Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Indonesia: Chicken No Longer Have Symptoms

Bird Flu Found in Brebes

Head of Animal Health and Veterinary Public Health DVO Brebes, Jhoni Murahman
Excerpt:
According Jhoni, the certainty of the existence of bird flu in the region associated with rapid test results against a number of chickens that died suddenly on Sunday, January 29 last, each of which occurred in the Village Terlangu and Kemaron, Brebes, and Kutamendala and Purwodadi in District Tonjong numbering in the hundreds the tail.

Jhoni claimed characteristics of chicken deaths caused by viruses that may infect humans is different from the initial current was found in a few years ago. "Now the chickens that died from bird flu is no longer blue, but looked fresh," said Jhoni.

According to him, this condition is caused by the merging of the H5N1 virus has become endemic in Brebes, so that under certain conditions can be fatal without leaving such characteristics are found early.

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