DUSHANBE, January 20, Asia-Plus - Tajik health and veterinary authorities are considering the possibility of putting ban on sale of chickens and other birds and poultry products in shops and on markets of Tajikistan.
Despite the fact that no cases of bird flu have so far been registered in the republic, medical workers continue keeping up with the situation and all veterinary and sanitary-epidemiological services have been put on alert, Mullojon Amirbekov stressed.
Chief State Sanitary Physician of
“We realize that preventive measures taken by us such as quarantine at all poultry farms across the republic and ban on imports of chickens and poultry products may negatively impact the economic situation in the republic but if do not do this now, we will have to pay higher price,” Ziyovuddin Afghonov stressed.
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