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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=466 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD align=right width=233>2006/11/15 11:31 KST </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Yonhap) -- South Korea plans to train livestock experts from Southeast Asian countries, which have reported bird flu cases since the late 1990s, to detect the potentially fatal disease, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry said Wednesday.
The proposal, which includes detection kit support, will be forwarded at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) plus three agricultural ministers meeting in Singapore later this week. The measures are aimed at helping countries combat the spread of the disease.
The meetings, which started in 2001, involve the 10 ASEAN members along with South Korea, Japan and China. This year's meeting will be held on Friday and Saturday.
For the plan, two experts from each ASEAN member nation will be invited to South Korea in December to take part in a week-long training program to detect and isolate bird flu cases. Each team will be given about 500 locally made bird flu detection kits.
The kits, developed two years ago, can detect bird flu within 20 minutes of the sample being tested, helping speed up the quarantine process that is vital for keeping the disease from spreading.
In addition to the bird flu support plan, Vice Minister Park Hae-sang, who will head the South Korean delegation, is expected to pledge more South Korean support to train ASEAN plant quarantine inspectors.
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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=466 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD align=right width=233>2006/11/15 11:31 KST </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Yonhap) -- South Korea plans to train livestock experts from Southeast Asian countries, which have reported bird flu cases since the late 1990s, to detect the potentially fatal disease, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry said Wednesday.
The proposal, which includes detection kit support, will be forwarded at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) plus three agricultural ministers meeting in Singapore later this week. The measures are aimed at helping countries combat the spread of the disease.
The meetings, which started in 2001, involve the 10 ASEAN members along with South Korea, Japan and China. This year's meeting will be held on Friday and Saturday.
For the plan, two experts from each ASEAN member nation will be invited to South Korea in December to take part in a week-long training program to detect and isolate bird flu cases. Each team will be given about 500 locally made bird flu detection kits.
The kits, developed two years ago, can detect bird flu within 20 minutes of the sample being tested, helping speed up the quarantine process that is vital for keeping the disease from spreading.
In addition to the bird flu support plan, Vice Minister Park Hae-sang, who will head the South Korean delegation, is expected to pledge more South Korean support to train ASEAN plant quarantine inspectors.
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