Saturday, May 13, 2006

CHINA, EU, INDONESIA, RUSSIA ENABLED QUARANTINE ZONES AROUND BIRD FLU INFECTED FARMS

THE UNITED STATES IS CONSIDERING QUARANTINE ZONES FOR ENTIRE STATES


THEORIES OF BIRD FLU SPREADING VIA POULTRY FARMS AND INDUSTRY, AND NOT SOLELY BY MIGRATORY BIRDS, NOW BEING TAKEN SERIOUSLY

The US Department of Agriculture has plans to enact state-wide quarantine zones should there be severe, multiple outbreaks of the bird flu virus on poultry farms.

State wide quarantines would be initiated in the event of multiple outbreaks, and would apply to all poultry farms within the states selected. This quarantine zone would, following the methodologies used to contain outbreaks in the EU and England, restrict the movement of all people in the state wide zones, not just poultry farm workers.

The aim of this would be to totally restrict the movement of poultry birds, people, vehicles and equipment, so that the virus could not be carried into other farms, in other states.


This is a sure sign the US is, quietly, taking very seriously the theories that it is the movement of people and vehicles between poultry farms that have helped to spread the virus across China, Russia, the EU and Indonesia, instead of the "on the wing" theory, where the virus spread via migratory birds.


Recent studies have shown migratory birds did not bring the virus to Africa, as predicted, and other regions of the world, including Australia.


Permits for people, vehicles and equipment to leave and enter poultry farms, and the state wide quarantine zones, would be restricted until intense cleaning and disinfection measures had been taken.


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