Iraq - Muthanna governorate monitoring hospitals, poultry farms, any household poultry deaths to watch for H5N1 bird flu infections - July 16, 2016

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[TABLE="border: 0, cellpadding: 0, cellspacing: 0"] [TR] [TD] [TABLE="border: 0, cellpadding: 0, cellspacing: 0"] [TR] [TD] The formation of nine health teams in Muthanna to monitor bird flu cases 07.16.2016 | (Voice of Iraq) - Muthanna announced the veterinary hospital in the province of Muthanna management, on Saturday, for the formation of nine teams to monitor and follow up onany injuries from bird flu in poultry farms and places of breeding birds in the province, its center of Samawah, (270 km south - west of Baghdad), and noted not recorded any cases of the disease in the province so far, and as pointed to continuing to distribute vaccines to poultry farmers, confirmed the launch of an awareness campaign to publicize the symptoms of infection and ways to avoid them. he said the veterinary hospital at the Muthanna director Kareem Abdul - Zahra , "it was the formation of nine teams to monitor and follow up cases infection of bird flu in poultry farms registered at the hospital as well as houses and bird breeders, "he said . " the move comes after the recent spread of thedisease in the capital Baghdad and the province of Wasit. " said Abdul -Zahra," the monitoring teams spread across the regions to follow up onany suspected cases injury to any of the diseases that infect poultry ,"pointing out that" the hospital will work in the coming days incooperation with other departments to launch awareness campaigns to explain the symptoms of bird flu and other diseases in addition to continuing to provide poultry farmers with vaccines and medicines to address any medical conditions quickly. " He stressed Abdul - Zahra, said that " the province have not registered yet any bird flu infections." the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture announced in the (13 July 2016), for Iraq isfree of bird flu after addressing some of the infected spots in the capital Baghdad and the province of Wasit, and confirmed that it "prevented themovement of poultry between the two provinces," as called for border crossings to "not be allowed to enter if they did not carry import license certified by the Ministry of Commerce." the Supreme Committee for thefollow - up pandemic influenza in the Council of Ministers disease, (26th January 2016), for preventing the importation of poultry and poultry products from the Kurdistan region and international border adjacent tohim, after the monitoring of cases of "bird flu" a number of fields in theregion, stressing taking several measures to prevent the transmission of the disease to the rest of the provinces. The bird flu is a disease Vairose an infectious disease of birds, particularly birds wild waterfowl such as ducks and geese, and transmitted between infected birds, with infected birds transporting the virus of the disease to humans through contact withfeces and coming into contact with , but did not prove that the virus of the human go to human until today. According to the World Health Organization, the disease is passed from birds to humans for the first once in 1997 and it appeared in poultry in Hong Kong, and enable HIV, since the appearance and spread again on a large scale in 2003 and 2004, to move from Asia to Europe and Africa; what led to the occurrence ofmillions of casualties among poultry, and several hundred human cases which resulted in many deaths. http://www.sotaliraq.com/newsitem.php?id=340612

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Poultry is not specified in the article below but it is an interesting coincidence....


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Health Muthanna close 704 stores in violation of the terms of

5:05:51 7.19.2016 | (Voice of Iraq) - Muthanna announced theDepartment of Public Health in the Department of Health Muthanna that its control teams seized during the pas tsix months 86 tonnes of expired and 83 thousand liters of beverages unfit for human consumption, as well as the closure of 704 stores is contrary to the conditions. He said section Muslim director Abdullah said in a statement that the control teams applied against the shops where these paragraphs contained material seized in the public Health Act were to impose fines on violators estimated at 23.287 million dinars, noting that the Department of Health and in collaboration with the police leadership has strengthened during the the last period the difference existing in the external checkpoints to prevent the entry of food not in conformity with health conditions. http://www.sotaliraq.com/newsitem.php?id=340976

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