AR-News: (AU) Crackdown on bird imports

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

Crackdown on bird imports
By Ean Higgins, Kimina Lyall and Donna Maegraith
03feb04

AUSTRALIAN Quarantine and Customs officers from tomorrow will destroy or 
impound all poultry and eggs on ships from Asian countries afflicted by bird flu.

The move follows heightened concerns that the rapidly spreading disease, 
which has killed at least 12 people and tens of millions of birds in Asia, could 
reach Australia. 
Thailand and Vietnam each confirmed yesterday a new human death from the 
virus, and World Health Organisation officials were still debating whether there 
had been the first human-to-human transmission. 
The Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service will inspect ships' stores 
for poultry products on passenger and cargo vessels arriving in Australia from 
ports in the 10 countries to have reported outbreaks of the disease.




full story:
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,8561668%255E421,00.h
tml

"The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.",
Albert Einstein

          /\  /\            
>' .' < 












    
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.envirolink.org/pipermail/ar-news/attachments/20040202/97f3d3d9/attachment.html