North Korea steps up efforts to prevent bird flu
North Korea today said it was accelerating efforts to prevent a potential outbreak of bird flu, rewriting national strategies to ward off and fight the deadly disease in a more effective manner.
North Korea has been on alert against bird flu with a spate of fresh outbreaks reported abroad, including in neighbouring China.
Earlier this week, Beijing reported its first human death from the lethal disease.
“Projects to prevent bird flu are deepening further,” said the North’s official Korean Central News Agency.
The North’s national anti-epidemic measures committee, which issued an “emergency alert” last week, revised preventive measures and action plans to define the roles of central and regional organisations more clearly and ensure their cooperation, KCNA said.
“Under these rules, preventive projects are under way across the country,” it said.
The new regulations also call for measures to make sure people are well aware of the danger of bird flu, and to discover and contain a potential outbreak as early as possible, the report said. It said education projects were under way.
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