Cote d'Ivoire says isolated case not to cause bird flu outbreak
24/11/2006 15:19
An isolated case of bird flu earlier this month in Cote d'Ivoire's
economic capital Abidjan would not cause an outbreak of the epidemic, a disease
control official said Thursday.
Test results showed that the two turkeys from
a village on the outskirts of Abidjan were infected with the H5N1 virus but the
situation had been put under control and an outbreak would not happen, said
Kanga Kouame, a Ministry of Livestocks and Marine Resources official responsible
for bird flu prevention and control.
Health and sanitary measures have been
put in place and people exposed to the birds are under medical supervision, said
the official.
Cote d'Ivoire's government announced in early September the end
of a ban on poultry imports that it imposed in May after bird flu was discovered
near Abidjan.
Xinhua News
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