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Jordan reports first case of H5N1 bird flu in poultry
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Jordan reports first case of H5N1 bird flu in poultry
AMMAN - The H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus has been confirmed in domestic poultry in Jordan?s Ajloun governorate by Health Minister Saeed Darwazeh on Friday.
?Laboratory tests conducted on a sample of dead poultry at the village of Kofranjeh in the Ajloun governorate have proved the poultry is inflected with the H5N1 strain of bird flu,? Darwazeh was quoted as saying by the Arabic daily Alghad.
Darwazeh said that ministry teams had been assigned the job of ?destroying all infected poultry as a first step? and that measures will be taken ?isolating the disease and preventing its spread to other areas.?
Other Health Ministry sources were quoted by the paper as saying that teams were instructed to take samples from a turkey farm in the Ajloun area, about 40 kilometres north of the capital Amman, where ?dead poultry was suspected of being infected with the bird flu strain.?
On Thursday, Darwazeh held a press conference to declare that Jordan was bird-flu free, but said the Kingdom was placed on maximum alert after the deadly H5N1 virus was detected in neighbouring Egypt, Israel and in Palestinian-occupied territories.
The government had set a one-week deadline for families who breed poultry in the Jordan Valley to get rid of their birds. After the deadline authorities will start culling all home-bred fowl in the area.
According to the Israeli Agriculture Ministry, the bird flu strain that can be fatal to humans was found on Thursday in a Jewish settlement across the border with the Hashemite Kingdom in the Jordan Valley.
The Israeli declaration prompted Jordan to intensify inspections and monitoring in the Jordan Valley, which the government labelled as one of the areas most vulnerable to the disease. Chairman of the Jordanian Veterinary Association Abdul Fattah Kilani said the panel decided to vaccinate poultry in farms located on the country?s border with Israel.
There are some 2,500 farms in Jordan containing about six million poultry, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.
Jordan reports first case of H5N1 bird flu in poultry
AMMAN - The H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus has been confirmed in domestic poultry in Jordan?s Ajloun governorate by Health Minister Saeed Darwazeh on Friday.
?Laboratory tests conducted on a sample of dead poultry at the village of Kofranjeh in the Ajloun governorate have proved the poultry is inflected with the H5N1 strain of bird flu,? Darwazeh was quoted as saying by the Arabic daily Alghad.
Darwazeh said that ministry teams had been assigned the job of ?destroying all infected poultry as a first step? and that measures will be taken ?isolating the disease and preventing its spread to other areas.?
Other Health Ministry sources were quoted by the paper as saying that teams were instructed to take samples from a turkey farm in the Ajloun area, about 40 kilometres north of the capital Amman, where ?dead poultry was suspected of being infected with the bird flu strain.?
On Thursday, Darwazeh held a press conference to declare that Jordan was bird-flu free, but said the Kingdom was placed on maximum alert after the deadly H5N1 virus was detected in neighbouring Egypt, Israel and in Palestinian-occupied territories.
The government had set a one-week deadline for families who breed poultry in the Jordan Valley to get rid of their birds. After the deadline authorities will start culling all home-bred fowl in the area.
According to the Israeli Agriculture Ministry, the bird flu strain that can be fatal to humans was found on Thursday in a Jewish settlement across the border with the Hashemite Kingdom in the Jordan Valley.
The Israeli declaration prompted Jordan to intensify inspections and monitoring in the Jordan Valley, which the government labelled as one of the areas most vulnerable to the disease. Chairman of the Jordanian Veterinary Association Abdul Fattah Kilani said the panel decided to vaccinate poultry in farms located on the country?s border with Israel.
There are some 2,500 farms in Jordan containing about six million poultry, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.
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