Friday, February fourteenth, the UN says at least 22 people have been killed in a village in the Northwest region of Cameroon. Over half of those killed were children. No one has claimed responsibility for Friday’s incident but the opposition parties blame the killing on the government.
Cameroon's health ministry aids in preventing the spread of H5N1 virus
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The Minister of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industries
and the Minister of Public Health announce: In the framework of the Control of
the Avian Influenza Virus H5N1 declared at the Mvog-Betsi Poultry Farming
Complex in Yaoundé on the 24 May 2016, the Government took measures to control
the spreading of the disease and to monitor the disease as well as people at
risk.
A decision of the Minister of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industries
declaring the infection was signed on the 26 May 2016. International
organizations were notified.
Following
national health surveillance and epidemiological investigations carried out,
secondary outbreaks were identified in Mvila Division (South Region), Koung-Khi
and Mifi Divisions (West Region), and in Djerem Division (Adamawa Region).
To date, in the
affected poultry farms, about Fifty-four Thousand (54 000) fowls have been
slaughtered, denatured and buried. Decontamination and hygiene measures have
been applied in these sources of infection. The different zones concerned are
monitored daily.
Teams of the
Ministry of Public Health have followed-up Four Hundred and Seventy-four (474)
exposed persons and no case of human influenza from avian origin has been
detected. The overall assessment presents a situation under control.
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