Bird Flu Virus Detected in Jordan
Jordan today announced its first bird cases of avian flu in a few turkeys that died on a farm north of the capital Amman.
Officials have ordered people in the Jordan Valley to eat poultry from their farms within a week or risk of having their birds culled. Authorities in Israel and the Palestinian territories imposed a similar measure after finding the virus in their poultry stocks.
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Twenty people were given the Tamiflu vaccine and the area has been cordoned off to prevent the disease from spreading further.
The virus had already been detected in some of Jordan’s neighbours and other countries in the region. Iraq, Turkey and Egypt have suffered human cases and infected poultry was found in southern Israel and spread to the densely populated Palestinian Gaza Strip this week.
Source: Reuters
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