Monday, January 23, 2012

Iraq bans Iranian Poultry #H5N1 #BIRDFLU

State Company for Veterinary calls to prevent the import of poultry from Iran to the emergence of bird flu infections

23-01-2012 | (Voice of Iraq) - Called the General Company for Veterinary of the Ministry of Agriculture to prevent the import of poultry from Iran to the outbreak of bird flu.
According to a company statement received by all of Iraq [where] a copy of it today that "the company called the Ministry of Agriculture for the purpose of addressing the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers of the Technical Committee of the flu epidemic known bird flu to the recent ban on the import of [live birds, and raptors, and pet birds, as well as eggs both types, table and hatching, and feathers, and all materials that enter poultry or poultry products in the industry of Iran. "
He added that "these actions come after Iran announced the emergence of infection high virulence in domestic ducks in city Mazindan, has announced the emergence of injuries at the official site of the Organization of Animal Health [OIE], and took the company public veterinary procedures necessary for the investigation and monitoring of avian flu."Iraq has witnessed in February 2006, the first case of the death of a person of the age of [39] years in the province of Sulaymaniyah, north of the country, because of his type of deadly bird flu virus, according to the Ministry of Health.
The Ministry of Health warned in the Kurdistan region on the fifth of this month, a possible pandemic of bird flu in the province. http://www.sotaliraq.com/business.php?id=5308#axzz1kILNXq6r

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