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Jordan�s Health Ministry confirms first bird cases of avian flu

(AP)

24 March 2006 

AMMAN, Jordan - Jordan announced on Friday its first bird cases of avian flu in a few turkeys that died on a farm north of the capital Amman.

Health Minister Saeed Darwazeh said tests showed that a few turkeys that had died Thursday on a poultry farm in the town of Ajloun carried the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu.

People who had contact with the afflicted birds tested negative for the virus, Darwazeh told The Associated Press.

Authorities on Thursday gave people living in the Jordan Valley a week to eat their-home raised poultry or risk having it culled, a measure taken after authorities in neighboring Israel and the Palestinian territories found the virus in birds. The also stepped up monitoring of poultry farms in the valley.

Jordan had already banned imports of poultry products and pet birds. It has imported 60,000 doses of Tamiflu, used to treat humans afflicted with H5N1 and allocated $8.5 million (euro7.05 million) to handle a possible outbreak. Most of that would go to vaccinating poultry and compensating owners of destroyed flocks.

Turkey, Iraq and Egypt are the only countries in the region where people have died of the deadly virus. The discovery of afflicted birds in several countries including the three has led to extensive culling.

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	Khaleej Times Online >> News >> MIDDLE EAST Jordan�s Health Ministry confirms first bird cases of avian flu (AP) 24 March 2006 AMMAN, Jordan - Jordan announced on Friday its first bird cases of avian flu in a few turkeys that died on a farm north of the capital Amman. Health Minister Saeed Darwazeh said tests showed that a few turkeys that had died Thursday on a poultry farm in the town of Ajloun carried the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. People who had contact with the afflicted birds tested negative for the virus, Darwazeh told The Associated Press. Authorities on Thursday gave people living in the Jordan Valley a week to eat their-home raised poultry or risk having it culled, a measure taken after authorities in neighboring Israel and the Palestinian territories found the virus in birds. The also stepped up monitoring of poultry farms in the valley. Jordan had already banned imports of poultry products and pet birds. It has imported 60,000 doses of Tamiflu, used to treat humans afflicted with H5N1 and allocated $8.5 million (euro7.05 million) to handle a possible outbreak. Most of that would go to vaccinating poultry and compensating owners of destroyed flocks. Turkey, Iraq and Egypt are the only countries in the region where people have died of the deadly virus. The discovery of afflicted birds in several countries including the three has led to extensive culling.

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	Health News Minister says Jordan free of human bird flu infections By DPA Mar 24, 2006, 19:00 GMT Amman - Jordanian Health Minister Saeed Darwazeh on Friday confirmed the detection of the first case of the bird flu Virus in the country, but assured citizens that the situation was 'completely under control' and that no human infections had been reported. 'The situation is completely under control at the home farm in Kofranjeh area of the Ajloun governorate,' 40 kilometres north of Amman, where the case was discovered, Darwazeh said at a hastily- arranged press conference. 'All 20 occupants of the home have been examined by technical squads and found safe of any infection,' he added. He said that the farm in question was isolated from the rest of the country and said investigations showed that the H5N1 strain of the bird flu 'could have been carried to Jordan by migratory birds.' Darwazeh pointed out that an area of 3-kilometres radius had been isolated prior to 'destroying all poultry in it' as one of the precautionary measures taken to deal with the situation. Other measures included a one-week deadline to all owners of the home farms in the Jordan Valley to consume their production, otherwise the authorities would crush them through legal means. The Ministries of Health and Agriculture also planned a mock operation at a farm in the Mafraq area near the Iraqi border on Tuesday for examining the readiness of the concerned organs in dealing with any new bird flu cases, the minister said. http://news.monstersandcritics.com/health/printer_1149814.php