Monday, December 22, 2008

Cuba: Avian flu at the gates

MORÓN, Cuba, Dec 22 (Tico Morales, APLA / www.cubanet.org) - Perhaps the name is little known H5N1 among the population, but not the case with the words Avian Influenza.
Dr. Norman Gutierrez, a specialist in hygiene and epidemiology, director of the local specialty, chaired a Conversatorio about the virus on Channel 64 TV Moron, who put on alert to the poultry industry in the region.

The dangers of Avian Flu around the area. No one has officially declared, but the provincial and municipal health authorities launched a new campaign against the breeders of pigeons and poultry. Only in Moron, individuals have more than 100 thousand copies, nearly two birds per capita. And since the state of poultry farms and villages Patria La Rosa information came from the introduction of a separate quarantine.

Moron is located in one of the major corridors of migratory birds in Cuba. Hence the threat that experts foresee in the city and the countryside.

hat-tip AlohaOR

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