- Title: RUSSIA: BIRD FLU SPREADS TO 38 POPULATED AREAS IN RUSSIA.
- Date: 18th August 2005
- Summary: (W3) VILLAGE OF EVSINO, NOVOSIBIRSK REGION, RUSSIA (REUTERS - NO ACCESS RUSSIA) (AUGUST 18, 2005) 1. GV/CU/GV: HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF CHICKS IN BARN OF NOVOSIBIRSK POULTRY FARM (3 SHOTS) 0.19 2. GV/CU: SCIENTIST COLLECTING BLOOD SAMPLES; BLOOD SAMPLES IN TUBES (3 SHOTS) 0.37 3. (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) LUDMILLA SYSALETINA, CHIEF OF LABORATORY OF NOVOSIBIRSK POULTRY FARM, SAYING: "We have strengthened the control outside the factory and in general we continue to work as usual. We used to deliver blood samples to check for bird flu every three months and now we are delivering samples to the regional laboratory every month. We are checking birds at the poultry farm and also the birds that fly over." 1.06 4. GV/MV/MCU: SLAUGHTERED CHICKENS HANGING ON CONVEYOR BELT; CHICKEN LEGS HANGING; WORKER CLEANING PIECES OF CHICKEN; CUTTING CHICKEN FOR WRAPPING; FILLETS WRAPPED IN PLASTIC; WORKER WEIGHING PORTIONS OF CHICKEN (7 SHOTS) 1.47 5. GV: LOCAL CHILDREN PLAYING AT PLAY GROUND 1.53 6. (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) GALINA, RESIDENT OF VILLAGE, SAYING: "We buy the chicken meat straight from the factory. My husband works at the factory and it is all right so far. Everybody buys it so we buy it too." 2.04 7. (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) LOCAL RESIDENT BORIS SAYING: "I don't care much about it. I don't think we will get bird flu. We have strict quarantine measures around here and they are even killing the pigeons so the infection does not spread. So I am not worried." 2.24 8. GV/CU: EXTERIOR OF CHICKEN FACTORY; SIGN OF HAPPY CHICKEN AT FACTORY (2 SHOTS) 2.33 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: VILLAGE OF EVSINO, NOVOSIBIRSK REGION, RUSSIA
- Country: Russia
- Reuters ID: LVAJL9NHEPG932KDNGQF32D9HH3
- Story Text: Bird flu is spreading through Russia.
Russian emergency and sanitary teams were fighting
on Thursday (August 18) to contain a bird flu outbreak that
has already spread to 36 populated areas in Russia. The
first case of the disease was registered in Siberia in
mid-July and later in neighbouring Kazakhstan and Mongolia.
Sanitary teams have killed hundreds of thousands of
birds so far but have been unable to stop the disease from
spreading further west-wards.
Since the first outbreak, bird flu cases have now been
proven in populated areas in the regions of Altai, Tyumen,
Omsk, Kurgan, Chelyabinsk and the Novosibirsk region.
About 70,000 heads of domestic poultry have been
slaughtered in the region of Novosibirsk. Strict quarantine
measurements and disinfection pits have been put in place
at the poultry factory in Evsino, a village 60 kilometres
(37 miles) south of the the city Novosibirsk.
But factory management said they would not destroy the
half million chickens being raised in the factory, until
given other instructions.
"We have strengthened the control outside the factory,
but in general we continue to work as usual. We used to
deliver blood samples to check for bird flu every three
months and now we are delivering samples to the regional laboratory
every month. We are checking the birds at the
poultry farm and also the birds that fly over," said
Ludmilla Sysaletina, chief of the laboratory of the
Novosibirsk poultry farm.
Residents in the villages did not seem to worried about
the virus that can also kill humans.
"We buy the chicken meat straight from the factory. My
husband works at the factory and it is all right so far.
Everybody buys it so we buy it too," said one woman.
"I don't care much about it. I don't think we will get
bird flu. We have strict quarantine measures around here
and they are even killing the pigeons so the infection does
not spread. So I am not worried," said another resident.
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