Monday, April 13, 2009

Russia: Kamchatka has been training to eliminate potential hot spots bird flu

09.04.2009
Kamchatka specialists conducted training on the enforcement of the state of readiness of mobile antiepizootic order to eliminate the possible bird flu foci in the territory. As April 9, told the correspondent of news agency REGNUM in the press service of the Government of the Kamchatka Region, on the legend of training, the four personal Compound citizens in the area occurred Milkovskogo sudden mass death of poultry - in one day fell 157 heads of chickens, ducks and geese, deteriorated condition of the birds and the neighboring houses.

Case occurred in the Compound, the owners who refused to carry out vaccination against bird flu. The preliminary diagnosis - suspected to be infected poultry, the virus H5N1.

As part of the training specialists work out actions to locate and eliminate a possible bird flu epicenter: Disinfection of premises, transport and equipment, organization of the quarantine.

As the head of the Agency for Veterinary Kamchatka Krai Marina Nishta, training conducted within the framework of general training to the period of mass migration of birds over the territory of the Kamchatka region. "Last year an outbreak of bird flu was registered in the Primorsky Region, is troubled epizootic situation in selected countries in Southeast Asia. On the territory of Kamchatka bird flu cases are not recorded, but the threat of carrying the virus in the migration of birds saved," - said the chief state veterinarian Inspector of the Kamchatka region.

To prevent drift in the edge of a dangerous bird and human virus vaccination is carried out by specialists of industrial poultry and poultry products for personal Compound, the veterinary stations set up stocks of equipment, medicines and drugs for the localization of epizootic manifestation, are antiepizootic other activities.

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