RIGA, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- The Latvian veterinary authority has urged poultry farmers in the Baltic country to take biosafety measures to protect their birds after reports of an avian flu outbreak in Poland.
The Latvian Food and Veterinary Service informed that neither domestic nor decorative birds have been imported from Poland in the past month and that turkeys from the flu-affected farms in Poland have not reached the food chain.
Latvia has so far remained free of avian flu.
The veterinary authority has called on all bird owners in Latvia to take biosafety measures and report any suspicious signs that might suggest of an infection in birds, like reduced food and water intake, breathing difficulties or mass deaths of domestic birds.
Owners are also advised to restrict unauthorized access to poultry farms and to prevent domestic birds' contacts with wild birds.
