Chickens being culled in Nuwakot after bird flu detected
...Directorate officials are going door to door to cull chickens, said authorities...
Kumar Dahal, public health inspector at the Department of Health Services, asserted that no humans in the locality had developed influenza-like symptoms. However, as a precaution, Dahal said that Tami-flu, a medicine used to treat the flu, had been administered to some of the local residents.
JAKARTA - The bird flu virus or H5N1 virus may not have been fierce as before, which caused many deaths in humans. However, it has recently emerged that identified a new variant of H5N1 also able to cause death in people infected. The bird flu virus attacks the new clade of thousands of ducks in some parts of Indonesia, especially Java. As a precaution, MoH also perform a number of actions.
"Ministry of Health had sent a circular letter to all Department of Health in Indonesia. We'll let all agencies that seek preventive measures related to the bird flu virus is a new variant, "explained Deputy Minister of Health
Chicken java owned Sukirto, Citizens RT 01 / RW 01, Village Ajibarang Wetan, Ajibarang district, Banyumas died suddenly from 150 tail remaining 20. As a result, a loss and a suspected bird flu. "Suddenly, the chicken 'gelelengan', convulsions and death. I've bought quite a large chicken feed and now a loss. I've been throwing the carcass into the river,"
