5 February, 2007 |

Britain meets the bird’s flu

The season, which has come in Asia with rains and cool weather, has provoked prompt distribution of the bird’s flu in extensive territories from Egypt up to Japan. Now Indonesia is on the first place among the Asian countries by quantity of victims from disease by the bird’s flu. In the meantime the rains, going in a southeast of Asia, have caused new attack of the bird’s flu in Thailand and Vietnam. China, South Korea and Japan inform on occurrence of a killing virus. 

The United Kingdom “very seriously” prepares to the bird’s flu epidemics. The Minister Health of has declared about the threat of the epidemics in the UK in view of finding this disease in an English county Suffolk. The Ministry has told, that last week large-scale doctrines on reflection of threat of a virus dangerous to people have been lead, and has named risk of global flash bird’s “insignificant”. 

According to the minister’s words, the British National System of Public Health Care has a sufficient stock of masks, but nevertheless it considers an opportunity to fill it up. In the Ministry of Health the stock of special preparations against the bird’s flu, sufficient approximately for a quarter of the population of British Isles, in turn, is made. Meanwhile the Minister of Agriculture and the foodstuffs has informed that Northern Ireland is ready for reflection of bird’s flu threats. The Minister ascertained that the risk of distribution of infection from the next Great Britain to Ireland is minimal. 

According to the Minister’s words, the Irish authorities carefully trace development of a situation with the bird’s flu in the Great Britain.  According to the World Organization of Public Health Care, since 2003, all over the world 265 persons have been infected. The dangerous virus became the reason of death of 159 victims. 

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