Two outbreaks of Newcastle disease in Russia has been resolved, Russia’s Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance reported to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).
Newcastle disease outbreak in Primorskiy Kray region
In the first outbreak, which was reported to the OIE in December 2019, there were 50 birds in a backyard flock in the Primorskiy Kray region, which is in the far eastern portion of Russia and borders China, that had contracted the diesase, and all of them died.
Control measures in that outbreak included movement control, surveillance within the containment and/or protection zone, quarantine, official destruction of animal products, control of wildlife reservoirs, zoning and disinfection.
The other outbreak involved two cases, both of which were reported on January 2010, in which 20 birds in a backyard flock had died. The other 5 susceptible birds in the flock were killed and disposed of, according to a report on the OIE website.
Newcastle disease outbreak in Kursk oblast
The other case involved 71 birds in a backyard flock. Thirteen birds died, while 58 other birds in the flock that died. Both cases were reported in the Kursk oblast, in the western part of the country.
Control measures used in this outbreak included stamping out, movement control inside the country, surveillance within the containment and/or protection zone, quarantine, official disposal of carcasses, official disposal of byproducts and waste, control of wildlife reservoirs, and disinfection.
In both outbreaks, birds were tested at both a local and an OIE reference laboratory using polymerase chain reaction testing, and in each instance, the birds were found positive with Newcastle disease.
Since the OIE considers both Newcastle disease outbreaks in Russia to be resolved, it will not post any more notices on the situation.
Previous outbreaks
Russian veterinary officials had earlier reported two other outbreaks of Newcastle disease. One was reported in October 2019, in which a flock of village poultry was affected in the Shilkinsky district in central Zabaykalsky krai. There were 250 birds in that flock.
In the following month, another outbreak was reported in a flock of village poultry in the Kursk oblast of Russia. Of the 318 birds in the village of Kislino, 279 died.