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January 10, 2003 Emergency Management Warning 16:
Newcastle Disease Confirmed in California
USDA has instituted an additional quarantine zone to serve as a
buffer around the END-affected area in Southern California. The
department has also declared an extraordinary emergency to provide
additional resources and authorities to the eradication campaign for
Exotic Newcastle Disease in Southern California. Officials with the
California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) and the Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) continue to work closely on these
efforts.
The disease was confirmed on October 1, 2002, and has now
spread beyond backyard flocks to affect three commercial operations.
Clinical signs in infected birds include respiratory, nervous, and
gastrointestinal signs. Mortality is up to 90% of exposed birds.
Investigations are on-going and all figures are pending final validation.
Veterinary Services (VS) is working to rapidly expand staff on the Task
Force.
Over the next three months, VS expects to deploy 100 people
per week to the Task Force for three-week rotations, and is canceling
meetings and training to meet the personnel demands.
Situation Update (From California's 5:00 p.m. PST, January
7, 2003, report):
Number of premises positive (clinical
and contacts): 1,154 (up 8 from 1/7 report)
Number of premises
depopulated: 678
Premises waiting to be depopulated:
476
Birds depopulated to date: 148,865
(approximate)
Counties with positive flocks: Los Angeles,
Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego
Operational Update
(as of 12:00 p.m. EST, January 8, 2003):
• Effective
January 7, 2003, APHIS imposed a federal quarantine that regulates the
interstate movement of all species of birds and poultry products from
Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, Santa Barbara, San
Bernardino, San Diego, and Ventura Counties, CA. The U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) has declared an extraordinary emergency. The
extraordinary emergency allows USDA to apply federal authority within the
State of California.
• Three commercial flocks have been confirmed
with Newcastle disease in Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego
Counties, CA. The three operations housed approximately 1.2 million
birds. Depopulation of these birds has already begun.
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Veterinary Services has worked with the U.S. Postal Service to affirm that
poultry will not be able to move out of the quarantined areas through the
mail.
• State and animal health officials are conducting
door-to-door surveys to identify fowl and other birds in the affected
areas and are following up on epidemiological associations.
• To
date, depopulation, cleaning and disinfecting, and carcass disposal are
being conducted by CDFA and APHIS.
• CDFA has closed all poultry
exhibits and fairs and expositions within the State of
California.
• Affected and exposed poultry are being euthanized and
double-bagged. Task Force members are disinfecting the bags and
transporting the carcasses to restricted landfills for burial.
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Local commercial table egg layer birds and spent-hen movement have been
halted within the quarantined areas.
Trade
Issues:
• Argentina has banned poultry, eggs, and related
products from the entire United States.
• Azerbaijan has banned
poultry and poultry products from the quarantined areas in the State of
California.
• Bulgaria has banned poultry and poultry products from
the State of California.
• Canada has banned all poultry,
poultry products, and eggs from the State of California.
• China
has banned all live poultry and hatching eggs from the entire United
States.
• Colombia has banned poultry and poultry products from the
entire United States.
• The European Union has banned live
poultry and hatching eggs, live ratites and hatching eggs, fresh
poultry meat, fresh meat and farmed or wild game birds, and fresh ratite
meat from the entire United States.
• Grenada has banned poultry
and poultry products from the entire United States.
• Guatemala
has banned poultry and poultry products from the quarantined areas in
the State of California.
• Hungary has banned poultry and poultry
products from the State of California.
• Indonesia has banned
poultry and poultry products from a 50 kilometer radius of the quarantined
areas in the State of California.
• Iran has banned poultry and
poultry products from the State of California.
• Japan has banned
poultry products from a 50 kilometer radius of the quarantined areas in
the State of California.
• Jordan has banned poultry and poultry
products from the entire United States.
• Korea has banned
poultry meat, live poultry, day-old chicks, hatching eggs, and edible eggs
from a 10 kilometer radius of the quarantined areas in the State of
California.
• Latvia has banned poultry and poultry products from
the quarantined areas in the State of California.
• Lithuania has
banned poultry and poultry products from the quarantined areas in the
State of California.
• Mauritius has banned poultry and poultry
products from the quarantined areas in the State of California.
•
Mexico has banned all poultry and poultry products form the State
of California.
• Morocco has banned poultry and poultry products
from the State of California.
• New Caledonia has banned poultry
and poultry products from the quarantined areas in the State of
California.
• Philippines has banned poultry and poultry products
from the State of California.
• Romania has banned poultry and
poultry products from the State of California.
• Russia has
banned poultry and poultry products from the State
of California.
• Saudi Arabia has banned poultry and poultry
products from the State of California.
• Switzerland has banned
poultry and poultry products from the quarantined areas in the State of
California.
• Taiwan has banned poultry and poultry products and
dry pet food containing poultry from the State of California. Poultry and
poultry products transiting the State of California are allowed to be
imported into Taiwan.
• Thailand has banned feed ingredients and/or
complete feed containing poultry products/by-products from the State of
California.
• Uruguay has banned poultry and poultry products from
the entire United States.
• Western Samoa has banned poultry and
poultry products from a 40 mile radius from the quarantined areas in the
State of California.
Definitions Emergency
Management Issue is for information with no impact on APHIS Emergency
Management Notice is an ongoing incident with potential impact on
APHIS Emergency Management Warning is an ongoing incident with almost
certain impact on APHIS
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California END Hotline 800-491-1899
California Emergency
Operations Center, call 562-795-1940
For Media inquiries,
call 562-795-1940
To contact APHIS Veterinary Services'
Emergency Program Staff, call 301-734-8073, 800-940-6524 or email emoc@usda.gov
California
Department of Food and Agriculture
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