CAMBODIA AND TAIWAN CLAIM SUCCESSES IN BIRD FLU ERADICATION
March 1st, 2013
THE CAMBODIAN and Taiwan governments have both claimed successes in their efforts to stamp out recent bird flu outbreaks.In a note to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), Dr Sen Sovann, the deputy secretary general, of Cambodia’s ministry of agriculture, forestry and fisheries, said the current highly pathogenic bird flu outbreak - that has killed eight people in the last two months - was over: “The event is resolved. No more reports will be submitted,” he told the OIE.Noting there had been no new outbreaks this month, the ministry stressed how ...
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