0804-07 / Vogelgrippe H5N1 jetzt 28 Fälle

India Times

Russia ministry confirms bird flu outbreak
12 Apr 2008, 0522 hrs IST, AFP

MOSCOW: Russia's agriculture ministry confirmed a bird flu outbreak in a village
in the Far East region of Primorye which was quarantined after scores of
chickens died. "In two days, 28 out of 42 hens and guinea fowl died on a farm"
in the village of Vozdvizhenka, 110 kilometres north of Vladivostok, the
ministry's veterinary control unit said in a statement on Thursday. The dead
birds had been incinerated, it added. A regional laboratory made the discovery
after testing samples taken from sick birds, and a national laboratory was due
to determine if it was the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus. Authorities cordoned
off the village, killed all other fowl on the farm and vaccinated birds in the
village and nearby areas, the ministry said. The H5N1 strain of bird flu has
killed more than 230 people worldwide since late 2003. Experts fear the virus,
which can be spread from birds to humans, could mutate into a form easily
transmissible between people and spark a deadly global pandemic.

Da ein Zusammenhang von MONSANTO und H5N1 wahrscheinlich nicht abgestritten werden kann, stellt dies für die Behörden eine klare Handlungsnotwendigkeit dar, die über eine bloße Beseitigung der Tiere hinausgeht.


Politik-Global 13-04-2008