Rivers State Govt. Eliminates Chickens Infected By Avian Flu

                  

The Rivers State Government said on Tuesday that it had killed hundreds of fowls infected by the Avian Flu in a privately owned farm in Port Harcourt.
The Commissioner for Agriculture, Emma Chinda, said that the farm had been quarantined and decontaminated. He also said no human infection had been recorded.
  
"We are containing the situation because officials of government and experts are on ground monitoring the situation", he added.
Mr. Chinda said there was no need to panic because government was well equipped to handle the situation.
He said before the outbreak, they received information from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture on avian influenza in Kano and a bird market in Lagos.
"We were very much on alert and when it happened here, we handled the situation", he said.