[Avian flu in Altay territory]

Abstract

The avian flu epizootia among wild waterfowl and poultry in personal farmsteads is described. In 38.9% of tests from a sectioning material from bird's mass destruction the genetic materials of a influenza virus type A (H5N1), and in 24% of tests of serum antibodies to a influenza virus type A (H5N1) in diagnostic titers are revealed. It is carried out serological monitoring among workers of integrated poultry farms and the population. Activation of epizootic process in second half of summer and is predicted by Autumn, 2006. For the prevention of distribution of disease among birds and infection of the person carrying out of a complex of the actions directed on creation of quarantine for a wild waterfowl and restriction of contacts to a poultry, and on vaccine prevention from annual 100% immunization of workers of integrated poultry farms is necessary.