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Visibly shocked by the suffering of malnourished Somalis and cholera victims during an emergency visit, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday urged international support to alleviate Somalia's worsening hunger crisis.
"Every single person we have seen is a personal story of tremendous suffering.
There is no way to describe it," Guterres said after seeing skeletal men, women and children in a cholera ward in Baidoa, 243 kilometers (151 miles) northwest of the capital, Mogadishu.
Somalia's prolonged drought has caused widespread hunger, and the shortage of clean water has resulted in cholera.
On his first field trip since becoming the U.N. chief, Guterres said Somalia's famine crisis requires a massive response.
He said 6 million people, or almost half of the country's population, need assistance.
"People are dying.
The world must act now to stop this," he tweeted on his arrival in this Horn of Africa nation.
"We need to make as much noise as possible," Guterres said. "Conflict, drought, climate change, disease, cholera.
The combination is a nightmare." In Baidoa's cholera wards, adults and children had sunken eyes and protruding ribs.
Because of the cholera-induced diarrhea, medical workers sprayed the wards with chlorine to disinfect the areas.
Guterres also visited a camp with hundreds of families displaced by the drought and Somalia's battle against the Islamic extremists of al-Shabab.
He saw hungry families seeking shelter under flimsy plastic. "I have nothing. This is not a shelter, we barely get any food here and we have no protection.
It's not safe, I am suffering," said 34-year-old Deira Mohamed Nor, with her 10-month-old baby girl Dahiro Ishaak Hussein, who is sick with malaria.
Nor said she recently lost one of her children to diarrhea.
Guterres said he was moved by the misery.
"It makes me feel extremely unhappy with the fact that in today's world, with the ... the richness that exists, that these things are still possible.
It is unbelievable," Guterres said.
He wore personal protection armor and was surrounded by African Union peacekeepers and bodyguards to protect against possible suicide bombings and attacks by the extremists who plague Somalia.
Somalia is part of a massive $4 billion aid appeal launched last month for four nations suffering from conflict and hunger.
The others are Nigeria, Yemen and South Sudan, where famine already has been declared in two counties.
Somalia over the weekend announced its first death toll since declaring a national disaster last week, saying 110 people had died in a 48-hour period in a single region.
Meeting the U.N. chief, Somalia's President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed said: "My first priority is to address this drought crisis, and my main priority is to make an appeal to the international community to help us."
Somalia is one of the six Muslim-majority countries affected by the revised travel ban ordered by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Mohamed took Guterres' visit as an opportunity to speak out against it.
"Definitely we will prefer to see that this travel ban should be lifted and, of course, we have to communicate with the U.S. government because as everyone knows we have a large Somali community in the United States who I'm sure have contributed to the U.S. economy," said Mohamed, in response to press questions.
He himself has dual Somali-U.S. citizenship. Mohamed added: "We have to address the root cause, which is the security situation here and how to defeat (Somalia's Islamic extremist rebels) al-Shabab here."
Guterres said he was pleased to meet Mohamed, who was elected and inaugurated last month.
"I am bringing a message of solidarity to the president.
A message of support," Guterres said. "Let's hope he can start an inclusive government."

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Three suspected human cases of bird flu have been detected in Cirebon, West Java. Tempo gathered that 2 people have been treated in Gunung Jati Hospital isolation room since Sunday, March 5, 2017. The Health Ministry's director general of disease prevention and control M Subuh has confirmed the report.
"Because both have made direct contacts with birds tested positive for bird flu," Subuh said on Wednesday at Gunung Jati Hospital.
Subuh said that results of laboratory tests will come out within the next two to three days, adding that the two patients' conditions had improved.
When pressed about the death of a resident of Pangenan sub-district, Cirebon, from alleged avian influenza, Subuh said that the hospital did not take the blood sample.
"But the current patient is the child [of the deceased].
The blood sample will be taken from the child," Subuh said.
If the test proved negative, it would mean that the father was also tested negative for bird flu and vice versa.
Cirebon Agriculture Office head Ali Efendi said that his office can only vaccinate 75,000 out of 3 million birds in Cirebon District.
"Vaccination process is ongoing.
But we have not done it in Pangenan," Ali said.
On bird flu cases, Ali said that 105 ducks in Pangenan sub-district had been tested positive for bird flu.
"105 duck [carcasses] have been burned," Ali said.
Ali added said that the 105 ducks were part of 500 ducks in Pangenan sub-district that should have been burned.
He said that his office does not have enough funds to pay compensation to farmers. Ali had promised to persuade the farmers to depopulate the affected flocks.

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The H5N1 influenza virus, commonly known as bird flu, has been detected in birds at a children park in Taltalaiya, Sunsari.
Tests at Biratnagar-based Regional Laboratory and Central Veterinary Laboratory in Kathmandu confirmed the H5N1 virus on the dead birds from the park.
Shiva Narayan Mahato, chief at the District Animal Service Office in Itahari, said the authorities are on high alert to prevent possible outbreak.
He added precautionary measures have been adopted in the area as the central laboratory sent a letter on March 6 with the confirmation of avian flu.
The park has been shut for general public for a month to prevent the influenza from spreading to human, Mahato said.
The authorities are working to bury the dead birds.
The Taltalaiya Deve-lopment and Conservation Committee had closed the park and sent samples to the regional and central laboratories on March 2, suspecting bird flu as the birds died continuously for the past one week.
This is the first reported case of bird flu in the eastern Tarai this season.
The bird flu was detected in dead fowls at a poultry farm of Khaltemasina in Pokhara last month.
The District Livestock Services Office had confirmed the virus in the poultry farm after the laboratory tests on samples returned positive.
Taltalaiya Development and Conservation Commi- ttee General Secretary Ramesh Adhikari said that a number of animals and birds had died in the park over the past week.
The death of turkey, peacock, Eurasian eagle owl, swan, guinea pig, among other, raised suspicion and the committee decided to send samples for lab tests.
The park which houses some 22 species of rare birds receives 500 visitors daily.

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Malaysia has an outbreak of a highly contagious H5N1 bird flu virus in Kelantan, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said yesterday, citing a report from the Malaysian agriculture ministry.
The strain was confirmed among chickens at a backyard farm in Kelantan, according to the report posted by the Paris-based OIE.
All 26 birds were killed or destroyed, the ministry said.
According to Reuters, the H5N1 strain has been detected in Cambodia in recent weeks.
It is different to the H7N9 virus that has caused the death of more than 110 people in China. Meanwhile, The Star reported that Kelantan had set up road blocks to contain the outbreak after three cases were detected in one village.
The state government has sought police help to stop the trafficking of fowl within a one kilometre radius of Kampung Pulau Tebu where 15 chickens were found dead recently.
State agriculture committee chairperson Che Abdullah Mat said that culling activities were carried out three days ago.
"The Veterinary Services Department had since culled 170 avians including chicken, ducks and birds, and destroyed 100 eggs in the affected village," he was quoted as saying by Star.
Che Abdullah said the authorities were still in the process of tracing the source of infection, adding that the last avian flu outbreak was last recorded in Kelantan in 2004.
He said the poultry in the state were safe for consumption as this recent outbreak was contained in one village.
Eight people, including six laboratory workers, exposed to the virus were quarantined for 24 hours at the Tumpat Hospital as a precautionary measure.

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More than a 100 head of cattle have died on a farm in St George, believed to be infected with the bacteria that causes anthrax.
Testing by Biosecurty Queensland has indicated the presence of the bacteria that causes anthrax and authorities are working towards containing any further cases in line with the agreed national protocol. Chief Biosecurity Officer Dr Jim Thompson said anthrax was a naturally occurring bacteria which occurred sporadically in Australia, with a small number of cases each year.
At the core, anthrax is a bacterial disease of animals
"The last incidence of anthrax in Queensland, which occurred in 2002, was successfully contained," Dr Thompson said.
"In this latest case, the property owner reported that approximately 100 cattle had died in a short period of time.
Dr Thompson said a veterinarian who attended the property on Friday took samples from the dead animals in accordance with protocol and sent them to Biosecurity Queensland for testing.
"We commend the veterinarian and property owner for their quick response that will assist us in minimising the risk to the local industry," Dr Thompson said.
"We have put in place biosecurity orders to restrict the movement of people, stock and vehicles on and off the infected property, and will commence a vaccination program for the remaining cattle and a disposal and decontamination program for the deceased animals."
Remaining stock on the property has been mustered to separate them from the contaminated area. Dr Thompson said it was believed the cattle deaths were caused by the disturbance of contaminated soil, followed by rainfall that distributed the soil containing the bacteria.
Queensland Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young said the risk of human exposure to anthrax from animals was generally regarded as very low.
"Public health authorities are in contact with people on the property and the veterinarian," said Dr Young.
"The veterinarian used appropriate personal protective equipment and eight people, including family and a farm worker, did not have any contact with the dead animals."
The last record of anthrax in Queensland was on the Marlborough Peninsula in 1994.

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Barbarbunga volcano, located under the ice cap of Vatnajokull glacier, trembled overnight, according to the Icelandic Met Office.
Three earthquakes in excess of magnitude 3 registered between 3:52 am and 3:56 am.
They were all in the southern part of the caldera.
Altogether, ten tremors registered.
The largest earthquakes were of magnitude 4.0, 3.9 and 3.3. No tremors have followed, but the area is closely monitored.

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An Alaska volcano that's been active since mid-December has erupted again with an ash cloud that could threaten airliners.
The Alaska Volcano Observatory says Bogoslof (BOH-gohs-lawf) Volcano in the Aleutian Islands started erupting at 10:36 p.m. Tuesday and sent up an ash cloud to 35,000 feet.
The eruption was marked by seismic activity and lightning that subsided about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday. Ash can harm and stop jet engines.
Ash from southwest Alaska volcanos is a threat to airliners operating between North America and Asia when a cloud rises above 20,000 feet.
The observatory says the volcano spewed ash for about three hours.
The National Weather Service said trace amounts of ash could fall on the major fishing port of Dutch Harbor.

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At least seven people have died with more missing after wildfires across several states in central U.S. have consumed an incredible one million acres.
Wildfires in Amarillo, Texas, and surrounding areas, accounted for the deaths of 3 people after trying to save cattle.
 KAMR reported that a fourth fatality was reported in Lipscomb County. Another was reported in Ochiltree County.


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Three other people died due to wildfires in Kansas and Oklahoma. A 63-year-old woman near Buffalo, Oklahoma, died from a heart attack as she tried to save her farm with her husband.
The Oklahoma Forestry Service said the fires burned 400,000 acres across the state. Gov. Mary Fallin declared a state of emergency for 22 counties.
According to a statement from Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, a man died from smoke inhalation in Clark County; 350,000 acres of the county are consumed, and nearly 13,000 people had to be evacuated.
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Reports from the Texas A&M Forest Service said the Perryton Fire located in Ochiltree and Lipscomb counties in the Texas Panhandle is an estimated 478,935 acres in size. The fire has skirted south of the city of Higgins as of 11:58 a.m. CST Tuesday.
Texas A&M Forest Service has been on the scene with ground resources working in conjunction with local resources. Two homes have been reported as destroyed.
The Dumas Complex Fire near the city of Amarillo, Texas, is 100 percent contained, leaving an estimated 29,197 acres burning as of 5:19 p.m. CST Tuesday.
Ochiltree County Sheriff Terry Bouchard said that as many as 500 animals died in fires that consumed commercial hog barns.
Governor Greg Abbott activated state resources to help combat the fires. Air attack aircraft was assigned and two single-engine air tankers have made fire retardant drops on the fire on Monday evening. State fire marshals are investigating the cause of the wildfire and the four fatalities.
A grass fire in Logan County, Colorado, also wreaked havoc on Monday, burning an estimated 30,000 acres. Four structures were damaged, but no deaths or injuries were reported.

The combination of strong winds, dry air and dormant vegetation in the central United States will continue to raise the risk of brush fires through midweek, reports Accu Weather.


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