# 1748
In what appears to build on the report from last Sunday, where fowl were reported to have died from bird flu in Basra, we get this report of extensive culling in the area to control the outbreak.
This article mentions `spraying and burning to a distance of up to 30 kilometers from the place of infection', which encompasses a much larger area than is normally targeted in such cases. This large scope may be due to reports that the virus has already spread to 3 villages.
A hat tip to Pugmom on the Wiki for this translation.
Discovery of a third injured bird flu epidemic in Basra
2008-03-04 08:05:22 PUKmedia 2008-03-04 08:05:22 PUKmedia
The morning Jassim Mozan general manager of the company General Veterinary teams are investigating the epidemic of avian influenza infection diagnosed the disease in a third village Alfdaekaya along the Iraqi-Iranian border south of Basra, a region previously recorded by the injury earlier this epidemic.
Mozan said in an interview with "Radio Sawa" The veterinary teams conducted a field survey of all the villages surrounding the whereabouts of infection, and has taken all the required sanitary means of spraying and burning to a distance of up to 30 kilometers from the place of infection, in a precautionary step in the decentralization plan painted in the Ministry of Agriculture , is accredited in all countries of the world, as saying.
He added that the difference veterinary Mozan has burned thousands of poultry and birds in the area of injury and the surrounding area.
He stressed that the Higher Committee of avian influenza in the secretariat of the Council of Ministers empowered sub-committees and operating rooms to compensate residents for poultry destroyed by the disease, whether infected or not infected, because the objective to contain infection, he said.
