Re: update - AI politics in Germany

nuele mersch wrote:
> Jill. <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> nuele mersch wrote:
>>
>> thanks Nuele for this -- its very interesting
>> Have you seen the latest from Holland
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4267112.stm
>>
>> Dutch to lift outdoor poultry ban
>
> Thanks, Jill - no I hadn't. Sounds promising, unfortunately the Dutch
> ministry doesn't seem to have read this BBC page, either ;-)
> <http://www9.minlnv.nl/servlet/page?_pageid=422&_dad=portal30&_schema=PO
> RTAL30>
> says nothing about lifting the ban, instead, the latest entry says
> that keeping birds indoors is better than keeping them under a roof
> with netting at the sides!
>

more of the same http://www.todayonline.com/articles/74775.asp
The Dutch Agriculture Ministry announced it would relax restrictions put in
place to prevent an outbreak of bird flu in the country's poultry stock.
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Starting Thursday, instead of being forced to keep five million free-range
chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys and other birds indoors to avoid contact
with migrating birds, Dutch farmers will be allowed to use nets to keep the
two groups from meeting.
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Ten percent of poultry farms found in risk zones will be able to let their
animals wander free under enclosed nets.
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Nets in non-risk zones can be open on the sides.
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Risk zones are defined as areas within one kilometer (one half mile) of a
body of water or any place where migratory birds gather.
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The measure is thought to be sufficient to minimize contact between
commercially farmed poultry and wild birds migrating from parts of Russia or
Asia where bird flu has broken out.
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The H5N1 strain of avian flu, which led to the death of millions of birds
and 60 people in Asia since the end of 2003, is considered at risk of
turning into a pandemic.
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The virus, which has infected poultry stocks in 10 countries in southeast
Asia, has recently surfaced in Russia and Kazakhstan.
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In 2003 some 25 million birds, a quarter of the Dutch poultry stock at the
time, was felled by the flu or killed in an attempt to stem the outbreak.
Poultry exports were also forbidden for several months. - AFP

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The Indians are now rather worried they are on course for a lot of birds
from the infected parts of China

if anyone is interested I have been collecting Avian Influenza stories from
the press and websites
Its far from complete and in no order at all
http://poultryreports.blogspot.com/


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regards
Jill Bowis

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