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KUWAIT, Dec 27 (KUNA) -- The Public Authority for Agriculture Affairs and
Fish Resources reiterated here on Saturday that it has taken a number of
measures as part of a contingency plan to prevent and respond to bird flu.
It said in a statement that the measures include increasing the number of
survey teams and the early detection of the disease in all regions as well as
organizing wide-scale campaigns on the shops selling live birds.
The measures also include monitoring the health status of all birds in
commercial poultry farms in particular farms that had been hit by the disease
earlier and re-operated at full capacity under the supervision of the
Authority.
The statement pointed out that the Authority, in cooperation with the
concerned international organizations, particularly the World Organization for
Animal Health, are working to determine the status of the global epidemic of
bird flu in all the countries of the world in order to make decisions
governing the import and export of birds from these countries.
It pointed out that all lab tests that have been conducted on a number of
samples of poultry taken from a number of areas in the country have shown they
were free of the bird flu virus. (end)
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