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SANTO DOMINGO. – Haiti’s authorities have detected several bird flu outbreaks in at least four regions, although the Agriculture Minister Joanas Gué said it’s a subtype of the H5N2 virus that doesn’t affect humans.

Speaking on radio Métropole yesterday, the official said at least 2,000 birds and fighting roosters were tested by a lab in Ohio, U.S., which confirmed the infection.

Gué said sanitary controls were imposed along the Dominican-Haiti border on Wednesday; measures he said will be reinforced to prevent the entry of poultry products from the neighboring country.

In January Haiti banned Dominican chicken and egg imports after the virus H5N2 was found in cockfighting roosters in Higüey. Puerto Rico had already adopted a similar measure, but lifted it afterwards.

Gué said the virus was detected after Haiti established a monitoring system since Dominican Republic’s first cases were reported in December.

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Written by: gouletcolonial, 13 Jun 2008 10:42 AM
From: Canada, Toronto ,Cabbagetown,Parliament and Gerrard
this sounds like a job for the chicken choker aka.CC aka. resident communist stooge
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Written by: Belial, 13 Jun 2008 1:47 PM
From: United States, Texas
"Several bird flu outbreaks in at least four regions," the DT reports. That means the number of outbreaks is between 4 as a minimum and somewhere around 40 as a max. Hmm.

"2,000 birds and fighting roosters were tested by a lab in Ohio, " the DT reports. That can't mean, I don't believe, that the US regime let 2000 potentially infected birds in the USA. And how many of the 2000 had the flu? Tested doesn't necessarily mean inflected.

"Measures he said will be reinforced to prevent the entry of poultry products from the neighboring country," the DT reports. That means the H is blaming.

"Puerto Rico had already adopted a similar measure, but lifted it afterwards," DT reports. That means PR will restore the measure.

"Haiti established a monitoring system since Dominican Republic’s first cases were reported in December," DT reports. That means, absent DNA, H can't demonstrate DR causality for the H outbreaks.

Next, H5N2 will likely jump across the passages to PR and Cuba.
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Written by: Belial, 13 Jun 2008 1:52 PM
From: United States, Texas
Honey, what's for dinner tonight?

Rice, beans, and chicken.

Chicken? What color is it?

Somewhere between green and blue.
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Written by: gouletcolonial, 13 Jun 2008 2:27 PM
From: Canada, Toronto ,Cabbagetown,Parliament and Gerrard
CC the choker of chickens has returned to choke your chickens ....he has been choking his chicken for many years.....".correct" the commie stooge answers
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Written by: gouletcolonial, 13 Jun 2008 2:28 PM
From: Canada, Toronto ,Cabbagetown,Parliament and Gerrard
Strangulando su gallo.....it is the only thing he is good at
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Written by: carbelk99 This user is banned, 13 Jun 2008 9:43 PM
From: United States
Haitians don t you ever forget, What goes around comes around....C est la vie.
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Written by: JRRubirosa, 13 Jun 2008 10:19 PM
From: United States, Long island, NY
I thought that the first world developed country "Haiti" didnt' have this issue, I was assuming that only the filthy and underdeveloped country of Dominican Republic was supposed to have this issue.

My God "Dominican people" should check this up too, I guess???
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Written by: Belial, 15 Jun 2008 12:44 PM
From: United States, Texas
http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID={0D3955F4-3F47-4D52-8E49-424785899EE2})&language=EN

NOT DOMINICAN
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Santo Domingo, Jun 15 (Prensa Latina) Bird flu may have come to Haiti from anywhere, and not necessarily from the Dominican Republic, Haitian Ambassador Jose Serulle said. [That's responsible.]

His remarks come in the wake of insistent versions that avian flu outbreaks recently detected in Haiti stem from the presence of the pandemic in the Dominican Republic.

Official Dominican media have ruled out this possibility, revealing that the country has already got rid of cases of the H5N2 virus reported in late 2007 in fighting cocks imported illegally from Puerto Rico. [PR, huh?]

Haiti decreed a ban on Dominican poultry goods, still in force, but the measure only triggered a thriving smuggling, as it is very easy to cross the common border between both countries, the diplomat recalled. [The Cubans are understandably concerned about their chickens.]

CON'T

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Written by: Belial, 15 Jun 2008 12:48 PM
From: United States, Texas
NOT DOMINICAN
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Official Dominican media have ruled out this possibility, revealing that the country has already got rid of cases of the H5N2 virus reported in late 2007 in fighting cocks imported illegally from Puerto Rico.

Haiti decreed a ban on Dominican poultry goods, still in force, but the measure only triggered a thriving smuggling, as it is very easy to cross the common border between both countries, the diplomat recalled.

He said he is not being instructed by his government to blame the Dominican Republic for the situation and noted that his country receives poultry products from Brazil and the US. [ Hot competition]

Serulle pleaded for collaboration between both countries, mainly in animal and plant health.

Dominican Agriculture Minister Salvador Jimenez announced his country's willingness to resume poultry trade and recalled that an international technical team certified that the illness is not present in his country. [That's news, the certification.]

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Written by: JRRubirosa, 16 Jun 2008 11:44 AM
From: United States, Long island, NY
Haitians are so Messed up as a country..................................Holy cow

Funny thing few months ago They were trying to show up to the rest of the planet how 1st world country They were.

Now it's showing the kind of low life people that Haitians could be since They do have the avian flu and everything else was a bad promotion for Dominican Republic.

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