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Egypt - Government Declares State of "Extreme" Emergency regarding Bird Flu in Poultry - Each Family is Responsible for Their Own Protection

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  • Egypt - Government Declares State of "Extreme" Emergency regarding Bird Flu in Poultry - Each Family is Responsible for Their Own Protection

    Interesting timing considering the 2 large poultry farm fires here and here in the last week.

    All Egyptians need to cook all poultry very thoroughly. Cook almost to a burned stage. Treat each poultry as a bio-hazard. Wear gloves when preparing.


    Agriculture launched a national campaign to protect poultry farms from bird flu
    Mohammed Ghanem
    21-11-2011


    Dr. Salah Yusuf, Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, the National Campaign's new anti-bird flu, to protect about 21 thousand poultry farm licensed and registered and produces 1.6 million birds per day, from the dangers of the virus, especially in the winter. Maj. Gen. Dr. Osama Salim, Chairman of the Public Authority of Veterinary Services, it was declaring a state of extreme emergency in all departments of Veterinary Medicine at the level of the Republic, to monitor the farms accurately the speed of movement and the face of any dangers that may face and to ensure that the speed of dealing with a scientific manner and secure to protect workers on the farm and the flock of poultry from infection. He appealed to sound farm owners into account application of security measures bio-and early reporting of injury and to assist government agencies in the safe disposal of sick birds and dead and clearing the farm,

    stressing the payment of compensation assessments for farmers in case of prompt reporting of the incidence of the disease within the farm. and stressed the need for cooperation of the owners of farms with the committees of veterinary and assist in the examination and birds and provide the information necessary for the work of committees, the most important date of the entry herd and transactions, drugs, vaccines and rates of mortality and symptoms, making sure that the commitment of doctors to wear protective clothing and decontamination full before entering the farm. He stressed the need to follow the right steps to raise the safe within the Gaza rural education for the birds to separate the movement of birds for humans entirely separate species of birds from each other and not throwing dead birds in the waterways, which are the most prominent families of avian influenza and its main carrier, explaining that every family is fully responsible for the protection of their disease.

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