Bird flu in Northern Kurdistan, 3 teens died in van

[Vladimir]

Yes.. and bird flu cases were already reported again around december. But what did the Turkish government do?

And then some Turkish bloggers are attacking me; saying that I talk senseless words. Even Turkish people on the streets said the Turkish government did something wrong.

[Piling]

Well it is like after the last earthqakes, Turkish authorities are very slow to react and to organize help, and it was criticized by Turkish ppl as Kurdish's.

[Piling]

PARIS (AFP) - Two members of a French parliamentary probe into bird flu demanded the UN's health watchdog be given the statutory right to intervene in countries where dangerous epidemics have broken out.

Citing the outbreaks of avian influenza in China and Turkey, they urged the French government to back the idea of giving the World Health Organisation (WHO) the "right of health interference" in countries where key questions about an outbreak are unanswered.

The appeal was made by two Socialist members of parliament who are on a 31-member parliamentary panel investigating bird flu.

One of the pair is the mission's chairman, Jean-Marie Le Guen, who said "there are big questions about the real situation in China," given that in this vast country, where there had been major outbreaks of bird flu among poultry, the official toll was only five dead will be forbidden too.

Another member of the investigative panel, Alain Clayes, questioned why it had taken the deaths of two children to occur before Turkey detected the H5N1 virus in its poultry flocks.

French Health Minister Xavier Bertrand, who briefed the lawmakers on the government's updated plan to fight any future flu pandemic, said the WHO would discuss an "international health regulation" at a meeting on January 23.

Bertrand added that an international meeting of donors on combatting bird flu, due to take place in Beijing on January 17 and 18, would "set down guidelines on the international exchange of information."

He did not give details.

At present, the WHO can only intervene in a health crisis if it is invited by the host country.

Experts at the agency have several times voiced frustration with China over transparency and the sharing of virus samples, both in the case of bird flu and the 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (
SARS).

Many health specialists also privately doubt the accuracy of official figures about the number of human cases in the bird flu scare.

However, these questions focus on any country that is poor in medical and veterinary resources, not just China.

Moreover, the Government of Southern Kurdistan has stated they have taken measures of protection. The ministry of agriculture said that they have forbidden the importation of chickens and any poultries from Turkey, to forbid hunting and to sterelize trucks coming from Turkey. Selling any living poultries in the provinces of Duhok and Erbil is forbidden too.

[Piling]

Hey Dîrî, Roj TV talks about flu bird ! (read Vladimir's blog). Did you write to them and they listened to you ?

[Diri]

Hey Dîrî, Roj TV talks about flu bird ! (read Vladimir's blog). Did you write to them and they listened to you ?

Sure...


I think it was thanks to many people including Welatêmîr - that Roj TV started doing the commercial...

Good job Welatêmîr!

[dyaoko]

NEWS UPDATE :

Bird Flue was found in South Kurdistan in Ranya city, near Dokan Lake, the lake which many birds every year immigrate there .

a small girl died in ranya , her blood was sent to Jordan to see if it is Bird flu.

whats the solution ? to kill all those nice birds which come to Dukan Lake ?

[Piling]

Better to kill chicken and poultries, and to avoid contact with birds... but not easy to do for a farmer.