Staff Reporter

The government is likely to seek Chinese assistance for better tackling the Avian Influenza Virus (AIV), key reason of flu among fowls, now spreading fast in the country and risking public health.

The H5N1--Avian Influenza Virus - claimed more than 200 lives in Asia, Europe and Middle East since 2003.

Probability of human infection by the virus grows faster as the prevalence of the virus is endemic particularly in the densely populated places.

Nearly half a million poultry birds have so far been culled in the country since the outbreak of the H5N1 virus in 2006. But no human being has been tested positive for the virus so far.

Informed livestock officials said that experts had been reviewing the most successful strategies formulated for best tackling the bird flu disaster among the neighbouring nations.

According to an expert the government may try replication of the Chinese strategy in fighting back the bird flu disaster as the credit of developing the most effective vaccine against H5N1 virus goes to the Chinese researchers.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is learnt to have approved that Chinese bird flu vaccine was tested most effective against the H5N1 virus. The vaccine helped protect a vast segment of fowls and poultry when bird flu broke out in China two years ago.

The WHO finally decided to back up China's plan to vaccinate billions of poultry birds. Replication of Chinese model of vaccination here in Bangladesh, as experts think, will dramatically reduce the likelihood of bird flu spread.

Senior veterinarians say chickens usually die within 24 hours of being infected with H5N1 virus but, without signs of disease, the virus is hard to detect, control and also much easier to pass on to unsuspecting humans.

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