ARMENIAN FARMERS STARTED KILLING CHICKEN

YEREVAN, MARCH 7. ARMINFO. According to the information received,
some Armenian farmers started killing their chicken so as to prevent
spreading of bird flu. Levon Rukhkian, Deputy Minister for Agriculture,
in an interview to ARMINFO correspondent said that no such order was
given to the farmers by the Ministry. He stated that the panic among
the country peasants is senseless. The telephone hot lines receives
about 8 reports about dead bird daily. The experts of the Ministry
made clear that the birds die from worm diseases.

Experts advice the farmers to keep the domestic birds in isolated
hen-coops, so as to prevent the m from contacting from wild birds.

This becomes more actual as from February the spring migration of
wild birds has started.