Myanmar Poultry April 23+

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<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" width="99%"><tbody><tr><td>[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Seven poultry farms hit by bird flu in Yangon since February [/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td width="83%">[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Posted on : 2007-04-22 | Author : DPA
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[/FONT] <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" width="100%"> <tbody><tr valign="top"> <td>[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Yangon,- Seven poultry farms in Yangon's neighbouring townships have been hit by outbreaks of the H5N1 virus since February leading to the culling of 65,812 birds, Sunday dailies reported. According to laboratory tests, 24 samples out of 675 samples from the affected farms were infected, while the virus was also detected in six samples of the dead crows out of 561 samples taken of wild birds, reported The New Light of Myanmar.

The cullings and sample tests have been conducted in cooperation with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and US Agency for International Development, between March 6 and April 21. Restrictions on transport and sale of poultry and poultry products in the five townships has since been lifted.

The government has requested the people and breeders to come forward with information on the dead birds, to ensure bio-security and cooperate with the department in order to be able to prevent the recurrence of bird flu.

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Re: Myanmar Poultry April 23+

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The Myanmar livestock authorities Sunday urged people in Yangon to keep taking biosecurity measures in poultry farms although the outbreak of the avian influenza in the city has been claimed to be under control.

Warning that some residuals of the virus are still in existence, the Livestock Breeding and Veterinary Department, in a statement releases here, called on the people to continue to report unusual death of poultry if found and not to sell and consume affected poultry and its products to ensure no recurrence of the virus.

Bird flu broke out in five townships in Yangon over the period from Feb. 28 to March 31 this year, and restrictions on transport and sale of chickens, ducks, quills and their products in those areas was lifted on last April 22.

The five townships were Mayangon, Hlaingtharya, North Okkalapa, Mingaladon and Hmawby.

The statement disclosed that post-outbreak surveillance was carried out in areas three kilometers radius of the affected farms after outbreak containment based on serum and other samples of 44, 000 poultry.

Although antigen was found from serum of a duck farm, no bird flu virus was found from other samples, the statement added.

According to official statistics, during the bird flu outbreak period, nearly 2,000 fowls died of the virus with 65,812 poultry from the affected farms and those nearby were culled.

According to the Myanmar authorities, no human cases have so far been detected with bird flu virus in Yangon.

Source: Xinhua

http://english.people.com.cn/200705/27/eng20070527_378373.html


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