Iraq: Speaks of Confirmed Case This Year & Plans To Monitor Birdflu #H5N1 in Birds Entering

Daily Bulletin for Iraq 10 on Tuesday, January 25, 2011

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Environment, develop a plan to monitor birds entering Iraq via satellite
(Voice of Iraq)
The Ministry of Environment in Iraq, Monday, will leave them a plan to monitor migratory birds to Iraq via satellite for the prevention of the spread of viruses that cause avian influenza, confirmed that Iraq was still at least the disease between the countries of the world.
The head of the Chamber of pandemic influenza in the Ministry of Environment Hussein Jawad al-Asadi said in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "Iraq has a plan to monitor bird staging areas in agreement with the migrating birds, including the direction of Iraq, to control satellite solutions for the spread of HIV Anfelonzha birds ", pointing out that" areas of the marshes and Kurdistan is one of the most important areas to birds that migrate in the country. "
The Asadi that "the Ministry of Environment will be in cooperation with the Ministry of Health as responsible for it, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce after it ascertained the presence of infected birds, whether migrating to Iraq or poultry to take ways and oversight to prevent the spread of the disease in Iraq through environmental awareness, as well as for preventive measures related to preventing the importation of meat and eggs from countries that are infected with the disease the epidemic, "stressing" the importance of focusing on the control of the marsh areas, because it is wide areas and isolated. "
The Asadi that "migratory birds arrive in the migration of the first into Iraq from Siberia and Kazakhstan, and then to Iran and to the marsh areas to settle in the region for nearly 90 days, and the migration of the other comes from European countries to reach the territory of Kurdistan through Turkey, to go for almost two months to start again to Africa, "noting that" diseased migratory birds may infect domestic birds and then transfer infection to humans. "
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An official source at the Ministry of Health has revealed in January of this year, the emergence of a single case of avian influenza H5N1 in the city of Baghdad, noting that the results of tests conducted by the Ministry of Health in this case was positive, and Iraq has seen in February of 2006 and the death of a person at the age of 39 years in the province of Sulaymaniyah, north of the country because of his type deadly bird flu virus, according to Iraqi Health Ministry.