UAE to set up new quarantine center to prevent bird flu
28/2/2007 17:26
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will set up a new quarantine center at the
UAE-Oman border to prevent the possible entry of the H5N1 bird flu virus, the
Gulf News reported today. The budget for the center to be built at the Al
Khatim Al Shakkla border post near Al Ain, a city adjacent to the border with
Oman, has been approved, said Majid Al Mansouri, spokesman of the National
Committee for Emergency Response to Bird Flu. "The quarantine center will be
responsible for ensuring that all live birds, poultry and poultry products
entering the country from Oman are free from the bird flu virus and other
infections," Al Mansouri was quoted as saying. Any shipment of live birds,
poultry and poultry products from any country, including Kuwait where the
existence of the H5N1 bird flu virus has been confirmed, will be quarantined and
dealt with under the National Avian Influenza Crisis Management Plan, he
added. The UAE government will also add three additional teams to the
existing two that are currently monitoring migratory and other wild birds in the
country, and no case had been reported in wild birds so far, Al Mansouri said,
adding that regular inspections of poultry farms are carried
out.
Xinhua
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