Sally Furniss
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Measures against bird flu cost Czech poultry breeders
http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/index_view.php?id=249759
Prague- Measures taken last year owing to a risk of bird flu spread to the Czech Republic caused losses to the extent of Kc1bn to Czech poultry breeders, while pharmaceutical firms gained Kc1bn, the business daily Hospodarske noviny reported today.
The State Veterinary Administration (SVS) announced last week it was lifting the remaining extraordinary measures as of May 1. Poultry breeders expect chicken prices to go up in the weeks to come.
Farmers incurred losses not only because of strict veterinary measures, but in particular due to higher poultry imports at low prices from southern European countries where panic broke out over bird flu and people refused to eat chickens.
Czech poultry producer Xaverov director Zdenek Stepanek said poultry imports had increased by up to 20 percent, while prices had fallen by 15 percent.
On the other hand, pharmaceutical company Roche sold the Tamiflu medicine worth nearly Kc1bn to the state reserves. The Czech Republic bought the medicine for about a quarter of its population.
Bird flu started to spread to Europe in the autumn of 2005, with the first case detected in the Czech Republic in the spring of last year. The country registered a total of 14 infected birds, all of them dead swans infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus dangerous to humans. The last two cases were reported in May.
http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/index_view.php?id=249759
Prague- Measures taken last year owing to a risk of bird flu spread to the Czech Republic caused losses to the extent of Kc1bn to Czech poultry breeders, while pharmaceutical firms gained Kc1bn, the business daily Hospodarske noviny reported today.
The State Veterinary Administration (SVS) announced last week it was lifting the remaining extraordinary measures as of May 1. Poultry breeders expect chicken prices to go up in the weeks to come.
Farmers incurred losses not only because of strict veterinary measures, but in particular due to higher poultry imports at low prices from southern European countries where panic broke out over bird flu and people refused to eat chickens.
Czech poultry producer Xaverov director Zdenek Stepanek said poultry imports had increased by up to 20 percent, while prices had fallen by 15 percent.
On the other hand, pharmaceutical company Roche sold the Tamiflu medicine worth nearly Kc1bn to the state reserves. The Czech Republic bought the medicine for about a quarter of its population.
Bird flu started to spread to Europe in the autumn of 2005, with the first case detected in the Czech Republic in the spring of last year. The country registered a total of 14 infected birds, all of them dead swans infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus dangerous to humans. The last two cases were reported in May.