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April 10, 2007 at 2:51pm

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Were any of you aware of this? Don't hear much about bird flu in the press any more...

April 05, Associated Press — Four countries restrict poultry imports from West Virginia.

Cuba, Japan, Russia and Taiwan have declared poultry from West Virginia temporarily

ineligible for importation following the discovery of avian flu at a turkey farm. The countries

will not accept any poultry or poultry products from the state. Also, Hong Kong will not accept

such imports from Pendleton County, where the avian flu was found, said Matt Herrick, a

spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service.

Timeframes for resuming poultry imports will depend on each country's standards. For

example, Cuba allows such imports to resume 21 days after the disease is detected, providing

the poultry farm is sterilized to its standards, Herrick said. "The remaining countries ... it's a

case−by−case basis," he said.

Source: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/05/america/NA−GEN−US− Avian−Flu.php

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6 Comments to "Bird Flu Question"

AngiePangie

April 10, 2007 at 2:59pm

scary...thanks for the info

Mary Ann

April 10, 2007 at 7:27pm

That's odd, I haven't heard anything about this outbreak in WV and I don't see it on the WHO's website. Must not be the H5N1 avian influenza. I can't access the site you pulled your article from DC. Do they mention anything about the strain?

voice_in_dc

April 11, 2007 at 7:25am

Very interesting...I picked up the article on the daily homeland blotter. the article appears to have been pulled. Perhaps because it was a hoax? I am not sure. I had not heard of any avian flu in the US, which is why it surprised me, but it was posted on the homeland daily list of items, too. I will check it out and see what I can find, if anything. Thanks for the note Mary Ann.

voice_in_dc

April 11, 2007 at 7:39am

Here is the article from AP in it's entirety...not much more than what I posted earlier. I only found it still posted on the China Post. All other AP sites require a subscription to reach into the archives, so I didn't get it anywhere else. I did not see any retraction, though. I did check the Dept of Ag site where avian flu updates are provided and there is nothing there.

This may bery well be disinformation being released by people to see how far it will go. Sorry about that folks. I usually check my sources better than that. Let this one slip by.

Taiwan bans poultry from West Virginia

2007/4/7
CHARLESTON, West Virginia, AP

Cuba, Japan, Russia and Taiwan have declared poultry from the southern state of West Virginia temporarily ineligible for importation following the discovery of avian flu at a turkey farm.

The countries will not accept any poultry or poultry products from the state. Also, Hong Kong will not accept such imports from Pendleton County, where the avian flu was found, said Matt Herrick, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service.

"They are temporary measures based on international guidelines," Herrick said Thursday.

Timeframes for resuming poultry imports will depend on each country's standards. For example, Cuba allows such imports to resume 21 days after the disease is detected, providing the poultry farm is sterilized to its standards, Herrick said.

"The remaining countries ... it's a case-by-case basis," he said.

State agriculture officials said the strain of the disease found in Pendleton County turkeys is not harmful to humans. But 25,000 turkeys at the farm were destroyed this week as a precaution to prevent the virus from mutating and spreading

Mary Ann

April 11, 2007 at 8:14pm

Thanks DC. I'm the Business Continuity Coordinator for my unit at work. They usually keep us up to date on threats like hurricanes and possible bird flu outbreaks. We had our annual summit 2 weeks ago and a follow-up meeting last week, they talked about potential landfall hurricanes, but no mention of local bird flu cases :-)

Snuggles

May 15, 2007 at 5:14pm

Bird flu is found in a lot of places, all over the world, in the U.S. as well, every day. The WV situation is real but it is low-path. Want to see this information about WV? It's easy to find. USDA has an export library: search for "ineligible for export" on USDA site and look at specific countries for "ineligible for export" and you'll see poultry from WV.

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