TBILISI, FEBRUARY 27, ARMENPRESS; Georgia’s president Mikhail Saakashvili requested on February 26 that the Parliament impose a state of emergency in the area affected by the bird flu in the Khelvachauri district of the Adjara Autonomous Republic.
Georgian media reported that the parliament is expected to approve this proposal at a session on February 28. The Georgian government ordered a slaughter of all domestic poultry kept at homes in a 3-km radius of the site of outbreak of bird flu in Adjara February 25. The president’s decree on a state of emergency envisages confiscation of live poultry, as well as poultry products in the Khelvachauri district; a ban on hunting of wild birds and confiscation of hunting guns from the local population; restriction of movement, if necessary. According to the presidential decree, the state of emergency will be effective until October 1, 2006.
The first potential case of bird flu was confirmed in Georgia on February 24. The H5N1 virus was detected in dead swans found on a lake near the village of Adlia in the Khelvachauri district. Samples have been sent to London lab, but no response has been received yet.
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