Monday, February 20, 2006

GERMANY DECLARES ZERO TOLERANCE IN FIGHT AGAINST BIRD FLU SPREAD

CLAIMS VIRUS LIVES ON IN BIRD DROPPINGS

From Deutsche Welle :

"Germany's agriculture minister expects bird flu to spread throughout the country and urged officials to prepare for a worst-case scenario."

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Dead swans now litter a Baltic Sea island.

The German government has ordered all poultry stocks to be kept indoors. For those violating the emergency order, the German health minister has stated, 'There will be zero tolerance.'


"According to the Friedrich Loeffler Institute, the disease is highly contagious and can easily be picked up and spread when people walk through bird droppings in contaminated areas."



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