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Epidemiological Survey on Virus of Avian Flu Intensified in DPRK

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

   Pyongyang, May 9 (KCNA) -- The DPRK has taken measures to prevent avian influenza from spreading to and breaking out in the country.
    Cha Chol U, vice-director of the Central Hygienic Prevention Centre under the Ministry of Public Health, said in an interview with KCNA that in order to prevent the bird flu, a matter of grave concern in the world, it is imperative to keep its virus from infiltrating into the country.
    He went on:
    For this purpose, the government has established a well-organized epidemiological survey system.
    The hygienic prevention centres and public health establishments across the country are registering all those who suffer from influenza and are thoroughly checking them to find whether they are infected by bird flu virus and taking relevant measures, while conducting hygienic propaganda activities in those areas.
    Meanwhile a hygienic quarantine campaign is intensified in frontier posts, railway stations and ports.
    Those from the bird-flu-stricken countries should have a thorough medical check-up and poultry imports from those countries are banned.
    Efforts are also channeled to the work for watching migratory birds, main carrier of the bird flu and reporting the results.
    The birds' migration courses and their habitats are grasped in detail and measures are taken against any trifling symptoms in time.
    A campaign for disinfection and vaccination is also pushed ahead in poultry farms.
    The working people in different parts of the country are turning out as one in the efforts to get common knowledge of the bird flu and to prevent the disease.