From: TSS ()
Subject: Scrapie, Romania, (Follow-up report No. 4) 12/10/2007
Date: October 18, 2007 at 1:32 pm PST
Scrapie, Romania, (Follow-up report No. 4) 12/10/2007
Information received on 12/10/2007 from Dr Stefan Nicolae, Directeur Général , Direction Générale, Autorité Nationale Sanitaire Vétérinaire pour la Sécurité des Aliments (ANSVSA), Bucuresti , Romania
Summary
Report type Follow-up report No. 4
Start date 19/01/2007
Date of confirmation of event 12/06/2007
Report date 12/10/2007
Date submitted to OIE 12/10/2007
Reason for notification Reoccurrence of a listed disease
Date of previous occurrence 08/12/2006
Manifestation of disease Clinical disease
Causal agent Scrapie prion
Nature of diagnosis Laboratory (advanced)
Report pertains to Defined zone within the country
Related reports Immediate notification (13/06/2007)
Follow-up report No. 1 (09/07/2007)
Follow-up report No. 2 (18/07/2007)
Follow-up report No. 3 (31/07/2007)
Follow-up report No. 4 (12/10/2007)
New outbreaksOutbreak 1 Silistea, Silistea, BRAILA
Date of start of outbreak 19/09/2007
Outbreak status Continuing (or date resolved not submitted)
Epidemiological unit Farm
Affected animals Species Susceptible Cases Deaths Destroyed Slaughtered
Sheep 1259 2 0 0 2
Affected population non-professional holding. Two animals were sick and were slaughtered ; their heads were sent to the laboratory.
Summary of outbreaks Total outbreaks: 1
Outbreak statistics Species Apparent morbidity rate Apparent mortality rate Apparent case fatality rate Proportion susceptible removed*
Sheep 0.16% 0.00% 0.00% 0.16%
* Removed from the susceptible population either through death, destruction or slaughter
EpidemiologySource of infection Unknown or inconclusive
Epidemiological comments Control measures applied in accordance with the legislative provisions in force.
Control measuresMeasures already applied Movement control inside the country
Screening
Vaccination permitted
No treatment of affected animals
Measures to be applied None specified
Diagnostic test resultsLaboratory name and type Institute for Diagnosis and Animal Health (National laboratory)
Tests and results Species Test Test date Result
Sheep western blotting 09/10/2007 Positive
Map of outbreak locations
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http://www.oie.int/wahid-prod/public.php?page=weekly_report_index&admin=0
Greetings BSE-L members,
Confusious is confused again. Confusious ask ;
WHY does OIE not report the 5 cases of Nor-98 reported this year in the USA ???
WHY no data on OIE site on the h-BASE in Alabama and Texas in USA ???
if it's there, i cannot find it.
no wonder OIE gives favorable BSE ratings for USA, they never report nothing about it. ...
NOR-98 SCRAPIE UPDATE AUGUST 31, 2007 RISES TO 5 DOCUMENTED CASES
http://nor-98.blogspot.com/
CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE MAD COW BASE, CWD, SCRAPIE UPDATE OCT 2007
http://cjdmadcowbaseoct2007.blogspot.com/
ABSTRACTS SPORADIC CJD AND H BASE MAD COW ALABAMA AND TEXAS SEPTEMBER 2007
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:31:55 -0500
I suggest that you all read the data out about h-BASE and sporadic CJD, GSS,
blood, and some of the other abstracts from the PRION2007. ...
http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0709&L=sanet-mg&T=0&F=&S=&P=19744
*** PLEASE READ AND UNDERSTAND THE RAMIFICATIONS OF THIS !!! THE PRICE OF
POKER INDEED GOES UP. ...TSS
USA BASE CASE, (ATYPICAL BSE), AND OR TSE (whatever they are calling it
today), please note that both the ALABAMA COW, AND THE TEXAS COW, both were
''H-TYPE'', personal communication Detwiler et al Wednesday, August 22, 2007
11:52 PM. ...TSS
http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0708&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=19779
BSE BASE MAD COW TESTING TEXAS, USA, AND CANADA, A REVIEW OF SORTS
http://madcowtesting.blogspot.com/
PLEASE NOTE IN USA CJD UPDATE AS AT JUNE 2007, please note steady increase
in ''TYPE UNKNOWN''. ...TSS
1 Acquired in the United Kingdom; 2 Acquired in Saudi Arabia; 3 Includes 17
inconclusive and 9 pending (1 from 2006, 8
from 2007); 4 Includes 17 non-vCJD type unknown (2 from 1996, 2 from 1997, 1
from 2001, 1 from 2003, 4 from 2004, 3
from 2005, 4 from 2006) and 36 type pending (2 from 2005, 8 from 2006, ***
26 from 2007)
http://www.cjdsurveillance.com/pdf/case-table.pdf
confusious still confused in Baycliff, Texas 77518
TSS
