Update & EU Ban - H5N1 - Captain Trips?
In China, Lu Shishen sent one report today, it shows the disease is not under control, there are at least 200 deaths in Sichuan.
The main reason to cover the truth is that it will stop people from eating pork from Sichuan, the economic impact on about 100 million farmers in this province would cause social unstability. But people have stopped purchasing pork from Sichuan, including Hong Kong and people in Sichuan.
According to Lu, the disease is dangerous. One indication is: last year, officials showed chicken was safe by eating chicken themselves. This year, they did not do this, but only encouraged people to use pork by saying "it is safe to eat cooked pork".
Today, H5N1 has been found at a farm in Tibet, making the western region the third to be hit in China, the world animal health body OIE said on Wednesday.
Reports indicate the virus found was likely to be the H5N1 strain that has swept large parts of Asia, killing more than 50 people in the region. The disease also led to the death of 140 million birds in Asia.
Russia's growing bird flu crisis could drive up imports of poultry. Russia annually consumes more than 2 million tonnes of poultry meat and imports more than half its needs from the United States, Brazil and other countries.
In Kazakhstan, which shares a long border with Siberia, the Agriculture Ministry confirmed that the virus found in birds was the deadly H5N1 strain.
The European Union has decided to ban imports of chickens and other products from Russia and Kazakhstan, adding to the list of 9 Asian countries (Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, China, Vietnam, North Korea, Pakistan and Malaysia) not allowed to export birds, their meat or products to the EU because of AI.
In Indonesia, the virus has spread to 21 provinces out of 33 since late 2003, killing around 9.5 million fowl. The virus jumped species into pigs in Indonesia on the densely populated island of Java earlier this year.
Avian influenza recently killed another person in Viet Nam, taking the number of deaths in Asia to 62, it was confirmed on Wednesday [10 Aug 2005] that the virus was the deadly H5N1 serotype.
The main reason to cover the truth is that it will stop people from eating pork from Sichuan, the economic impact on about 100 million farmers in this province would cause social unstability. But people have stopped purchasing pork from Sichuan, including Hong Kong and people in Sichuan.
According to Lu, the disease is dangerous. One indication is: last year, officials showed chicken was safe by eating chicken themselves. This year, they did not do this, but only encouraged people to use pork by saying "it is safe to eat cooked pork".
Today, H5N1 has been found at a farm in Tibet, making the western region the third to be hit in China, the world animal health body OIE said on Wednesday.
Reports indicate the virus found was likely to be the H5N1 strain that has swept large parts of Asia, killing more than 50 people in the region. The disease also led to the death of 140 million birds in Asia.
Russia's growing bird flu crisis could drive up imports of poultry. Russia annually consumes more than 2 million tonnes of poultry meat and imports more than half its needs from the United States, Brazil and other countries.
In Kazakhstan, which shares a long border with Siberia, the Agriculture Ministry confirmed that the virus found in birds was the deadly H5N1 strain.
The European Union has decided to ban imports of chickens and other products from Russia and Kazakhstan, adding to the list of 9 Asian countries (Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, China, Vietnam, North Korea, Pakistan and Malaysia) not allowed to export birds, their meat or products to the EU because of AI.
In Indonesia, the virus has spread to 21 provinces out of 33 since late 2003, killing around 9.5 million fowl. The virus jumped species into pigs in Indonesia on the densely populated island of Java earlier this year.
Avian influenza recently killed another person in Viet Nam, taking the number of deaths in Asia to 62, it was confirmed on Wednesday [10 Aug 2005] that the virus was the deadly H5N1 serotype.
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