The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has taken measures to keep bird flu from infiltrating into the country, the official news agency KCNA quoted a medical official as saying on Friday.
These measures include a thorough medical check-up on people from the bird-flu-stricken countries and a poultry imports ban from those countries.
The departments concerned have also registered all those who suffer from influenza and thoroughly checked them to find out whether they are infected by bird flu virus.
Efforts were also made to popularize the common knowledge of the bird flu and monitor migratory birds, main carrier of the bird flu, said Cha Chol U, vice-director of the Central Hygienic Prevention Center under the Ministry of Public Health, to the KCNA.
The Central Epizootic Prevention Center and the provincial epizootic prevention institutions of the DPRK had set up more than1,600 watch posts in east and west coastal areas of the country to inspect the seasonal bird migration, according to KCNA's previous report.
There are currently several outbreaks in several regions of South Korea, with 34 people infected, triggering high alert from the neighboring DPRK.
About 200,000 poultry were slaughtered when bird flu broke out in March 2005 in the DPRK.
Source: Xinhua
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