January 29, 2009
Russia tightens disease control amid bird flu deaths in China
Russia's regional authorities will tighten disease control measures amid a rise in bird flu cases in China, said the sanitary press service on Wednesday (Jan 28).
Russia's chief sanitary official Gennady Onishchenko has instructed to provide quarantine stations at crossings on the Chinese border with disinfectants, individual protective clothing and equipment to identify people with increased body temperature arriving from China and other countries of bird flu concern, the press service said.
Onishchenko also urged for improved measures of bird flu vaccinations for poultry farm workers. Disease control will also be tightened at markets selling live poultry.
According to the World Health Organisation, China is not facing a bird flu epidemic as all cases were scattered across the country and appear to be random.
