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  • PIB, UNICEF held Bangladesh: Workshop on Bird flu, its consequences and measures.

    Caution against migratory birds exhorted
    PIB, UNICEF held workshop on Bird flu, its consequences and possible measures
    From Our Correspondent
    LAKSHMIPUR, Apr 23:?The bird flu that spread in various countries including some of our neighbours in recent periods is most agonising incident for our country. This disease not only affects the domestic birds but causes death to thousands of human beings.
    Hence it needs to be checked and comprehensive measures should be taken in their regards.
    This was viewed by the speakers and experts at a workshop held at Noakhali sponsored by the Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB) assisted by the UNICEF.
    The speakers here elaborately discussed about the bird flu that is Avian Influenza and Pandemic Influenza since their eruption, spreading and awareness and preparedness for checking this diseases as well will special reference on its effects in the past.
    A documentary film was also displayed on the screen on this disease.
    There it was found that the bird flue through talked much and spreading largely in the recent days, is not a new disease. Its first infusion was detected in 1918 in Spain known as Spanish flue and it spreads by the H5NI virus.
    The disease was first known as "Fowl plague" which is now-a-day is called as bird flu. But it does not concentrate itself within the birds rather it affects human beings as well and it took about four to six crore human lives during 1918 in Europe, Asia and north American continents.
    In 1957-58 this disease remainfested in Asia and took about 10-20 lakh lives. In 1968-69 its out break in Hong Kong known as Hong Kong Flu took about 7 lakh lives.
    The disease reappeared in 2003 in China, Vietnam, Loas, Indonesia, Thailand, Turkey and Azarbizan in epedemic form and took several lakhs of chicken lives.
    The disease was once found at Turkey farm of UK in 2007 and in recent days it was found at various chicken farms in various countries in Asia including Bangladesh.
    The last discovery of the disease in Bangladesh was on April 15, this year in Magura district where at least 900 chicken, ducks and pigeon were killed and engraved by the district administration as a measure to check spreading of the disease.
    Causes of country's concern
    The speakers at the workshop also sorted out the clues of agony for the country on the disease. They opined that Bangladesh is a country of moderate climate and as such the stray ducks especially be migratory birds as well come from Syberia and other cold hit areas of Europe and visit the Bangladesh land and stay here from September to March every year.
    Being the birds of cold areas, they mostly carry various virus of bird flue to these land and as the local ducks moves in various water bodies with the migratory birds especially the ducks, the local and home tamed ducks are affected by the bird flu viruses carried by the migratory ones.
    And the home-tamed ducks which are generally kept in the same rooms or pen by the home tames families in the rural areas of the country, the bird flu virus case spread out in the cocks and hens in the pens.
    The affected local birds move freely from house to house and in this way bird flu can spreads out quickly.
    The spreading of the disease in this country is also apparent due to the fact that it has already spread out in our neighbouring countries like India, Thailand and Myanmar.
    And in recent days, more than hens were killed in various farms like that of Bangladesh Biman which were suspected as attacked by bird flu.
    The speakers also produced data indicating that upto these days more than 25 crore of chicken died in the world and in last four years several crores of hens worth Taka several thousands crores were killed due to this disease in Japan, Turkey, Korea, Egipt, UK and in our neighbouring country India.
    Economic losses
    The experts here in the workshop opined that if the disease can not be checked it may cost the livelyhood of about 1.60 crores woman folks in rural areas of the country. Because these women take care of chicken and ducks and supplies not less than 70% of the hen flesh and eggs in the country.
    More over a large number of workers employed in 122 broilar, 80 layer breeders and 64 feed mills may lose their jobs.
    There are 1,24,000 farmer families also engaged inproducing Maize, fish and other related things used in those mills and farms.
    The government loan and cash money of about Taka 12,000 crore was invested in those mills and farms which are considered as the source of income of about 30,000,00 families.
    With the spread of the bird flu all these families may be rendered jobless and crores of Taka invested might be lost in to, the experts added.
    Hence appropriate measures for checking the bird flu in the country permit no delay.
    Measures
    The speakers opined that the following measures may be taken to check bird flu.
    (a) Import of broiler and layer breeded chicks should be controlled and a definite principles should be sorted out for compulsory measures.
    (b) A management policy for about 5-10 thousand mitric tons of garbages produced in the farms must be chalked out.
    (c ) The house-tamed farms of hens, ducks and pigeons which supply about 70% to 80% bird flesh of the country's demands must be looked after carefully and.
    (d) Lastly, the home tamed birds should be restricted to meet migratory birds. http://www.bangladeshobserveronline....ct%20News.html
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