Russian Bird Flu Epidemic to Disappear in 10-15 Days — WHO
This is great news, but I have a hard time believing it is the truth.
MosNews 10/08/2005 00:26
Bird flu epidemic in Russian Siberia is subsiding and should disappear in 10-15 days, an official with the World Health Organization (WHO) told Reuters on Tuesday.
“Things are quietening down,” said Oleg Kiselev, the head of a flu research institute operating under the WHO auspices. He said the epidemic “will vanish in 10-15 days. It won’t spread further because of changing weather conditions.”
“It’s never warm enough in Siberia in late August. The measures undertaken have helped localise the outbreak,” Kiselev said.
So far, no humans have been infected in the bird flu outbreak in Russia. The experts considered the situation as stable. Outbreaks among birds in in Russia and, later, in neighboring Kazakhstan have been reported since mid-July. On Monday, mass deaths among farm birds registered since July 10, largely stopped in the worst-affected, quarantined areas of the Novosibirsk region.
Russia is a major poultry meat importer. The European Union has decided to ban imports of chickens and other products from Russia and Kazakhstan, although in practice there is no trade in poultry between the two countries and the EU.
MosNews 10/08/2005 00:26
Bird flu epidemic in Russian Siberia is subsiding and should disappear in 10-15 days, an official with the World Health Organization (WHO) told Reuters on Tuesday.
“Things are quietening down,” said Oleg Kiselev, the head of a flu research institute operating under the WHO auspices. He said the epidemic “will vanish in 10-15 days. It won’t spread further because of changing weather conditions.”
“It’s never warm enough in Siberia in late August. The measures undertaken have helped localise the outbreak,” Kiselev said.
So far, no humans have been infected in the bird flu outbreak in Russia. The experts considered the situation as stable. Outbreaks among birds in in Russia and, later, in neighboring Kazakhstan have been reported since mid-July. On Monday, mass deaths among farm birds registered since July 10, largely stopped in the worst-affected, quarantined areas of the Novosibirsk region.
Russia is a major poultry meat importer. The European Union has decided to ban imports of chickens and other products from Russia and Kazakhstan, although in practice there is no trade in poultry between the two countries and the EU.
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