Tuesday, June 13, 2006
China issues emergency bird flu control order
China’s Ministry of Agriculture issued an emergency order today for local governments to tighten controls over poultry stocks to prevent bird flu contamination by migratory birds.
The order calls for strict supervision of areas below all possible flight paths of migratory birds, lakes and other sites with a record of bird flu infection.
Farmers living in these areas are advised to keep their poultry in coops to avoid contact with the migratory birds.
The ministry also ordered immediate reporting of any dead poultry or wild birds to county-level animal epidemic prevention agencies, and suspected cases must be reported to the state-level bird flu laboratories.
A new case of H5N1 bird flu was discovered in