Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has introduced quarantine in 16 Moscow districts due to an outbreak of bird flu. Orders were published on the City Hall website.
The document indicates that on May 16, cases of wild birds with highly pathogenic influenza were detected in the Orekhovo-Borisovo North and Brateevo regions. Borisovsky pond and land near the Besedinskoye highway have been identified as epizootic foci.
In this regard, a quarantine has been established on the territory of the outbreaks and in 16 districts declared a threatened zone:
Orekhovo-Borisovo North; Orekhovo-Borisovo South; Zyablikovo; Bratevo; Hood; Mariino; Lublin; printers; Nagatinsky backwater; Nagatino-Gardeners; Moskvorechye-Saburovo; Tsaritsyno; East Biryulyovo; West Biryulyovo; Chertanovo North; Chertanovo Central.
The entire territory adjacent to the zone of threat of spreading the disease has been declared a surveillance zone.
The quarantine will be in effect “until the implementation of measures to prevent the spread and eliminate the outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza,” the orders say. It is forbidden to visit the territory of epizootic foci, except for specialists performing the corresponding work.
Agricultural fairs, import and export of birds and hatching eggs are prohibited in the quarantine zone.
Meanwhile, the Rosselkhoznadzor reported that more outbreaks of bird flu have been detected in the country this year than in the past. The disease spreads among gulls that live in landfills.
“These places that are not cultivated quickly enough attract gulls. Among the poultry, where we were, they quickly docked, ”- said Rosselkhoznadzor leader Sergei Dankvert at a meeting with the President of Russia (quote from Fontanka.ru).
At the beginning of May, cases of infection of gulls with avian influenza were identified in the Kirov region and the Komi Republic.
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