State Government worries over poultry siting
Abia state
government is worried over the establishment of poultry farms very close
to residential areas, Felix Erondu, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry
of Information and Strategy, has said.
Mr. Erondu said this
on Thursday in Umuahia at a sensitsation workshop on ‘Avian Influenza’,
organised for teachers and students. He said the trend had become
worrisome considering the fact that the deadly Avian flu has not been
totally eradicated worldwide.
According to him,
health experts are also worried about the development, “that our state
has been lucky to escape the scourge is no reason for us to rest on our
oars. Let me stress that we must be vigilant at all times’’.
“The need has become compelling with the recent report on Nov. 17, of
a 59-year-old woman diagnosed with the first human case of bird flu in
Hong Kong,” he said.
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