Volume 13, Number 10—October 2007
Dispatch
Multifocal Avian Influenza (H5N1) Outbreak
Ran D. Balicer*†
, Shmuel Reznikovich†, Elyakum Berman‡, Michael Pirak‡, Amnon Inbar‡, Shimon Pokamunski‡, and Itamar Grotto*†
, Shmuel Reznikovich†, Elyakum Berman‡, Michael Pirak‡, Amnon Inbar‡, Shimon Pokamunski‡, and Itamar Grotto*†Table 1
Confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) outbreaks in Israel*
| Focus ID | District | Poultry type | Biosecurity standards | Date (2006) |
Epidemiologic links (identifiers) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Increased no. deaths | Report | Diagnosis | Culling | FS | SH | Vet. | |||||
| A | Southern | Meat type turkeys | Normal | Mar 14 | Mar 15 | Mar 16 | Mar 17 | A | A,B | A | |
| B | Southern | Meat type turkeys | Normal | Mar 14 | Mar 16 | Mar 16 | Mar 18 | B | A | B | |
| C | Southern | Meat type turkeys | Normal | Mar 15 | Mar 16 | Mar 17 | Mar 20 | A | B | A | |
| D | Jerusalem | Meat type turkeys | Normal | Mar 15 | Mar 16 | Mar 17 | Mar 18 | A | A | D | |
| E | Southern | Broilers | Normal | Mar 13 | Mar 19 | Mar 19 | Mar 21 | A,C | C | E | |
| F | Southern | Heavy breeders | High | Mar 19 | Mar 19 | Mar 19 | Mar 21 | D | * | F | |
| G | Jehuda and Samaria | Meat type turkeys | Normal | Mar 21 | Mar 21 | Mar 22 | Mar 23 | D | * | G | |
| H | Jerusalem | Heavy breeders | High | Mar 28 | Mar 28 | Mar 28 | Mar 30 | A | * | E | |
| I | Southern | Meat type turkeys | Normal | Mar 30 | Mar 31 | Mar 31 | Apr 1 | A | * | B | |
*No slaughtering took place in the 30 days before or during the outbreak period. ID, identifier; FS, feed supplier; SH, slaughterhouse; Vet., veterinarian.
