Kaduna State has being confirmed to be among the states where the case of bird flu has recently broke out, the state Government has yesterday confirmed a case at a poultry farm in Mando area of state.
Dr Joseph Thot, the Commissioner for Health said at a news briefing in Kaduna that the government had taken concrete measures to prevent the disease from spreading.
He urged the public not to panic, and said all technical staff of the ministry had been put on red alert.
The commissioner directed poultry farmers to report ``sudden and unprecedented dying of birds'' on their farms for appropriate action.
He said all the birds at the affected farm had been culled, and ``the farm disinfected and the workers screened for any possible transmission from bird to human and there is no human infection.''
Thot said a technical team would revisit the farm in the next two weeks to ensure that it was safe, while efforts were on to trace the source of the outbreak.
Also, the State Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr Isaac Bodam, said the government would commence sensitisation program for poultry farmers in the state on the avian influenza.
He listed drop in production of eggs, high mobidity and mortality as some of the clinical signs of the disease in birds, while high fever, flu, headache, cough, chest pain, were some of the signs in humans.
Bodam advised Nigerians on hand washing after handling birds, avoiding eating raw or half done meat and staying away from sick birds.
The commissioner advised the public with any vital information to contact relevant technical officials through telephone numbers: 08037005833, 08034755213, and 08065482415.
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