Courtesy of Crof for the link, via Ma'an News :
" Nablus : The Tulkarem governorate in the northern West Bank was cleared of bird flu on Thursday, after the Palestinian Authority Agriculture Ministry received results conducted in Israeli medical laboratories, an official said.
Azzam Tbeleh, the ministry's under-secretary, said the Israeli Veterinary Services officially handed over the final results, clearing the Bal'a area in Tulkarem.
The official said, despite being given the all clear, the Palestinian Veterinary Services would endeavour to ensure that Tulkarem was free of avian flu.
At least 750,000 chickens were slaughtered and destroyed in the Tulkarem-area town of Bal'a, as a heavy Palestinian police presence surrounded the area, ensuring areas where birds diagnosed with bird flu were not transported out.
The village, which exports between 4,000 to 5,000 cartons of eggs per day to areas in the West Bank, and hundreds of pounds of meat, had its poultry stock wiped out following the discovery of bird flu by PA officials from the Ministry of Agriculture. "
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