Tuesday, January 22, 2013
DENPASAR (AFP): Head of the Department of Animal Husbandry and Animal Health Putu Sumantra said Bali Province, in the period December 2012 to the present has four counties on the island tested positive for the bird flu virus that attacks the ducks.
"The case of bird flu in ducks first note on December 26, 2012. Earliest found in Buleleng, then in Klungkung, Tabanan, and Bangli. Meanwhile Abiansemal case, Badung regency, still in the laboratory process," he said in Denpasar on Monday. In Bangli, according to him, cases of bird flu found in chickens.Therefore, it has asked the public to immediately report to the officer if there are cases of death of ducks and chickens. "We to this day do not know what type of bird flu in Bali are the same as in Java," he said. What is clear, according to him, was 2400 ducks in the four districts were dead and 1,500 ducks being culled due to bird flu affected areas. Related to the status of what Bali has included plague, according to him, has yet to gain information such as determination of the outbreak based on rule of law and later delivered by the Minister of Agriculture. Similarly, the truth of the new variant of bird flu virus, it has not received an official report by Central Veterinary laboratory tests conducted in Bukittinggi. "In principle, we have submitted to the Board in Bali to conduct vigilance because based on experience, that there are cases in Java, Bali also appeared. We also have coordinated with the police to tighten quarantine and entry of material from poultry," he said . He added that the results of the meeting in the Director General of Livestock, poultry origin of every ingredient that goes into sua-tu area should receive PCR test. "While Disnak county / city has also been asked to monitor our traffic inter poultry and spraying disinfectant on all potential sites. Biosecurity should do as much as possible," said Sumantra. He said he had been coordinating with the Department of Health in order to improve the preparedness of bird flu viruses do not infect humans.
West Java
Meanwhile, the Animal Husbandry Department of West Java Province (Jabar) states, the number of ducks that died due to suspected flu illness in West Java reached 22 963 duck tail in the span of about a month, ie December 2012 to mid January 2013. "As for the area or areas affected include ducks flu Bandung regency, Brass, Majelengka, Indramayu, and Garut," said Head of the Animal Husbandry Department of West Java Province Koesmayadi Tatang, in London on Monday. He said, to the number of flu cases that occurred in the province of ducks Jabar since first appeared in December 2012 and is a total of 29 cases. It recognizes that to date flu vaccine for ducks has not been found because the manufacture of vaccines are still in the process in the laboratory. Therefore, according to Koesmayadi, for the prevention of the spread of flu in West Java Province ducks still use bird flu vaccine (H5N1). He added, related to a flood that occurred in the region of West Java, seems to be a problem on its own for the spread of flu ducks because they're taking food and drink in a way lolodok (for food and drink with a beak).
"While mucus coming from his mouth will spread the virus. Mucus that if carried water will spread the flu so we were worried it would spread to other ducks during the floods.'s What we need to anticipate, as in Khanewal district," he said. http://www.suarakarya-online.com/news.html?id=319597
