Re: Indonesia - Bird Flu in Poultry/Animals
Re: Indonesia - Bird Flu in Poultry/Animals
Hair and Manure Poultry Scattered Everywhere
Tangerang registered as the most origin of the bird flu sufferer in Indonesia.
That meaning that, the big danger threatened in front of the eyes,
but the government and most residents of appearance did not too much heed him.
Chicken hairs flew in front of the Ayam Gerendeng Market, Kecamatan Karawaci, Kota Tangerang.
The chicken hair came from the chicken and the other poultry kind
that every day came and went from the market in Street Imam Bonjol.
Scenery could be like that seen by us daily began to be free at daybreak until before the afternoon.
The traders displayed hundreds of cages contained the piece chicken, the nonpedigreed chicken, was unable to go any further, and the chicken decorated in the side of the road, Street Imam Bonjol through to foreign the Sari Asih Hospital.
Yes, the place indeed became the trade site in the chicken and the other poultry kind.
Since striking 05,00 traders from outside the Tangerang City brought the merchandise poultry there.
The buyer most were the trader of the living chicken in the traditional market.
The situation took place for years without being touched on by any side that was linked with the prevention of the bird flu illness.
The health experts of the animal and humankind expected the animal of the poultry kind that was infected by the virus avian influenza (bird flu to the animal) could spread him to humankind.
The news about the death of the bird flu sufferer from the City and the Tangerang Regency in succession from 2005 to 2008 was not influential in the economic activity there.
The trade in the living chicken stayed proceeding.
Continue to Mingle
Congestion of the traffic flow in Street Imam the Protruberance appeared to blind the resident and the local government to unusual scenery and necessarily might not happen that.
How with the situation in the market.
Please visited in the traditional markets.
Dozens of kiosks of the chicken trader, the duck, and entok the life was then spread in many associated places with the trader, vegetables, and the various wares for sale.
This situation could easily was encountered in the Anyar Market, Pasar Lama, Babakan, and the Gerendeng Market in the Tangerang City.
The condition more or less equally also could be seen in the traditional market in the Tangerang Regency territory.
The normal chicken trader placed the chicken coop in front of the kiosk in order to facilitate the buyer chose the poultry.
After the agreement happening, the seller of the chicken cut and cleaned chicken hairs in the same place.
Be the kiosk that in general measuring 8 square metre this was multifunctional.
The place of the living poultry, slaughtering, the cleaning of the hair and his bowel, as well as the payment transaction.
The trader enough throw away the waste of the chicken in the ditch below or the side of the kiosk or was thrown to the closest rubbish bin.
In fact, the ditch not all flowed smooth.
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Chicken here daily are substituted with that was new because the chicken and the duck could not remain more than three days, could die.
Therefore daily I the new chicken expenses in the Gerendeng Market," Mukri words (35), the chicken trader lived in the Anyar Market, on Monday afternoon.
He did not know from where the chicken origin lived that he bought.
"He said from Java, but sometimes was also that from the Tangerang Regency," he said.
Was he frightened to bird flu?
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No, not frightened.
I from passing the PRIMARY SCHOOL had two children already chicken merchandise lived.
In fact still was healthy.
If the time died, yes died..., " he said light.
With the naked hands, he held the living chicken or washed the chicken that has died.
After that he at once washed the face from water in the drum of the place cleaned the chicken that has been clean from his hair.
NY Mukrim and the pilgrim Nurayah, the trader of the living chicken in Gerendeng then was convinced will not be affected by bird flu.
"Di Sini was often scolded, saw his place was also clean," he said.
Not understanding
But, the chicken traders evidently did not yet understand concerning the bird flu illness and his spread.
Also, what happened on humankind that was attacked by the illness.
"At this place had never had the explanation.
I want to heard in fact the bird flu what, not only his rumours," Saepudin words, the chicken trader in the Anyar Market.
Could be this indifference came from to not comprehending would the danger of the bird flu illness.
The department of the Health recorded as many as 129 Indonesian residents suffered bird flu.
From the number, 105 patients including dying.
More specific, from the total bird flu patient, 32 people including coming from the Regency and the Tangerang City.
The patient's mortality rate from Tangerang reached 96 percent.
The death of the humankind happened from 2005 to the beginning of 2008.
That not to mention the death of millions of poultries and the other animal, the pig, for example, that it was suspected contracted the virus avian influenza.
The height of the bird flu sufferer and the death rate him that made the government make Tangerang the control pilot project of bird flu since 2007.
The project was worth Rp 44,0604 billion that came from the United States Government, Singapore, and Indonesia.
Of course the control of bird flu did not only prepare isolation space for the sufferer.
Made the community to be aware the bird flu danger of becoming the matter was more important so that they are more careful "socialised" with the living poultry.
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