- Title: PHILIPPINES: DUCK FARMERS SAY THEY ARE NOT WORRIED ABOUT FIRST CASE OF BIRD FLU
- Date: 8th July 2005
- Summary: (BN03) CALUMPIT, BULACAN, PHILIPPINES (JULY8, 2005) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SLV DUCKS AND DUCKLINGS IN A FARMYARD 0.04 2. CLOSE OF MORE DUCKS 0.09 3. WIDE OF FARMER THROWING FEED TO THE DUCKS 0.17 4. WIDE OF DUCKS IN THEIR PEN 0.20 5. WIDE OF DUCKS DRINKING 0.27 6. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Filipino) FARMER, NINO REYES, SAYING, "What bird flu? If the ducks are really sick and die, we just bury them. If they really have bird flu, they will surely die anyway." 0.43 7. WIDE OF DUCKS WANDERING AROUND THEIR PEN 0.50 8. SLV DUCKS DRINKING 0.55 9. WIDE OF ARCHWAY READING 'WELCOME TO CALUMPIT', CARS DRIVING PAST 1.06 (BN03) MANILA, PHILIPPINES (JULY 9,2005) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 10. WIDE OF EARLY MORNING MARKET, MEAT VENDORS AND A SINGLE CUSTOMER HAGGLING 1.13 11. CLOSE OF VENDORS PUTTING MEAT INTO PLASTIC BAGS 1.20 12. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Filipino) VENDOR, CARMELITA SALON, SAYING: "Of course we're affected by this, it's frightening." 1.26 13. SLV LIVE POULTRY IN CAGES 1.31 14. CLOSE OF CHICKEN POKING ITS HEAD OUT OF THE CAGE 1.34 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: CALUMPIT AND MANILA, PHILIPPINES
- Country: Philippines
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- Story Text: Filipino duck farmers say they are not worried about
recent confirmation of the country's first case of bird flu.
This duck farm in the northern town of Calumpit is
going on with its usual routine despite the quarantine
thrown around the entire town following the confirmation of
the country's first case of bird flu.
Farmers here do not seem too worried about a possible
outbreak of avian influenza.
"If there is bird-flu, then the ducks will surely die,"
shrugs farm owner Nino Santos. "We will bury them."
The Philippines has suffered its first case of bird flu
after ducks were found to be infected in Calumpit, north of
Manila, prompting the country to immediately halt poultry
exports to Japan, a voluntary move by the private sector.
Samples have been sent to Australia to determine whether
the strain of avian influenza was the same as the one that
has killed dozens of people elsewhere in Asia.
The H5N1 strain of the avian influenza virus has killed
54 people of the 154 infected in Asia so far. More than 140
million chickens have been killed in the region to halt
bird flu, causing millions of dollars in losses.
Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap has said halting
exports to Japan was a "voluntary" decision by the private
sector.
The Philippines is not a big poultry exporter but it has
been shipping chickens
to Japan, which banned supplies from Thailand where earlier
bird flu outbreaks devastated the poultry industry.
The Department of Agriculture and the Department of
Health jointly assured the people that it was safe to eat
chicken and properly cooked duck meat.
Buyers and sellers at a wet market in the capital Manila
were concerned but continued to buy and sell poultry
products.
"Of course we're affected by this, it's frightening,"
said poultry vendor Carmelita Salon on Saturday (July 10).
United Nations officials told a conference in Kuala
Lumpur last week that bird flu was entrenched in Asia and
it would take up to a decade to rid the region of the virus
and declare humans, animals and meat safe from infection.
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