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Bird Flu Prevention Work Intensified in DPRK

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

   Pyongyang, May 5 (KCNA) -- The DPRK is exerting greater effort to prevent the avian flu spreading in wide areas of the world because of the spring migration of wild birds.
    In an interview with KCNA Ri Kyong Gun, chief of the veterinary section under the State Emergency Quarantine Committee, said the DPRK is conducting epizootic work against bird flu on a regular basis every year in close cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
    In connection with the recent outbreak of avian flu in areas of North and South Cholla Provinces, south Korea, he continued to say, we are intensifying the anti-epizootic campaign to prevent the bird flu which exerts harmful influence on the national economy and people from spreading to the north.
    The committee held a section meeting and newly worked out regulations of the anti-avian influenza work and emergency rules of conduct at its outbreak. A nation-wide anti-epizootic campaign is being dynamically undertaken in accordance with them.
    The ministries, national institutions and the provincial, city and county people's committees are bringing the harmful influence of the bird flu and prevention methods home to the employees and inhabitants so as to turn out in the campaign as one.
    The Central Epizootic Prevention Centre and the provincial epizootic prevention institutions have established an epizootic prevention system in accordance with the world avian epidemiology and set up more than 1,600 watch posts in east and west coastal areas, the main courses of seasonal bird migration. As a result, they are surveying the movement of birds, main propagator, in detail.
    They are grasping closely the habitats of seasonal birds to take measures against any abnormal phenomena in time. People are allowed to raise poultry only in yards to prevent them from the contact with seasonal birds and relevant organs are testing excrements of migratory birds and dead birds.
    All the poultry-raising units are intensifying disinfection and control over those coming in the farms and greater efforts are being directed to the anti-epizootic work in the chicken and duck farms where the bird flu may break out.
    In particular, the poultry are vaccinated against avian influenza in some areas of North and South Hwanghae and Kangwon Provinces.
    Keeping contacts with international organizations, we are regularly providing the world-wide epidemiological information and technological data arising in the bird flu prevention work to the epizootic prevention institutions of all levels.
    On the other hand the State Administration for Quality Management and General Custom Bureau are doing the quarantine work in borderline posts, airports and ports with responsibility.