Poultry worker in Saudi Arabia suspected BF
March 14th, 2010Ha'il - A team from the Agricultural Affairs in Ha'il incinerated the remaining chickens found in a rest house in Al Hadriyeen District, as they were suspected of carrying bird flu, The Saudi Gazette reports.
Several chickens were incinerated at the rest house on Tuesday and a 40-year-old Indian worker was admitted to the isolation room of the Hail General Hospital on suspicion that he was suffering from bird flu.
Four people known to have come into contact with him were examined and given medication to be taken for one week. Blood samples from chicken were sent to the Ministry of Agriculture in Riyadh and the test results are expected on Thursday.
Director General of Health Affairs in Hail, Dr Sulaiman Mehaisin Al Muzayyini, said the worker was feverish. He said samples taken from the worker were sent to Riyadh and the case would not be judged as positive till the tests. Dr Al Muzayyini said those who mingled with the worker did not display any symptoms of bird flu and were given medication as a precaution measure.
One of those who interacted with the worker said, "They gave us tablets and told us to take them daily. They told us to visit hospital if any symptoms appear."
The civil defence team sprayed the chickens in preparation for incineration. The Health Care Department will sterilise the place where the dead birds were found. Col. Abdullah Al-Zahrani, Director of civil defence in Hail, said the presence of bird flu had not been confirmed and action taken was precautionary.
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Live Poultry Sale Ban Comes Into Effect
Hasan Hatrash, Arab News
JEDDAH, 2 August 2007 — The closure of live poultry stores within city limits as a precautionary measure against avian flu and other hygiene concerns went into effect yesterday after a three-year grace period, which included one extension.
But owners of these small businesses in Jeddah, who have been told that they should replace their live chickens with factory-slaughtered frozen poultry, are complaining that the local abattoir that is supposed to meet their needs are not up and running yet and that they are forced to either wait or find higher priced purveyors of slaughtered chickens, either imported from halal frozen chicken suppliers or from other parts of the Kingdom.
Municipal officials are only now tendering bids to build the new 50,000 square meter slaughtering facility. The new slaughterhouse will inspect the poultry before wrapping and freezing them and supplying them to the shops that can no longer sell live poultry legally.
“I’m a small-business owner and I can’t keep paying rent and salary for my store until the new slaughterhouses operate,” said Saeed Al-Jihani, a Jeddah live-poultry vendor.
Some consumers are also saddened by the news that getting a fresh chicken (legally speaking) will now mean a trip to a countryside supplier.
“I will never buy frozen chicken, even if I have to buy live poultry and slaughter them myself,” said Ahmad Al-Ghamdi, a Jeddah schoolteacher.
Jeddah resident Saleh Al-Nimi says he won’t miss the live poultry shops in his neighborhood. “The shops stink. The workers look filthy,” he said. “Even the water they use to clean the slaughtered chicken is dirty.”
Mahmoud Kinsarah, head of the licensing department of the municipality, said the new regulation was put into effect to improve public health.
Google-translated from Arabic:
Saudi Arabia, confirms Slaves, free from avian flu
May 14, 2007
Jeddah: Dr. Abudullah Slaves, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, reiterated Saudi Arabia free from hotbeds of avian flu.
According to the newspaper "Today" Saudi Arabia said the Slaves: "It is not monitored any infected poultry farms in the eastern region [Ash-Sharqiyah governorate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_Sharqiyah_Province)], where the injuries were discovered previously in either birds or birds immigrant members, pointing out that the ministry has contingency plans in this regard."
His Slaves, saying: "The Ministry addressed the Gulf Cooperation Council, which had imposed a ban on the import of birds, eggs and poultry from the Kingdom on the removal of the ban since the injury was not recorded inside the farms."
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