In Ukraine bird flu is already revealed. The head of department of a hunting economy of the Lvov management of forestry Vasily Burmas tells about a wild way of transferring of a deadly illness and house ways of its prevention.
- How the tempered group of hunters reacted to the message on bird flu?
- Certainly, or starvation actions hunters didn’t arrange strikes. But number of those who hunts on a feathery game, on our visual supervision, decreased almost twice. And in general, people conditionally shared with guns on three categories: those who professes a principle "God helps those who help" and waits for development of a "grippovy" plot, those who in panic "stuck" a gun barrel, and to "shot" – hunters who not only in the wood – in private – won’t be frightened of overseas flu, and and a brown bear.
- At hunters of Bukovina, from where I come, was phenomenal and, the main thing, as in a present situation, the safe recipe of preparation of a wild duck: it, not potroshenny, obmeshivali clay also baked in a heat which remained after a fire. This way gives double effect – resolves izbegnut "blood" contact to the hit bird which when developing a game inevitable, and thermal processing kills a flu virus.
You offer what else "epidemiological" safety locks?
- By long hunting experience I know that the sick wild bird won’t fly. I.e. it is necessary to be careful of the shaky or died game. Besides, it is necessary to remember, in the frozen meat the illness can be preserved" for years.
To have the finger on the pulse of an epidemiological situation, we with a certain periodicity shoot different types of birds. In particular, this spring, in April within a week disposable shooting in areas where ways of mass flights of birds lie was organized. On a pathogenic virus of flu and an illness of Newcastle (pseudo-plague) 100 individuals were checked. Fortunately, causative agents of these diseases didn’t reveal.
- How domestic vetlaboratoriya are prepared for such responsible work?
- Research on existence in blood feathery a virus of bird flu very expensive. The Dutch test systems on 300 heads of a bird cost 3 thousand hryvnias. As the state inspector of veterinary medicine of the Lvov area Bogdan Kurtyak assures us, the Lvov laboratory has such reagents. But only a half put it. Immunization of foresters which is declared in the resolution of the State extreme protivoepizootichesky commission created at the Lvov regional state administration, remains good intention. Dlyasobstvenna of prevention owners of the wood now use antiquated methods – onions, garlic.
- Flu as the goods, can be "imported" of the next Poland. What your Polish colleagues foresters for prevention of distribution of bird flu do?
- Poland, compared with Ukraine, has no such quantity of waterways, which as if a powerful magnet, draw wild birds. In particular, only Ukrainian Danube in which delta big colonies flying feathery, not that the monk as a potential epidemiopasny area accumulate.
But it is easier to Polish colleagues to supervise a situation as they receive the help from European Union. For example, on fight against usual rage of EU provided to Poles of 50 million euros. This money was spent for vaccination of animals: in the woods special paper bags, and animals stretched, swallowing of them, "imparted" itself from an illness. However this safety lock didn’t solve a chronic problem. The treated animals gave birth over time to sick descendants.
The Ukrainian foresters (in particular, because of a lack of means), went another, checked for years, a track – shooting of mad animals. For some years we managed to interrupt an illness chain. As result, in 2004 on Lvovshchin 13 cases of rage, and in the past – only three were fixed only. Application effective, but a cruel method of artificial selection, adequately perceive not in each country. For example, Polish grinpisovci, not only a wall become in protection of each homeless dog, but also oppose to shooting of birds, even, for the purpose of prevention of bird flu.
- And if flu "lodged" in any flying bird how to check, where this illness will go?
- If the virus, let us assume, "lodged" in a bird carrier who for the winter migrates to warm regions, the illness will surely be shown in the Middle East or in North Africa. As Asians and Arabs willingly consume meat of our storks. And starlings are preferred, for example, by Italians, Greeks, Turks. It for them a restaurant delicacy. On them hunt grids, hammer to sticks. Poachers in the autumn when birds are grazed on vineyards and nagulivayut there sweet meat especially become more active. The known actor and singer Adriano Celentano became the irreconcilable "green" fighter with such "network" hunters on vineyards.
In the 70th years, by the way, starlings in Ukraine also were a hunting look, but, considering their sanitary function at destruction of wreckers, the state legislatively protected black doctors of the nature from a fowling piece. So, if at warm edges this winter among bird’s gourmets bird flu flashes, to us in the spring it is necessary to be on call. As wild birds from warm edges will depart to Ukraine.
O. Shostak.