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ILI surveillance report 2012.4th week (Jan 23-29, 2012) |
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Figure 1.1 Registered ILI per 10,000 population
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ANNUAL REPORT: 2010/2011 |
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Equine influenza breaks out in Mongolia |
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The Government of Mongolia has confirmed an equine influenza outbreak since the beginning of July of this year spreading in all but three provinces Bayan-Ulgii, Zavkhan and Umnugobi.
According to the information supplied to NIC, Mongolia by the Central Veterinary Laboratory (CVL), Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Light Industry, Mongolia, the causative organism of the epizootics is the influenza virus A(H3N8).
This outbreak is unusual, while equine influenza usually broke out in spring, or fall, said an official of CVL. Mongolia with more than 2 millions horses is challedged seriously by this outbreak and the Government is urged vaccination as soon as possible.
Mongolia has experienced several equine influenza outbreaks in the past few decades, the last time starting in February 2007 in Khovd province and covering the whole country till end of 2008.
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WHO has announced 2011-2012 influenza vaccine composition recommendation |
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WHO experts have reached consensus to recommend for the 2011-2012 influenza season in the Northern Hemisphere, a vaccine containing the following strains: A/California/7/2009(H1N1)-like,
A/Perth/16/2009(H3N2)-like,
B/Brisbane/60/2008-like. For the details refer: http://www.who.int/csr/disease/influenza/2011_02_recommendation.pdf |
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The whole genome of the new virus sequenced |
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All genome eight segments of a new A(H1N1)pdm strain A/Ulaanbaatar/190/2011 have been sequenced by the virologists of NIC, Mongolia and released by GenBank with the following accession addresses: - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/CY080571 for the segment 1, or PB2 gene,
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/CY080572 for the segment 2, or PB1/PB1-F2 genes,
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/CY081057 for the segment 3, or PA gene,
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/CY080420 for the segment 4, or HA gene,
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/CY080573 for the segment 5, or NP gene,
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/CY080574 for the segment 6, or NA gene,
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/CY080592 for the segment 7, or M1/M2 genes,
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/CY080593 for the segment 8, or NS1/NEP genes.
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