8 subdistricts in Kediri alert bird flu

Friday, 05 December 2008

Totalling 8 subdistricts in the Kediri Regency, East Java berstatus as the alert village bird flu, after the case that most attacked this poultry was detected. The "case" of "bird flu in Kediri quite worrying, because almost every month was gotten the report" on the "poultry that was attacked, the" Section's" headword of the Health of the Animal, Dinas Kehewanan, of Kabupaten Kediri, drh. Munfarid, in Kediri, earlier in the afternoon.

According to Munfarid that was met in the alert activity of the village field study in the Doko Village, Kecamatan Gampengrejo, Kabupaten Kediri, several subdistricts that became attention because of the bird flu danger among them Plosoklaten, Ringinrejo, Kandat, Gampengrejo, Kras, Wates, Plemahan and finally Badas. In this location, the level of the quite high poultry population. However, this number evidently also was matched by the spreading of the plague of quite significant bird flu.
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Munfarid said, this 2008, at least the poultry has in five subdistricts been infected, like Kandat, Plosoklaten, Papar, Semen and Kras. Totalling 643 tails of the poultry from the population's whole that reached 1,404 tails of the chicken kind talk to and puyuh that died suddenly this, was forced to be destroyed. Nevertheless, the number of cases fewer compared with the year beforehand, namely 2007, that attacked 15 subdistricts with the number of livestock died reached 29,686 tails. According to him, the Kediri Regency was one of the suppliers of the biggest poultry of the two in East Java after the Blitar Regency. The number of poultry populations, both the chicken, the duck, was unable to go any further and puyuh reached 6.7 million tails per the year. He added, it was not impossible, because of the population but also the level of the instability in the Kediri Regency high, so as the UNICEF side held the work was the same as the Regional Government in the handling of the bird flu virus.

Although entering the area of UNICEF attention, but his side also tried to carry out the prevention personally. In APBD I this 2008, his side accepted help for the vaccination 175,000 doses and "disinfektan" or spraying 400 litre. Moreover, from the APBN fund also received the quota, that is for the vaccination totalling 800,000 doses and disinfektan totalling 400 litre. Now from RAPBD for the vaccination was budgeted for by as many as 125,000 doses and disinfektan totalling 400 litre. "This number was really used by us up until this 2008, next year we also put forward but still in the process," he said added. In the meantime, the person responsible for the operational implementation of bird flu of the UNICEF side, Ruli Asmianto said, with the alert village could become the sample for the other village. "We hoped had the village regulation, especially for the first handling" of the "bird flu virus." So, could become the example of the other village in the handling of the virus, he said.