
Around 150 people have called the Food Inspection Region Operator since 8 AM and reported dead birds they found, primarily swans explains Chief Svend Johansen to TV2 ØST (Copenhagen tv).
Falster Island - 4 dead swans found close to Hasselø.
Lolland Island - 1 dead swan found close to Lalandia - deliverd to the vet clinic in Maribo.
south Sjælland Island - close to Kalvehave - there's a dead swan on the ice 50m out; police can't reach it.
The Food Authorities coordinate, count, investigate the swans. It's not clear yet if the many dead swans died of birdflu or natural causes. Early on Wednesday it was found that 2 swans found on the German island of Rügen, (40 km south of Falster), died of the H5N1 virus.
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COPENHAGEN (AFX) - Swans and other birds found dead in Denmark have been sent to laboratories for testing to determine whether they carried the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, Danish veterinary officials said.
The birds were discovered less than 100 km from a German island where the highly pathogenic version of bird flu has been detected.
'We have found four swans and two other birds in southern Jutland as well as on the island of Fyn,' veterinarian Peter Bagge of the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration said.
'These six birds have been sent to a laboratory in Aarhus (in central Denmark) for preliminary testing in order to determine whether they were infected by the H5N1 virus,' he said, adding that results were expected within 48 hours.
Other dead birds were found yesterday and early today on the Lolland, Falster and Bornholm islands, as well as on Denmark's largest island, Seeland, where the capital Copenhagen is located.
Lolland and Falster are only about 60 km from the German island of Ruegen, where swans were found to have died from the lethal H5N1 bird flu strain.
Those birds 'were collected and sent to laboratories in the respective regions for the same tests,' Bagge said.
'But there is no reason to panic, since a number of swans usually die during this time of the year,' he stressed.
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