New bird flu outbreak in Indonesia
A fresh outbreak of bird flu on Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island has killed some 25,000 chickens, but the local government has not ordered the slaughter of healthy birds because it has no money to pay farmers compensation, an agricultural official said today.
Instead, officials have distributed some 200,000 doses of a locally produced vaccine to try and stop the disease from spreading, said Arifin Sarsa, deputy chief of the agriculture ministry’s livestock department on the island.
