Local bird flu outbreaks in spring in Russia

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  Local bird flu outbreaks likely in spring in Russia

 MOSCOW, April 9 (Itar-Tass) - Local outbreaks of bird flu are possible in Russia in the spring, but veterinary services are ready for them, a senor official of the Federal Service for Supervision of Agriculture, Nikolai Vlasov, told a news conference on Monday. 

He said that “there is a danger of bird flue outbreaks” with the coming of migrating birds to Russia. 

“I hope that there will be few outbreaks of bird flu, within a limit of two tens, and they will be local,” he said. 

Vlasov stated that “veterinary services have performed just excellently” during a bird flu outbreak in the Moscow region. 

“Infection was localized, although it could spread in the whole region and adjacent regions”. 

Most of Russia’s poultry farms with about six million birds are in central regions. 

Vlasov called preparedness of Russian veterinary services for a bird flu threat “one of the best in the world”. 

“At present, preliminary vaccination of poultry is going on in Russia, and even in case of virus outbreaks nothing catastrophic will happen in the country,” he said. 

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	http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=11415847&PageNum=0 Local bird flu outbreaks likely in spring in Russia MOSCOW, April 9 (Itar-Tass) - Local outbreaks of bird flu are possible in Russia in the spring, but veterinary services are ready for them, a senor official of the Federal Service for Supervision of Agriculture, Nikolai Vlasov, told a news conference on Monday. He said that “there is a danger of bird flue outbreaks” with the coming of migrating birds to Russia. “I hope that there will be few outbreaks of bird flu, within a limit of two tens, and they will be local,” he said. Vlasov stated that “veterinary services have performed just excellently” during a bird flu outbreak in the Moscow region. “Infection was localized, although it could spread in the whole region and adjacent regions”. Most of Russia’s poultry farms with about six million birds are in central regions. Vlasov called preparedness of Russian veterinary services for a bird flu threat “one of the best in the world”. “At present, preliminary vaccination of poultry is going on in Russia, and even in case of virus outbreaks nothing catastrophic will happen in the country,” he said.

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	http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=11415376&PageNum=0 Bird flu outbreak possible in Far East, Central Russia - ministry 09.04.2007, 11.18 MOSCOW, April 9 (Itar-Tass) - The Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations does not rule out bird flu outbreaks in the Far East, in northwestern Russia and in Central Russia. �It is still possible that bird flu can be brought to the south of the Primorsky Territory and the Sakhalin region from neighbouring territories,� sources from the ministry information department told Tass on Monday. An outbreak of bird flu is still possible in the Moscow, Tver, Smolensk, Kaluga, Tula, Ryazan and Vladimir regions, they said. According to them, �the spread of the virus to poultry farms and contagion of the risk group � workers of poultry farms, owners of domestic birds and specialists destroying ill poultry, are not ruled out�.