Shiloh
Editor, Senior Moderator
Source: http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=41727
EDITORIAL
Courting disaster
REPUBLICA
Excerpt:
It was slow to start culling 6,500 infected chicken in two poultry farms in Sunsari district. Given the region?s experience with bird flu, one would have thought that the office would be better prepared than to frantically start looking around for Tamiflu?the antiviral that is a must for the people involved in culling?when the virus was confirmed in local poultry. The shortage of the vital medication in turn has delayed the culling, which could be dangerous. The longer the virus is present in the poultry population, the more the risk of its spread.
There also seems to be some kind of a delay in the culling process in Ilam. Failures have been evident on other fronts too. It is common knowledge that the virus is imported into Nepal through the porous Indian border. But no lasting measures (provision of fowl monitoring posts at border points, for instance) seems to have been taken to prevent inter-country transfer.
All this suggest Nepali authorities are taking the matter lightly...
EDITORIAL
Courting disaster
REPUBLICA
Excerpt:
It was slow to start culling 6,500 infected chicken in two poultry farms in Sunsari district. Given the region?s experience with bird flu, one would have thought that the office would be better prepared than to frantically start looking around for Tamiflu?the antiviral that is a must for the people involved in culling?when the virus was confirmed in local poultry. The shortage of the vital medication in turn has delayed the culling, which could be dangerous. The longer the virus is present in the poultry population, the more the risk of its spread.
There also seems to be some kind of a delay in the culling process in Ilam. Failures have been evident on other fronts too. It is common knowledge that the virus is imported into Nepal through the porous Indian border. But no lasting measures (provision of fowl monitoring posts at border points, for instance) seems to have been taken to prevent inter-country transfer.
All this suggest Nepali authorities are taking the matter lightly...