Avian Influenza Disease Emergency: issue No. 21 (27/08/2004)
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Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) type H5N1 infection was confirmed in Malaysia last week, increasing to nine the number of countries where HPAI H5N1 has been confirmed. Three additional human cases have been diagnosed in Viet Nam in the past two weeks. Attention was drawn this week to reports of H5N1 detection in pigs in China during 2003, but the significance of the finding must be interpreted in the environment and conditions in which it was detected. To understand the factors related to AI epidemics and to improve the quality of diagnostic and surveillance information, FAO is launching sub-regional surveillance and diagnosis networks, the first being for Southeast Asia, with national and international partners.