مسدد
29-03-2004, 05:06 AM
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/10/bird.flu.delaware.ap/index.html
يقول الخبر:
DOVER, Delaware (AP) -- Officials took swift action after a second case of bird flu was found in Delaware, ordering the slaughter of 72,000 chickens and the quarantine of 80 farms as they tried to avert more foreign bans on a billion-dollar export industry.
The chickens, from a flock in Sussex County, were killed Tuesday afternoon, said Delaware Secretary of Agriculture Michael Scuse.
Officials said they ordered the destruction of the birds, being raised by an independent farm under contract for poultry giant Perdue Farms Inc., to prevent the spread of the disease.
"This is not a food safety or human health issue, but an animal health issue. We acted quickly to protect poultry flocks," said Dr. Bruce Stewart-Brown, vice president of food safety and quality at Perdue, the No. 1 brand of chickens on the East Coast and fourth in poultry sales nationally.
Delaware officials say the disease is not related to the virulent variety of avian influenza that is blamed for the deaths of at least 19 people in Vietnam and Thailand.
The disease was first found on a farm operated by an independent grower in Kent County. State officials also ordered the slaughter of that farm's 12,000 birds.
About 80 farms within a six-mile radius of the two farms will be quarantined for at least 30 days, state officials said. Scuse said chickens over 21 days old will be tested every 10 days during the quarantine.
"This now is a very, very serious matter. We have a multibillion-dollar industry at stake," Scuse said.
Hong Kong announced Wednesday it was expanding its ban on imports of poultry products from Delaware to the entire United States. Ukraine also announced Wednesday a temporary ban on imports of Delaware poultry products.
They join China, Poland, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea in banning U.S. poultry imports. Russia, America's largest poultry export market, has banned only imports from Delaware.
Annual poultry exports total more than $1.7 billion, about $1.4 billion of it in shipments of broiler chickens.
If the avian influenza does not spread, the effect of the bans could be short-lived, said Richard Lobb, a spokesman for the National Chicken Council, a producers and processors trade group.
But U.S. officials must show the world that they have the disease properly diagnosed and are eradicating it, Lobb said.
No recalls have been ordered, agriculture officials said. The sale or the movement of chickens by large poultry companies has not been stopped, Scuse said.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/10/bird.flu.delaware.ap/index.html
يقول الخبر:
DOVER, Delaware (AP) -- Officials took swift action after a second case of bird flu was found in Delaware, ordering the slaughter of 72,000 chickens and the quarantine of 80 farms as they tried to avert more foreign bans on a billion-dollar export industry.
The chickens, from a flock in Sussex County, were killed Tuesday afternoon, said Delaware Secretary of Agriculture Michael Scuse.
Officials said they ordered the destruction of the birds, being raised by an independent farm under contract for poultry giant Perdue Farms Inc., to prevent the spread of the disease.
"This is not a food safety or human health issue, but an animal health issue. We acted quickly to protect poultry flocks," said Dr. Bruce Stewart-Brown, vice president of food safety and quality at Perdue, the No. 1 brand of chickens on the East Coast and fourth in poultry sales nationally.
Delaware officials say the disease is not related to the virulent variety of avian influenza that is blamed for the deaths of at least 19 people in Vietnam and Thailand.
The disease was first found on a farm operated by an independent grower in Kent County. State officials also ordered the slaughter of that farm's 12,000 birds.
About 80 farms within a six-mile radius of the two farms will be quarantined for at least 30 days, state officials said. Scuse said chickens over 21 days old will be tested every 10 days during the quarantine.
"This now is a very, very serious matter. We have a multibillion-dollar industry at stake," Scuse said.
Hong Kong announced Wednesday it was expanding its ban on imports of poultry products from Delaware to the entire United States. Ukraine also announced Wednesday a temporary ban on imports of Delaware poultry products.
They join China, Poland, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea in banning U.S. poultry imports. Russia, America's largest poultry export market, has banned only imports from Delaware.
Annual poultry exports total more than $1.7 billion, about $1.4 billion of it in shipments of broiler chickens.
If the avian influenza does not spread, the effect of the bans could be short-lived, said Richard Lobb, a spokesman for the National Chicken Council, a producers and processors trade group.
But U.S. officials must show the world that they have the disease properly diagnosed and are eradicating it, Lobb said.
No recalls have been ordered, agriculture officials said. The sale or the movement of chickens by large poultry companies has not been stopped, Scuse said.