Jordan on high alert for bird flu*

by Staff Writers
Amman, Jordan (UPI) Dec 23, 2007

Jordan is trying to prevent an outbreak of bird flu from crossing over
from Saudi Arabia.

Jordan has raised its state of alert to its highest level and resumed
field inspections of bird farms and poultry stores, KUNA reported Saturday.

Under the alert, non-processed livestock from Saudi Arabia is banned
from entering Jordan, the Kuwait news agency reported.

Saudi Arabia reported culling thousands of birds after finding four
outbreaks of the H5N1 strain of the disease on a farm about 50 miles
south of Riyadh. The birds ordered destroyed included 13,500 ostriches
at a farm.