Health sets up bird flu task force
Oct 30, 2005
UGANDA has formed a taskforce of experts to prepare a plan against bird flu that has killed more than 60 people in southeast Asia.
By Gerald Tenywa
UGANDA has formed a taskforce of experts to prepare a plan against bird flu that has killed more than 60 people in southeast Asia.
Sam Okware, the acting director general of medical services in the health ministry and Nicholas Kauta, who is in charge of livestock health, will lead the experts from the ministry, Makerere University, Uganda Virus Institute and the Ministry of Agriculture.
Okware said on Thursday that they would establish mechanisms to contain the deadly strain of bird influenza.
Latest press reports indicate that the epidemic has spread to the Indian Ocean island of Reunion near Madagascar and has affected three people.
Okware said two biologists had been trained and that drugs including antibiotics and anti-virals would soon be stocked for treating victims.
UGANDA has formed a taskforce of experts to prepare a plan against bird flu that has killed more than 60 people in southeast Asia.
Sam Okware, the acting director general of medical services in the health ministry and Nicholas Kauta, who is in charge of livestock health, will lead the experts from the ministry, Makerere University, Uganda Virus Institute and the Ministry of Agriculture.
Okware said on Thursday that they would establish mechanisms to contain the deadly strain of bird influenza.
Latest press reports indicate that the epidemic has spread to the Indian Ocean island of Reunion near Madagascar and has affected three people.
Okware said two biologists had been trained and that drugs including antibiotics and anti-virals would soon be stocked for treating victims.