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Anti-Bird Flu Work Intensified in DPRK

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

   Pyongyang, October 24 (KCNA) -- A nation-wide campaign to prevent bird flu epidemic has been intensified in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea under the unified guidance of the State Emergency Anti-epidemic Committee as it has spread to different parts of the world. The Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Public Health, State Bureau for Quality Control, Pyongyang City Poultry Guidance Bureau and other related units are enhancing their role in this campaign. In an interview with KCNA, Vice-Minister of Agriculture Mun Ung Jo said that as the bird influenza has rapidly spread to different parts of the world with the south-east Asian region as the center, the government has taken necessary steps to prevent the bird flu virus from affecting the country. The government, based on the experience gained in the anti-bird flu epidemic work, has established a system of quickly and correctly reporting an outbreak of the case to the central guidance office while making all material and technical preparations so as to remove any slight symptoms in time. Information activities are also brisk to prevent bird influenza. Materials related to the outbreak of the case and its damage in foreign countries and materials on technology needed for preventing it have been sent to the provinces, cities and counties.
    Such anti-epidemic measures as medical check-up of the workers, thorough sterilization and quarantine at poultry farms have also been taken. In particular, the movement of migrants is under regular observation, their excretion being examined and families and special farms are required to breed poultry in pens.
    Various kinds of poultry and their products imported from abroad and travelers are thoroughly quarantined at ports and frontier stations. Meanwhile, scientific researches into separating and identifying bird flu viruses are being made on the basis of successfully making vaccine against the bird flu virus which was found in the country