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SOURCE: listin.com.do
SANTO DOMINGO. ? Haiti?s authorities have detected several bird flu outbreaks in at least four regions, although the Agriculture Minister Joanas Gu? said it?s a subtype of the H5N2 virus that doesn?t affect humans.
Speaking on radio M?tropole yesterday, the official said at least 2,000 birds and fighting roosters were tested by a lab in Ohio, U.S., which confirmed the infection.
Gu? said sanitary controls were imposed along the Dominican-Haiti border on Wednesday; measures he said will be reinforced to prevent the entry of poultry products from the neighboring country.
In January Haiti banned Dominican chicken and egg imports after the virus H5N2 was found in cockfighting roosters in Hig?ey. Puerto Rico had already adopted a similar measure, but lifted it afterwards.
Gu? said the virus was detected after Haiti established a monitoring system since Dominican Republic?s first cases were reported in December.
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Raquel Maria Garcia Alvarez
Santo Domingo, Jun 15 (Prensa Latina) Bird flu may have come to Haiti from anywhere, and not necessarily from the Dominican Republic, Haitian Ambassador Jose Serulle said.
His remarks come in the wake of insistent versions that avian flu outbreaks recently detected in Haiti stem from the presence of the pandemic in the Dominican Republic.
Official Dominican media have ruled out this possibility, revealing that the country has already got rid of cases of the H5N2 virus reported in late 2007 in fighting cocks imported illegally from Puerto Rico.
Haiti decreed a ban on Dominican poultry goods, still in force, but the measure only triggered a thriving smuggling, as it is very easy to cross the common border between both countries, the diplomat recalled.
He said he is not being instructed by his government to blame the Dominican Republic for the situation and noted that his country receives poultry products from Brazil and the US.
Serulle pleaded for collaboration between both countries, mainly in animal and plant health.
Dominican Agriculture Minister Salvador Jimenez announced his country's willingness to resume poultry trade and recalled that an international technical team certified that the illness is not present in his country.
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SOURCE: listin.com.do
SANTO DOMINGO. ? Haiti?s authorities have detected several bird flu outbreaks in at least four regions, although the Agriculture Minister Joanas Gu? said it?s a subtype of the H5N2 virus that doesn?t affect humans.
Speaking on radio M?tropole yesterday, the official said at least 2,000 birds and fighting roosters were tested by a lab in Ohio, U.S., which confirmed the infection.
Gu? said sanitary controls were imposed along the Dominican-Haiti border on Wednesday; measures he said will be reinforced to prevent the entry of poultry products from the neighboring country.
In January Haiti banned Dominican chicken and egg imports after the virus H5N2 was found in cockfighting roosters in Hig?ey. Puerto Rico had already adopted a similar measure, but lifted it afterwards.
Gu? said the virus was detected after Haiti established a monitoring system since Dominican Republic?s first cases were reported in December.
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Raquel Maria Garcia Alvarez
Santo Domingo, Jun 15 (Prensa Latina) Bird flu may have come to Haiti from anywhere, and not necessarily from the Dominican Republic, Haitian Ambassador Jose Serulle said.
His remarks come in the wake of insistent versions that avian flu outbreaks recently detected in Haiti stem from the presence of the pandemic in the Dominican Republic.
Official Dominican media have ruled out this possibility, revealing that the country has already got rid of cases of the H5N2 virus reported in late 2007 in fighting cocks imported illegally from Puerto Rico.
Haiti decreed a ban on Dominican poultry goods, still in force, but the measure only triggered a thriving smuggling, as it is very easy to cross the common border between both countries, the diplomat recalled.
He said he is not being instructed by his government to blame the Dominican Republic for the situation and noted that his country receives poultry products from Brazil and the US.
Serulle pleaded for collaboration between both countries, mainly in animal and plant health.
Dominican Agriculture Minister Salvador Jimenez announced his country's willingness to resume poultry trade and recalled that an international technical team certified that the illness is not present in his country.
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