- BH : H5N1 (Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza- HPAI) outbreak / Africa / South Africa [0:0]
- EH : Mysterious disease / Asia / India [0:0]
- BH : Jellyish invasion / North-America / USA [0:0]
- EH : Unidentified Viral Fever / Asia / India [0:0]
BH : H5N1 (Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza- HPAI) outbreak / Africa / South Africa [0:0]
Posted: 15 Nov 2011 03:55 AM PST
GLIDE Number: BH-20111115-33056-ZAF
Date / time: 15/11/2011 11:54:10 [UTC]
Event: Biological Hazard
Name of Hazard: H5N1 (Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza- HPAI) outbreak
Area: Africa
Country: South Africa
State/County: MultiStates
Description:The South African veterinary authorities have reported three outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in the Eastern Cape and Western Cape provinces. The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) received follow-up report no. 8 yesterday, 14 November, wherein it was discovered that the causal agent has been identified as H5N2 serotype. The outbreaks took place in several commercial ostrich farms. A total of 1760 ostriches were found susceptible to the outbreaks, out of which 96 cases were identified. No deaths were recorded. However, 414 birds were slaughtered. According to the OIE, the farms tested positive on serology during routine surveillance, but tested negative on PCR and no virus could be found. Diagnosis was only confirmed after several follow-up PCR tests. South Africa only reports outbreaks on confirmation on PCR tests. Initially no clinical signs or mortalities were seen. Stamping out in positive farms is taking place. The source of the outbreak remains inconclusive.
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EH : Mysterious disease / Asia / India [0:0]
Posted: 15 Nov 2011 03:43 AM PST
GLIDE Number: EH-20111115-33055-IND
Date / time: 15/11/2011 11:39:39 [UTC]
Event: Epidemic Hazard
Name of Hazard: Mysterious disease
Area: Asia
Country: India
State/County: State of Bihar
City: Shekhpura
Description:The outbreak of a mysterious disease has created panic among residents of Shekhpura village in Surat district. More than 80 people have been stricken by it and one woman has lost her life. The district health department has sprung into action after learning about the outbreak. The, disease, which surfaced a month back, has symptoms to those of chikungunya but blood reports fail to confirm the disease. It has affected one member of every family in a village with a population of 1,500. Pravin Godhia, sarpanch of the village said, "Infected persons complain of high fever and acute pain in joints. The first case was detected in Patel Falia before it spread to the entire village. We have informed health officials, but apart from routine checking and distributing medicines, nothing much has been done." According to Patel, local doctors are unable to trace the disease as blood reports have been inconclusive. While villagers are worried about the mysterious disease, panic spread after a woman suffering from the disease died while undergoing treatment at a private hospital on Sunday morning. The woman identified as Ila Patel, 34, is a resident of Patel Falia. She was suffering from the disease for the past two weeks. "Ila was suffering from viral infection with certain symptoms of dengue. Other patients from the village also have the same symptoms. Dengue might have broken out in the village," said Suresh Chabbra, the doctor who was treating Ila. Following the death, the district health department rushed a team of doctors to the village. Officials from the malaria department also visited the village and took blood samples of infected persons. The samples have been sent to the New Civil Hospital for further tests. At present, antibiotics are being distributed in the village.
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BH : Jellyish invasion / North-America / USA [0:0]
Posted: 14 Nov 2011 08:01 PM PST
GLIDE Number: BH-20111115-33048-USA
Date / time: 15/11/2011 04:00:10 [UTC]
Event: Biological Hazard
Name of Hazard: Jellyish invasion
Area: North-America
Country: USA
State/County: State of North Carolina
City: Wrightsville Beach
Description:Tourist season is kaput at area beaches, but that hasn't stopped one group from swarming the shoreline en masse. For about a week, the sand at Wrightsville Beach has been littered with dozens of slimy marooned jellyfish. The moon jellies – thick, flat and transparent, resembling round plastic bags filled with water – have been washing ashore consistently for days, their shiny bodies dotting the sand for miles. Last week, it was hundreds at a time. But as of Monday, only about 40 remained, according to Mike Vukelich, the beach town's Public Works director. The influx of invertebrates is an odd sight, but according to local biologists, it isn't cause for concern. "It's a fairly common occurrence," said Joe Pawlik, a marine biologist at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, who specializes in invertebrates. "But people tend to always be surprised at how abundant they are when it happens again." Typically, jellyfish are most prevalent in North Carolina waters in early spring and late fall, which is when they tend to wash ashore in greater numbers, according to Matt Babineau, an aquarist technician with the N.C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher. "Moon jellyfish have a polyp stage and a medusa stage," Babineau said. "The polyps make new, free-swimming jellies called medusas in early spring and early summer. When they're in their adult form, it's late summer and fall, and they just happen to be in our waters at the time."
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EH : Unidentified Viral Fever / Asia / India [0:0]
Posted: 14 Nov 2011 10:01 PM PST
GLIDE Number: EH-20111113-33027-IND
Date / time: 13/11/2011 06:55:08 [UTC]
Event: Epidemic Hazard
Name of Hazard: Unidentified Viral Fever
Area: Asia
Country: India
State/County: State of Maharashtra
City: Pune
Description:An unknown virus showing identical symptoms of dengue and chikungunya has affected a large number of people in the city, leaving virologists flummoxed. Blood samples examined so far have failed to identify the virus at the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune. A team from the NIV recently visited the city areas, where the disease with the symptom of high fever was reported in the last few days, and took some blood samples to NIV. "No conclusive evidence has been found in the blood tests about the nature of the virus even as the patients have been showing identical symptoms of either dengue or chikungunya," according to sources in the School of Tropical Medicine here. Though it has been widely believed in the medical circle that the high fever and related complications like acute joint pain are related to vector-borne, it has not been proved by the Institute of cholera and enteric diseases (NICED). Sources said there was a proposal with the NIV to send the blood samples to the World Health Organisation's (WHO) reference laboratory for final diagnosis.
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