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ARMENIA SETS UP SURVEILLANCE ALONG TURKISH BORDER TO
PREVENT BIRD FLU SPREAD
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 8, ARMENPRESS: Reports from
neighboring Turkey that bird flu has been detected in
poultry in a village in the northwest of the country
have prompted Armenian authorities to set up a tight
surveillance along the entire Turkish-Armenian border.
Grisha Baghian, head of the food safety and
veterinary directorate of the agricultural ministry,
said Thursday bodies of dead birds found along the
border on the Armenian side are sent promptly for
laboratory examination.
The outbreak was discovered in the Turkish village
of Yenicam, Sakarya province, where dozens of chicken
died recently and the test results have come back
positive.
At the weekend, the Turkish agriculture ministry
said it had detected a bird flu outbreak in the city
of Samsun on the Black Sea Coast, nearly 600
kilometers (370 miles) east of Sakarya.
In January 2006, four teenagers died in a remote
Turkish town near the border with Iran in a major
outbreak of the H5N1 virus which then quickly spread
to more than a half of the country's 81 provinces.
They were the first human casualties of the H5N1
strain outside southeast Asia. In April 2007, Turkey
declared itself free of the virus.
According to Grisha Baghian, Armenia has everything
now to take swift action if bird flu is detected in
the country.
ARMENIA SETS UP SURVEILLANCE ALONG TURKISH BORDER TO
PREVENT BIRD FLU SPREAD
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 8, ARMENPRESS: Reports from
neighboring Turkey that bird flu has been detected in
poultry in a village in the northwest of the country
have prompted Armenian authorities to set up a tight
surveillance along the entire Turkish-Armenian border.
Grisha Baghian, head of the food safety and
veterinary directorate of the agricultural ministry,
said Thursday bodies of dead birds found along the
border on the Armenian side are sent promptly for
laboratory examination.
The outbreak was discovered in the Turkish village
of Yenicam, Sakarya province, where dozens of chicken
died recently and the test results have come back
positive.
At the weekend, the Turkish agriculture ministry
said it had detected a bird flu outbreak in the city
of Samsun on the Black Sea Coast, nearly 600
kilometers (370 miles) east of Sakarya.
In January 2006, four teenagers died in a remote
Turkish town near the border with Iran in a major
outbreak of the H5N1 virus which then quickly spread
to more than a half of the country's 81 provinces.
They were the first human casualties of the H5N1
strain outside southeast Asia. In April 2007, Turkey
declared itself free of the virus.
According to Grisha Baghian, Armenia has everything
now to take swift action if bird flu is detected in
the country.