Indonesia: Half traditional markets prone to bird flu
Via the Jakarta Post: Half traditional markets prone to bird flu: Commission. Excerpt:
The National Commission on Bird Flu has revealed that 50 percent of traditional markets that slaughter and sell chickens are highly prone to outbreaks of bird flu virus.
Head of the commission, Bayu Khrisnamurti, told tempointeraktif.com on Friday there were many such vulnerable markets in Jakarta.
Bayu said bird flu could spread easily because the markets did not set special zones for slaughtering, selling and accommodating live chickens.
Between 2002 and 2008, the Agriculture Ministry reported 13 million poultry had been culled in 31 provinces. Only two provinces -- Maluku Utara and Gorontalo --- were apparently free of the disease.
When B2B H5N1 is so widespread, the question arises: Why are those two provinces free of it?
