City to move poultry farms

City to move poultry farms

JAKARTA: Governor Sutiyoso said on Friday that all poultry
farms in Jakarta should relocate to outside the city in order to
stop the spread of avian influenza in the capital.

"I have told relevant officials to list existing poultry
farms ... The capital must be rid of them," said the governor
when commenting on a laboratory test that confirmed a 37-year-old
woman died of bird flu at Bintaro International Hospital last
week.

Sutiyoso said he had told the City Agriculture, Livestock and
Maritime Agency to find suitable places to relocate the poultry
farms.

Citing the result of a test by a laboratory in Hong Kong,
Minister of Health Siti Fadilah Supari announced on Friday that
the woman who was hospitalized at Bintaro International Hospital
had died of bird flu. --JP