Lampung South guarded against the Spreading of Bird Flu

Regional Government Lampung South named the supervision of bird flu (AI/avian influenza) continued to be intensified. Although not yet having the report on the case of the poultry died suddenly that was positive tertular bird flu in the area for the last 2 week. "We continued to guard against the new spreading" of "bird flu, although not yet having the case" of the "positive poultry tertular bird flu in recent times, the" Kesehatan" Part headword of the Animal of Dinas Peternakan Lampung Selatan, A. Kandri, in Kalianda, on Thursday (13/11). At the beginning of 2008, all the subdistrict in the Regency Lampung Selatan has tertular bird flu, and the AI case to the poultry again happened in the Jatimulyo Village, Kecamatan Jati Agung, in the regency last October. Dozens of poultries (the nonpedigreed chicken) positive tertular bird flu. By the local inhabitants, the poultry was thrown away to the ditch, in fact ought to be burnt, afterwards was buried.

According to Kandri, the supervision and field counselling that were increased to prevent the occurrence of the new case of the bird flu attack, because now was middle the rain season. The regional government in Lampung formed the team of the bird flu tracker (parcipatory disease surveillance/PDS) in masing- masing the service of regency livestock breeding/the city, now in the subdistrict also was prepared by the official of the health to check the health of the inhabitants in the area tertular bird flu. PDS Lampung Selatan and PDS Lamtim that often reported the existence of the case findings of bird flu in his work territory year round 2008. To press the spreading of bird flu, the Lamsel Regional Government last September distributed disinfektan to 17 subdistricts in that region. The volume disinfektan that was distributed around 400 litre, respectively the subdistrict got the medicine of the eradicator of illness germs between 20-80 litre.