Lebanon - Dead chickens being tested / owner under obsv in Beirut for "cold"

[Theresa42]

Machine translated from Arabic:

The death of 3 chickens in Anfhnqaba the poultry: no injuries by "the bird flu"
April 06, 2006

The Lebanese syndicate of the poultry breeding denied the last rumors about the presence of a disease "the bird flu" in Lebanon, and it said in a statement yesterday: "an industry is exposed the poultry and specially during this period to delusions and rumors no correctness of them, and as if it the eradication of this wealth that is not estimated at prices toward a sustenance is wanted by them thousands of families and the useful animal protein food ( ...)". On the other side, he led the death of 3 chickens in its nose - Al-Kura District, to the propagation of an atmosphere who the worry between the town peoples is, where it came immediately a team from the Ministry of Agriculture with keeping up a force from the army. Also the justice doctor attended doctor Michal Neima, and samples of the dead chickens took for holding the necessary examinations. And the landlord transferred where the three chickens died, and she is injured basically by the cold, to the governmental hospital of Beirut for holding the necessary examinations. And the Egyptian the vice chairman Bilal reported "that the hospital is waiting for the examinations results the one that requires 12 hours where we wish that it is good".

http://www.annaharonline.com/htd/ECO060406.HTM

 

[Mingus]

Re: Lebanon - Dead chickens being tested / owner under obsv in Beirut for "cold"

Can it link link to that H7 story from pro-med from sunday ?

H7 can be HPAI... and if H7 and H5 is in the same area...

recombination ?

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3607

 

[JJackson]

Re: Lebanon - Dead chickens being tested / owner under obsv in Beirut for "cold"

Or reassortment - that would might the vax problem interesting.

 

[Susie]

Translation of what is happening in Lebanon

Translation of what is happening in Lebanon

Translation of article from the Lebanese paper An-Nahaar, 6th April 2006

Despite having adopted plans to prevent the arrival of bird flu, will Akkar's farms escape the danger that is staring them in the face?

Akkar ? Michel Halaq

It appears that the measures taken to limit a bird flu epidemic in Akkar are nearly all in place, or at least in the big poultry farms. Poultry farmers in the smaller farms and private homes, however, are still not treating the issue seriously enough. They allow their chickens to roam outside, exposing them in the process to all manner of diseases. And anything might happen when they mingle with flocks of migrating birds. Concerned officials have thus demanded that all farmers persist in enacting the precautionary measures. In this connection, the bird censuses carried out by the town mayors in the Northern provinces are nearly complete. This is despite the great difficulty found in counting poultry in remote hamlets and those villages without a mayor. For example, the town of Halba carried out such a survey and found there to be 1542 birds in 22 farms, comprising white chickens, 130 doves and 5 geese.

The mayor also assigned the surveying team the task of telling the farmers of the necessity of feeding their poultry inside their coops, and that they must not set them free in the fields or garden. That said, pigeons and doves still fly freely, and some people continue to hunt, not withstanding the very real danger of the strain mutating.

1000s of sea gulls are flocking into land on an unprecedented scale, searching for food amongst the rubbish dumps along the North coast. They are vulnerable to passing ducks or swans that might have the infection. According to a source in the team tracking Akkar's droves, more than 120,000 chickens have been destroyed thus far, and that the correct procedure for burial is by depositing slaked lime on top of the birds, in special pits..

Most of those, however, were destroyed away from the prying eyes of the inspector, and simply chucked onto the garbage heap, left in the open air, put in jars, or worse still, tossed into rivers as happened a month ago in the Miniara area.

And it appears that the relevant authorities have been slow to implement the prescribed-step of disinfecting all vehicles entering and leaving Lebanon from the northern border crossings of al-Aboudiya and al-Arida

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