Research of the joint team of experts led by university professor Nicolae Manolescu at the chicken farm wherefrom the latest spread of bird-flu virus originated in Romania might show that indeed the new wave of outbreaks originated in an import of tainted turkey chicks from Hungary.
What becomes more apparent by the day, though, is that both the local and the national leadership of the Romanian veterinary authorities doctored official reports so as to obliterate their guilt in spreading the virus.
Facts are that Patiprod Codlea chicken farm imported turkey chicks from Hungaryâs Nadudvar and PVM Trans, in Oradea city, on March 10, 15 and 24, respectively. It was the veterinary authoritiesâ duty to discover if the imports were virus tainted - which they did not.
As a result, when the manager of Avicod 2000 Codlea, Manole Dionisie, warned the local veterinary authorities of the large number of deaths occurring on his farm, the latter reacted with trying to cover up the truth that would have put them out of their jobs and into prison for undermining the national economy and endangering the food safety of the population.
Both the Brasov County prefect, Aurelian Danu, and the minister of agriculture, Gheorghe Flutur, repeatedly credited medical reports which put the likely date of contamination at a comfortable distance in time from the date on which the imports of virus tainted turkey chicks occurred.
Subsequent analyses of the H5N1 genotype seem to contradict their contention.
The report sent by the national veterinary authority to the World Health Organization stated that the virus was incubating in the chicken farms in Codlea town since May 4.
Translated by ANCA PADURARU Research of the joint team of experts led by university professor Nicolae Manolescu at the chicken farm wherefrom the latest spread of bird-flu virus orig
