Piñol told a press conference the loan program, which would be available to the affected farmers, would be on top of the compensation package earlier committed by the government. “This will also prevent the possible transmission of bird flu from poultry to humans,” she added. Intially we are allocating P50 million under the loan program, if that will not be enough, we will source fund from other offices,” said Piñol. Bureau of Animal Industry will also send samples to the Australian Animal Health Laboratory, a World Organization for Animal Health Reference Laboratory for Avian Influenza for further testing. If you have a poultry farm, you should also include biosecurity because you are dealing with human food here.

Source: The Standard August 14, 2017 16:18 UTC