Bird migration and AI

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AI Wild Birds Lessons Learnt Ukraine Black
Sea
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Sergei Khomenko (PhD) Kiev, UKRAINE Institute of
Zoology, NAS Ukraine khomenko_at_izan.kiev.ua
Aviemore, Scotland 26-28 June, 2007
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AI outbreaks in the backyard poultry in the Black
Sea region
As was on the 20 February 2006
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AI localities in Ukraine, 2005-06
Late April 2006 Sivash, Cormorant colony
POULTRY, ZOO
1. December 2005 January 2006, Crimea, Sivash
Lake - 34
2. February 2006,Odessa Zoo, captive collection
(LPAI?) - 1
3. June 2006, Peski - 1
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Spatial and temporal pattern of outbreaks in
poultry in Crimea, Ukraine
2005-06
Sivash Lake
First outbreak
Poultry started to die mid-October Officially
reported 1.5 month later!
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Chronology of AI epizooty in Crimea in winter
2005/06
Intensive migration of White-fronted Geese and
other waterfowl
Onsets of AI epizooty
Periods of outbreaks
Volga Delta became totally frozen and birds were
forced to move SW (Ukraine, Romania, Turkey)
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Waterbirds water human population AI
introduction risk
Are waterbirds to blame?
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WI/FAO AI missions to the Sivash Lake, Ukraine

• 21-27 April 2006, Eastern Sivash (3 sites)
• 15-24 October 2006, Eastern Sivash (4 sites)

A total of 736 birds sampled, Primarily waders
(target species Dunlin, Ruff)
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known from the Sivash - 2006
CA Station Crimean Antiplague Station
(plagustat_at_ardinvest.net)
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Official surveillance in Ukraine

• Veterinary service serology, PCR, all country,
  stochastic, hunter-based, reliability low
• Crimean Antiplague Station PCR, Crimea
  nearabouts, routine work, wildlife experts
  involved
• Odessa Antiplague Institute PCR, Odessa region,
  regular, wildlife experts, supported by 6th Navy
  (USA)

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Research surveillance projects

• WI BS Program (FAO/WCS/USAID/ GAINS) foreign
  labs, Sivash Lake, targeted mission, by wildlife
  experts
• Kharkov Institute for Clinical Veterinary
  Medicine serology, PCR, with wildlife experts,
  waders, eggs, occasionally
• UOS/OMPO foreign lab, scope ?, some Anatidae
  species, short-term

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Round year AI surveillance project, Sivash Lake
from April 2007
Anser albifrons Anas platyrhynchos Tadorna
ferruginea
Yet to be done Planned - 1000
Philmachus pugnax Calidris alpina Calidris
ferruginea Calidris minuta Limicola
falcinellus Pluvialis squatarola
Done - 1261 Yet to collect - 1250
Larus melanocephalus Larus genei Larus
cachinans Sterna hirundo Talasseus
sendvicensis Phalacrocorax carbo
All done About 1400
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Species sampled FAO/WI - 2006
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Species sampled USAID/GAINS/ WCS Apr-May 2007