Russian Academician: bird flu resembles commercial project

Read it in Russian

Director of State Research Flu Institute of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, RAMS academician, Professor Oleg Kiselyov believes, that “bird flu somehow resembles commercial project.” According to a REGNUM correspondent, Kiselyov stated it on March 2 at Russian-Italian conference of infection decease doctors in Veliky Novgorod.

“Panic, in many respects artificially caused by mass-media, resulted in spending within shortest time huge resources for vaccine. But in addition to general vaccination it is necessary to determine reasons of bird flu appearance, as well as similar virus infections,” stated Kiselyov. He pointed out, that researches determined several causes of virus appearance: huge overpopulation of country — nidus of infection (in China density of population totals to 50,000 persons per square kilometer) and immediate vicinity of domestic animals with migrant birds.

“An illustrative example for this is situation, when contacts of poultry with nesting migrant birds in natural reservoirs of China’s provinces resulted in nidus of bird flu infection,” told Kiselyov. He stressed, that specialists continue to struggle with the infection and to research virus quality to change and to overcome inter-species barriers.

It should be reminded, that on March 2, 2nd Russian-Italian Conference on Actual Questions of Socially Important Virus Infections began, organized by Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, North-West Department of RAMS, Representative Office of Russian Ministry of Health and Social Development in North-West Federal District, Committee of Populations’ Health Protection of Novgorod Region, Russian-Italian Society of Infectiologists.