Agriculture Ministry :Measures to avoid the transmission of bird flu to other provinces

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18-05-2020, 11:28

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Baghdad - INA

Today, Monday, the Ministry of Agriculture decided to impose a ban on the movement of poultry and its movement between governorates.

Ministry spokesman Hamid Al-Nayef said in a statement to the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that "after a diagnosis of bird flu was diagnosed in a poultry farm in Nineveh Governorate, the Ministry of Agriculture decided to impose a ban on the movement of poultry and its movement between governorates."

He added that "the affected poultry field is in a secluded area and there are no other poultry fields within this region," noting that "the possibility of transmitting the infection is very weak."