Several Moscow districts under quarantine due to bird flu

Several Moscow districts under quarantine due to bird flu

Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin issued an order on Thursday to position two districts of the Russian capital below quarantine in resulting from an outbreak of fowl influenza.

According to a doc printed on the mayor’s web site, Borisovsky Pond within the southeast of Moscow has been recognized as a supply for the unfold of a harmful pathogen.

The doc additionally revealed that an extra 16 districts are in shut proximity to the pond and probably liable to being affected.

The quarantine measures embrace restrictions on public entry to areas with lifeless birds, permitting solely workers of related state companies to work in such areas.

The measures additionally prohibit the therapy of sick birds, the import and export of birds, the incubation of eggs, the relocation and rearrangement of birds, and several other different actions involving birds.

Source: www.anews.com.tr