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Stepped up Veterinary, Anti-Epizootic Work

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

    Pyongyang, September 15 (KCNA) -- September and October are veterinary and anti-epizootic months in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. In this period, the live-stock breeding centers and families raising domestic animals across the country are directing efforts to keeping environment clean and anti-epizootic work.
    The large modern poultry farms across the country including the Hadang and Mangyongdae Chicken Farms in Pyongyang are engaged in cleaning and sterilizing swampy lands, feed stores, puddles and so on to prevent bacilli and harmful insects from wintering.
    The Hamhung City Youth Goat Farm and other herbivorous animals breeding farms are investigating the pasture destruction and pollution and taking relevant steps while quarantining sheep and goats.
    A nation-wide campaign is under way to vaccinate domestic animals and exterminate harmful insects.
    Meanwhile, the DPRK government has directed efforts to the prevention of bird flu even after the State Emergency Veterinary and Anti-epizootic Committee announced on July 5 that H7*-style bird flu had been exterminated completely in the country. A well-arranged system for investigating migrants has been established in the country. Special attention is being directed to observing migrants in the period when they are moving in connection with the outbreak of bird influenza in surrounding countries. A material and technical foundation has been laid for reporting outbreak of bird flu to the center instantly and correctly and for preventing epidemic diseases. Due efforts are being directed to the development of vaccine according to bird flu virus.