The National Public Health Agency recommends the population to avoid contact with wild birds, with domestic fowl that seem to be sick or are dead, with surfaces that look contaminated with waste matter of wild or domestic birds. The recommendation was formulated after new suspect cases of avian influenza were reported in Moldova, IPN informs.
The persons are urged to wash the hands with water and soap as frequently as possible, especially after coming into contact with birds, and to use sanitary alcohol for disinfection. Children should be supervised and banned from playing with dead or sick birds.
Poultry and eggs should be be very well processed thermally as flu viruses are destroyed at over 70°C. There is no evidence that the disease can be transmitted to humans through properly prepared food. Contact between fowl and wild birds should be prevented.
Cases of bird flu were confirmed close to the accumulation lake in Cubolta village of Sângerei district.
Nineteen cases of avian influenza in humans and five deaths were reported over the past four years worldwide, namely in Laos, India, China, Ecuador, Spain, the U.S., Vietnam, Cambodia, Chile, and the UK.
