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(Message started by: HKBWS Project on Jul 4^th, 2005, 2:59pm)

Title: More on the (domestic) goose deaths in Xinjiang
Post by HKBWS Project on Jul 4^th, 2005, 2:59pm

More on the (domestic) goose deaths in Xinjiang, NW China.

From OIE (World Organisation for Animal Health):
"Report date: 8 June 2005. Nature of diagnosis: clinical and laboratory.
Location of the outbreak: Xinjiang autonomous region,Tacheng district, Tacheng city.

Description of affected population: geese.

Total number of animals in the outbreak:

susceptible: 2,177
cases: 1,042
deaths: 460
destroyed: 13,457
slaughtered: 0

Laboratory where diagnosis was made: National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory (Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of
Agricutural Sciences).

Diagnostic tests used: RT-PCR(1) and intravenous pathogenicity index test (7 June 2005).

Causal agent: highly pathogenic avian influenza virus type H5N1. Source of agent / origin of infection: under investigation. Mode of spread: migratory birds."