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Friday, September 1, 2017
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ILOILO – The Department of Agriculture will review the country’s protocol in responding to avian influenza, said Secretary Emmanuel Piñol.
Current protocol requires the closure of all poultry farms within the 1-kilometer (km) radius of the outbreak site and the ban of poultry products from within the 7-km radius from where the outbreak was reported.
“We realized that, by instituting the old protocol, we actually adversely affected business,” Piñol said Wednesday.
In European countries, poultry farms within the 1-km radius of the outbreak site are placed under observation instead of shut down. Birds from affected farms are then culled, said Piñol.
But the Agriculture secretary also stressed that the government could not take any chances in ensuring that the outbreak is contained.
Piñol said the government succeeded in handling the bird flu outbreak in San Luis, Pampanga and Jaen and San Isidro in Nueva Ecija within 18 days.
A total of 470,640 chicken layers and broilers, ducks, pigeons, game fowl, native chickens, and quails within the 1-km quarantine zone and 7-km control area were destroyed.
An initial compensation fund of P29 million was released to the affected poultry farms, said Piñol. (PNA)
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