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Brisk Preventive Work against Bird Flu in Korea

KCNA

    Pyongyang, February 5 (KCNA) -- A brisk work to prevent bird flu is going on in Korea. Leader Kim Jong Il on several occasions in January gave detailed instructions to prevent bird flu rapidly spreading in Asian countries.
    Officials of the agricultural and public health ministries are taking an active part in this work. According to a program of the State Emergency Veterinary Anti-epidemic Committee, a permanent group has been organized and it is giving meticulous guidance to the veterinary anti-epidemic committees formed in the provinces, cities and counties and at poultry breeding farms so that they can conduct their work satisfactorily.
    The Agricultural Ministry has sent out technical data on preventing bird flu to the provinces, cities and counties and is giving technical lectures to officials of veterinary anti-epidemic stations at all levels with flexibility. The Public Health Ministry has formed a permanent group mainly with officials of the State Hygienic Inspection Centre and the Preventive and the Curative Department as it did when working to prevent SARS last year.
    The hygienic and anti-epidemic officials and house-calling doctors are all out in a hygienic propaganda campaign to bring the population to the knowledge of the danger of this flu and the course of its spread and measures for preventing it.
    Flawless measures are being taken to conduct strict veterinary and hygienic quarantine at ports, on borderlines, at airports and especially in the areas along the Demarcation Line for the prevention of the infiltration of its virus. Veterinary inspectors unconditionally intercept problematic items from areas of the outbreak of the flu. Notably, processed poultry is subjected to strict inspection.
    The examination of foreign travelers is fairly on a high level. The country is taking measures for the production of preventive medicines and vaccination under a far-reaching plan.