YEREVAN, JANUARY 9, NOYAN TAPAN. The RA State Veterinary Medical Department keeps under serious control works of preventing "bird flu" in the country. As Grisha Baghiyan, the Chief of the Department informed the Noyan Tapan correspondent, it's instructed to organize examination at the republican veterinary medical laboratory in the case of finding out fall or any symptoms of poultries as well as of wild birds. According to him, an agreement was reached with border defence services of Armenia that the Department is informed about cases of wild birds' entering the territory of Armenia from the Turkish side by the Araks river as well as about cases of their fall or diseases in the river and on neighboring territories. According to G.Baghiyan, there are no poultry raising farms in those regions of Armenia which are bordering to 5 regions of Turkey having hotbeds of the "bird flu." Farmers of that region of Armenia were advised to limit movement of poultry to prevent contact with wild birds. The Department Chief reminded that poultry raising farms have passed to close regime still early in October 2005, when cases of the "bird flu" were fixed in Turkey, Iran, Russia, Romania and Ukraine. In the case of a poultry raising farm's working with a close regime, unauthorized persons are not admitted, birds may not leave the farm, periodical disinfections are held in farms. G.Baghiyan mentioned that import to Armenia of bird's meat and food prepared of meat from those countries where cases of "bird flu" were fixed is prohibited. According to him, all cars entering Armenia are also disinfected on the border points on preventing puproses. The Department Chief also informed that works of vaccinating against "bird plague" are started in Armenia. Those are first of all held in regions bordering Turkey.

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