Posted on 05/24/2006 9:09:33 AM PDT by OB1kNOb
1,000s quarantined in Bucharest
22/05/2006 22:54 - (SA)
Bucharest - About 13,000 people were quarantined in the Romanian capital on Monday as troops and police sealed off streets in response to the city's second bird-flu outbreak, said officials.
The mayor of the southern fourth district, Adrian Inimaroiu, said residents would be cut off and all businesses in the area would be closed during the quarantine period of up to three weeks.
The move came after the agriculture ministry earlier on Monday confirmed the presence of the H5 bird-flu virus in dead chickens found in the neighbourhood, the latest of dozens of outbreaks of avian flu in Romania this spring.
Inimaroiu said, urging residents to stay calm, that "about 40 streets have been blocked" in the Luica quarter.
He said the quarantine would last for "a period of a week to 21 days and all the institutions in this quarter will be closed".
"About 2,500 birds from this area will be slaughtered as rapidly as possible," said the mayor.
A neighbourhood on the northern outskirts of the capital was put under quarantine on Sunday evening with fences blocking a dozen streets and police preventing anyone from going in or out, except for medical emergencies.
H5N1 - Ping.
This is how the NWO is going to start its takeover!!!
If I am on your ping list, please remove me. Thank you.
Maybe just a touch overreaction? Bird flu isn't vampires: no need to panic.
Will do.
They had to find a reason to clear the area so the aliens could land.
Maybe just a touch ;-) .....unless all the details aren't being reported.
As long as they're legal ;-)
Thanks for the ping.
The stated level of infection is out of line with the government reaction. Romania has had multiple H5N1 outbreaks among birds during the last 12 months, with nothing like this in response. I wonder what is different this time?
In related news, Recombinomics.com has some good info in the "What's New" section of their web site. Indonesia, in particular, has some very "interesting" things going on.
Based on publicly reported information, H5N1 seems to be at a very solid stage IV, but not at stage V. However, the Romanian government is not taking actions consistent with stage IV.
What do you expect from a country that just legalized witchcraft. I kid you not.
My thoughts too. That's why I posted this. It seems so out of line from the details being given.
I've been watching the recent Indonesian family cluster infection real closely too. The WHO announced yesterday that this cluster showed no apparent mutation in the virus, but they didn't sound real convincing. I think they still haven't identified the animal source of the virus in this cluster.
This doesn't make sense. Either the whole story's not being reported or the Romanain government's out of control. They're quarantining 13000 people because of sick or dead birds? That's crazy. The only good reason for a quarantine, IMHO, is human to human infections.
It's legal here too.
Isn't Dracula from Romania???
If this is true..should be interesting...got your supplies yet? Actually today the stocks that are up are the bird flu stocks.....interesting
I agree, it doesn't add up. They are quarantining 13,000 people for 7 to 21 days to kill 2,500 birds? Either the reporting in this article is severely misleading or significant facts are not being reported.
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I doubt the translation for quaratine were correct. Probably limited movement...but not total quaratine. This will scare the heck out of the EU guys if they really did this. Germany has been quietly talking about how it will react....but won't discuss the matter in public. I can see mass hysteria if the plan comes out and suggest that entire towns would be shut down for 10 days. You'd destroy the economy overnight. You could watch stock markets crumble over an entire summer of rolling quartines.
re: supplies....not to the level that's needed, but we're working on it. The Indonesian family cluster infection is very interesting to me right now. WHO hasn't found the animal source of the infection yet, but yet they say their samples show that the virus hasn't mutated........interesting indeed.
I have read elsewhere that the number of streets quarantined has been reduced down to 14-15 streets, and that a few rural villages were also quarantined.
I think city people in Bucharest keep chickens, btw.
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