INDONESIA: COUNTRY'S POULTRY FARMERS STRUGGLE TO CONTAIN LATEST OUTBREAK OF BIRD FLU

Record ID: 647766

  • Title: INDONESIA: COUNTRY'S POULTRY FARMERS STRUGGLE TO CONTAIN LATEST OUTBREAK OF BIRD FLU
  • Date: 21st March 2005
  • Summary: (W2) SIDRAP DISTRICT, SOUTH SULAWESI PROVINCE, INDONESIA (MARCH 21, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. WIDE OF EMPTY CHICKEN PENS INSIDE FARM 0.07 2. CU: LIVE CHICKENS 0.10 3. CHICKEN ON GROUND NEXT TO DEAD CHICKEN 0.13 4. CLOSE-UP OF DEAD CHICKEN 0.16 5. SCU: MORE SICK CHICKENS INSIDE PEN 0.21 6. CLOSEUP OF SICK CHICKEN 0.25 7. VARIOUS OF AUTHORITY COLLECTING DEAD, DYING CHICKENS (5 SHOTS) 0.51 8. FARMERS THROWING DEAD CHICKEN INTO PIT 1.01 9. SMOULDERING PIT DURING BURNING OF DEAD, SICK CHICKENS 1.06 10. MORE OF CHICKENS THROWN INTO PIT 1.16 11. FARMER THROWING CHICKENS TO SMALLER PIT DUG OUTSIDE HIS FARM 1.26 12. CU: CHICKENS BURNING IN PIT 1.31 13. VARIOUS OF FARMER SPRAYING PENS WITH DISINFECTANT 1.38 14. CLOSE-UP OF CHICKENS 1.43 15. VARIOUS: MORE OF SPRAYING 2.00 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: SOUTH SULAWESI PROVINCE, INDONESIA
  • Country: Indonesia
  • Reuters ID: LVABKMDMO21FUQVEYB8I2T4992GU
  • Story Text: Indonesia's poultry farmers desperate to contain
    outbreak of bird flu.


    A week after Indonesia confirmed the latest outbreak
    of bird flu in two of its provinces, the country's farmers
    are now struggling to contain the avian disease from
    spreading.

    Bird flu has re-emerged in Indonesia's South Sulawesi
    province and West Java province since the start of the
    year, prompting the government to slaughter affected fowl.

    Farmers in Sidrap district, one of South Sulawesi's
    hardest hit districts, had been collecting more than 3,000
    dead chickens daily, leaving most farms with only few, if
    not any healthy chickens left to tend.

    The latest data compiled by South Sulawesi's livestock
    department on Tuesday (March 22) showed that more than 8
    million chickens were detected to have been infected by the
    virus in five districts.

    More than 9 million chickens in six other districts
    were also feared to be infected, while less than one
    million have so far been declared disease-free in 10 more
    districts.

    Agriculture and health authorities have isolated the
    province, banning the trade of its poultry products,
    shortly after it confirmed the H5N1 strain, which can be
    deadly to humans. No cases, however, had been reported in
    people.

    Sporadic outbreaks of bird flu in fowl have hit parts
    of the sprawling archipelago since the disease emerged in
    late 2003, but authorities have insisted that overall the
    deadly disease is under control.

    The government has also ordered isolation and culling
    in the affected areas, and vaccinations in areas in a five
    kilometre distance, to prevent bird flu outbreaks from
    spreading.

    More than a million doses of vaccine had been
    distributed, but local authorities have said more are
    needed.

    Meanwhile, inter-regional transportation, irregular
    vaccinations and porous borders may have caused the disease
    to spread.

    The Indonesian government has said bird flu is endemic
    and that it would take years to fully stamp out the H5N1
    strain that has swept large parts of Asia since late 2003.

    The H5N1 strain can jump from birds to humans and can
    be deadly. It has killed 34 Vietnamese, 12 Thais and one
    Cambodian.


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