Read the Borders, Soveignty & Stability Paper (Hellenic MOD Mirror on HR-Net) Read the Convention Relating to the Regime of the Straits (24 July 1923) Read the Convention Relating to the Regime of the Straits (24 July 1923)
HR-Net - Hellenic Resources Network Compact version
Today's Suggestion
Read The "Macedonian Question" (by Maria Nystazopoulou-Pelekidou)
HomeAbout HR-NetNewsWeb SitesDocumentsOnline HelpUsage InformationContact us
Thursday, 28 March 2024
 
News
  Latest News (All)
     From Greece
     From Cyprus
     From Europe
     From Balkans
     From Turkey
     From USA
  Announcements
  World Press
  News Archives
Web Sites
  Hosted
  Mirrored
  Interesting Nodes
Documents
  Special Topics
  Treaties, Conventions
  Constitutions
  U.S. Agencies
  Cyprus Problem
  Other
Services
  Personal NewsPaper
  Greek Fonts
  Tools
  F.A.Q.
 

Athens News Agency: News in English, 05-10-18

Athens News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next Article

From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>

CONTENTS

  • [01] Attention focuses on first suspected Bird flu incident in Greece

  • [01] Attention focuses on first suspected Bird flu incident in Greece

    A team of experts from Athens arrived on the eastern Aegean island of Chios early Tuesday morning for consultations with local officials after a single sample, taken from a handful of dead turkeys at a small farm house on nearby Oinousses isle, tested positive for H5 antibodies.

    Medical tests were also conducted Tuesday on the couple, both pensioners, which raised the turkeys. The site where the suspected incident was recorded, identified as "Kalamies", is located in a particularly remote spot of the small island, whose permanent population is between 600 and 650 residents. The island, like many others in the Aegean, lies along the path frequently used by migratory birds.

    In other reports, half a dozen police officers were dispatched from Chios to Oinousses to seal-off the site, located about five kilometres from the main village on the isle, while health officials also sprayed the area where the turkeys roamed with disinfectant as a precaution.

    Greek officials had earlier confirmed that one of the dead fowl had tested positive for the H5 virus. The European Commission was immediately informed, with a decision pending for the transport ban of live poultry and poultry products from the area. The EU decision will be adopted as soon as the national laboratory in Athens confirms the serological results, which are due next Monday or Tuesday.

    Chios' veterinary service took samples from the dead birds and sent them to the Athens Centre of Veterinary Institutes, which found one of the nine samples to be H5 positive. New samples will be taken and analysed by the Thessaloniki Centre of Veterinary Institutes, in northern Greece, in order to confirm the accuracy of the first tests.

    A bevy of medical experts as well as regional authorities are expected to meet with municipal officials on Oinousses to decide the next steps, as well as possible precautionary measures and to issue guidelines for local inhabitants.

    (Caption: ANA file photo)


    Athens News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next Article
    Back to Top
    Copyright © 1995-2023 HR-Net (Hellenic Resources Network). An HRI Project.
    All Rights Reserved.

    HTML by the HR-Net Group / Hellenic Resources Institute, Inc.
    ana2html v2.01 run on Tuesday, 18 October 2005 - 13:32:05 UTC