PM: Government Managed to Contain Bird Flu
Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli said at the government’s session on February 28 that “at this stage the government has managed to prevent the spread of the H5N1 virus in domestic poultry.”
He said this was made possible due to effective measures carried out in the village of Adlia, in the Adjara Autonomous Republic, where the first potential case of H5N1 virus was detected.
“We should be as careful as possible, because the spread of the H5N1 virus in domestic poultry was detected in neighboring countries. Therefore, we should further strengthen control at the border checkpoints,” Zurab Nogaideli said.
Georgian Agriculture Minister Mikheil Svimonishvili said that about 1,605 fowl have been culled in a 3-kilometer radius of the site of the initial outbreak of avian flu in the Adlia village, in the Khelvachauri district.
