Bird flu outbreak possible in Far East, Central Russia - ministry

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Bird flu outbreak possible in Far East, Central Russia - ministry
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=11415376&PageNum=0​

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</TD><TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">MOSCOW, April 9 (Itar-Tass) - The Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations does not rule out bird flu outbreaks in the Far East, in northwestern Russia and in Central Russia.

?It is still possible that bird flu can be brought to the south of the Primorsky Territory and the Sakhalin region from neighbouring territories,? sources from the ministry information department told Tass on Monday.

An outbreak of bird flu is still possible in the Moscow, Tver, Smolensk, Kaluga, Tula, Ryazan and Vladimir regions, they said. According to them, ?the spread of the virus to poultry farms and contagion of the risk group ? workers of poultry farms, owners of domestic birds and specialists destroying ill poultry, are not ruled out?.

Bird flu cases are also possible in Russia?s North-Western District, where the virus can be brought from territories of other Russian regions.

In February 2007, an outbreak of H5N1 was registered in eight districts of the Moscow region and in households of ten settlements in the Kaluga region.

From 2005 till March 2007, almost 1.4 million domestic birds died of bird flu or had to be destroyed across Russia. The first wave of bird flu was fixed in July-August 2005 in the Volga-Urals and Siberian regions.

In October 2005, the Tula, Tambov, Chelyabinsk, Omsk and Altai regions were hit by the dangerous H5N1 strain of bird flu.

Early in 2006, an outbreak of bird flu was registered in southern Russia.
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Local bird flu outbreaks likely in spring in Russia ? service
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</TD><TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">MOSCOW, April 9 (Itar-Tass) - Local outbreaks of bird flu are possible in Russia in the spring, but veterinary services are ready for them, a senor official of the Federal Service for Supervision of Agriculture, Nikolai Vlasov, told a news conference on Monday.

He said that ?there is a danger of bird flue outbreaks? with the coming of migrating birds to Russia.

?I hope that there will be few outbreaks of bird flu, within a limit of two tens, and they will be local,? he said.

Vlasov stated that ?veterinary services have performed just excellently? during a bird flu outbreak in the Moscow region.

?Infection was localized, although it could spread in the whole region and adjacent regions?.

Most of Russia?s poultry farms with about six million birds are in central regions.

Vlasov called preparedness of Russian veterinary services for a bird flu threat ?one of the best in the world?.

?At present, preliminary vaccination of poultry is going on in Russia, and even in case of virus outbreaks nothing catastrophic will happen in the country,? he said
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Moscow live poultry market facing new bird flu checks

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</TD><TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">MOSCOW, April 9 (Itar-Tass) - The Moscow?s live poultry market Sadovod, which became the source of a bird flu outbreak in the Moscow region early in the year, is facing new checks, the head of the veterinary control department of the Rosselkhoznadzor agricultural watchdog told reporters on Monday.
According to Nikolai Vlasov, staffers of Rosselkhoznadzor and the Rospotrebnadzor consumer rights watchdog as well as Moscow authorities will be engaged in checks.
He said quarantine at the market would be lifted soon. ?I hope Sadovod will be opened with new tighter safety measures,? Vlasov added.
He said this year Rosselkhoznadzor is planning to tighten the rules of trade at live poultry markets. ?New stricter rules will be introduced,? he added.
Vlasov believes it would be expedient to introduce compulsory insurance for people keeping animals. ?If you have a risk, you must have insurance against it, which will give stability to the society,? Vlasov said. However, he admitted that such rules can hardly be introduced at the present moment, as ?the population will not support them?.
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