Russia to host international bird flu conference
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Posted: 14-Mar-2006 00:15 hrs
http://www.todayonline.com/articles/106394.asp
Russian health workers collect dead chikens from a bird-flu infected farm in February 2006. Russia is to host an international conference on limiting the spread of the deadly bird flu virus.
Russia is to host an international conference on limiting the spread of the deadly bird flu virus.
.Virus experts, doctors, vets and farmers from the United States, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Georgia, Kazakhstan and several other countries will gather in Moscow on March 21 and 22 to discuss the issue, Russian news agency Itar-Tass quoted agriculture ministry official Serguei Dankvert as saying..
"One of the main issues under discussion will be the way we implement the decisions made by the World Organisation for Animal Health and regional organisations working to halt the international spread of avian flu," he said.
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Nine regions in the south of Russia have been affected by the H5N1 bird flu virus, which has caused 97 deaths in the world since it appeared in 2003.
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But the country has not yet recorded any cases of the disease in humans, Guennadi Onichtchenko, Russia's public health chief, said Tuesday.
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Experts fear the virus could mutate into a strain that could be transmitted easily among humans, circumstances that could cause a global pandemic. ? AFP
Time is GMT + 8 hours
Posted: 14-Mar-2006 00:15 hrs
http://www.todayonline.com/articles/106394.asp
Russian health workers collect dead chikens from a bird-flu infected farm in February 2006. Russia is to host an international conference on limiting the spread of the deadly bird flu virus.
Russia is to host an international conference on limiting the spread of the deadly bird flu virus.
.Virus experts, doctors, vets and farmers from the United States, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Georgia, Kazakhstan and several other countries will gather in Moscow on March 21 and 22 to discuss the issue, Russian news agency Itar-Tass quoted agriculture ministry official Serguei Dankvert as saying..
"One of the main issues under discussion will be the way we implement the decisions made by the World Organisation for Animal Health and regional organisations working to halt the international spread of avian flu," he said.
.
Nine regions in the south of Russia have been affected by the H5N1 bird flu virus, which has caused 97 deaths in the world since it appeared in 2003.
.
But the country has not yet recorded any cases of the disease in humans, Guennadi Onichtchenko, Russia's public health chief, said Tuesday.
.
Experts fear the virus could mutate into a strain that could be transmitted easily among humans, circumstances that could cause a global pandemic. ? AFP