North Korea inoculates poultry against bird flu

[Shiloh]

Source: http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2008/04/30/86/0401000000AEN20080430002200315F.HTML


2008/04/30 10:09 KST
N.K. forms emergency office to prevent bird flu outbreak

혻 혻 SEOUL, April 30 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has established an emergency state committee overseeing efforts to prevent the possible spread of bird flu, which has inflicted serious damage in South Korea, according to North Korean television Wednesday.

혻 혻 "The emergency state quarantine committee was formed to work out national plans to prevent a possible outbreak of bird flu," the North's Central TV said.

혻혻 The move came at the instruction of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, the report added.

혻 혻 The North has banned South Korean poultry products and eggs from the joint industrial complex in Kaesong, just north of the inter-Korean border, since Saturday to prevent the cross-border spread of the disease.

혻혻 Over 5 million birds have been culled in South Korea since the first outbreak was reported in Gimje, North Jeolla Province, earlier this month.

혻혻 The Central TV said the committee is orchestrating provincial administrations' sanitation measures, livestock quarantine as well as other programs to prevent bird flu. The report, however, did not mention when the committee was organized.

혻 혻 North Korea destroyed 210,000 chickens during the bird flu outbreak in 2005. It has since actively taken part in anti-epidemic programs offered by the World Health Organization.

혻혻 sshim@yna.co.kr

 

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Source: http://www.huliq.com/58318/north-korea-sets-emergency-body-against-bird-flu

North Korea sets up emergency body against bird flu

North Korea said on Wednesday that it has set up an emergency unit to tackle possible bird flu outbreaks after the disease spread widely in South Korea.

"The emergency state quarantine committee was formed to work out national plans to prevent a possible outbreak of bird flu," said a television channel.

The committee will coordinate quarantine measures by local governments, the TV said, adding that it was set up on the instructions of leader Kim Jong-Il.

The North last week banned South Korean poultry, chicken meat or eggs from being brought into the Kaesong joint industrial estate north of the border as a precautionary measure.

The North has reported no new case since it destroyed 210,000 chickens during an outbreak in 2005.

It has since actively taken part in anti-epidemic programmes offered by the World Health Organisation.

The South was still struggling on Wednesday to contain the spread of bird flu since the latest outbreak began in its southwestern Jeolla provinces on 1st April.

A total of 29 poultry farms had been hit by avian influenza with over five million chickens and ducks slaughtered so far this year, according to the agriculture ministry.

A suspected case was reported at a chicken farm in southeast Daegu, the ministry said today, in a sign the outbreak is still spreading.

Source: DDNEWS

 

[sharon sanders]

North Korea inoculates poultry against bird flu

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North Korea said Monday it has inoculated poultry against bird flu to prevent the spread of the virus from neighboring South Korea.

The North's Korean Central News Agency quoted quarantine official Ri Kyong Gun as saying all poultry in provinces near the border with the South have received emergency vaccinations, citing a bird flu outbreak in southern South Korea.

South Korea has slaughtered about 6.5 million chickens, ducks and other poultry since early last month when bird flu broke out there for the first time in more than a year.

Ri was quoted as saying the North has also set up 1,600 observation posts along the east and west coasts to monitor the movement of migratory birds ? which he said are a key way the virus spreads.

The North has intensified its quarantine efforts on poultry farms and ordered farmers to keep their poultry in pens to stop them from coming into contact with migratory birds, it said.

The North banned South Korean poultry and eggs from a joint South-North industrial zone late last month, according to the Kaesong Industrial District Management Committee.

South Korea had been sending 85,000 tons of chicken and 127,000 eggs to the complex in the North Korean border city of Kaesong every month for food for workers there, according to the South Korean Unification Ministry.

Bird flu hit North Korea in 2005, leading to the killing of about 210,000 birds, but no new cases have been reported since then.

http://www.tv3.co.nz/News/NorthKore.../articleID/54764/Default.aspx?ArticleID=54764

 

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Epidemiological Survey on Virus of Avian Flu Intensified in DPRK

Pyongyang, May 9 (KCNA) -- The DPRK has taken measures to prevent avian influenza from spreading to and breaking out in the country.
Cha Chol U, vice-director of the Central Hygienic Prevention Centre under the Ministry of Public Health, said in an interview with KCNA that in order to prevent the bird flu, a matter of grave concern in the world, it is imperative to keep its virus from infiltrating into the country.
He went on:
For this purpose, the government has established a well-organized epidemiological survey system.
The hygienic prevention centres and public health establishments across the country are registering all those who suffer from influenza and are thoroughly checking them to find whether they are infected by bird flu virus and taking relevant measures, while conducting hygienic propaganda activities in those areas.
Meanwhile a hygienic quarantine campaign is intensified in frontier posts, railway stations and ports.
Those from the bird-flu-stricken countries should have a thorough medical check-up and poultry imports from those countries are banned.
Efforts are also channeled to the work for watching migratory birds, main carrier of the bird flu and reporting the results.
The birds' migration courses and their habitats are grasped in detail and measures are taken against any trifling symptoms in time.
A campaign for disinfection and vaccination is also pushed ahead in poultry farms.
The working people in different parts of the country are turning out as one in the efforts to get common knowledge of the bird flu and to prevent the disease. :tiphat: http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2008/200805/news05/10.htm#7