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Viewing cable 08KOLKATA136, BIRD FLU SPREADS TO NEW AREAS IN TRIPURA

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08KOLKATA136 2008-04-28 17:00 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Consulate Kolkata
VZCZCXRO9970
PP RUEHBI RUEHCI RUEHRN
DE RUEHCI #0136 1191700
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 281700Z APR 08
FM AMCONSUL KOLKATA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 1981
INFO RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK PRIORITY 0065
RHMFIUU/CDR USPACOM HONOLULU HI
RUEHCI/AMCONSUL KOLKATA 2419
RUEHNE/AMEMBASSY NEW DELHI PRIORITY 1856
RUEHBI/AMCONSUL MUMBAI 0863
RUEHCG/AMCONSUL CHENNAI PRIORITY 0858
RUEHKA/AMEMBASSY DHAKA PRIORITY 0577
RUEHGO/AMEMBASSY RANGOON PRIORITY 0427
RUEHBJ/AMEMBASSY BEIJING PRIORITY 0152
RUEHRC/DEPT OF AGRICULTURE USD FAS WASHINGTON DC
RUEAUSA/DEPT OF HHS WASHINGTON DC
RUEHPH/CDC ATLANTA GA
RUEHRN/USMISSION UN ROME PRIORITY 0030
RUEHGV/USMISSION GENEVA PRIORITY 0105
UNCLAS KOLKATA 000136 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPT PLS PASS APHIS, HHS AND CDC 
ROME FOR FAO 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KFLU TBIO EAGR SENV AMED CASC IN BG
SUBJECT: BIRD FLU SPREADS TO NEW AREAS IN TRIPURA 
 
REF: A) KOLKATA 128, B) KOLKATA 111 
 
1. (SBU) SUMMARY: The H5N1 virus has spread to areas another 
village in Tripura's two AI-affected districts.  On the basis of 
outbreak location maps, Tripura officials and post contacts 
suggest -- off-the-record -- that the infection arrived from 
neighboring Bangladesh.  The state government is working to 
contain the infection through culling, compensation and 
sanitization.  Tripura's Principal Secretary in the Animal 
Resources Development (ARD) Department favors outsourcing of 
culling operations so that his government can focus on community 
awareness building and rehabilitation activities for poultry 
owners who have lost their birds.  END COMMENT. 
 
2. (U) Avian influenza has spread to new areas in Tripura. On 
April 19, samples from Mohanpur village in West Tripura district 
tested positive for H5N1 (Reftel A).  The village is located 
near the India-Bangladesh international border, about 20 miles 
Northwest of state capital Agartala.  On April 24, Rapid 
Response Teams (RRT) from Tripura's ARD department culled 4,200 
poultry in the area.  By April 29, ARD says they will have 
culled about 60,000 birds. 
 
3. (U) In addition to Mohanpur, samples sent to Bhopal from 
Nadilagh village, also in W. Tripura district, tested positive 
for H5N1.  Tripura ARD Principal Secretary Dr. U Venkateshwarlu 
told Post that culling began on April 26.  On April 25, Tripura 
ARD convened a meeting to estimate the number of birds to be 
culled at Nadilagh and adjoining areas.  These villages are 
located about 10 miles Southwest of Agartala, close to the 
India-Bangladesh border.  The UN Food and Agricultural 
Organization (FAO) has sent an expert to Tripura to assess the 
outbreak. 
 
4. (SBU) Despite a quick response after the first outbreak in 
three villages (Kamalpur, Malaya and Tilagang) in the North 
Tripura district on April 7 (reftel b), the H5N1 virus seems to 
be spreading in Tripura.  Venkateshwarlu admitted that close 
cultural and economic ties between people in India and 
Bangladesh were making it difficult to restrict cross-border 
movement of people and poultry.  He said in all the locations, 
the virus was detected in samples collected during routine 
surveillance efforts. In Kamalpur village (N. Tripura district), 
only one set of samples out of seven tested at the national lab 
tested positive. In Nadilagh village (W. Tripura district) also, 
only one set out of eight sets tested positive. "As we know the 
locations with negative results, we have an idea of how the 
virus is spreading. So far it has been a sporadic outbreak, with 
H5N1-positive locations separated by large tracts of 
H5N1-negative poultry population," said Venkateshwarlu. 
 
5. (U) Venkateshwarlu said his government had sufficient 
resources and hardware to contain the outbreak.  But the state 
government has requested an increase in financial and hardware 
assistance from the GOI.  Venkateshwarlu believes the state 
government should outsource the culling work so that its own 
resources can be deployed in post-culling rehabilitation and 
development activities.  With most of Tripura's poultry coming 
from backyard farms, mechanical culling will not be efficient, 
he added.  Tripura has so far reported no human infection. 
Observation units have been set up in village hospitals.  An 
isolation ward with ventilators and medicines has been set up at 
Agartala's G.B. Pant Hospital. 
 
6. (SBU) COMMENT: Off-the-record, Post contacts blame Bangladesh 
the H5N1 virus entering into Tripura through the 550 mile porous 
border.  Kamalpur is the Northern-most point among Tripura's 
three H5N1 hot spots.  Because the three locations are separated 
by H5N1-negative areas, they argue, the only way the virus could 
have appeared in Tripura was by crossing the border from 
infected areas in Bangladesh.  Mohanpur and Nadilagh are located 
along economic corridors that see a busy back and forth of 
people and goods, legally and illegally.  Because it is 
difficult to impose an effective ban on poultry movement across 
the border, Tripura may see more areas affected by H5N1 
outbreaks, and the finger-pointing will likely continue. 
 
JARDINE