Additional file 1.
Table 1.
Country
|
Date of first detection a
|
Species of first detection b
|
No. of human cases c
|
No. of wild cases a
|
No. of poultry or captive bird cases a
|
No. of poultry culled a
|
Turkey
|
6 Oct 2005
|
Meleagris gallopavo
|
12
|
16
|
9178
|
289 812
|
Kuwait
|
11 Nov 2005
|
Phoenicopterus ruber
|
0
|
0
|
131
|
466 996
|
Iraq
|
9 Jan 2006
|
Homo sapiens
|
3
|
0
|
652
|
3478
|
Azerbaijan
|
29 Jan 2006
|
Cygnus sp.
|
8
|
3
|
1
|
296 000
|
Iran
|
2 Feb 2006
|
Cygnus sp.
|
0
|
153
|
14
|
475
|
Greece
|
9 Feb 2006
|
Cygnus sp.
|
0
|
17
|
0
|
0
|
Egypt
|
17 Feb 2006
|
Poultry
|
50
|
19
|
1 075 920
|
8 840 215
|
Sudan
|
20 Feb 2006
|
Poultry
|
0
|
0
|
87 370
|
107 327
|
Georgia
|
23 Feb 2006
|
Cygnus sp.
|
0
|
10
|
0
|
0
|
Israel
|
16 Mar 2006
|
Gallus gallus, Meleagris gallopavo
|
0
|
0
|
15 212
|
256 414
|
Palestinian Terr.
|
23 Mar 2006
|
Poultry
|
0
|
0
|
5000
|
40 800
|
Jordan
|
23 Mar 2006
|
Gallus gallus, Meleagris gallopavo
|
0
|
0
|
21
|
18 000
|
Djibouti
|
5 Apr 2006
|
Local poultry
|
1
|
0
|
4
|
18
|
Saudi Arabia
|
12 Mar 2007
|
Struthio camelus
|
0
|
0
|
12 606
|
5 310 290
|
TOTALS
|
|
|
74
|
218
|
1 206 109
|
15 629 825
| |