Russia tightens control over Chinese nationals from entering because of bird flu

[Sally Furniss]

Russia tightens control over Chinese nationals from entering because of bird flu

January 26, 2009


Rospotrebnadzor reinforce preventive measures in the country in connection with cases of bird flu recorded this year in China.

?I asked to tighten up, and be wary of persons arriving from China, especially with some symptoms?, - said the chief sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko Russia.

?We are very carefully and with great concern the situation in China?, - he said.

According to the head of Rospotrebnadzor, since the beginning of 2009, China reported five confirmed cases of bird flu, including four fatalities.

Onishchenko said that cases of bird flu recorded in regions that do not border on Russia. In this regard, particular attention will be doctors for passengers arriving from China to Russia by air, transfers

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[Shiloh]

Re: Russia tightens control over Chinese nationals from entering because of bird flu

Source: http://en.rian.ru/russia/20090128/119844576.html

Russia tightens disease control amid bird flu deaths in China
15:25 | 28/ 01/ 2009

MOSCOW, January 28 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's chief sanitary official has instructed regional authorities to tighten disease control measures amid a rise in the number of bird flu cases in China, his press service said on Wednesday.

According to the World Health Organization, eight cases of human bird flu infection have been registered worldwide in 2009 - two in Egypt and six in China. Five people in China have died. However, the WHO said they did not believe China was facing a bird flu epidemic as all the cases were scattered around the country and appear to be random.

"He [Russia's chief sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko] instructed to provide quarantine stations at crossings on the Chinese border with disinfectants, individual protective clothing and equipment to identify people with increased body temperature arriving from China and other countries of bird flu concern," the press service said.

Onishchenko also urged improved measures of bird flu vaccinations for people working at poultry farms.

Disease control will also be tightened at markets selling live poultry and pet birds, as well as at airports receiving flights from China and other bird flu-affected countries.

A total of 399 cases of human infection with the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu have been registered worldwide since 2003, in 252 of them have been fatal. No confirmed cases of human bird flu infection have been reported in Russia