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Viewing cable 07DHAKA976, STEPS AND STUMBLES FORWARD IN BANGLADESH'S BIRD FLU

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
07DHAKA976 2007-06-17 05:08 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Dhaka
VZCZCXRO7471
RR RUEHCI
DE RUEHKA #0976/01 1680508
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 170508Z JUN 07
FM AMEMBASSY DHAKA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 4322
INFO RUEHNE/AMEMBASSY NEW DELHI 9961
RUEHKT/AMEMBASSY KATHMANDU 9133
RUEHIL/AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD 1695
RUEHLM/AMEMBASSY COLOMBO 7966
RUEHGO/AMEMBASSY RANGOON 2549
RUEHCI/AMCONSUL KOLKATA 0791
RUEHPH/CDC ATLANTA
RUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHINGTON DC//ISA/NESA
RUEKDIA/JOINT STAFF WASHINGTON DC//J2/J5
RHHMUNA/CDR USPACOM HONOLULU HI//J2/J4/J5
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 DHAKA 000976 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPARTMENT PLEASE PASS TO AIAG/HOLLIS SUMMERS, AIAG/TONY NEWTON AND 
AIAG/NICHOLAS STUDZINSKI 
DELHI PLEASE PASS TO FAS/OLIVER FLAKE 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: TBIO KFLU PREL PGOV BG
SUBJECT:  STEPS AND STUMBLES FORWARD IN BANGLADESH'S BIRD FLU 
RESPONSE 
 
REF: (A) DHAKA 776, (B) DHAKA 743, (C) DHAKA 730, (d) DHAKA 626 AND 
 
PREVIOUS 
 
1.  (SBU) SUMMARY. In early June, Dinajpur became Bangladesh's 
twelfth district to report H5 infection, but the first where local 
officials initially identified the infection in local backyard birds 
instead of in commercial poultry farms, showing that Bangladesh 
continues to refine its Avian Influenza response.  Other steps 
forward by the GOB include negotiating a five-year, US$37 million 
Avian Influenza Preparedness and Response Project with the World 
Bank, and implementing a compensation plan for culled birds.  These 
steps include some stumbles, such as reports of improper veterinary 
procedures and a lack of coordination with human health officials in 
Dinajpur, and a lack of urgency on approving USAID and Centers for 
Disease Control funds for outbreak response.  END SUMMARY. 
 
2.  (SBU) THE OUTBREAK SITUATION.  As of June 11, Dinajpur, in the 
far northwest became the twelfth and most recent district in 
Bangladesh to report an outbreak.  (See map at 
http://10.208.1.12/avian/maps/OutBrkMapJun11. pdf; post's Avian 
Influenza webpage, http://10.208.1.12/dhkavianinfluenza.htm has 
other relevant documents.)  In contrast to other H5 detections, this 
outbreak was first identified due to die offs in backyard, local 
species poultry and not at commercial poultry farms.  As a result, 
local health, police, and Bangladesh Rifles border security forces 
culled approximately 3,000 domestic chickens, pigeons, and ducks 
which local folklore often considered as not vulnerable to H5N1. 
Based on discussions with Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock 
officials, veterinary officers in Dinajpur did not properly dispose 
of the carcasses from the culling, indicating the need to continue 
reinforcing training on basic procedures.  Also, human health 
officials were not coordinated with the veterinary officials, 
demonstrating continued gaps in a complete surveillance effort and 
problems with GOB interagency cooperation. 
 
3.  (SBU) THE WORLD BANK PROJECT.  GOB and World Bank's 
International Development Association (IDA) concluded negotiations 
in early June for a five-year, two-part, US$37 million Avian 
Influenza Preparedness and Response Project.  The World Bank will 
allocate US$16 million from existing human health programs in IDA 
credits and pooled grant resources from participating donors to fund 
the Avian Influenza Component of the Health, Nutrition and 
Population Sector Program. The other, new part of the project is a 
US$21 million program focusing on enhancing prevention and 
preparedness capability, improving human pandemic and avian 
influenza prevention and control planning, including strengthening 
of disease surveillance, diagnostic capacity and laboratory 
facilities. The US$21 million budget will be funded as follows: 
US$16 million from IDA, US$3 million from the Avian Human Influenza 
Trust Grant, and US$2 million from the GOB.  In the GOB's recently 
announced budget, several avian influenza related items have 
appeared, including special projects in prevention and control 
(US$2.7 million in FY08), poultry technology development and testing 
(US$2.6 million in FY08), as well as measures continuing duty-free 
access to equipment needed in the outbreak response. 
 
4.  (SBU) COMPENSATION.  GOB has begun paying compensation to culled 
farmers on a fixed schedule: taka 70 per layer chicken, taka 60 per 
broiler, taka 15 per chick under three months, and taka 3 per egg. 
NOTE: US$1 = Taka 70 END NOTE.  At this time, funding for the 
compensation is coming from the GOB treasury, despite both USAID 
identified local currency and World Bank funds being specifically 
earmarked as available for use in compensation plans.  The GOB 
compensation scheme also includes hatchery owners and other industry 
actors committing to provide at no cost for one month to culled 
farms: day old chicks, poultry feeds, and medicines.  Industry 
representatives worked as part of the GOB committee developing these 
rates, but reports from media and USAID officers are that poultry 
farmers out in the countryside are neither satisfied with the rates 
set nor with the slow pace of distribution.  (COMMENT:  Seventy taka 
per bird is close to market rate for a one kilogram bird, but not 
for a larger three kilogram bird.  Given the problems in assessing 
culled stocks, a simplified compensation structure and tight 
controls by the GOB on releasing compensation are understandable, 
but appear to be hindering the compensation plan from becoming an 
effective tool in encouraging rapid reporting to stop the spread of 
the virus.  END COMMENT.) 
 
DHAKA 00000976  002 OF 002 
 
 
 
5.  (SBU) US AND MULTILATERAL DONOR EFFORTS.  USAID continues to 
press on completing the GOB's required bureaucratic processing on 
the proposal to use local currency funds identified as being 
available for Bird Flu response.  GOB remains interested in using 
the funds; internal obstacles are however only slowly being 
overcome.  In the same vein, the first tranche of US$375,000 from 
the Centers for Disease Control's grant to increase laboratory 
capacity and support human surveillance at the GOB's Institute for 
Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research continues to wind its way 
slowly through GOB channels. 
 
BUTENIS