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Viewing cable 06ABUJA931, APRIL 24 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE

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06ABUJA931 2006-04-25 17:46 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Abuja
This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 ABUJA 000931 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
USDA FOR FAS/OA, FAS/DLP, FAS/ICD AND FAS/ITP 
USDA ALSO FOR APHIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI AVIANFLU
SUBJECT: APRIL 24 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE 
 
REF:  ABUJA 659 
1. (SBU) Summary.  The GON is losing its sense of urgency on 
AI.  The GON appears to be moving toward adopting the line 
that Nigeria's AI crisis is more or less over.  Lack of 
reporting on new outbreaks, previously attributable to weak 
surveillance, more recently appears also to be due to 
deliberate suppression of new information concerning 
outbreaks, be various federal and state level officials. 
The GON's AI public-education campaign has faded away and 
needs reinvigoration.  AI has spread to 13 of Nigeria's 36 
states and to the Federal Capital Territory.  At least 758 
farms/premises have been affected, and of poultry on 
affected farms, 288,662 died of AI and 414,403 were culled. 
Nigeria's upcoming rainy season, with its wetter and cooler 
climate, could lead to a resurgence of AI, because the virus 
fares worst in the country's current hot and dry weather. 
End summary. 
 
2. (SBU) The Government of Nigeria (GON) is losing its sense 
of urgency on the avian influenza (AI).  Nigeria's AI Crisis 
Management Center last issued a "news bulletin" on April 4. 
The GON's AI public-education campaign has faded away and 
needs reinvigoration.  The GON appears to be moving toward 
adopting the line that Nigeria's AI crisis is more or less 
over. Some officials have declared that have been no new 
outbreaks in recent weeks. In fact, new outbreaks Mission 
personnel have heard of new outbreaks in Kano, Plateau and 
Bauchi states. In a visit to the Veterinary Lab in Vom, the 
Ag Attache got the impression that lab staff were under 
pressure to delay or with hold the release of information on 
recent test results.  No results have been reported for a 
number of suspected outbreaks.  The consensus is that small 
farmers are not reporting outbreaks, but eat any sick or 
dying birds. It may be true that the number of outbreaks has 
dropped off in recent weeks.  Unofficial vaccination 
probably has reduced outbreaks in commercial flocks while 
the recent very hot dry weather is unfavorable to the spread 
of the virus. With the arrival late last weeks of the rainy 
season, with its wetter and cooler climate, there could be a 
resurgence of AI outbreaks. 
 
3. (U) As currently reported, AI has spread to 13 of 
Nigeria's 36 states and to the Federal Capital Territory. 
At least 758 farms/premises have been affected in 30 local- 
government areas (LGAs), and culling was carried out in 33 
LGAs.  As of April 11, of chickens, ostriches, ducks, 
pigeons, turkeys, and geese on affected farms, 288,662 died 
of AI and 414,403 were culled, according to the United 
Nations/Nigeria.  The GON so far has paid N107,639,866 
(about USD 841,000) in compensation to poultry farmers.  But 
according to the GON, these payments largely have gone to 
big commercial poultry farmers (58 farmers in Kano State, 59 
farmers in Kaduna State, and 13 farmers in Plateau State). 
 
4. (U) The agricultural attache led on April 12 a video 
conference on bird vaccinations with the U.S. Department of 
Agriculture/Washington and GON, UN, and U.S. Mission 
officials in Abuja.  The group heard from top U.S. 
vaccination experts, both government and private, about the 
types of vaccines available, as well as case studies of 
countries that used bird vaccine and the lessons learned. 
The conference's objective was to encourage the GON to 
employ vaccination as one of the tools to combat the spread 
of AI.  The GON, however, had valid concerns about poultry 
inoculations and later decided not to use bird vaccine. 
Nigerian commercial poultry farmers' current widespread but 
unapproved bird inoculations will render surveillance of AI 
more difficult, because of the vaccine's unmonitored 
presence in poultry. 
 
5. (U) Two USAID/Nigeria officers and an Abuja economic 
officer attended the USAID Africa-wide avian flu conference 
in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on April 4-6.  They sought to 
convey to other attendees the difficulties Nigeria has 
encountered so far in combating AI. 
 
6. (SBU) The donor group under UN leadership has prepared a 
document to look at the first three months of AI in Nigeria 
and to provide recommendations for action in the next three 
months. A joint UN/USAID/CDC delegation plans to meet with 
the Ministers of Agriculture, Health and Information to 
raise concerns about fading GON focus on the AI problem. 
Among other things, USAID and the UN are working on a 
proposal for a joint GON/Donor operation center to manage 
the response to the AI epidemic and involve the states more 
directly in the response. 
FUREY