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Viewing cable 07RANGOON489, BURMA AI UPDATE: NEW OUTBREAK IN RANGOON

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
07RANGOON489 2007-05-24 09:22 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Rangoon
VZCZCXRO5159
RR RUEHCHI RUEHDT RUEHHM
DE RUEHGO #0489 1440922
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 240922Z MAY 07
FM AMEMBASSY RANGOON
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 6087
INFO RUEHZS/ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS
RUEHBJ/AMEMBASSY BEIJING 1424
RUEHBY/AMEMBASSY CANBERRA 0309
RUEHKA/AMEMBASSY DHAKA 4545
RUEHLO/AMEMBASSY LONDON 1943
RUEHNE/AMEMBASSY NEW DELHI 3863
RUEHUL/AMEMBASSY SEOUL 7404
RUEHKO/AMEMBASSY TOKYO 4956
RUEHCN/AMCONSUL CHENGDU 1136
RUDKIA/AMCONSUL CHIANG MAI TH 0984
RUEHRC/DEPT OF AGRICULTURE WASHINGTON DC
RUEHPH/CDC ATLANTA GA
RUEHRC/USDA FAS WASHDC
RHHMUNA/CDR USPACOM HONOLULU HI
RHEHNSC/NSC WASHDC
UNCLAS RANGOON 000489 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR EAP/MLS; USDA FOR FAS/PECAD, FAS/CNMP, FAS/AAD; 
BANGKOK FOR USAID/RDMA: JMACARTHUR, APHIS: NCARDENAS, REO: 
JWALLER; PACOM FOR FPA 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: EAGR EAID AMED PGOV CASC TBIO KLFU BM
SUBJECT: BURMA AI UPDATE: NEW OUTBREAK IN RANGOON 
 
REF: A) RANGOON 324, B) RANGOON 315, AND PREVIOUS 
 
1. (SBU) Summary: On May 22, an outbreak of Avian Influenza 
in chickens occurred at an isolated poultry farm in Rangoon 
owned and controlled by the Burmese military.  Officials 
destroyed all the birds and disinfected the premises, but 
did not institute any controls on the transport of poultry 
in the area.  Livestock Breeding and Veterinary Department 
officials notified us, but did not confirm whether they 
would inform OIE.  No cases of human infection are 
suspected.  End summary. 
 
2. (SBU) On May 24, an advisor to the Livestock Breeding 
and Veterinary Department (LBVD) informed us that fifteen 
chickens at a farm in Saw Bwa Gyi Gone in Insein Township 
in northwest Rangoon died on May 22, and many others were 
sick.  The dead birds tested positive for H5N1 by Rapid 
Test Kit and PCR testing.  On May 23, 400 more chickens 
died.  Under the supervision of LBVD officials, farm 
workers destroyed all remaining birds, using PPEs to cull 
and bury the chickens and disinfect the area.  Altogether, 
workers destroyed approximately 800 birds. 
 
3. (SBU) The military's Rangoon Division Command owns the 
farms where it keeps broilers and layers for income 
generation.  The farm has facilities to house over 10,000 
chickens, but after the recent February-March AI outbreaks 
in Rangoon, most birds were sold off, and only about 800 
twenty-four-week-old layers remained. 
 
4. (SBU) According to our contact, because the farm is 
isolated, officials have not instituted controls on the 
movement of poultry in the area.  He did not know whether 
LBVD would notify OIE about the outbreak, and said that the 
Minister of Livestock and Fisheries would make that 
decision shortly.  This is Burma's first recurrence of AI 
in poultry since April 23, when officials lifted the 
restrictions on the transport of poultry instituted in 
response to the February-March AI outbreaks in Rangoon 
(reftels).  The advisor expressed his belief that the virus 
is still present in the city. 
 
5. (SBU) Comment: LBVD's prominent role in the response and 
quick report to us of a new AI outbreak on a military-run 
poultry farm is reassuring.  Their delay in notifying OIE 
and imposing traffic restrictions to control the latest 
case, however, is troubling.  The GOB has been unusually 
open in cooperating with international experts on AI issues 
to date, but outbreaks within the military's extensive 
poultry production facilities hit close to vested 
interests.  High level decision makers will choose whether 
to notify OIE and the public, and follow the steps that 
have been effective in responding to past outbreaks, or 
whether to allow commercial impact on military producers 
and their desire to maintain military secrecy to prevail in 
this case.  End comment. 
STOLTZ