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Newspaper ... The specter of avian flu are beating the doors Morocco
Jan 16, 2007
Rabat - 1-16 (KUNA) -- Moroccan newspaper said today that the specter of avian flu started beating again the doors of Morocco, which witnessed the arrival of large numbers of migratory birds.
The newspaper (Sahara) in its issue here that the World Health Organization launched last week warned of the return of the spread of the epidemic this winter in the whole world believing that the well advertised recently in Asia are indicators of a new wave of the epidemic killer.
The newspaper quoted Head of the Department of parks and natural reserves High Commissioner of water and forests and the fight against desertification Mohamed Repi saying that the bodies of monitoring and surveillance in Morocco to play a key role to confront the danger.
The Repi that monitoring and control bodies has spared no effort since the beginning of bird migration season last October to strengthen patrols in the humid areas both on the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts or in the interior areas and the Middle Atlas Mountains.
The official explained that the Moroccan samples taken so far from the birds in those areas did not show any injuries, adding that tightening control operations in the preventive measures that fortifies Morocco against this disease.
The Moroccan official further that in spite of the migratory birds which settles in Morocco or pass on the way to the sub-Saharan African countries and of the estimated 400 thousand bird only that the danger comes from domesticated animals.
Newspaper ... The specter of avian flu are beating the doors Morocco
Jan 16, 2007
Rabat - 1-16 (KUNA) -- Moroccan newspaper said today that the specter of avian flu started beating again the doors of Morocco, which witnessed the arrival of large numbers of migratory birds.
The newspaper (Sahara) in its issue here that the World Health Organization launched last week warned of the return of the spread of the epidemic this winter in the whole world believing that the well advertised recently in Asia are indicators of a new wave of the epidemic killer.
The newspaper quoted Head of the Department of parks and natural reserves High Commissioner of water and forests and the fight against desertification Mohamed Repi saying that the bodies of monitoring and surveillance in Morocco to play a key role to confront the danger.
The Repi that monitoring and control bodies has spared no effort since the beginning of bird migration season last October to strengthen patrols in the humid areas both on the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts or in the interior areas and the Middle Atlas Mountains.
The official explained that the Moroccan samples taken so far from the birds in those areas did not show any injuries, adding that tightening control operations in the preventive measures that fortifies Morocco against this disease.
The Moroccan official further that in spite of the migratory birds which settles in Morocco or pass on the way to the sub-Saharan African countries and of the estimated 400 thousand bird only that the danger comes from domesticated animals.
