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 Topic: Gaza StripPosted: March 27 2006 at 8:26am |
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I saw this article yesterday and cannot find anything on this today.
does anyone know what is going on over there?
GAZA CITY (AFP) - Farmers in the Gaza Strip Gaza Strip where poultry have been hit by a bird flu outbreak are refusing to cull their chickens before receiving financial compensation. "The farmers are not letting us into their coops. They don't want to kill their chickens and are demanding compensation," Azzam Tbeileh, the deputy Palestinian agriculture minister, told AFP. He warned that the authorities may have to resort to the use of force in the wake of the detection last week of the potentially deadly strain of the H5N1 strain of bird flu. "Today we will give them a last chance to liquidate their stock otherwise we will use force. We will deploy security forces to take them out of the farms and slaughter the chickens," he said Sunday. The World Health Organisation (WHO) urged international donors on Saturday to provide urgent aid to the Palestinian Authority to contain the outbreak in the Gaza Strip. "According to the international guidelines, the local authorities should start containment measures, which include culling birds within a radius of three kilometres (two miles) around the location of the outbreak," it said. The WHO said that in addition to two confirmed cases in Juhr al-Deik in the centre of the territory and Rafah in the south, there were a further two suspected cases in El-Bureij in the centre and Beit Lahia in the north. No human cases have been detected. In an interview Friday Israel's Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said every assistance was being offered to the Palestinians to help them deal with the bird flu outbreak. But cooperation is likely to be hampered by the swearing in on Wednesday of a new Palestinian government dominated by Islamic militant group Hamas, with which Israel has vowed to have no dealings. The European Union
and the United States have also both threatened to cut funding for the
new government unless Hamas renounces violence and recognises both
Israel and past agreements with the Palestinians. MOD EDIT(fafhrd):cleaned up some busted code |
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7Strong
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Posted: March 27 2006 at 3:31pm |
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found the follow up in case anyone else was wondering
GAZA, March 27 (Reuters) - Palestinian agriculture officials began poisoning 15,000 chickens in the Gaza Strip on Monday following an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus.
The culling began after the World Bank offered to donate $2 million to compensate the farmers, who had been reluctant to put down their chickens without recompense. Israeli agriculture officials were assisting their Palestinian counterparts with equipment and professional advice.
Israel put down more than one million turkeys and chickens over the past two weeks after an outbreak of the virus at six farms, most of them near the Gaza Strip. Israel says the virus has for the time being been contained on its side of the border.
"There will be compensation but I hope it will be fair and enough to make up for my loss," farmer Samir al-Masri told Reuters by telephone.
The chickens would be poisoned and their carcasses dumped in deep pits, officials said.
Bird flu can infect people who come into close contact with infected poultry and has killed about 100 people since late 2003. Experts fear the virus will mutate into a form that passes easily from person to person, sparking a pandemic in which millions could die and which could cripple the global economy.
There have been no confirmed cases of the virus infecting humans in Gaza or the occupied West Bank, where Palestinians seek statehood. An outbreak in the West Bank has so far been limited to a Jewish settlement under Israeli control.
Cooperation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority is increasingly rare as the militant Islamic Hamas group prepares to swear in its government after winning an election in January.
Israel has said it would have no formal dealings with a government run by Hamas, whose charter calls for Israel's destruction, though government sources have suggested that lower level cooperation between professionals may continue.
 GAZA, March 27 (Reuters) - Palestinian agriculture officials began poisoning 15,000 chickens in the Gaza Strip on Monday following an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus. The culling began after the World Bank offered to donate $2 million to compensate the farmers, who had been reluctant to put down their chickens without recompense. Israeli agriculture officials were assisting their Palestinian counterparts with equipment and professional advice. Israel put down more than one million turkeys and chickens over the past two weeks after an outbreak of the virus at six farms, most of them near the Gaza Strip. Israel says the virus has for the time being been contained on its side of the border. "There will be compensation but I hope it will be fair and enough to make up for my loss," farmer Samir al-Masri told Reuters by telephone. The chickens would be poisoned and their carcasses dumped in deep pits, officials said. Bird flu can infect people who come into close contact with infected poultry and has killed about 100 people since late 2003. Experts fear the virus will mutate into a form that passes easily from person to person, sparking a pandemic in which millions could die and which could cripple the global economy. There have been no confirmed cases of the virus infecting humans in Gaza or the occupied West Bank, where Palestinians seek statehood. An outbreak in the West Bank has so far been limited to a Jewish settlement under Israeli control. Cooperation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority is increasingly rare as the militant Islamic Hamas group prepares to swear in its government after winning an election in January. Israel has said it would have no formal dealings with a government run by Hamas, whose charter calls for Israel's destruction, though government sources have suggested that lower level cooperation between professionals may continue. |
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Posted: March 27 2006 at 3:45pm |
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What did they think if they weren't compensated that their chickens would live??? Some people have no common sense.
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Posted: March 27 2006 at 4:02pm |
depends on weighter or not you have to live off of that money or not...
I wish i was a chicken farmer right now over ther and have all my chickens die
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Posted: March 27 2006 at 4:15pm |
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Next - people will want to get paid for not raising chickens and turkeys - just like our farmers get paid for not growing crops. I promise not to raise 1,000,000,000,000,000 turkeys. Plese send me a check. Better yet - I'll come pick it up in my new leased SUV Hummer-limo.
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Posted: March 27 2006 at 4:33pm |
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Yeah, I won't cull my sick chickens that will most likely die anyways and possibly help a virus mutate, until you send the check. I understand it is their life, but COME ON - let's look at the bigger picture here. somebody told me this virus was in my chickens or in the surrounding area, I'd pop on a gas mask and hand over the keys to the place. Cull Away! |
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Posted: March 27 2006 at 4:40pm |
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shakes head....3rd world countries..guess it cause i live the simple mans(womens) life..that i can relate
anyone that is prepping and you have the money...well go for it...there are some of us that have to do it on a nickle and a dime...and no we don,t need your sympathy but don,t push that button....
those people are over there trying..you know day by day not paycheck to paycheck..if they don,t sell a duck or a goose there families don,t get potatoes or veggies...
USA..good thing you have you McDonalds or you might not live...
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Posted: March 27 2006 at 5:24pm |
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You can eat and sell dead chickens. and they are not dead at the moment. They MAY die next week, maybe not. Look how much we belive our government here! And if you hand over the keys to your plot, where does someone in a place like the Gaza Strip (or a Nigerian or any poor in any third world country go? On what? How do you carry everything you own, your babies, your elderly parents? And when you get to the guard at next town and he says go back you do, just like we saw in Katrina (where the police even stole the refugee's few bottles of water).
I think this might be the first exanple of military threat to enforce action to prevent the disease. Just the beginning. You will see massacre (and looting of) of refugees by the horde at local, city, state, national borders across the world.
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Posted: March 27 2006 at 5:34pm |
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They could have cooked them!! Fully cooked chicken is safe!! Eat away.....
No I'm j/k but seriously it's too bad that it's not better organized. I mean they are really scr*wed either way. Take the chickens w/o compensation, they have no money to feed themselves. Leave the chickens, who are diseased, and the chickens die, they die, and bird flu is mutating on its merry little way.....
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Posted: March 27 2006 at 5:42pm |
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they could have cooked them...have you ever cleaned a chicken....have you ever had to intall the guts out of anything you have had to eat...have you made room in your house to hang a moose.....a cow...do you even own a hook or a boiling pot to clean a chicken.... they don,t get there meats as we do..they get them whole...they have to kill,gut and de-feather and clean....
so how do they cook them....should they clean them first...
no the into the merry pot we go hole...
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Posted: March 27 2006 at 6:27pm |
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yes yes and garage and yes and I have defeather or plucked as we called it.
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Posted: March 27 2006 at 7:37pm |
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Muskrat I was making reference to the powers that be that keep claiming the chicken is safe as long as it's properly cooked. (It was a jab at the continuous reasuring, from politicians, poorer nations get.)
Has anyone ever heard that things written are often misconstrued. Maybe read it a couple times to get the full meaning before freaking out, and No I've never had to kill my own food.
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