No case of bird flu detected in IRI
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Head of Iran Veterinary Organization Hossein Hassani said Sunday <24[br />Dec 2006] no case of bird flu has been detected in Iran yet.
Hassani told IRNA that the Islamic Republic of Iran is still among
those states which are "clean of the bird flu virus" (H5N1).
Asked what the reason was behind the culling of chickens in some of
the chicken farms around the country, the official said that the
Veterinary Organization decided to immediately destroy any suspicious
case, since avian flu has been pandemic in some (neighboring) countries.Hassani added that the culling of the suspicious cases does not
necessarily mean that a case of bird flu was found in the country. He
said there was no reason to feel concerned about the outbreak of the
disease in Islamic Republic of Iran.
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