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Travel Health News Digest (25 March 2007) Thailand: Avian Influenza, bird In Thailand, the Department of Livestock Development confirmed the country's 4th case of Avian Influenza outbreak in 2007. Avian Influenza virus was found in domestic chickens of a farm in the north-eastern province of Mukdahan. All poultry in the flock were culled.
(Source: ProMED-mail 20 February 2007)
Pakistan: Avian Influenza, bird In Pakistan, Avian Influenza virus had been detected in the crows received from different parts of the capital and Tarlai.
(Source: ProMED-mail 22 March 2007)
Bangladesh: Avian Influenza, bird In Bangladesh, H5N1 Avian Influenza virus had been detected in a poultry farm 25 kilometres from the capital Dhaka.
(Source: ProMED-mail 22 March 2007)
Myanmar: Avian Influenza, bird Myanmar official said that another outbreak of the deadly H5N1 Avian Influenza was found in Hmawbi Township, about 20 miles (35 km) north of the centre of Yangon. This was the 5th such outbreak this year. More than 20 000 chickens had been slaughtered. The country had reported no human H5N1 cases.
(Source: ProMED-mail 20 and 21 March 2007)
Two more cases of Avian Influenza were reported in Egypt. They were a 2-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl both from Aswan. They were hospitalised and their condition remained stable. They were exposed to sick birds. Of the 26 cases confirmed to date in Egypt, 13 had been fatal.
(Source: World Health Organization 19 and 20 March 2007)
Saudi Arabia: Avian Influenza, bird Saudi Arabia authorities reported their first outbreak of H5N1 Avian Influenza in captive birds. Laboratory tests found the strain in turkeys, parrots, peacocks and ostriches at a farm in the Eastern Province. Among some 300 people tested for infection by the disease, not one had so far tested positive.
(Source: ProMED-mail 22 March 2007)
In Kuwait, a total of 28 outbreaks of H5N1 Avian Influenza in backyard poultry were reported leading up to 13 March. Outbreak locations were reported in 5 of the 6 governorates in Kuwait. No human cases have been reported.
(Source: ProMED-mail 21 March 2007)
Nigeria: Avian Influenza, bird In northern Nigeria, Kano was worst affected by the Avian Influenza outbreak which ravaged 97 farms in the city resulting in the death or culling of at least 300 000 birds.
(Source: ProMED-mail 20 March 2007)
Burkina Faso: Meningococcal Meningitis From 1 January to 11 March 2007, the Ministry of Health of Burkina Faso reported 7 333 suspected cases of Meningococcal Meningitis including 583 deaths. Specimens from all affected areas had tested positive for Neisseria meningitidis serogroup A.
(Source: World Health Organization 19 March 2007)
In Paraguay, up to 14 March, 19 577 cases of Dengue Fever were reported, along with 46 cases of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) and 10 deaths.
In Bolivia, there have been 634 Dengue Fever cases with one death from DHF. Most cases were reported from Santa Cruz, and Beni.
Since the outbreak of Dengue Fever in Argentina 3 weeks ago, 156 people were infected. Formosa, Misiones and Salta were the provinces with most cases of Dengue Fever.
In Uruguay, the first case of Dengue Fever was confirmed. He was a 30-year-old man living in Salto.
There were 67 847 Dengue Fever cases in Brazil, of which 44 067 cases were in Mato Grosso do Sul. Of these cases in Mato Grosso do Sul, 31 000 cases were concentrated in the capital, Campo Grande, with 500 new cases reported per day. There have been 5 deaths attributed to DHF.
In Venezuela, up to 23 February, there were 9 986 cases of non-fatal Dengue Fever in this year, with 42 percent increase when compared with the same period last year. Most cases were from the states of Zulia and Lara.
(Source: ProMED-mail 20 March 2007)
The Minister of Health in Tanzania reported on 20 March that a Rift Valley Fever epidemic had killed 16 people and infected at least 100 others in the central region of Tanzania. The disease also claimed about 154 lives in less than 3 months on the border region of Kenya.
(Source: ProMED-mail 20 March 2007)
An outbreak of gastroenteritis caused by Cryptosporidium infection occurred in South Australia. There were 228 cases reported so far in 2007, compared to 52 cases in the same period last year.
(Source: ProMED-mail 21 March 2007)
[Editor¡¦s note: Cryptosporidiosis is transmitted through ingestion of faecally contaminated food or water, or from person to person via faecal-oral route].
A Measles outbreak in North Korea had affected 3 600 since November 2006. Four people died of the disease.
(Source: ProMED-mail 25 March 2007)
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