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Turkey confirms return of bird flu in chickens
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 08 - 02 - 2007


Turkey's agriculture
ministry on Thursday confirmed an outbreak of bird flu in the
southeast of the country, just over a year after the H5N1 strain
of the disease killed four children in the region, Reuters reported.
Broadcaster CNN Turk reported that three children in the
area had been put under medical observation for suspected bird
flu but the governor's office in Batman province said no human
cases had been reported.
The agriculture ministry said in a statement bird flu had
been found on Thursday in the village of Bogazkoy in Batman. The
ministry said it believed wild birds had spread the disease.
"We have put under quarantine an area of three square km,"
Batman Governor Haluk Imga told Reuters.
"We will cull nearly 1,500 chickens, ducks and turkeys in
that area. A 25-man team is carrying out this work."
Veterinary experts were making tests to determine whether
the virus was the deadly H5N1 strain.
Last year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed
four deaths in Turkey from H5N1 -- all of them children from the
town of Dogubayazit near the Iranian border in Turkey's
impoverished east.
Eight other Turks tested positive for the H5N1 strain but
recovered, according to WHO data. More than 160 people worldwide
have died of the virus since 2003.
Scientists fear the H5N1 virus could mutate to a form easily
transmitted from human to human. As people would lack immunity,
it could then sweep the world, killing millions, they say.
Victims usually contract bird flu through direct exposure to
diseased or dead poultry.
Experts believe migratory birds originally brought the virus
to Turkey and Europe from Asia and Russia, infecting domestic
poultry. Turkish authorities culled more than 1.3 million birds
during the 2006 outbreaks.
Bird flu is cited as one of the factors behind a 7 percent
drop in Turkish tourism revenues in 2006 from the previous year.


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